Chapman Magazine Winter 2011l

The Future Bright Ideas, Bold Vision

Publisher: James L. Doti President

Executive Editor: Sheryl Bourgeois Executive Vice President for University Advancement

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During her Semester at Sea, Kate Westervelt ’09 captured this sunrise on her way to learn about sustainable fishing practices in Malaysia.

“I’ll never forget the sight of those first moments of daylight, knowing that the day’s adventures were mine for the taking,” she relates.

“It was such an amazing experience.”

On the Cover: Severiano Garza ’12, a business major with an art minor, transforms Ambassador George L. Argyros ’59 Global Citizens Plaza into the subject of a “light painting.” With the help of a few friends with flashlights, Garza uses timed exposures to realize his bright ideas. A link to more of Garza’s works is at www.chapman.edu/magazine.

IN THIS ISSUE UP FRONT

COVER STORIES: THE FUTURE OF …

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President’s Message

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First Person: In an Algun Dia Frame of Mind

34 California’s Climate 36 The American Experiment

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38 The Workplace

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Celebrating ‘150 Faces of Chapman’

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New Business Law Program Ready for Spring 2012 Launch

40 The Arab World

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Once Again, Chapman Rises in the Rankings

42 Libraries

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Chapman Chatter

43 The Performing Arts

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Seen and Heard

44 Athletic Performance

10 Winging It: Ariel Tweto’s Career is Taking Off, Thanks to TV Adventures in the Wilds of Alaska 14 Beaker Brigade: Undergrad Research Experiences Shape a Future Full of Breakthrough Possibilities 16 Legacy of Gold: Huell Howser’s Impressive Broadcasting Archive Gets a New Home at Chapman 18 ‘Deep Down’: Professor Sally Rubin Unearths Insights as She Pushes the Boundaries of Interactivity 20 A Campus Symposium Draws 800 Students, Strengthening Chapman’s Ties to Cirque du Soleil 22 Ask the Experts: Too Much Stressing Over Testing?

24 Picture Perfect: A Student-Store Photo Captures Lifelong Friends and a Key Moment in Chapman History

39 The Characters in The Office

45 Cities 46 Postscript: Lessons of Tomorrowland

SPECIAL SECTION 30th American Celebration Is a Sky-High Celebration

ALUMNI NEWS 51 New Alumni Director Builds ‘Relevant Connections’ 52 Love in the Time of Global Citizenship: Zach Bloomfield ’07 and Kelsea Ballantyne ’07 54 Class Notes 56 Panthers on the Prowl 56 Friends We Will Miss

DEPARTMENTS 23 Sports: First Season in Conference Brings Tests and Triumphs 26 Philanthropy News: Jerrel Richards Finds Security in a Volatile Economy 48 In Memoriam: Donna Cucunato, Eleanor Leatherby and Laszlo Lak 49 Faculty News

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A Question of Relevance

Each of our seven schools and colleges is fully engaged in shaping the future every day at Chapman University.

On Dialogue with Doti and Dodge back in May, I had a chance to ask Chapman University Distinguished Presidential Fellow in Urban Futures Joel Kotkin if he thinks the university as we know it can remain relevant to the needs of future students.

“When you look back on your college education,” he said, “you’re really thinking about the one, two or three professors who spent the time with you and from whom you learned.

The very intensive thing we do at Chapman — the direct engagement of professor and student — cannot be duplicated.”

Each of our seven schools and colleges is fully engaged in shaping the future every day at Chapman University. And whether it’s the future of the digital arts in film and television, the cutting-edge, interdisciplinary field of computational sciences, or emerging trends in law, education, musical theatre or the health sciences, Chapman’s students and faculty members are dedicated to working together to make it happen. It is likely that we will continue to see changes in higher education, but Chapman will always remain committed to personalized education and a focus on the important relationship between the students and their faculty.

I hope you enjoy this issue of Chapman Magazine, which highlights the many ways that our students, faculty, alumni and friends are working together to shape the exciting future of our university and our world.

Regards,

James L. Doti

Board of Trustees OFFICERS Donald E. Sodaro Chairman Doy B. Henley Executive Vice Chairman David E.I. Pyott Vice Chairman David A. Janes, Sr. Vice Chairman Scott Chapman Secretary Zelma M. Allred Assistant Secretary TRUSTEES Wylie A. Aitken The Honorable George L. Argyros ’59 Donna Ford Attallah ’61 Raj S. Bhathal James P. Burra Phillip H. Case Irving M. Chase Arlene R. Craig Jerome W. Cwiertnia Kristina Dodge

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James W. Emmi H. Ross Escalette Paul Folino Dale E. Fowler ’58 Barry Goldfarb David C. Henley Roger C. Hobbs William K. Hood Mark Chapin Johnson ’05 Parker S. Kennedy Joe E. Kiani Joann Leatherby Charles D. Martin James V. Mazzo Sebastian Paul Musco Harry S. Rinker James B. Roszak The Honorable Loretta L. Sanchez ’82 Mohindar S. Sandhu James Ronald Sechrist Allen L. Sessoms Ronald M. Simon Ronald E. Soderling Glenn B. Stearns R. David Threshie Emily Crean Vogler Karen R. Wilkinson ’69 David W. Wilson

EX-OFFICIO TRUSTEES Marta S. Bhathal Reverend H. Ben Bohren, Jr. Marcia Cooley Reverend Don Dewey James L. Doti Kelsey C. Smith ’05 Reverend Stanley D. Smith ’67 Reverend Denny Williams TRUSTEES EMERITI Richard Bertea Lynn A. Booth J. Ben Crowell Leslie N. Duryea Robert A. Elliott Donald P. Kennedy Marion Knott Thomas J. Liggett Jack B. Lindquist Randall R. McCardle ’58 Gloria H. Peterson ’40 Cecilia Presley Barry Rodgers Richard R. Schmid

Board of Governors OFFICERS Marta Bhathal Chair Judi Garfi-Partridge Executive Vice Chair

Melinda M. Masson Vice Chair Thomas E. Malloy Secretary GOVERNORS George Adams, Jr. Marilyn Alexander Margaret L. Baldwin Kathleen A. Bronstein Kim B. Burdick Michael J. Carver Eva Chen Rico Garcia Kathleen M. Gardarian Lula F. Halfacre Sue Kint Scott A. Kisting Dennis Kuhl Stephen M. Lavin ’88 Kenneth D. Lineberger ’87 Jean H. Macino Richard D. Marconi Betty Mower Potalivo Nicholas R. Reed Jerrel T. Richards Daniel J. Starck Douglas E. Willits ’72 GOVERNORS EMERITUS Donald A. Buschenfield Gary E. Liebl

EX-OFFICIO GOVERNORS Sheryl A. Bourgeois James L. Doti

President’s Cabinet Nicolaos G. Alexopoulos Julianne Argyros Joyce Brandman Heidi Cortese-Sherman Lawrence K. Dodge Onnolee B. Elliott (M.A.’64) Douglas K. Freeman Robert Gray Frank P. Greinke Lynette M. Hayde Gavin S. Herbert General William Lyon Hadi Makarechian Anthony R. Moiso The Honorable Milan Panic Lord Swraj Paul James H. Randall The Honorable Ed Royce Susan Samueli Joseph Schuchert, Jr. Ralph Stern David Stone Roger O. Walther

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In an Algún Día Frame of Mind

By Augusto Rivero ’06 (M.A. ’12)

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e talked about rugby. We talked about politics. We talked Why not earn a promotion, help my family move to a safer about New York in the spring. neighborhood and attend a distinguished university?

We shared hors d’oeuvres, shook hands, exchanged business Comparing myself to people of privilege, it would have been cards — it wasn’t an extraordinary conversation. Except that easy to lament my circumstances and become paralyzed by the I was talking with the president of Fiji. As an immigrant from additional time it would take for me to arrive. Yet, only my own Argentina whose family struggled financially throughout my frame of mind could prevent me from pressing forward. childhood, I never would As a graduate school student have guessed I would be in of Chapman University, I landed such a position. But there I a seat in the U.N. Student was, conversing with heads Internship Program this past of state and foreign diplomats spring. After that experience, as a participant in the U.N. I now ask: Why not pursue High Level Meeting on a career in the international AIDS / HIV. My office at sector, live abroad, become a the U.N. Headquarters on diplomat, earn a doctoral degree?

Madison Avenue was a far cry Why settle for anything less than from my parents’ dilapidated my highest aspirations? Algún día, South Los Angeles home at todo llega.

58th Place and Raymond, where in 1992 I sat on the As I worked at the rooftop and watched the U.N. Headquarters in L.A. riots erupt.

Manhattan, I felt that How did I escape that rooftop and arrive at the I finally had proof that 14th floor of the U.N.? I our choices trump elected to dwell in possibility, and I never retreated. It was our constraints. a frame of mind.

As a 10-year-old in My education and experiences Argentina, I followed the lead continue to propel me forward, of my father after currency and this spring I expect to graduate devaluation rendered his with a master’s degree in income worthless overnight. international studies nearly a decade Raking the mattresses, after beginning my undergraduate he pocketed the remainder of studies at Chapman, and two his life savings and led my decades after the infamous civil family 6,000 miles to Los unrest I witnessed from my After a childhood in which his family barely evaded homelessness, Angeles, where we narrowly childhood home in South L.A. Augusto Rivero ’06 (M.A. ‘12) is pursuing a career as a diplomat. evaded homelessness. It was My progress speaks to the never about what we could algún día frame of mind, in which attain in the immediate future; it was always about algún día, I am defined by potential rather than bound by circumstance. As I todo llega — someday, everything arrives. worked at the U.N. Headquarters in Manhattan, I felt that I finally Regardless of circumstance, I knew progress was inevitable had proof that our choices trump our constraints. if I simply pressed forward. “Not knowing when the dawn Though I can’t anticipate what the future holds, I do know will come, I open every door,” Emily Dickinson philosophized. one thing: When the president of Fiji handed me his card, he said, Rather than adopt a “why me” mentality, I asked myself, “Next time you’re in Fiji, give me a call.”

“Why not?” Why not fling open every possible door for myself?

I think I’ll do that.

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‘Love’ for Snack Bar Scotty

Snack Bar Scotty, as shown in the 1971 Chapman yearbook.

I enjoyed the (“150 Things We Love About Chapman”) article very much, but most of the “things” we love seem to be rather current. Here’s an addition that goes back about as far as No. 109’s Wassail.

No. 151 – SNACK BAR SCOTTY

Scotty ran the snack bar in the student union in the ’60s and ’70s (when the student union and dining hall were in what is now DeMille Hall). Scotty seemed like a family member, serving up conversation and a kind and caring smile along with the food.

DONN ’69 (M.A. ’71) AND LILLIAN WILLIAMS FOUNTAIN VALLEY, CALIF.

List Ignores ‘Historic Roots’

Praise for Summer Issue

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I just got the summer issue of Chapman Magazine in my mailbox. Congratulations on once again finding a way to one-up an already superb publication. I’m enjoying the 150 list — lots of good memories.

his past week I received a copy of Chapman Magazine. I excitedly read through the “150 Things We Love About Chapman.” Then I read the list two more times, thinking I had missed a mention of the university’s relationship with the church. I was horrified and embarrassed that the only religious references to Chapman focused on artwork in the Fish Interfaith Center. It seems that as Chapman has grown into a world-renowned institution, it has forgotten its historic roots in the church. One has to look no further than Chapman’s own history page at www.chapman.edu to see the church’s vital role.

As an alumnus, it was an honor to preach at Woodland Christian Church, where Chapman was founded. In my current role, it is a privilege to work with the staff in the Church Relations Office and to serve on the Wilshire Christian Church Foundation board. As I travel the country for the church, I enjoy encouraging Disciples students to consider a Chapman education. It is my hope that in the next edition of Chapman Magazine that the editorial oversight is mentioned.

THE REV. DR. TODD A. ADAMS ’94 ASSOCIATE GENERAL MINISTER AND VICE PRESIDENT CHRISTIAN CHURCH (DISCIPLES OF CHRIST)

RYAN CORRY ’08, LAS VEGAS, NEV.

MEET JAMIE, THE NEWEST PANTHER ON CAMPUS Created by the famed wildlife sculptor Rosetta, Jamie the Panther honors the late Jamie Case-Babson, daughter of Chapman trustee Phillip Case, and she has something her sister panthers don’t: a base with wheels.

So look for her at football games and other events, adding a generous dose of Chapman spirit. Because that’s how she rolls.

Tell us what you think!

Send us your feedback about Chapman Magazine or anything else related to Chapman University. We especially welcome reflections on the Chapman experience. Send submissions to magazine@chapman.edu Please include your full name, graduation year (if alumnus/a) and the city in which you live. We reserve the right to edit submissions for style and length.

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FACE TIME

An anniversary event celebrates 150 who have made ‘a remarkable difference.’

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o university attains greatness alone. So to cap off its 150th anniversary year, Chapman University celebrated the countless contributions of those who have nurtured the institution throughout its history.

The “150 Faces of Chapman University” recognition event held Nov. 22 in Beckman Hall was attended by many of the honorees or their descendants. Against a video backdrop featuring the photos or portraits of the 150 Faces, each honoree or their representatives stepped forward to receive an award from President Jim Doti.

“It’s like a history lesson to see all of these people who have influenced the university together in this room,” said Bill Parker ’52, one of the 150 Faces. “It gives you goose bumps.”

Indeed, the honoree list read like a “who’s who” of those who helped make Chapman great. The list ranges from Disciples of Christ pioneers who opened Hesperian College, to the people who keep the Chapman University humming today — students, alumni, faculty, staff, friends and supporters. What’s not to like about a roster that honors university namesake Charles C. Chapman alongside university mascot Pete the Panther?

The nominating process for “150 Faces” was open through most of this preceding year, with all members of the Chapman community eligible to nominate any person they considered essential to the university’s history. From the hundreds nominated, final selections were made by a blue-ribbon committee, guided by its charge “to recognize 150 individuals whose talents, accomplishments, leadership and support have made a remarkable difference to the university and in the world.”

Among the select 150 were many beloved faculty members.

“It’s such a positive to be able to represent Donna tonight,” said Chuck Cucunato, husband of 150 Faces honoree Donna Cucunato, professor emerita of dance and education who passed away Oct. 22. “They say gratitude is the highest form of expression, and I know Donna was grateful for the opportunity to work with all the wonderful students she enjoyed over the years.”

A “Faces of Chapman” recognition program was also announced at the reception so that the university will have the continuing opportunity to honor its leaders into the future.

To link with the list and more photos of the “150 Faces of Chapman,” visit www.chapman.edu/magazine.

David Weatherill ’51 (M.A. ’66) and Beverly (Snell) Weatherill ’50 pose with President Doti after receiving their “150 Faces” certificates.

Award-winning Chapman basketball coach Carol Jue is among the “150 Faces” honorees.

Joining in the celebration are “150 Faces” honorees, from left, trustees Doy Henley and Phillip Case and Chancellor Daniele Struppa.

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New Business Law Program Ready for Spring 2012 Launch

Photo by Jeanine Hill

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hapman University School of Law is launching a new business law emphasis, to be directed by Dr. Tom Campbell, the school’s dean and a professor of law and economics. The new program will be offered in spring 2012.

“This is my first major initiative as Chapman’s new dean, and I’m giving it my personal direction,” said Campbell, who has championed a greater emphasis on business law since becoming dean in April. Previously, Campbell was the dean of UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. Chapman is the only law school in the country whose dean is a former dean of a top-10 business school.

Students who complete the rigorous emphasis program will receive a certificate reflecting completion of courses that include accounting for lawyers, federal income tax, law of business startups, international business transactions, mergers and acquisitions, securities regulation, financial institutions and corporate ethics.

The new emphasis program will augment existing certificate programs in advocacy and dispute resolution, entertainment law, environmental law, international law and tax law.

“A Chapman law degree with a business law emphasis will underline the collaborative nature of law and business, specifically that lawyers might be seen as adding to the process of creating opportunity as the economy recovers,” Dean Campbell said.

Students seeking more intensive education in law and business can participate in the joint JD/MBA program, offered in coordination with the Argyros School of Business at Chapman.

Message of Hope Holocaust survivor, author and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient Gerda Weissmann Klein shares a moment with Chapman University students, from left, Brian Ducoffe ’13, Danny Zeff ’13, Alisa Guardiola ’14 and Katrina Wtulich ’13 after relating stories from her remarkable life during a lecture Nov. 8 in Memorial Hall. The Joyce and Saul Brandman Distinguished Lecture Series event was hosted by the Rodgers Center for Holocaust Education and centered on themes of tolerance and hope. Klein’s memoir, All But My Life, inspired the Academy Award-winning documentary One Survivor Remembers.

WEBSITE REDESIGN IN THE WORKS If you’ve visited chapman.edu recently you’ve undoubtedly noticed that Chapman University’s website has a new home page. It’s the first step in a total redesign of the site, which will bring updated content architecture, greater functionality and easier navigation, says David May ‘05 (MFA ‘10), Chapman web and interactive marketing manager.

The national web and design firm Barkley REI is consulting on the project, with the new site expected to be up and running in spring 2012.

For now, you are encouraged to check out the new home page and offer feedback on the Strategic Marketing and Communications blog — blogs.chapman.edu/smc.

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CHAPMAN CONTINUES ITS CLIMB IN RANKINGS

CHAPMAN IS OUTBID FOR CRYSTAL CATHEDRAL

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or months, Chapman University was in the running to acquire one of America’s most recognizable structures — the Crystal Cathedral, which the university wanted for expansion in the health and life sciences.

“While the bidding process turned out to be quite a horse race, we lost in the final stretch,” Chapman President Jim Doti said Nov. 23 in an email to the university community.

U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Robert Kwan ultimately ruled that the 31-acre Crystal Cathedral campus in Garden Grove would go to the Catholic Diocese of Orange for $57.5 million, ending a bidding process that garnered national and international media attention.

Negotiations to purchase the property and facilities began in July, when Chapman offered its first bid during bankruptcy proceedings for the Crystal Cathedral Ministries. President Doti said that the chance to bid on “architecturally stunning buildings in relatively close proximity to our campus made it an opportunity too good to pass up.”

Though Chapman didn’t end up with the property, the process did yield some gains for the university, including more than $2.5 million worth of worldwide press coverage.

“Another very important plus is that we can redirect the funding we were planning to use for the Crystal Cathedral transaction to alternatively acquiring more land and additional housing around campus as well as adding to our quasi-endowment fund,” he said.

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Once again, Chapman University has climbed in the rankings of “America’s Best Colleges” by U.S. News & World Report magazine.

In the 2011 rankings released just before the fall semester began, Chapman rose to No. 7 among master’s-level universities. Chapman was No. 8 in the survey a year ago and No. 10 in 2009. The university’s climb has been dramatic since 1991, when it ranked No. 61 in the West.

“America’s Best Colleges” ranks institutions by region and degree classification.

ARGYROS SCHOOL PROGRAMS RECOGNIZED Chapman University’s Argyros School of Business and Economics earned three Top 10 rankings in business specialty categories in the recent 2011 Bloomberg BusinessWeek annual national survey of the “Best Undergraduate Business Programs by Specialty.”

The results for Chapman included a fourthplace ranking in the newly added category of international business, a fifth-place ranking in marketing management and a sixth-place ranking in entrepreneurship. The specialty rankings are calculated using survey data collected from senior business students from the 139 participating schools.

Entrepreneurship and international business were new categories added this year by Bloomberg.

PLATINUM AWARDS FOR MAGAZINE, ART BOOK

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Chapman Magazine has been honored with a platinum Marcom Award, the highest level of recognition from the Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals. The magazine’s summer 2011 “A Roaring 20” issue was recognized for “excellence in terms of quality, creativity and resourcefulness.”

Also recognized with a platinum award was The Chapman University Collections, a coffee-table volume detailing Chapman’s art and artifact collections. Released to commemorate the university’s 150th anniversary, the book from Chapman University Press features hundreds of photos of works in the Escalette Permanent Collection of Art and other Chapman collections.

For information on how to purchase The Chapman University Collections, turn to the inside back cover of this magazine.

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BLUE IN THE FACE After three days of exhaustive auditions and almost five years to the day that he dressed up as a Blue Man for Halloween, Craig Shields ’12 is living his dream — acceptance into the training program for The Blue Man Group.

Shields, a double major in instrumental performance/percussion and music education at Chapman University, received the news shortly after washing off the thick blue greasepaint at October auditions in Los Angeles. “The flood of emotion was unbelievable,” he said. The next step: eight weeks of Blue Man Group training in New York after graduation in spring. About one-third of those accepted don’t make the final cut, but Shields is optimistic. “Here’s to a very Blue future,” he said.

NUMBERS GAME And because we can’t get enough of counting fun, here’s another tidbit: This year’s freshman class represents 43 states or territories and 39 countries — the most geographically diverse class in Chapman’s history.

While we’re on the subject of all things sky-hued, we wondered: Just how many blue shopping carts does it take to transport a school year’s worth of worldly goods for about 1,200 freshmen moving into residential housing? The answer is 400, said Deborah Miller, director of Housing and Residence Life at Chapman. That’s enough to stretch all the way around the new bright-blue pool that’s going in just east of the residence halls, with plenty left over to cart out beach towels and sunscreen. Color us impressed.

Wicked cast member Napoleon Gladney ’08, second from left, with Dr. Marilyn Harran and Holocaust Art and Writing Contest winners Katy Brannigan, left, and Natalie Larson.

WICKED COOL MOMENT The annual study trip to Washington, D.C., presented to prize winners in Chapman’s Rodgers Center Holocaust Art and Writing Contest, is always full of special tours and unique experiences. But this year’s group enjoyed a particularly special “Chapman moment.” Thanks to generous supporters, the students were treated to a performance of Wicked at The Kennedy Center. A student noticed in the program that one of the show’s performers, Napoleon Gladney ’08, is a Chapman alumnus.

As luck would have it, Gladney is a former student of Marilyn Harran, Ph.D., the founding director of the Rodgers Center and leader of the annual student trip. A message was sent backstage and a post-curtain meeting was arranged. For all involved, it was a capital experience.

GETTING THEIR KICKS Talk about your multitaskers. Chapman two-sport stars Mauricio Alfonso ’13 and Jimmy Adranly ’12 spent the fall sprinting between commitments to the football and soccer teams — Alfonso as a placekicker and forward, Adranly as a punter and goalkeeper. Each enjoyed great success in both sports, with Alfonso putting up especially impressive numbers. His nine field goals tied a single-season school record, and his 9-for-11 accuracy is best in Chapman history. He also led the Panther soccer team in scoring. So just how hectic was the season? Well, on the opening weekend, Alfonso scored the soccer team’s first goal six minutes into a Friday victory, then kicked the winning field goal with seven seconds left in the football team’s Saturday win, before assisting on the initial goal 19 seconds into Sunday’s soccer victory. Fast-forward to the final day of both seasons, when Alfonso and Adranly played in the afternoon football game against Redlands in Ernie Chapman Stadium, then hopped on a bus with the soccer team for its NCAA playoff game that night against Claremont-Mudd-Scripps. Whew. Now that both teams’ seasons have ended, we’re hoping the two get time to rest. The good news for both programs: although Adranly is a senior, Alfonso returns, so at least two positions are in good hands. And feet.

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Mauricio Alfonso ’13 kicks from the hold of two-sport teammate Jimmy Adranly ’12.

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Walt Disney

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was kind of the Steve Jobs of his day. … In many ways he ran his animation studio like a college campus, and that free exchange of ideas was really crucial.”

Photo by Cindra Fox

Don Hahn, Oscar-nominated Disney producer (Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?), in a lecture titled “Why We Create,” delivered at Dodge College

“Just like a martini made with two parts vermouth and one part gin would be undrinkable, a poem made with two parts abstract and one part concrete would be, to me, unreadable.”

Amy Newlove Schroder, author of The Sleep Hotel, speaking as a guest poet in the Tabula Poetica series in the Fish Interfaith Center

“I love technology, but it does not necessarily mean I am good at managing money or people.

You have to learn what you’re good at and surround yourself with professionals who are good at what you’re not.”

William Wang, founder of Vizio, after receiving Chapman’s

“I finally realized I could snowboard without my toes getting cold. And I could choose the size of feet I wanted, so I chose the size that meant I could always find shoes on the sale rack.”

Amy Purdy, a double amputee who co-founded Adaptive Action Sports, a nonprofit that promotes athletic opportunities for the disabled, speaking in Beckman Hall

Entrepreneur of the Year Award

“The (City of) Bell stories reminded everyone that this is the old-school basic reporting that we should be doing. It gives you hope for journalism.”

Ruben Vives, co-author of the Los Angeles Times’ Pulitzer Prize-winning series that exposed deep-rooted pay scandals and corruption, speaking to students in a “Future of Media” class

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Ariel Tweto’s career is taking off, thanks to TV adventures in the wilds of Alaska – and Hollywood.

By Keith Thursby

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riel Tweto’s rise in the world of reality television has many elements of an old-time Hollywood success story, with plenty of high-flying twists and stunning scenery thrown in for good measure.

Tweto, a 23-year-old communications major at Chapman University, grew up in a remote Alaskan village that’s a setting for Flying Wild Alaska, which is in its second season on the Discovery Channel. The show focuses on her family and its business: flying people and cargo to destinations often so remote they can’t be reached any other way.

Photos courtesy of Discovery Channel

Chapman University communications major Ariel Tweto, above right, had to talk her mom, Ferno, and especially her dad, Jim, into embracing the reality-show spotlight, but now the family and its Era Alaska transport business star in Discovery Channel’s Flying Wild Alaska.

“She’s the most genuine, sweet human being I’ve ever met,” said French Horwitz, Flying Wild Alaska’s executive producer for the Discovery Channel. “She’s a bubbly, cute bright light.”

Tweto did not take a direct flight to Chapman.

A gifted athlete whose several youth sports included wrestling, she played basketball and ran cross-country for a year at Emerson College before leaving the Boston campus in part because “it was as cold as Alaska,” she said. During a summer in San Diego, Tweto got on the train one day and headed north. She stopped in Orange, saw Chapman and its surroundings and was hooked.

Landing at Chapman brought her a step closer to her budding television career.

“The creativity (at Chapman) and the people she was hanging around with inspired her,” said Tweto’s dad, Jim, the patriarch of the flying family.

Tweto calls herself “the comic relief” on Flying Wild Alaska, but she’s also a driving force behind the show and serves as an associate producer.

It all started while Tweto appeared as a contestant on the ABC show Wipeout.

That’s where she met Tommy Baynard, who in 2008 had worked as a camera operator and still photographer on a Discovery Channel guide for the Iditarod sled-dog race in Alaska.

Tweto started talking with Baynard one day about Alaska, realized he not only knew of Tweto’s hometown of Unalakleet but also her family and the business. Soon a concept was born, and after Tweto and Baynard shopped it to several networks, Discovery said yes.

“At first I had to pull my dad’s leg, I said it would be good for his business,” Tweto said. “My parents have always been supportive because I haven’t done anything to betray their trust. They said, ‘If it will help your career then we’ll do it.’”

Jim Tweto explained his initial reluctance: “We were comfortable minding our own business. But we wanted to help Ariel out.”

A veteran pilot and one of the owners of Era Alaska, Jim Tweto said the show has

meant some changes to routine.

“We used to get our load ready, jump into the airplane and go. Now we have to explain everything to the camera and answer questions,” he said. “They’re trying to make a story out of what we do. The TV people are really nice and work very hard.”

Discovery Channel’s Horwitz said the goal is to show a slice of Ariel’s life. “What we try not to do is pump up the action.

There’s no reason to increase the drama.”

And Tweto is no garden-variety realityshow participant. “She can hunt, fish, and is learning how to fly,” Baynard said. “She knows how to get herself around the back country.” And as Tweto pointed out in one episode, she grew up working around the airline on a variety of tasks.

Tweto said a highlight of the show has been the chance to film in so many of the remote villages: “The kids in the villages, they’re so excited to see themselves on camera.” Her high school had only about 50 students and her graduating class fewer than 10.

Her co-stars include not only her parents, her sister Ayla, the villagers and Era Alaska’s daring pilots but also the stunning Alaska landscape.

Tweto’s father came to Alaska to play hockey in college and stayed, becoming a pilot and starting a family. What’s the region’s allure? “It’s the freedom not to be controlled by rush-hour traffic and the clock so much,” Jim Tweto said.

“I can’t say enough, use enough adjectives to describe Alaska. … There are big mountains, big rivers, the ocean.

We have everything.”

Flying Wild Alaska airs Fridays at 10 p.m. EST and PST on Discovery Channel.

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A recurring element in Flying Wild Alaska is Tweto’s sometimes harrowing attempts to earn her pilot’s license.

“Our show is 99.9 percent honest and real. That’s what we wanted,” Tweto said.

“The cameras are pretty much always rolling, and no one tells us what to say.”

Indeed, this isn’t “Keeping Up with the Twetos.” Viewers should not expect fake arguments or contrived dinner parties.

“We’re not the Kardashians,” Jim Tweto said. “We’re just working people trying to make it like everyone else.”

In a poignant episode, Tweto learned of the suicide of a friend’s younger brother.

The family called Era Alaska to arrange transportation for the coffin, and the camera caught Tweto’s emotional reaction.

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“It was right in the beginning (of the show), and I wasn’t used to being on camera,” she said. “I wanted to sit by myself. But I understood from a producer standpoint that it was beneficial to see me.”

She still can’t watch the episode for more than a few seconds. “We got a lot of feedback from that episode,” Tweto said.

The program noted the high rate of teen suicides in rural Alaska. Tweto said she hopes to start an afterschool program to help provide Alaskan kids who aren’t in athletics “a creative outlet.”

Baynard sees Tweto as “a great role model” who can give youths living in Alaskan villages hope for the future.

“If you give the kids something to look forward to, you can uplift people,” said Baynard, who is an executive producer on the show. “She’s adorable, not jaded.”

Tweto’s flying lessons are a key part of the show’s second season, but she won’t say if the season ends with her earning a license. “My lips are sealed,” she said with a chuckle. Whether there are more seasons of

Ariel Tweto calls herself “the comic relief” on Flying Wild Alaska, but she’s also a driving force behind the show.

Flying Wild Alaska has yet to be determined.

“My mom and dad are never going to change, and my sisters (one opted not to be in the show) don’t care what I’m doing out here,” she said. And her “amazingly loyal friends ... would slap me if I tried to be a celebrity.”

But Tweto’s career is definitely taking off. She has become a familiar presence on late-night talk shows and is juggling other possible new projects while working to graduate from Chapman.

Woods’ Wild Ride Ends It’s a long way in a very short time from a basketball court in Venice Beach, where she was approached by a producer who thought she was “weird and crazy” and wondered if she’d be interested in appearing on Wipeout — a competition show in which contestants challenge a wacky but sometimes cruel obstacle course.

Tweto jumped at the chance, figuring she had nothing to lose.

Talk about your old-fashioned Hollywood story.

“I think she can go to the moon,” Baynard said. “I don’t think there’s any stopping her.”

With Love

By Sarah Van Zanten ’11

One slow rainy day while Samantha Woods ’08 waited tables in Huntington Beach, she couldn’t help but notice two women customers staring at her. Expecting “Can we have another round of margaritas?” she heard instead, “Are you single?”

It turned out the women were casting directors for the NBC reality show Love in the Wild, and after a short conversation, they pronounced Woods perfect for the show.

“My New Year’s resolution was to be more spontaneous; it was only February — too soon to back out of my resolution — so I went for it,” recalled Woods, a Chapman University communications graduate who also works as a wedding planner. Later that week, she drove to San Diego for an interview, and less than five weeks after that she was on her way to Costa Rica.

Standing in the jungle with nine other women, Woods had to select a man with whom to partner for the first Survivor-like challenge. She picked Mike Spiro because his introduction emphasized brains as much as brawn.

She and Spiro won their first challenge and decided to stick together. After the show’s eight-week run, not only did the couple find love in the wild, but they won the competition and its grand prize — a three-week trip around the world.

“We had the time of our lives on the trip,” Woods said. “Our whole relationship has been such a whirlwind that we’re excited to be home and experience normal things together.”

Eight months after she and Spiro first met in the jungle, they’re still very much in love, with their families planning to get together over the holidays.

Woods and Spiro created a trip blog, which they filled with photographs and memories. A link to it is at www.chapman.edu/magazine.

In addition to new love, Woods has another takeaway from the experience: Be open to all new opportunities.

“No matter how crazy they sound,” she added.

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For John Stegemeier ’10 and others at Chapman, undergrad research experiences shape a future full of breakthrough possibilities.

By Dawn Bonker

There’s a long history of sch olarly inquiry by undergraduates at Chapman University, from his tory majors who publish resear ch in the university’s award-winning history journal, to marine biology stu dents who measure the reactions of tiny tide-pool dwellers. And tha nks to an infusion of new fundin g from the Office of the Chanc ellor, the Office of Undergraduate Research is ramping up sup port of such endeavors.

So there will soon be more stories like that of John Stegemeie r ’10, whose undergraduate resear ch shaped the course of his aca demic career and led him into cut tingedge work with timely env ironmental and health application s.

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Some research suggests the compounds contribute to he ghost town of Randsburg in the California high desert water pollution and bioaccumulation in animal life. is a long way from the laboratories of Carnegie Mellon The concerns bear similarities to those in Randsburg, north University in Pittsburgh, where John Stegemeier ’10 is of Los Angeles County, where recreational off-road vehicle use a Ph.D. candidate studying waste-water pollution. has churned up arsenic left behind in the soil surrounding But thanks to undergraduate field research he conducted abandoned gold and silver mines. Stegemeier was one of the in a Golden State town saddled with lingering effects from its undergraduate researchers tapped by Christopher Kim, Ph.D., mining history — chiefly arsenic-laced dust — Stegemeier says associate professor and principal investigator for the he saw firsthand how boots-on-the-ground field work can guide Environmental Geochemistry policy decisions and connect Lab at Chapman, hired by to real people’s lives. The the Bureau of Land experience led him to the type Management to study of research he does today. exposure risks.

“Seeing how pollution Part of that project also affects people has driven me included working with a to more of a policy side of synchrotron at Stanford research,” Stegemeier says.

University, where soil Besides, chemistry students samples were tested. can sometimes get a little Stegemeier made at least a lab-bound. dozen trips to run tests with “We do work in the basethe synchrotron — a specific ment of Hashinger (Science kind of particle accelerator.

Center), and you don’t get out Key to his landing the post much, so I was very excited to at Carnegie Mellon were go out in the field. I wanted to the skills he gained working see how beaker science relates with such technological to real-world science,” he says instruments as an underwith a laugh. graduate, Stegemeier said.

What he saw and accom“The work I did with Dr. plished out there shaped his Kim at the synchrotron put academic career. Now Stegeme at a level of experience meier, a native of Texas, well above most graduate is a researcher with the students, which is pretty Nanotechnology-Environmuch the reason I got hired mental Effects and Policy into this program. The (NEEP) program at Carnegie teacher wanted someone Mellon — work that will lead with this set of skills, and to a Ph.D. in civil and because I had them I was environmental engineering. a perfect match,” he says.

Many consumer products “I wanted to see how beaker science relates to real-world science,” says Stegemeier plans to be a increasingly include varying John Stegemeier ’10, shown during a field trip to collect soil samples in teacher and researcher, and degrees of nano-particle the high desert of California. he’s so convinced of the value ingredients, from silver-based of under- graduate research antibacterials in grocery cart that one day he plans to become a master recruiter for his own handles to zinc oxide in cosmetics, and the big story in headlines research team — and not just for students pointing toward right now: arsenic in apple juice. NEEP examines how those scientific careers. Everyone “should have a taste of science,” chemicals enter the environment, where they end up and the if only to have a better understanding of how environmental impacts they have on waterways, animal life and human health. regulations are developed, he says.

Stegemeier’s project is focused on zinc oxide.

“It’s interesting to see how basic research translates into “We don’t really know what happens to them when people policy decisions,” he adds. “Too many people think science is wash them off,” he explains. “There’s a lot of research on the just a cookbook. If you actually go out there and collect your responsible use of these ingredients and the environmental ethics own samples, it makes you understand things a little differently.” of using them.”

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In addition to donating the archive of California’s Gold and his other public television programs, Huell Howser was inspired to establish a scholarship fund for “quiet leaders” at Chapman University.

By Dennis Arp

Huell Howser’s impressive broadcasting archive gets a new home at Chapman, where he is also sharing his passion for California stories.

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hen Huell Howser first trekked west to become a TV reporter in Los Angeles 30 years ago, he didn’t know a soul in California, and no one knew him. Imagine that.

Watch the displays of affection that greet Howser as he walks across the campus of Chapman University these days — hear him speak at Opening Convocation or in broadcast journalism, communications, history and entrepreneurship classes, or especially see the love fest that was his public lecture Oct. 13 in Memorial Hall and it’s clear he is in a far different state.

Everyone in California may not yet have met Howser to swap stories and embrace his enthusiasm for life in the Golden State, but he’s working on it.

“I truly believe that every person is unique and has a story to tell,” Howser said during a recent visit to Chapman. “From the start, our premise has been that TV ain’t brain surgery. With a camera, a mic, an open heart and an open mind, you can be the conduit for some insights about people and what makes this state great.”

Howser has been sharing that message at Chapman this fall, launching an affiliation that has already included a number of guest lectures. What’s more, Howser is donating to Chapman all current, past and future episodes of his travelogue flagship production, California’s Gold, and his other public television shows — Visiting …with Huell Howser, Road Trip, California’s Golden Parks and California’s Missions as well as an array of others. The shows will be digitized, put on the Web and made available online to a worldwide audience.

The university is organizing the massive digitization process and will announce later when the shows will be available online.

Howser has also donated 250 to 300 boxes of material — papers, ephemera and memorabilia — directly related to the series, as well as 1,800 books about California, all of which will be housed in special facilities at the university.

“I’m so proud to have a permanent home for my life’s work at a university the caliber of Chapman, and I hope it will be used by students and the public to learn

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Howser’s Oct. 13 talk packed Memorial Hall.

The excitement grew at his standingroom-only talk in Memorial Hall when Howser announced that he was setting up a California’s Gold Scholarship Fund for student “quiet leaders” at Chapman. It’s quite a legacy, especially for a small-town Tennessee boy whose perceptions of California once were built on imagery from films like Beach Blanket Bingo.

“I drove out here in an old Chevrolet,” he recalled. “It was probably closer to The Grapes of Wrath than I’d like to remember.”

Shortly after moving to L.A. to become a news reporter for KCBS-TV in 1981, colleagues started advising him to get voice coaching so he could neutralize his Tennessee accent. “Essentially they were saying, ‘Change who you are,’” Howser said.

He didn’t listen.

“TV is supposed to be a reflection of reality, not something cold and robotic,” he said. “The people at home know what’s authentic and what’s not.”

Nothing is more real than Howser’s enthusiasm for the diverse people and places of his adopted home state. He decided to see how far he could get with the ambitious idea of starting his own production company and traveling the state in search of golden stories.

So he took two weeks off, got in his car and visited each of California’s 13 public broadcasting stations, asking a simple question: If I do a show and give it to you for free, will you air it? They said yes, so through a friend, he got a meeting with the president of Wells Fargo Bank to see if he could secure underwriting. The president said yes, too, and just like that, California’s Gold was born.

Over the years, the show has taken Howser to all corners of the state. He’s traveled to Petaluma to visit “the largest poultry center in the world” and climbed to the top of the Golden Gate Bridge. He’s basked in the shadow of the Hollywood sign and breathed in the sweet fragrance of the 300 varieties grown by the “Rose Lady of Pasadena.”

Each story has made him smile, and many have elicited a heartfelt “Isn’t that amazing?”

His special brand of Tennessee-accented zeal has helped fuel the Howser legend, bringing some interesting opportunities he never pursued.

The debut of a Simpsons parody character named Howell Huser caused Howser’s phone message system to fill up with friends asking, “Did you see it?” Howser was tickled and called Matt Groening, the show’s creator, and later played himself in an episode titled “Oh Brother, Where Bart Thou?”

He has also voiced a character in Disney’s Winnie the Pooh, but that doesn’t mean Howser has gone Hollywood. He still prefers talking gardening with the neighborhood bartender from Bangladesh who in his spare time grows the hottest backyard chilies in the world.

Welcome to Howser’s golden world.

“I don’t think we should be defensive about doing stories on Muscle Beach and hot peppers and kelp,” he said. “It’s TV at its simplest, but these are stories people enjoy and remember.”

Imagine that.

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about and understand California even better,” said Howser. “The idea of getting all the shows posted on the web so that everyone — not just students — can always access them for free is very appealing to me.”

How did the Chapman connection come about?

“President (Jim) Doti sent me a letter — at one point, he’d heard I’d been in Orange and was sorry he hadn’t been available, and invited me to visit Chapman whenever I was in the area,” said Howser. “That really impressed me — in this hectic world, to get a personal letter signed by the university president. That’s the kind of personal contact that resonates with me.

“It got me thinking about the legacy of my work and how I wanted it to become available to a wider audience. After visiting the university several times, Chapman just felt like a very comfortable place for me and my work — there’s nothing but positivity here, and there’s a great energy about learning and lots of plans for the future. Everyone seems excited to be here. It just feels like exactly where this collection should go.”

“I truly believe that every person is unique and has a story to tell,” Howser told students in Professor Pete Weitzner’s broadcast journalism class.

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By Dawn Bonker

With her coal-country documentary and virtual-world game, Professor Sally Rubin unearths insights as she pushes the boundaries of interactivity.

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he first time Sally Rubin picked up a video camera, she focused it on her mother and recorded an interview with her on the front steps of Rubin’s childhood home. In that moment both mother and 12-year-old daughter made a rather farsighted prediction.

“My mom said, ‘Maybe you’ll be a journalist or filmmaker someday.’ And I said, ‘I will,’” recalls the assistant professor, who teaches documentary filmmaking at Chapman University’s Dodge College of Film and Media Arts.

online virtual-world game created to accompany the documentary. Deep Down, co-directed by cinematographer Jen Gilomen, profiles Mayfield, Ky., as the mining community wrestles with hard times and deep divisions. The Virtual Mine is a 3D Second Life virtual-world experience that simulates life in Mayfield, right down to the coal-mining worksites and Appalachian culture.

This fall Rubin and Gilomen traveled to Belarus, where Deep Down was chosen for the highly selective American Documentary

The online Virtual Mine game earned Dodge College Professor Sally Rubin an Emmy nomination.

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Showcase. The project of the State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs is championed by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as a means of pursuing foreign policy goals through the

arts. Only 18 documentaries were chosen for the project, including The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers as well as Freedom Riders, the story of the 1961 civil rights activists.

The films’ common thread: They chronicle stories about people or communities working for change.

“It was sort of a miracle that we were able to show the film, that we were even able to come,” Professor Rubin says, given that political opposition to Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko is violently suppressed and Soviet-era policies continue there.

But the State Department program recognizes what filmmakers like Professor Rubin have always known — documentaries are powerful stuff. And documentarians are counting on that inherent strength, too, adding community engagement programs and web-based components. Rubin’s Emmy nomination acknowledges that. Together Deep Down and its virtual-world component are prime examples of how nonfiction films will increasingly enhance the viewing experience for audiences, Professor Rubin says.

Games like The Virtual Mine, along with Facebook pages, interactive websites and community screenings with local people who can add personal stories to the documentary’s narrative, will be standard companions to documentaries, Professor Rubin says. Look also for educational resources and classroom materials to be included, from Google Earth views of filming locations to reading lists and simple

interactive games. Professor Rubin says her students are passionate about finding innovative elements to add to their storytelling toolkits.

“As soon as you give them an idea or two, they immediately have new ideas,” she says.

Such features engage all audiences, are expected by younger viewers, and are demanded by organizations that fund many of the documentaries that get made, says Professor Rubin, whose credits include multiple documentaries funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

“No doc gets made without a community engagement component in place,” Rubin says. “A stand-alone documentary is just the start.”

The aim is to reach as big an audience as possible, says Desiree Gutierrez, national engagement consultant for The Independent Television Service, which funds and promotes the films for Independent Lens and other programming sites. (One of its major outreach programs is community screenings, including a series sponsored by PBS SoCal and Dodge College with Club Doc. “(Audience outreach) primarily happens through television broadcast,” Gutierrez says. But community broadcasts in which local resources are shared or the film’s topics can be explored in a post-screening discussion are considered key elements.

“We think it’s beneficial to the audience in that community and helpful because people will really engage with that experience, and they’re going to go home and tell their friends and their families about it and that will ultimately lead to a larger audience for the film,” Gutierrez says.

Virtual Mine is an extraordinary example of reaching a larger audience. Every day thousands of Second Life fans visit the virtual world and try their hand at solving Mayfield’s power crisis and mining dilemmas. They can blast a mountain and commence mining, or build a sustainable power grid. There are even opportunities to attend a virtual screening of Deep Down within the virtual town of Mayfield and go to a traditional Appalachian music jam.

This 3D virtual-world experience profiles people and a community divided over the removal of a mountaintop coal mine in Kentucky. Facing an uncertain economic future in hard times, one woman leads her neighbors in a legal battle to stop a coal mining company from moving into her hollow, while a friend considers signing away the mining rights to his backyard, a move that would forever change life in their community.

An added plus is that the sound clips of birdsong and fiddlers heard in the game come from actual footage shot during the

filming. And the website also offers realworld activity, too, including “take action” links and information on hosting a fundraising screening.

The new-media development parallels documentaries’ increased popularity in recent years, Professor Rubin says. Not only are documentaries cheaper to make thanks to new technology — “You can shoot a powerful doc on your iPhone” — but they are also a hot genre.

“Since 9/11 and in the past decade people have become more world oriented, especially young people,” she says. So audiences are interested in “next step” movements.

“They want to interact. They want to get engaged. People want to do something more than just add their name to a petition or take a position. Those are two great actions, but people want more involvement,” she says.

All of which speaks to the heart and soul of documentaries and the people who make them — people like Professor Rubin, who felt the first spark when she picked up that early-issue Hi8 camera at age 12. The filming was fun, and watching it played back was great.

“I was making commentary on the world,” she says. “Through my eyes.”

Games like The Virtual Mine will become standard companions to documentaries, Professor Rubin predicts.

To experience The Virtual Mine, visit www.chapman.edu/magazine.

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ance major Chloe Albin ’15 from Seattle couldn’t resist playing the ham next to a dancing mannequin decked out in a stretch zebra suit and dramatic black-and-white theatrical makeup. Albin mimicked the mannequin’s arching, cat-like pose and burst into laughter.

“The fact that Cirque du Soleil is coming to Chapman and at no cost to us is amazing. I think it just hit me this morning what a big deal this is,” Albin said.

That kind of excitement and energy crisscrossed the campus during the three-day Cirque du Soleil Entertainment and Technology Symposium, held Oct. 21–23 at Chapman University. Nearly 800 students from Chapman and neighboring colleges and universities attended the symposium, directed by assistant professors Alicia Okouchi-Guy from the Department of Dance and Don Guy, head of Entertainment Technology. Both professors have a working relationship with Cirque du Soleil.

The program is the first of its kind at a university and helped students see the sort of behind-the-scenes talent and skills needed for what is becoming an increasingly technological industry. With support from Cirque du Soleil, its industry partners and the Chancellor’s Office, the symposium was free to Chapman students and available for nominal fees to others.

A New Day

By Dawn Bonker

The symposium and Chapman’s relationship with Cirque du Soleil put the university in a position to lead the way in theatre technology, said Dale Merrill, acting dean of the College of Performing Arts.

“We’re working really hard to develop a new theatre technology program, and this is the kickoff to stimulate some interest in the enormous possibilities for such a program,” Dean Merrill said.

Cirque du Soleil had explored working with larger universities, but it chose Chapman for its ethic of collaboration, Dean Merrill added.

“What attracted them to Chapman was our interest in new technologies and our interest in an interdisciplinary approach with sciences and film. There was a synergy here about growth and the future,” he said.

Indeed, the combination of working with Okouchi-Guy and Guy and Chapman’s welcoming environment was attractive to the entertainment company, said Kim Scott, director of show support for the company’s resident shows division.

“It has a great close-knit feel and is family oriented, just like Cirque du Soleil. It’s a comfortable fit for us,” Scott said.

At the same time, the university is big enough to serve the changing demands of entertainment technology, she added.

“The traditional technicians are the flat builders and the guys who hang lights, and we still do that. But the technicians of the future will also be mathematicians, engineers and experts in computer networking,” Scott said.

Thanks to the success of the symposium, everyone involved is optimistic that workshops, master classes and other learning opportunities will continue in the future.

shortage of interest in future programming.

An energized audience filled Memorial Hall, beginning the first day with cheers and applause for welcoming remarks. Then over the next three days, students filled conference rooms, the backstage of Memorial Hall, classrooms and Waltmar Theatre classes Makeup was one of more than a dozen workshop in audio, automation, casting, company subjects that drew a total of 800 students to a management, costuming and makeup, Cirque du Soleil symposium at Chapman University. health and safety, lighting, projections, The partnership puts Chapman in a unique props, rigging and stage management.

Mock auditions and warm-up workshops role to be a leader in theatre technology were offered for dancers and theatre education, Guy said. students. There were even presentations “We want to develop a degree program about working on cruise ships. that’s valid and pertinent — that teaches The hands-on experience of it all was what the industry is demanding,” he said.

Judging by the response to the inaugural terrific, if a little challenging at times, said theatre technology major Sarah Stavich ’15, Cirque du Soleil visit, there should be no

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Chloe Albin ’15 strikes a mannequin-inspired pose during the symposium.

Sarah Stavich ’15 tries her hand at stage rigging.

who attended a rigging class. As she wrestled to splice a permanent loop into 12-strand polyester rope, she eyeballed her progress.

“It gets hard,” she said, holding the bright blue rope up to reveal a bit of a knot. But by the end of the session she had a loop, and like the other students in the workshop she wore hers like a tremendously long necktie. Together they trailed the ends across the stage floor, swishing them about like bright blue tails.

It definitely looked like the circus had come to town.

Mock auditions and dance warm-up workshops were part of the hands-on learning experience, which also featured classes in audio, automation, casting and lighting, among about a dozen subjects.

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heating scandals involving high-stakes tests have hit school districts from Los Angeles to Atlanta. This fall, an Emory University student was arrested for allegedly accepting money to take the SAT for high school students, and the New York Times reports that investigations into test-tampering in New York City schools have “ballooned.” Haven’t these people heard that cheaters never prosper? Apparently more students and even educators are willing to test that theory. We asked Don Cardinal, Ph.D., dean of Chapman University’s College of Educational Studies, to talk about what’s driving cheating to a new level.

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Are there timely reasons feeding the rising problem of cheating?

“The more schools move toward acting like testing factories, the more cheating we will see.”

DON CARDINAL, PH.D., DEAN OF CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY’S COLLEGE OF EDUCATIONAL STUDIES

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With no attempt, or even desire, to justify the behavior of schools’ cheating, understanding it does not require a Ph.D. Simply stated, we as a society, through government, have acted upon the idea that the pathway to better schools is through improving the test scores of all children. Sounds logical, but clear downsides are arising. According to the state Department of Education, standardized test scores for California students have gone up for nine consecutive years. So, do we celebrate now? Do we applaud our hard-working teachers and administrators? How about those students? We certainly must be heralding their performance, right? On the contrary. While most grand achievements are rewarded, schools, teachers and students are continually told that they must do much more. The more schools move toward acting like testing factories, the more cheating we will see.

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Does this problem grow out of a system that ties funding, salary and other financial pressures to test scores?

Yes, these factors and others do play a role in identifying the “high stakes” of test scores. Add to that the relationship between test scores and local property values, and an even more complete picture emerges.

However, these are external and are more likely the forces behind policy development than the human behavior of cheating. On a more personal level, let me give you an example of what our focus on testing has

created in our schools. I was talking to someone I consider a very good teacher.

For whatever reasons, her students have not performed well on standardized tests, with any teacher. She feared that their low tests scores would result in her name appearing in the local newspaper. She works many hours beyond the school day. She spends her own money on class materials and knows the families of her students. Prior to the state testing period for her students, she gave a test to her students, then they went over the answers to be sure her students knew the answers to the questions they missed.

Unfortunately, this was outside the normal protocol for the school. She knew it before she did it. She cheated. She wanted her students to do well. She wanted to avoid personal embarrassment as well. You can decide where the blame rests.

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The solution will require different assumptions about what is wrong, and right, about schools.

Society has changed, and our school system has not. For example, why do we still close schools for summer? This practice comes from a society of old, along with out-of-date policies and practices for schooling. Our research in this area is ample. We know what makes great schools. And for clarity, nowhere in the research on effective schooling will you find increasing the time spent on taking and preparing for tests. The solution to better schools is not one thing, but many. One size does not fit all, whether it be more testing or any other single solution.

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Hall of Fame Inductions

By Doug Aiken ’99

It was a night that many in attendance described as powerful and inspiring.

At the 32nd annual Chapman University Athletics Hall of Fame ceremony and banquet, not only were three of Chapman’s all-time greats enshrined, but in celebrating the school’s 150th anniversary, Chapman recognized all 140 of its past All-Americans.

The 2011 inductees were women’s basketball all-time leading scorer Melody Bongiorno Frank ’04, women’s soccer star Lehua (Simmons) Werdel ’00 and legendary coach Don Perkins, who was inducted posthumously.

Perkins’ widow, Jane Winterroth, accepted the induction on Perkins’ behalf and drew a standing ovation from the more than 200 attendees after talking about how much Don loved Chapman and the students he coached.

Perkins led the Panthers’ men’s basketball team to 213 victories over 16 seasons from 1947-63, including a schoolrecord six NCAA regional tournament berths in a seven-year span (’57– ’63). He guided Chapman to back-to-back regional titles in 1959 and ’60, when the Panthers reached the NCAA College Division championship game. His 213 head coaching wins rank third in school history.

Lehua (Simmons) Werdel was one of the most respected and tenacious defenders in Chapman women’s soccer history. She was named to the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) All-Far West Region team all four years of her career.

What’s more, she earned Academic All-District honors three times and was named an Academic All-American in 1998 by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).

Bongiorno Frank, a shooting guard from Vermont, became the Panthers’ career leader with 1,742 points as a senior during the 2003 – 04 season. She averaged 21.5 points and led Chapman to the second round of the NCAA tournament. She also earned a rare double-double: being named to the D3Hoops.com All-America team and the CoSIDA Academic All-America team in 2004.

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he 2011–12 school year was supposed to be a transitional one for the Chapman University Panthers, who became provisional members of the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC) on July 1. Due to its one-year provisional status, Chapman will have a more difficult road to the NCAA postseason this year in all sports, vying for hotly contested at-large bids.

This has not stopped several Panthers teams from putting together some of their most impressive performances in recent memory.

Men’s soccer Chapman rode its best start in 16 years (5–0) to an overall regularseason record of 11–4–3 and a top-four West Region ranking. The Panthers lost only two games all season to Division III opponents, including beating rivals Redlands (1– 0 in double overtime) and UC Santa Cruz (twice). Two-sport (football and soccer) stars Mauricio Alfonso ’13 and Jimmy Adranly ’12 led the team offensively and defensively. Alfonso scored a team-high 12 goals and totaled 30 points, while goalie Adranly posted five shutouts.

Football The Panthers jumped out to their best start since 1996, going 4–1 including a resounding 45–22 Homecoming victory against Whittier College on Oct. 15. Football fans also saw the biggest comeback in school history as the Panthers rallied from 21 points down to defeat Pomona-Pitzer, 45–35, on Oct. 1.

Volleyball The Panthers went 23– 8, achieving the most wins for a Chapman team since 1994 and tying the school’s Division III record. The team won 11 of its final 12 regular-season matches. AVCA 2010 All-American Kate Ferrin ’13 (pictured) led the way with 413 kills to become just the second player in Chapman’s Division III history with more than 400 kills in a season.

NEW WEBSITE LAUNCHED Now there are multiple ways to follow the Panthers. Nov. 1, Chapman launched its redesigned website at www.chapmanathletics.com, giving fans a one-stop site for news, photos, stats, schedules and results.

In addition, free live streaming video is available for most home sporting events at www.chapmanwebcast.com. And finally, the Panthers are on Facebook and Twitter (@ChapmanSports), where fans will find content not available anywhere else.

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For Don Jarman ’50, a student-store photo captures not just lifelong friends but a key moment in Chapman history.

By Dennis Arp

Don Jarman is shown in his 1950 Chapman yearbook photo.

he faces are as bright as the post-war moment they reflect.

There’s Doug Corpron ’50, second from the left, a tousle-haired friend from summer church camp who went on to become a physician and do missionary work in Thailand. Next to Doug is George Brown ’49, a tall, handsome fellow who became a preacher and whose brothers Harsh ’50 and Richard ’44 also went to Chapman. Then there’s Helen Ball ’51, behind the cash register, who married Doug, and together they had six children.

Los Angeles. Jarman isn’t shown — probably because he was busy directing the campus variety show — but he sure remembers the place and the people, who were critically important to Chapman’s history, he says.

Most of those in the photo graduated high school in 1946, just after the end of World War II and the conclusion of an interesting three-year period for Chapman.

In 1942, the school’s president, George Reeves ’27, had dismissed the faculty and moved Chapman’s dwindling classes to share space at Whittier College while renting out the Los Angeles campus to the U.S. Navy.

So when the war ended in 1945 and students were asked to return to Chapman’s North Vermont campus, it would have been easy for them to shun the move and enroll elsewhere. For incoming students, it would have been easier still to overlook the school and its seemingly uncertain future.

“For many of us, there was a closeness that had been there since junior high,” says Jarman, 83, who grew up in Huntington Park, Calif., the son of a Christian Church minister. “Our camaraderie carried over to Chapman.”

By the time of Commencement, the class was about 75 strong, and if those students had chosen to go elsewhere, Chapman might not have survived, Jarman contends.

“I still believe that if the Class of 1950 had not been there, Chapman would not have been there,” he says.

The photo and its setting seem to capture the spirit of the class. Members built, stocked and staffed the basement student store themselves, seeking a place

Before closing the book on Chapman’s 150th year, we wanted to share the reflections of an alumnus who found inspiration in a cherished slice of Chapman history. If, like Don Jarman ’50, there’s a photo — or other touchstone — that sparks memories of your Chapman experience, please let us know. We want to share your reflections, too.

Email us at magazine@chapman.edu.

The memories flood back to Don Jarman ’50 as he considers a precious piece of history — a black-and-white photo in the 150th anniversary commemorative book Chapman University: Celebrating the Past, Shaping the Future.

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But Jarman and many of his classmates had been friends for years, sharing summers at Idyllwild Pines, a Christian youth camp where bonds became unbreakable, especially for those from Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) traditions. The group saw Chapman, with its own church connection, as a great place to take the next steps in their educational lives together.

to replenish supplies, munch snacks like five-cent Shoe-String Potatoes and Circus Peanuts, grab a “refreshing Coca-Cola” and perhaps sneak a dance to the big-band beat provided by a second-hand jukebox.

Dancing was prohibited at Chapman when the Class of ’50 arrived, but by the time the students graduated, the administration had relented and dances were being held on campus.

As Jarman scans the photo, the items on the counter still strike a chord, including the classic pre-war cash register that students found, dusted off and put back into service. But it’s the faces behind the counter that really resonate, he says.

At the center of the photo is Francis “Bud” Reardon ’50, senior class president — “a real mover and shaker,” Jarman says. “He could talk his way into and out of anything.”

Once, for an event similar to Homecoming, Reardon drove a Crosleymodel car that carried the event’s queen in a procession, and somehow Reardon squeezed that tiny vehicle through a doorway, driving right into the gym.

“Bud also had a deal with a tuxedo place, so we’d always dress really well for

formal events,” Jarman recalls.

To Reardon’s right in the photo is Joyce (Arnett) Miller ’51, ’77, a member of the Cheverton family, whose support has had a transformational impact on Chapman.

Miller’s commitment to her alma mater includes service on the Chapman Alumni Association Board of Directors.

On Reardon’s left stands a smiling Mary Bell (Taylor) Carter, “who didn’t finish at Chapman but continues to be an ardent supporter,” Jarman says. At the far right is Kay (Wilson) Towne ’50, and to her right Ned Heringer, who came from a prominent Central California farming family.

Others in the photo remain in Jarman’s memory even if their names do not. Some of those pictured have since passed away, but he still keeps in touch with a handful, mostly via letters, phone calls and emails.

Jarman’s own post-graduation life includes seminary study and ministerial service to churches in Kentucky, California and Scotland, as well as other professional successes and community service in a wide range of positions. Included is a stint as president of the Chapman Alumni Board of Directors, and in 1998 Jarman was named

Chapman Alumnus of the Year.

He and his wife, Sharon (Becker) Jarman ’01, live in Oregon, where he paints landscapes as he recovers from recent back surgery. He also promotes Chapman to any young people who ask, including his grandson Sam, who “is very excited about the possibility of going to Chapman,” Jarman says.

With its 7,000 students and technologically advanced campus, the Chapman University his grandson would attend has come a long way since Jarman’s undergraduate experience. Long gone are the days of post-war Quonset-hut housing and driving a Model A Ford around town.

But, oh, those cherished memories — of re-establishing a campus identity and building a future together, of delivering punch lines in front of variety-show audiences and shooting the breeze behind a homemade student-store counter.

“In those days at Chapman, if we wanted to do anything, like a stage show, we had to do it for ourselves,” Jarman says.

When you get down to the heart — and the basement — of it all, that’s a pretty good way for a group of faithful friends to forge a lasting legacy.

“For many of us, there was a closeness that had been there since junior high,” Don Jarman says of the Class of ’50, some of whom are captured in this historical photo. “Our camaraderie carried over to Chapman.”

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Donor Spotlight: Jerrel Richards

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he recent economic climate has brought more stress than security to those who have invested in real estate or the stock market. Meanwhile, traditional savings and CD accounts have practically flat-lined on their returns.

In his retirement years, Jerrel Richards is looking for ways to balance financial returns with his philanthropic goals.

He has given to Chapman University for many years and is passionate about higher education and committed to helping students of all backgrounds succeed.

When his friend Margaret Richardson, a longtime supporter of Chapman, recommended that he establish a charitable gift annuity at the university, he did some research and decided it was a smart choice.

“You know,” Richards said, “I told my daughter she’ll be comfortable. I’ve taken

care of her. But I really wanted to do something for Chapman. And she told me that I should.”

Why did Jerry choose a gift annuity?

Ideal for retired individuals and couples, gift annuities offer higher payout rates based on age and also provide significant tax savings.

The income stream back to the donor is guaranteed for life, and any remainder will one day support a program, project or scholarship the donor specifies at Chapman.

With a gift annuity, Richards’ resulting income stream is secure and stable for the rest of his life. As an added benefit, he gets to see his gift in action at Chapman, creating opportunities for students and faculty.

Though Richards never attended Chapman, the campus has always held a special place in his heart. He considers

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Finding Security in a Volatile Economy

Jerrel Richards says that with his gift annuity he is doing something important for Chapman.

his gift annuity with Chapman to be “a human and financial investment.”

His advice to those considering a gift to the university? “Visit the campus and see the miracle of growth, expansion and beauty,” he said.

Your Heritage, Your Legacy Find security through a charitable gift annuity.

With fixed income for life, you no longer need to watch the markets. You will receive an income tax deduction for the charitable portion of your gift, and a portion of your annuity payments is tax-free for your life expectancy.

For more information and a customized illustration, contact David B. Moore, Director of Planned Giving, at 714-516-4590 or legacy@chapman.edu, or visit www.chapman.edu/annuity.

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Example of a charitable gift annuity with Chapman University: If you were 74 years of age and you gave $10,000, Chapman would pay you annually $630 (6.3 percent) guaranteed for life. Your charitable deduction would be approx. $3,409.

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FUTURE.

“That,” says just about everyone who steps onto the fourth-floor terrace of Leatherby Libraries, “is quite a view.” And they’re right.

By day, the electricity of campus life pulses below; by night, Attallah Piazza and the surrounding buildings radiate a whole new sense of energy.

But there are plenty of other places to go at Chapman University in search of a stimulating viewpoint. So, as the university’s 150th year draws to a close, we at Chapman Magazine are building on spring and summer issues that focused on the past and present to offer here a look into the future.

On these pages you’ll find learned perspectives on topics ranging from climate change to the arts to democracy in the Arab world. However, for starters we delve into the prospects for Chapman’s tomorrows.

Of course, trying to anticipate change can be a dicey proposition. “Never make predictions,” baseball manager Casey Stengel once advised, “especially about the future.” But in the case of Chapman, if the past 150 years and the present trends are any indicator, what comes next will be quite an exciting journey.

Luckily we know a good vantage point from which to watch it all unfold.

What’s Next?

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A campus symposium that included lessons in bold theatrical makeup and costuming, such as for this Cirque du Soleil artist, reflects Chapman’s drive for a future that includes innovative partnerships.

By Dennis Arp

The Future of … CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY

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o, after a two-decade period that has been the most dynamic in Chapman’s history — unprecedented growth, a record-setting rise in the rankings — where does the university go from here? A heightened national and international presence? Even greater student selectivity? A growing emphasis on the sciences and research?

Even from the first floor of Memorial Hall, the view is intriguing.

“I see a wide variety of attractive programs, while keeping the same spirit of community and the same welcoming environment,” said Chapman Chancellor Daniele Struppa, peering into the future.

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“So when we look at our faculty teaching, maybe there will be a professor leading a class in pharmacology, someone else working on ecological issues, somebody else on the trapeze.”

Talk about an aerial view of the future.

Actually, the trapeze notion isn’t that far from reality. On Oct. 21–23, about 800 students got a taste of what it’s like to be a Cirque du Soleil artist, both onstage and behind the scenes, during a symposium that may herald an ongoing relationship between Chapman and the global entertainment giant. (A symposium story begins on page 20.)

There were no trapezes, but the

three-day event says a lot about where Chapman is and where it’s going. First, it shows that Chapman is ready to lead in advancing opportunities that will open up the future for students. The symposium was the first of its kind at a university and links Chapman with Cirque du Soleil, which boasts 5,000 employees, many of whom work at the cutting edge of entertainment technology. Second, it shows that although Chapman continues to grow, it remains nimble and entrepreneurial — two characteristics Chapman President Jim Doti and the university’s trustees see as critical to Chapman’s future success.

“It took a flexible, fast-acting university to put this together,” President Doti says.

News & World Report ranking of 61st in the West among master’s-level institutions to No. 7 in the most recent listing.

During that same two-decade stretch, Chapman has blossomed from a predominantly liberal-arts college into an increasingly comprehensive university, and President Doti sees that momentum continuing. The next big push likely will

whether it be a medical school, a pharmacy school, a dental school or a school of veterinary medicine.”

As Chapman explores the possibilities, the key determinant will be “how can Chapman University use its special community and ethos and culture to develop programs that will advance these disciplines,” President Doti says.

‘ENORMOUS POSSIBILITIES’ The Cirque du Soleil connection was championed by Alicia Okouchi-Guy, a professor in Chapman’s Department of Dance, and Don Guy, head of entertainment technology at the university. Both have working relationships with Cirque du Soleil and helped develop the symposium, the success of which has Dale Merrill, acting dean of the College of Performing Arts, seeing “enormous possibilities” for the future.

Of course, such possibilities are the stock in trade of President Doti, who envisions Chapman taking its place as “one of the great universities of the world.”

“We’ll be right up there alongside institutions with leading reputations for having the best students and faculty,” he says. “People might laugh when I say that we’ll be up there with institutions like Stanford, Tufts and NYU, but I believe we will.”

No one is laughing at Chapman, not after a 20-year period in which the university has vaulted from a 1991 U.S.

Student Government Association President Megan Demshki ’12 represented Chapman in Moscow during a November exchange program of Kremlin Fellows. She worked with 15 student government leaders from national universities, exploring Russian development in democracy and capitalism — and providing a capital example of Chapman’s growing connection to the international community.

come in the health sciences, he says.

“I really believe that the needs of the 21st century call for a greater emphasis on health sciences education,” the president says. “It may take a while and it will take considerable effort, but we at Chapman are looking at opportunities,

“With the advances in science and technology, there is a need for a different delivery system. So how can we at Chapman do things in a way that’s different and better?”

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Chapman’s forward-looking push to boost opportunities for research reaches across all disciplines, says Christopher Kim, Ph.D., lead investigator in the Environmental Geochemistry Lab and recently named the university’s director of undergraduate research.

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In addition to the Cirque du Soleil symposium, Chapman’s Leatherby Center for Entrepreneurship and Business Ethics partnered with the Startup Weekend organization, founded by Chapman alumnus Marc Nager ’06, to host a crash course in creating new business ventures Nov. 18 – 21 on campus.

Meanwhile, organizations as diverse as Scottrade, Rogers & Cowan, and CNN are among about 80 employers on the university’s A list of corporate partners because they’ve proved a good fit via their hiring of Chapman interns and graduates. DreamWorks Animation alone has hired more than 35 Chapman paid interns since 2008.

“These are successful companies that are expanding, even in tough economic times, and they’re a good match for our

GROWTH IN THE SCIENCES In general, the science programs at Chapman will continue to grow, says Mike Pelly, vice chancellor of enrollment management. In the past three years, no school or college at Chapman has grown faster than the Schmid College of Science and Technology, which is now third largest for new students enrolled, behind only the Argyros School of Business and Economics and Dodge College of Film and Media Arts.

“We’re entering a very exciting time for Schmid College, in terms of dynamic programs, increasing student interest and overall reputation,” Pelly says.

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Kim, Ph.D., a professor in the Department of Chemistry and newly named director of undergraduate research.

Two examples in the School of Law alone: Recent research by Professor John A. Hall focuses on international labor rights and addresses the tragedy of child sex tourism, while Professor Ernesto Hernández-López is exploring cultural and legal clashes that pit municipalities against owners of food trucks.

From the perspective of both the university and students, Chapman’s international presence is poised to continue its growth spurt, Pelly adds.

Initiatives in Singapore and Prague will continue to foster an exchange of students, with opportunities in China still being explored.

“Chapman is not just becoming a destination school for students and parents globally, but a lot of colleges and corporations want to partner with us as well,” Pelly says.

School of Law Professor Ernesto Hernández-López is exploring cultural and legal clashes that pit municipalities against owners of food trucks.

campus culture,” says Ilyana Marks, career relations specialist in Chapman’s Career Development Center. “They want students who have well-defined skillsets, multiple interests, are active in service and can lead from day one.”

The Chapman student of tomorrow will bring these qualities while also reflecting a growing emphasis on diversity, Chancellor Struppa says.

“As we expand our reach nationally and internationally, we also have to ensure there is access for the large community of bright Latino students we have in our own back yard,” he says. “I know the trustees feel the purpose of providing young people with opportunities based on intellectual capacity rather than financial means.

“It’s the way we make the American Dream a reality — both now and in the future.”

Each year during the Chapman University Economic Forecast, President Doti turns to his Magic 8 Ball with a question about the year ahead. So for our own look into the future, we decided to tap into that same mystical (plastical?) power. But we’re also all about next-gen questing, so, Magic 8 Ball, meet Siri, the ethereal iPhone teller of truths.

In this matchup of mystics, however, the low-tech option seems to still have an edge.

❶ Will the Panther women’s and men’s basketball teams both make the NCAA playoffs again this season?

8 Ball: Consult me later.

Siri: I couldn’t find that.

❷ Will Miss California, Chapman alumna Noelle Freeman ’11, win the Miss America pageant in January?

8 Ball: Very likely.

Siri: I found 12 pageants in California (including the Pageant of the Masters).

❸ Chapman’s faculty includes winners of the Nobel Prize and National Medal of Science as well as Oscars and Emmys. Will there be more honors to celebrate in 2012?

8 Ball: Absolutely.

Siri: This university matching Chapman is a little ways from Sacramento.

❹ Within the next 20 years, will a student win the Leatherby Center’s Business Plan Competition by perfecting those personal jet packs we were promised by science-fiction writers decades ago?

8 Ball: The stars say no.

Siri: I can’t help you with flights. Sorry.

❺ When Chapman University celebrates its 200th birthday in 2061, will the cake not only be styled after Memorial Hall but also baked to actual size?

8 Ball: Positively.

Siri: This pastry shop isn’t far from you.

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SCIENCE CENTER This new home for the Schmid College of Science and Technology will help lead Chapman into the future of scientific discovery. Interactive displays, including a video globe projecting real-time satellite images of weather patterns on earth, will enable students to monitor hurricanes, dust storms and other natural phenomena. An open-air atrium will reflect the LEED-certified design’s emphasis on efficiency and environmental awareness.

When completed, the new Science Center will attract top scientists from around the world who are seeking out opportunities for high-level research and learning, Chapman President Jim Doti says.

HISTORIC CORE CLASSROOM BUILDING Planned for completion in spring 2013, this structure will be designed to complement the three historic buildings that surround the Bert Williams Mall: Smith, Reeves and Roosevelt halls. The new building will be built between Smith and Memorial halls on Chapman’s historic core quadrangle.

While neoclassically traditional in its appearance, the Historic Core Classroom building will be state-of-the-art under its skin, with all the technological amenities the next generation of Chapman students will require. It will house nine classrooms, two seminar rooms and 14 faculty offices.

CENTER FOR THE ARTS Also on Chapman’s main campus, this 1,100-seat arts facility will accommodate fullscale Broadway-style productions, full ballets, symphonies and operas as well as chamber performances, jazz and more, giving students in the College of Performing Arts a new home in which to showcase their talents.

The center will also build bridges to the vibrant Orange County arts community and “elevate Chapman to new heights and prominence,” said William Hall, Ph.D., founding dean and artistic director of the new center.

Yasuhisa Toyota, the world’s foremost acoustician, will “tune” the center, as he has for more than 50 landmark concert halls worldwide.

MILLENNIAL STUDIOS AND FILMMAKERS’ VILLAGE This project will further establish Chapman’s Dodge College of Film and Media Arts at the forefront of film school education. Millennial Studios will feature a back lot with a permanent exterior “city street” set that can be dressed to represent any locale. Other key components include a television stage, film production laboratory, 200-seat film studies theatre and space for expanding the documentary filmmaking program as well as experimenting with evolving technologies.

Across the street will be the Filmmakers’ Village — student living space networked to the studio and slated for completion in fall 2013.

Students will have 24/7 access to their film assets stored on Knott Studios’ massive server system, as well as software to work on any digital aspect of production.

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The future of … CALIFORNIA’S CLIMATE

to the Task

By Sheri Ledbetter and Dennis Arp

Change is coming, and like the rest of the world the Golden State must choose a path of mitigation, adaptation or both.

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f perception were reality, then climate change would be

at Chapman’s Schmid College of Science and

receding as a cause for global concern. The latest polling

Technology, to share some projections for the future.

from the Pew Research Center, released in October 2010,

One of the reasons Chapman professors prepare such

indicates that 59 percent of Americans believe there’s solid

projections — based on the best available scientific evidence,

evidence that the earth is warming. That represents a 20-point

gathered using constantly improving models — is to help

drop from 2006, when 79 percent said they believed there

government, industry and the general public make informed

was solid evidence of global warming.

decisions for the future.

But despite the change in public opinion, there remains an

The scientists note that no one can say how much warmer

amazingly strong consensus within the scientific community,

it will be by the end of the century, largely because it depends

including at Chapman University, that global climate change is

on choices society makes related to fuel, the economy,

real, and to a large degree human activity is responsible. So we

population, etc. But they can project, within a range, based

asked Dean Menas Kafatos and Professor Jason Keller, scientists

on current trends.

Here are some of the possible effects projected for California within the next 80 to 90 years:

HEAT By 2099, there could be up to 100 more days per year with temperatures above 90 degrees in Los Angeles and above 95 degrees in Sacramento. Higher temperatures will likely increase electricity demand due to more air-conditioning use. Even if the population remained unchanged, toward the end of the century annual electricity demand could increase by as much as 20 percent.

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AIR POLLUTION Higher temperatures would make the region ripe for more frequent, longer-lasting and more intense effects from air pollution. For instance, if temperatures rise, it’s possible there would be 75 to 85 percent more days of weather conducive to ozone formation in the Los Angeles Basin and the San Joaquin Valley, relative to today’s conditions. Air quality could be further compromised by increases in wildfires due to hotter, drier conditions.

WATER RESOURCES Rising temperatures could reduce the spring snowpack in the northern Sierra by 70 to 90 percent, increasing the risk of summer water shortages in Southern California. The most severe consequences of global warming would require major changes in water management and allocation. As more winter precipitation falls as rain instead of snow, water managers will have to balance the need to fill reservoirs for water supply with the importance of saving space for winter flood control. The loss of snowmelt would affect hydropower generation.

It would also mean a shorter ski season.

WHAT CAN BE DONE? There are two ways to respond to climate change — mitigation and adaptation. Research-based projections by Chapman University scientists can help with both.

The expected impact on wine-growing in California shows how our choices now will affect which paths are available in the future.

“If Californians want to continue to produce good wine, then we can try to limit climate change through mitigation,” said Jason Keller, Ph.D., an ecologist with the School of Earth and Environmental Science at Chapman. “Or we can just say climate change is inevitable and adapt. Growers can plant different types of grapes, or we can suggest they buy different land that

may not produce well now but is likely to produce well in the future.”

Reducing heat-trapping emissions is the most important way to mitigate the rate of global warming, Dr. Keller said. In 2005, then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a California law calling for a reduction in heat-trapping emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. Emission-reduction targets will help stimulate technological innovation needed to help transition to more efficient and renewable transportation and energy systems, Dr. Keller added.

California has been a leader in both the science of climate change and in identifying solutions. The California Climate Change Center is one of the first state-sponsored research institutions in the nation dedicated to research on climate change.

CHAPMAN AT THE FOREFRONT OF AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH Chapman University is leading a three-year study on the impact of climate change on agriculture in California, Arizona and New Mexico. An $848,000 federal grant will support advanced computational modeling to project outcomes that can help the U.S. Department of Agriculture and other agencies plan for the future.

Menas Kafatos, Ph.D., dean of the Schmid College of Science and Technology, is spearheading the study, which also involves scientists from Princeton, the University of Miami and UCLA. Schmid College’s Computational Forecast Laboratory and the directbroadcast satellite antenna of Schmid’s Center for Excellence in Earth Observing will provide the infrastructure for the project.

RISING SEA LEVEL During the past century, sea levels along California’s coast have risen about seven inches, and by the end of this century, they could rise an additional three feet. This would accelerate coastal erosion, threaten levees and disrupt wetlands. Currently many beaches, including those in Newport Beach, Venice and Santa Monica, are maintained entirely by sandreplenishing programs, at a cost of millions of dollars a year. If climate change continues, the costs of beach nourishment programs would rise, and in some regions they might no longer be financially viable.

AGRICULTURE California is home to a $30 billion agriculture industry that employs more than 1 million workers and produces half the country’s fruit and vegetables. If temperatures continue to rise as projected, by the end of the century California farmers could lose as much as 25 percent of the water supply they need. Commodities hit hardest would include:

Wine grapes – Toward the end of the century, they could ripen as much as one to two months earlier. Growers would likely have to switch to more drought-tolerant varieties.

Fruit – Rising temperatures could increase development rates and decrease fruit size. In 2004, peaches and nectarines developed early because of unseasonably warm temperatures.

The fruit was smaller than normal, which placed it in a lower-quality category.

Milk – High temperatures can stress dairy cows, reducing milk production. Toward the end of the century, milk production could decrease by up to 20 percent.

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EXPERIMENT

Beyond the Great Divide Q

Can we anticipate more political stasis in Washington, or will a new year — perhaps a new imperative — bring a thaw in the icy relations?

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The situation in Washington is unlikely to improve before the next presidential election. A good example is the long-term debt committee: the 12 House and Senate members tasked with developing a plan to cut at least 1.2 trillion from the country’s debt over the next 10 years.

Automatic cuts were to result if they failed to propose a plan, or if the Congress failed to pass the plan by Thanksgiving.

Of those cuts, 50 percent were to come from defense; but social security and Medicare were largely exempt. That formula, in general terms, is closer to the Democratic members’ preferences, so they had an incentive to see the automatic cuts start by stalemating the committee.

Amid the political rancor, Tom Campbell sees a possible gateway to action in Washington, and even offers a route to budget sanity in Sacramento.

S Tom Campbell, Ph.D., dean of the Chapman University School of Law

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tagnation in the economy, stalemate in Washington, stark possibilities on the international horizon — there’s certainly no shortage of challenges facing elected officials these days.

For 12 years, Tom Campbell, Ph.D, fought the good fight as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives or the California State Senate, but now his view of the arena comes from a scholarly position.

We asked the dean of the Chapman University School of Law to look into the future of American governance and tell us what he sees.

Republican members also have an incentive not to agree to anything before the election. The Republicans might not want the defense cuts, but since the cuts won’t start, by the law that set up the committee, until 2013, they can await the outcome of the election, hoping to undo the 50 percent rule if they elect a Republican president and senate. So both parties had an incentive to allow the committee to stalemate, and that’s what happened.

The outcome of the 2012 election will get the two parties past stalemate. Both parties are looking to those elections to give a clear direction to the country. Even if there is still divided government to some extent, a decisive victory at the presidential level will compel the Congress to work with the president — much as a Democratic House moved to the center to work with President Reagan after 1980.

Q

As the 2012 presidential campaign heats up, will it be all about jobs and the state of the economy, or are there other issues that could prove pivotal?

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Nothing matters other than jobs.

The economy won’t recover until consumers start to spend. They won’t spend if they fear they will be unemployed.

Recovering employment is key to everything.

I must note that there was one recent exception, but otherwise the rule is that no president is re-elected with unemployment greater at the time of the second election than his first. The recent exception was President George W. Bush’s re-election over Sen. John Kerry in 2004; but the issue of the terrorist threat was unusually salient then.

Excepting that case, the rule holds back to the beginning of reliable unemployment statistics being maintained. If unemployment is higher than 6.8 percent (November 2008) or, to give me a little more breathing room on my prediction, 7.3 percent (December 2008), then there will be a change in the White House.

I’m not blaming one party or one president over another here; and I’m not trying to make a political statement about who was responsible for causing or prolonging the recession. I’m just reciting a historical fact that correlates unemployment rates and election outcomes.

Q

In California, what are the prospects for breaking the cycle of budget crises?

A

Stability in the California budget process requires that we enforce a simple rule: don’t spend more than we have.

The reason we have not restricted spending to available means is that there is no prohibition against overly optimistic assumptions of revenue. When those assumptions prove false, we borrow from accumulated surpluses in special accounts.

At present, our state has borrowed all it can from all those sources. So, we will have to cut, in the middle of the fiscal year. This scenario will play out this December, because the budget that passed in July assumed

$4 billion in revenue that wasn’t justified by any economic data. So, we will see dramatic cuts (twice as much as would have been if we had an accurate yearlong budget, because the cuts will start in mid-year). The brunt of these cuts will be on K-12, higher education and Medi-Cal. The governor is likely to ask for tax increases instead, but two-thirds approval is needed for taxes, and there are no Republicans in the Legislature likely to vote in favor. The governor might instead propose an initiative, with signatures gathered by public employee unions’ help, to impose a surtax on the incomes of wealthy Californians.

Long term, the answer, in my view, is what was proposed in 2005 in Proposition 76. That system would require that expenditures not rise by more than inflation

no longer be any budget crises. Everyone would know exactly what there was to spend: namely, the revenues that were collected the previous year, sitting in an account, earning interest.

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What will be the issues to watch in 2012 and beyond?

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After the elections, and their almost 100 percent focus on jobs, our country will still continue to focus on economic recovery, of course. However, international issues are most likely to increase in salience, and nothing more so than Iran’s development of a nuclear weapon. That will, I fear, become a reality very soon after 2012. The world’s international security system is not able to prevent it.

“Nothing matters (in the presidential campaign) other than jobs. The economy won’t recover until consumers start to spend. They won’t spend if they fear they will be unemployed. Recovering employment is key to everything.” and population growth; if revenues rose faster (in good times), the difference would have to be put into an untouchable reserve.

The reserve could be drawn upon in bad times, when revenue fell. If revenue fell, or expenditures rose, more than 1 percent in any given quarter, above the budgeted level, then, after giving the Legislature 45 days to work out a solution, automatic across-theboard cuts would be implemented. That automatic back-up is missing in California today; and its absence contributes to the annual budget crisis.

Knowing that the automatic cuts will occur will stimulate the process of reaching agreement, much as Gramm-RudmanHollings did for the federal government in the ’90s (before Gramm-Rudman-Hollings was allowed to expire).

Another long-term solution — and it will take about 10 years to fully implement — is to collect taxes one year, and not spend them until the next. We would phase this system in slowly, over a decade; but at the end of the phase-in, there would

If the U.S. or its allies are to act, we would have to act soon. The U.S. decision to attack Iraq but not North Korea (both identified as part of the “axis of evil”) is likely to be seen by Iran as proof that “going nuclear” is the best defense against unilateral action. So a nuclear-armed Iran has to be prevented before it is a reality.

It seems to me that the world requires two new rules.

The first is that there be no new nucleararmed countries. It’s not a question of fairness (some countries are nuclear-armed, and their neighbors want to be). Fairness is not the only consideration here: preventing nuclear attack, or diversion of nuclear weapons to non-state actors, trumps fairness.

The second rule is that we must get to work on lowering the stockpiles of those countries that already have nuclear weapons.

George Shultz, Sam Nunn, and other statesmen have been working toward implementing the “zero option”: a world without nuclear weapons. The second rule has to be advanced with the first.

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The Future of … THE WORKPLACE

Big Ideas, Smaller Spaces

By Sheri Ledbetter

Those days when a few gigantic companies dominated the working world?

They are so “workplace of the past.”

“Entrepreneurship will fundamentally change business for the future,” said Richard Sudek, Ph.D., director of Chapman University’s Leatherby Center for Entrepreneurship and Business Ethics.

“Business in the U.S. is just becoming too expensive and restrictive for companies to flourish and grow like they once did. Our only hope is to harness the entrepreneurship potential we still possess in the U.S.” The trend of outsourcing and hiring consultants will continue, he said, creating opportunities for small businesses to provide those products or services.

“When we look to the future, we see a work force that is much more the product of a freeagent-type system, where people consult and move between companies in a much more fluid way than in the past,” said Dr. Sudek, who is also chairman emeritus of Tech Coast Angels, the nation’s largest angel investment network.

Workers will need to be tech savvy, opportunistic and flexible. The worker of the future will have to embrace change, responding to needs for new careers and technology.

“That worker will be much more successful and employable,” Dr. Sudek said.

“The reality is that in the future it will be too expensive to have a fully loaded employee. It has just become too expensive to build a company the old-fashioned way. The tools and organizational characteristics of work will shift fundamentally.”

The rate of change in business will only increase, he added.

Technology is the driver — a trend that will continue.

Companies already capable can work closely with someone in India, China and Europe, for example. Tech improvements will enable businesses to connect with anyone, anywhere, anytime in more rich and robust ways.

Forget about the sanctity of the “day off.” The typical “9 to 5” work day will cease to exist.

“The office of the future is at the beach and on the train and in the mountains,” Dr. Sudek added.

But while smart devices will allow us to work anywhere and meet without traveling, the advantages of face time will Richard Sudek remain. Dr. Sudek foresees work space designed specifically for collaboration, while at the same time 60 people might share 20 actual offices, since no more than 20 will be using those offices at the same time.

As the rise of informal meetings and brainstorming sessions drives office redesign, government regulation and the demand for greater efficiency will continue to push companies to do more with less, Dr. Sudek said.

So those workers at the beach, on the train, in the mountains and in the shared offices will need even more fully developed skill sets. Which means education, internships and post-graduate training will play an even greater role in preparing workers to succeed in the future.

“The office of the future is at the beach and on the train and in the mountains.”

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The Future of … THE CHARACTERS IN THE OFFICE

Get Ready for Dwight, the Start-Up King

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e predict that parody will always have a future. So to honor that tradition we decided to imagine the prospects for the most doomed workplace team known in today’s “9 to 5” world — the hapless employees of Dunder Mifflin Inc. from NBC’s Emmy-winning mockumentary The Office.

To predict the destinies of this dysfunctional bunch, we turned to Jennifer H. Waldeck, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the Department of Communication Studies who teaches business and professional communication and has been a training consultant to entrepreneurial start-ups and global Fortune 500 companies. She was aided by two communications studies colleagues: Assistant Professor Veronica Hefner, Ph.D and Adjunct Professor Sheila McDaniel. Together they tell us how the characters will find their way in a post-Dunder Mifflin era.

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Who will invent a whiz-bang gizmo in his /her garage, develop a following of loyal employees and end up on the cover of Entrepreneur magazine wearing flip flops, blue jeans and an it’s-awesome-to-be-me grin?

Naturally, we’d all assume it’s Ryan; but in 2013 when the FDA unearths the healing powers of antioxidants found in beets, it will be Dwight, sporting overalls with his flip-flops. Besides, who’s more loyal than Mose and the Amish?

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Who will bail early on the snack food start-up after becoming convinced that everyone there is actually out to undermine his/her ideas and steal paper clips from the store room?

Definitely Erin. Still overcome by lingering psychological trauma from her years in the orphanage, Erin won’t be able to function in a creative, dynamic entrepreneurial environment.

Eventually, her anxiety will get the best of her and she will seek the help she so deserves.

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After signing on with a struggling snack food start-up and working hard through thick and thin, who will happily retire early and comfortably when General Mills buys him/her out?

After a fateful encounter in the break room of the Dunder Mifflin Scranton office, Stanley leaves the unstable company to pursue his dreams of creating a grape-soda-flavored-snowball.

The venture turns lucrative after Justin Bieber signs on as the media spokesman.

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Convinced that baby boomers will always want paper, who will sell elegant, water-marked stationery online, thriving in a business model that requires minimal human interaction?

“Mrs. Senator” Angela thrives as a stationery salesperson, working from home with her son and legion of cats. This fills her time, as her senator husband takes frequent business trips with his newest staff adviser, Oscar.

What will happen to Kevin?

After initially taking a position working for Stanley as a food taster for the grape-soda-flavored-snowball company, he leaves the corporation when Bieber hires him as the backup drummer for his traveling band.

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The Future of … THE ARAB WORLD

STEPPING STONES

AND MINE FIELDS

After the uprisings, hope travels alongside trepidation on the path to democracy.

By Scott Martelle

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t began, literally, with a spark. In December 2010, Tunisian produce vendor

Mohamed Bouazizi,

increasingly frustrated by corruption and harassment by police in his small Tunisian hometown, walked to the middle of a busy intersection, doused himself with flammable liquid and set himself on fire.

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That single and ultimately fatal act of protest gave rise to a wave of demonstrations that, as of late fall, had toppled governments in Tunisia and Libya, ousted Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak, led to violent uprisings in Bahrain, Syria and Yemen, and increased tensions and demands for reform within other Arab nations.

What exactly those “Arab spring” uprisings, and the changes they engendered, might mean remains the center of international speculation. Do they signal the first tentative moves toward democracy in the Arab world? Or are they just spasms of protests by people destined to swap one authoritarian state for another?

Two Chapman professors have spent a lot of time dissecting those questions, and have come up with divergent answers they’ve detailed in a series of public talks, including a forum at Chapman’s Beckman Hall in February. James Coyle, Ph.D.,

director of global education and a former U.S. government official in the Mideast, believes “there are always prospects for democracy in the Arab world, but unfortunately they’re not being realized by the Arab Spring.”

But Nubar Hovsepian, Ph.D., an associate professor of international studies in the Department of Political Science, believes the uprisings are the first solid steps toward democratization. However, it’s a process that takes time.

“Democracy is not something that happens overnight,” says Dr. Hovsepian, an Egyptian native who also is a former political affairs officer in the United Nations. “Those who keep asking, ‘Why isn’t Egypt a democracy yet?’ are simply poor students of history.”

Yet clarity is elusive, in part because of the nature — and the extent — of the revolts. In Tunisia and Egypt, hated rulers

Photo by Acetic Ascetic

For democracy to evolve, Dr. Coyle says, there must be independent civic associations from which political parties can grow — the “stepping stones to democracy,” as he calls them. In Egypt and Tunisia, such organizations — from professional associations to neighborhood social clubs — were either banned or co-opted by the regimes. In Libya, they didn’t exist under Gadhafi’s autocratic rule.

“I’m not optimistic,” Dr. Coyle says. “In Libya, there is no structure, no underlying civil society from which a democracy can be built. Gadhafi intentionally made sure that a civil society would not develop… I suspect you’re going to end up with some sort of coalition of tribal councils, which would not be western democracy.”

But Dr. Hovsepian sees a more fertile ground for democracy across the Arab world. Yes, the Egyptian regime co-opted the

Yet the move to democracy is an openended process, and not something that springs into existence with the flip of a switch.

“The battle is not over,” Dr. Hovsepian says. “The regime is still intact though Mubarak is gone. But the public space of discourse has changed… Egyptians are in conversation with one another, which is new.”

Dr. Coyle says that’s not enough.

“Egypt’s a long way from having the ability to create a real democracy,” he says.

“In Tunisia and Libya, there are no current possibilities, no civil society.”

Syria, like Libya, cracked down on opposition rallies with guns, but with more success (NATO has made no moves toward joining that fight). Jordan has potential for democratic reforms but in Yemen “the elites are fighting among themselves over who should be in control”

Dr. Coyle thinks it will be at least a decade before enough dust settles to determine whether democracy will take root.

were forced out but the regimes they led remain intact, raising serious questions about how successful the uprisings actually were.

“What you have is a series of coups that changed the political leaders in Egypt and Tunisia, but the underlying power structure remained the same,” Dr. Coyle says. “They overthrew the figurehead” with the acquiescence of the political elites in the regimes who “decided that the person who was at the head of the government should go in order to save themselves.”

In Libya, the entire Gadhafi regime collapsed, but the shape of the new government remains unclear. And the uprising was successful only because of external pressure — NATO bombing in particular — which has left a vacuum.

country’s civic associations. But they retain the potential to achieve independence, a transition Dr. Hovsepian believes was underway before the anti-Mubarak rallies began converging on Tahrir Square. Labor unions in particular, he says, started moving away from the regime’s control as long ago as 1998, when a series of strikes began that ultimately involved millions of Egyptian workers.

Once the occupation of Tahrir Square began, the unions joined the movement.

“Labor played probably the most significant role in bringing down the Mubarak regime,” Dr. Hovsepian says. “They were the bodies. They organized the strikes in the major production nerve centers.”

That independence has begun spreading to other Egyptian organizations. “All of the associational life is breaking the umbilical cord with the regime,” Dr. Hovsepian says.

“They are establishing the beginnings of the public sphere that is not dominated by the state. Those are the prerequisites for transitioning toward a more stable democratic order.”

and the revolt risks becoming a smaller version of Libya. “In Bahrain,” Dr. Coyle says, “the 70 percent of the country that is Shia rose up against their Sunni overlords, and the Saudi military intervened and put down the insurrection.”

Given the extent of the turmoil across the Arab states, and the steps required to get to a democratic structure, Dr. Coyle thinks it will be at least a decade before enough dust settles to determine whether democracy will take root.

“There is a genuine groundswell of opposition to the governments that have been ruling these countries since colonialization,” Dr. Coyle says. He likened the process to how events unfolded after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989.

“The people clearly would like to have a say in what’s gong on,” he says. “In the Middle East, what’s propelling it is the economy. The economies are in shambles.

There are no jobs. People are fed up with that. They want change. But they don’t know what that means.”

Scott Martelle, an adjunct professor in Chapman’s journalism program, is the author of the forthcoming Detroit: A Biography (Chicago Review Press, April 2012).

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The Future of … LIBRARIES social media. But they still need to learn how to do university-level research.”

At Leatherby, it’s largely a real-time process in classrooms equipped for multimedia presentations. All Freshman Foundations courses have at least one informationinstruction session in the library. Teamed with faculty, library staff teach research and information skills in other areas across the

By Dawn Bonker university curriculum. Last year 301 instruction sessions were offered, compared with 271 just one year prior.

“It’s the wave of the future,” Ross says.

Then there’s all “the stuff” of academic libraries. Libraries curate important documents, antique books, photographic prints, professors’ research and student dissertations. In the future it all will be scanned and cataloged and — copyright allowing, another library hot button of the future — offered online to students and the public.

But archived copies of books and papers will still need a physical home, too, and not just for nostalgia’s sake. Recently a professor from UC Santa Cruz spent the better part of three days in Chapman’s Frank Mt. Pleasant Library of Special Collections & Archives Baldwin says. And it’s not just about having working in the Mendez v. Westminster Archive. space for books and soothing places to read And thanks to the estate of Mariana Witt, them — not that there’s anything wrong a 1493 first-edition copy of the Nuremberg with that, particularly at Leatherby Libraries, Chronicle is available to scholars who want where every hallway is also an art gallery. to turn for themselves the linen pages and Libraries increasingly will be the go-to examine the woodcut illustrations and sources for help on information literacy — gothic print of one of the world’s earliest an important need in a printed books. world where clouds of “THE CONCEPT OF LIBRARY Books won’t become new information fill the ‘AS PLACE’ IS NOT GOING museum pieces, though. cyber world daily.

AWAY. ‘I GOTTA GO TO THE E-books are a growing So who will teach part of the collection, LIBRARY’ IS CODE FOR ‘I the generation weaned NEED TO GO FIND A (QUIET but only 25 percent on Wikipedia how STUDY) SPACE.’” Charlene Baldwin, of scholarly and to identify and find research-quality texts dean of Chapman’s Leatherby Libraries, shown the peer-reviewed above with a 1493 first-edition Nuremburg are “born” digital, Dean publications, empirical Chronicle and its e-book equivalent Baldwin says. studies and scholarly So if you’ve been simply dying to get your publications? Librarians. hands on the newly-released second edition “Our students were born in the ’90s, and of Environmental Economics by Charles D. they grew up with technology,” says Kevin Kolstad (no Kindle version yet, by the way), Ross, associate dean of Leatherby Libraries. you’re in luck.

Leatherby Libraries has a new “But their perception of their online skills copy just in.

And there’ s fresh coffee available exceeds the reality of their online research in the Rotunda Café. skills. They’re great with Facebook and

GRAB A SEAT,

THEY’RE GOING TO

As the e-book revolution grows, so will the demand for traditional havens of quietude and information literacy.

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orget about reading the tea leaves.

Anyone who wants to peek into the future of libraries would be much better off grabbing a cup of coffee from the Rotunda Café and strolling through Chapman University’s Leatherby Libraries to ponder something much more telling — chairs.

Upholstered lounge chairs in the lobby, traditional classroom chairs in basement computer labs, cushy reading chairs in cozy alcoves, hunker-down chairs in quiet study carrels and move-them-around conference chairs in small study rooms.

Most telling of all? People are sitting in them.

“The concept of library ‘as place’ is not going away,” says Charlene Baldwin, dean of Leatherby Libraries. “‘I gotta go to the library’ is code for ‘I need to go find a (quiet study) space.’”

So while the e-book revolution and growth of online research and databases will continue to pick up speed, there will still be plenty of bricks among the clicks in the academic libraries of the future, Dean

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BE HERE AWHILE

The Future of … THE PERFORMING ARTS

Close Encounters More intimate halls and high-tech innovations drive a promising outlook.

By Mary Platt

Dr. Willliam Hall, founding dean and artistic director, Center for the Arts.

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by combining elements of all the performance arts, from voice and sk Dr. William Hall, founding dean of Chapman University’s dance to acrobatics, multi-media projected images and movies, and planned 1,100-seat Center for the Arts, about the future of they tie it all together into remarkable musical-theatre productions. performing arts centers in America, and he gets right to the They came up with performances that people not only want to see, point. “The larger centers are probably well on their way to becoming but clamor to see.” dinosaurs,” he says, referring to behemoths such as the Denver Dean Hall still sees an excellent future for the other performing Performing Arts Complex (10,000 seats total, with a 2,200-seat main arts, too, even as other experts predict their doom. “Basically, the arts hall) and even Orange County’s Segerstrom Center for the Arts (3,000have been ‘doomed’ for the past hundred years or so,” he says with a seat main hall and 2,000-seat concert hall). “I think the future will be laugh. “Opera, classical music, dance and theatre will thrive as long as owned by the smaller centers like Chapman’s, where the audience can there are great new performers to populate the stages of the world — experience a truly up-close and intimate encounter with the arts.” and as long as they innovate.”

Dr. Hall knows about audiences and what they want. One of the At Chapman, he adds, “we are seeing no shortage of extremely nation’s best-known choir directors as the leader of the famed William gifted young performing Hall Master Chorale, he artists wanting to study has been teaching and here. These are the folks leading at Chapman who will be gracing the for 48 years, first as the world’s stages someday director and conductor of soon, and they will also the university’s acclaimed be the core of the new choir program and then arts audiences.” as founding dean of He looks ahead to Chapman’s College of Chapman’s Center for the Performing Arts (CoPA).

Arts, which he sees as a As founding dean of the valuable spur to recruitment university’s arts center, he’s of talented arts students overseeing the final stages from around the world. of a $64 million fundAnd, he says, it will raising campaign before innovate, with a unique construction begins. audio-video Internet system “Television is one of throughout the building. the reasons for the boom At Chapman’s Center for the Arts, the plan is to include an audio-video Internet system, allowing “Thanks to the in performing arts centers audiences to view performances – and artists to conduct classes – from anywhere in the world. generosity of the Kay across the country in the Family Foundation, the past three or four decades,” system is planned to broadcast the center’s performances to audiences Dr. Hall contends. “Communities were alarmed that children were sitting anywhere in the world. It will also bring top artists and ensembles in front of the TV and not getting an arts education. All performing here virtually, via the Internet, to teach and even perform,” he notes. arts centers have a strong educational mission.”

“It will be something far beyond the scope of most arts centers.”

Now, he says, there’s a new threat to arts education. “Online games Dean Hall thinks for a moment and sums it up. “So, in a way, that have become a multi-, multi-billion-dollar industry, and their goal is same Internet whose game culture seems to threaten the arts can also be to keep kids — and adults — cocooned. How do the live performing used to bring an incredible multi-media arts experience to our students arts compete with that?” and audiences, in ways no one has really seen before. That’s something The answer, he says, may lie with global innovators like Cirque we can all really look forward to, and that’s the kind of new thinking du Soleil, which recently partnered with CoPA in a unique educational that will ensure the arts will not only survive but triumph in the future.” program on campus (see page 20). “Cirque du Soleil has succeeded FA L L / W I N T E R 2 0 1 1

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The Future of … ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE

The Hurt Blockers

In dance and sports, youth training pressures challenge those working to prevent the injuries of tomorrow.

By Dawn Bonker

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ne professor teaches dancers, while another works with athletes. But they both see the same problem — a rising number of serious injuries among youngsters feeling the crunch of heightened performance pressures.

“It’s sad when people say the career of a dancer is so short, because theoretically it shouldn’t be,” says Robin Kish, assistant professor in the Chapman University Department of Dance, College of Performing Arts.

The same lament can be heard across campus in athletic training.

“You’re starting to see more 10-year-olds with ACL tears,” says Jason Bennett, D.A., associate professor and director of the Athletic Training Education Program in the College of Educational Studies.

But as researchers, Professor Kish and Dr. Bennett also see some

Professor Robin Kish helps dancer Mandy Dray ’14 stretch before a workout.

opportunities for the future. Advances in sports and dance medicine are many, with research yielding techniques that can prevent or minimize injuries. So Professor Kish and Dr. Bennett say their professions are wellequipped to educate coaches, parents and athletes about safer play and gentler treatment of young elbows, knees and heads.

Professor Kish sits on the education committee for the International Association of Dance Medicine and Science, and her research has been widely published. Her students are required to perform research, too, and have won awards for their findings related to warm-up routines and sleep deprivation in dancers.

But more research is needed to combat the deeper problem of early injury. Professor Kish says she and her colleagues across the country often share stories of seeing freshman dancers arrive at their programs “broken and already burned out” because of intense youth training programs for which their bodies weren’t ready.

“Right now we’re anecdotally saying, ‘This is too much, this is too much,’ and they’re looking at us and saying, ‘Well, this is how we’ve always done it, this is how we win trophies,’” Professor Kish says.

However, the “this is how we’ve always done it” argument is mostly perception, researchers say. Dr. Bennett, a Certified Athletic Trainer, notes that it’s only been in the last 10 years that they’ve seen the trend toward chronic pain and injury among younger athletes. He traces it to the rise in specialized play. As early as elementary school

“There’s this motivation that you have to (work out) constantly to be good, and it’s just not the case.” Professor Jason Bennett children often play one sport year-round, and research suggests that the price of that is wear and tear on young bodies. At October’s annual conference of the American Academy of Pediatrics, a study was presented, showing that anterior cruciate ligament tears in pre-adolescent children have risen by more than 11 percent per year since 1999.

“There’s this motivation that you have to (work out) constantly to be good, and it’s just not the case,” Dr. Bennett says.

No one wants to misjudge an athlete’s potential, but smart training requires a careful regimen and a balanced approach, says Ky Kugler, Ed.D., associate dean, College of Educational Studies.

The trick is convincing parents and coaches to heed the good information out there, Dr. Bennett says, because all the athletes and dancers who feel the pounding feet of the next rising star close on their heels aren’t going to ease up.

“They’re kids,” Dr. Bennett says. “They think they’re going pro.”

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The Future of … CITIES

Rise of the Mini Metropolis D

on’t expect urban dwellers in 50 years to live in exotic, space-age locales.

Everyone will not jet to work in their personal flying car. Instead, the future’s ideal city might look a lot like today’s suburbs.

George Jetson wouldn’t recognize the place.

Kotkin says science fiction writers of the 1960s and ’70s “would be astounded in the lack of progress” in some elements of the world’s cities. People still drive in the same way they did, they still fly at the same speeds and “don’t live all that differently,” he says.

continue to have global importance, but they will be smaller than current global cities. “There are cities of 2 to 3 million that have enough elements — symphonies, libraries, universities — of what cities of 20 million people had,” he says.

The change hit home for Kotkin when he scanned the departure board at London’s Heathrow Airport. Amid destinations such as Berlin, Tokyo and Sydney, there was Raleigh, N.C. Raleigh, Dallas and Houston are examples of emerging major U.S. cities, Kotkin says.

New York will continue to be a place to find “decision makers” and key players in some industries, Kotkin says. Los Angeles “demonstrated to the world a new model of urban growth — dispersed, multicentered and largely suburbanized,” Kotkin writes in The City. Navigating Los Angeles today “works great if you live and work in the same area,” he says.

The revolutionary changes haven’t been in the way we live but in some elements of our world — such as medical advances and use of digital technology. Kotkin notes that science fiction writers also would not have predicted the aging of the population or how some women are able to have children later in life.

Kotkin expects that some cities will

Current major cities will still have their place, but as Kotkin points out, the larger urban areas in the developing world have some sizable problems.

“In the past, size allowed cities to dominate the economies of their hinterlands.

Today, the very girth of the most populous megacities … is often more of a burden than an advantage.”

urban areas “must still resonate with the ancient fundamentals.” Cities need to be safe, busy with commerce and provide some central sacred space that has evolved from religious structures to include commercial and cultural buildings that create a sense of the city’s identity.

“Trying to re-create the 19th and 20th century in the 21st isn’t affordable. We may end up with something that looks like the 17th century.” Joel Kotkin Joel Kotkin, Chapman University’s distinguished presidential fellow in urban futures, believes that people in advanced countries will more likely live in “a collection of villages, basically suburbs.” There will be more flexible transportation systems, more high-density housing and more people taking advantage of telecommuting and other technological advances to work at home.

“I think we’re going to come to the point that trying to re-create the 19th and 20th century in the 21st isn’t affordable,” Kotkin says. “We may end up with something that looks like the 17th century.”

Transportation will be a key to the future’s ideal city. The late 19th and early 20th century was an era of rail transport, Kotkin notes, with life focusing on a centralized city. But with many jobs moved outside the core city, there’s an opportunity to return to the model of the 17th century, with people walking to work or working at home. Kotkin says alternative forms of transportation also will need to be available to serve “the young, old and poor.”

Kotkin, who has traced the development of cities in his 2005 book The City: A Global History and looked toward the future in his 2010 release The Next Hundred Million: America in 2050, says the building blocks of a successful city really haven’t changed over time. He notes in The City that successful

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The Future of …

POSTSCRIPT

“Tomorrowland should always be something just beyond your reach,” says Jack Lindquist, the first president of Disneyland and a Chapman University trustee emeritus.

I “Tomorrowland, in many respects, has always had a smile,” says Marty Sklar, legendary “Imagineer” who had a hand in developing all 11 Disney theme parks.

f you think making accurate predictions about the future is hard, try building a real-life themed land based on a singular vision of what a great, big, beautiful tomorrow will look like. That was the challenge facing Disney “Imagineers” more than a half-century ago as they worked to achieve Walt’s Disneyland dream five miles west of what is now Chapman University.

“Tomorrowland — where our hopes and dreams for the future become today’s realities,” read the copy in a Los Angeles Times advertising supplement published on July 15, 1955 — three days before Disneyland opened to the public.

“Tomorrowland should always be something just beyond your reach,” said Jack Lindquist, the first president of Disneyland and now a trustee emeritus at Chapman. “But the truth is that because things move so fast, as soon as you open it, it becomes Yesterdayland.”

Of course, that doesn’t make the attractions any less enjoyable for visitors, many of whom still line up for enduring Tomorrowland favorites such as Space Mountain, Star Tours, the Monorail and the Autopia cars. And it doesn’t mean that some of the dozens of attractions that saw progress pass them by didn’t at least for a time come close to fulfilling Walt’s vision of “adventures that are a living blueprint of our future.”

LESSONS OF TOMORROWLAND

By Dennis Arp

This 1955 concept drawing by Disney’s Herb Ryman shows an early vision of Tomorrowland, with a “hanging monorail” running across the entrance.

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For instance, the Monsanto-sponsored House of the Future (1957– 67) included a wall-mounted TV, remote control and microwave oven long before these advances became household mainstays. It should also be noted that designers of the house weren’t entirely prescient. If they had been, our floors, walls and ceilings would all be plastic.

For Lindquist, thoughts of Tomorrowland start with the first time he climbed into the TWA Moonliner and experienced the Rocket to the Moon ride in 1955 — 14 years before NASA and the Apollo 11 astronauts took that giant leap for mankind.

“I said, ‘Oh, my God, it really does feel like you’re in a spaceship,’ which in 1955, no one really knew what that feeling was like,” Lindquist recalled. “You looked at a screen as Disneyland, Anaheim, then the ocean all got smaller and smaller. It really was like you were going to the moon.”

In fact, in 1969 lots of people wanted to be at the ride — by then updated and renamed Flight to the Moon — as Neil Armstrong prepared to take his first steps on the lunar surface. So recalls Marty Sklar,

who during his 54 years with the company was involved in the development of all 11 Disney parks.

“People were disappointed that the real astronauts didn’t jump as high as we predicted in our film,” said Sklar, who retired in 2009 as executive vice president and Imagineering Ambassador. “Overall, though, we weren’t that far off from what happened on that flight.”

the same way his storytelling communicated about the natural world.”

The one thing Tomorrowland has never lacked is new ideas. Often the hard part has been developing technological advances to keep up with the concepts, Lindquist said.

“It’s been a challenge for the Imagineers,” he said. “(By comparison) Fantasyland, Adventureland and Main Street were easy.”

Sklar noted that the design for an enclosed

“There’s a great big beautiful tomorrow, shining at the end of every day. There’s a great big beautiful tomorrow, and tomorrow is just a dream away!”

Lyrics, General Electric Carousel of Progress, Disneyland, 1967–73 Some early Tomorrowland attractions actually impacted reality, Sklar said, noting that “several were said to have influenced President Eisenhower to push forward on space research after the Russians launched Sputnik. Walt was popularizing knowledge of, and discussion of, ‘tomorrow’ subjects in

Tomorrowland thrill ride percolated for a decade before Space Mountain could finally be completed in 1977.

“Computer systems just weren’t sophisticated enough to allow us to keep the cars separate in the dark,” he said.

“In many ways, the story of the evolution of attractions is lots of imagination made possible by technology.”

Of course, in trying to explore concepts about the future, Disney has also had to deal with financial realities. That’s one reason corporate sponsorships helped drive the original Tomorrowland vision. Among the early attractions: Hall of Aluminum Fame, sponsored by Kaiser Aluminum; Color Gallery, in which Dutch Boy Paints showcased “Our Future in Colors;” and even the Bathroom of Tomorrow, where Crane Plumbing previewed the fixtures of the future.

Still, there was nothing put-upon or forced about Disney’s belief in the power of progress to improve people’s lives. At his core, Walt was an unabashed optimist, Sklar said.

“And he wanted that optimism to be part of everything we did,” Sklar added.

“Tomorrowland, in many respects, has always had a smile.”

That smile endures, but Sklar doesn’t envy those trying to keep Tomorrowland ahead of the grand arc of progress.

“The speed of change is enormous today,” he said. “It was a lot easier 50 years ago.”

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Professor Emerita Donna Cucunato, an adored dance and education professor remembered by alumni as a mentor, friend and second mother, passed away Oct. 22 at her home after a battle with cancer.

Professor Cucunato joined the university in 1976 as a dance professor and soon became director of Chapman’s fledgling dance program, serving in that capacity for 16 years. She also played a fundamental role in the success of American Celebration, serving as choreographer for 10 productions.

Chapman University students who performed a dance tribute to Professor Donna Cucunato gather with her for a photo at her retirement reception last spring.

After directing the dance program, she became coordinator of the Liberal Studies Program in the College of Educational Studies, serving in that role until her retirement last spring. Under her leadership, the program grew to include more than 180 students.

Don Cardinal, Ph.D., dean of the College of Educational Studies, says an unruffled work ethic was Cucunato’s trademark.

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“Donna’s calm and dignified approach to work and life ... made her a favorite among students, staff and faculty,” he said.

Alumni remember Cucunato as a professor who not only taught dance, but life lessons as well.

“Donna encouraged me to get a scholarship and remain at Chapman when I thought I wasn’t able to. She supported me through some very difficult times and was instrumental in my obtaining a visa. Without Donna’s unconditional love, I wouldn’t be the person that I am today.

I will never forget her,” said Ruriko SakumiDuer ’84.

Before focusing on teaching, Cucunato was an accomplished professional dancer and performed with the Los Angeles City Ballet, at the Hollywood Bowl and on television, including the Dean Martin Show and Grammy Awards. April Weeden Washington ’84 says students benefited greatly from the professionalism Cucunato brought to the classroom.

“I was able to travel the world as a dancer due to Donna’s teachings,” Washington said.

Rosalinda Monroy ’85 admired Cucunato for her dedication to education.

“She shared with me the tough decision she had to make regarding her dancing career versus her family. She decided to give up the tough life of a dancer so she could be present for her family. But she never gave up on her love of dance. She worked to instill that love and dedication to all of her students here at Chapman. She will be greatly missed,” Monroy said.

Memorial services were held Nov. 12 at the Fish Interfaith Center, Wallace All Faiths Chapel. A reception followed in Attallah Piazza.

The Cucunato Movement Education Scholarship fund was announced by the College of Educational Studies at a spring retirement reception.

For more information, please contact CES Director of Development Pattie Sobczak at 714-532-7702 or pdillon@chapman.edu.

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ELEANOR LEATHERBY Eleanor Augustine “Amma” Leatherby, a North Dakota farm girl who went on to become the matriarch of one of Chapman University’s most generous philanthropic families, passed away April 11. She was 83.

Leatherby was the widow of the late entrepreneur and philanthropist Ralph W. Leatherby, a former Chapman University trustee. The university’s Ralph W. Leatherby Center for Entrepreneurship and Business Ethics is named for her late husband, and Leatherby Libraries is named for the Ralph and Eleanor Leatherby family. Leatherby’s daughter, Chapman University Trustee Joann Leatherby, said her mother raised her and her brother, Russ Leatherby, founding director of the Ralph W. Leatherby Center, to always think of others.

“I didn’t have the same gifts as her, but I learned from her that I could use what I did have to make a difference in other people’s lives,” Joann Leatherby said.

Taking care of others was a hallmark of her mother’s life, Leatherby added. When Eleanor Leatherby married Ralph Leatherby, he was a young widower with two small children, Joann, then 3, and Russ, 5.

“I was diagnosed with diabetes at age 11, and she was just amazing, helping to take care of me,” Leatherby said. “If you didn’t feel well she always knew what to say or do to make you feel better.”

In addition to her daughter and son, Eleanor Leatherby is survived by her son-in-law, Dr. Gregory Bates; daughter-in-law, Susie; grandson, Doug; granddaughter, Katie Gillin and her husband, Peter; and great-granddaughters, Annie and Susie; her sister, Francis Diblin; and her caregiver, Louis Cozeault.

Eleanor and Ralph Leatherby supported many Orange County organizations, including Casa de Amma, a residential apartment community for special-needs adults the Leatherby Family named for Eleanor Leatherby. She was of Icelandic descent, and “Amma” is Icelandic for “grandma.”

Memorial gifts may be made to Casa de Amma, 27231 Calle Arroyo, San Juan Capistrano, Calif., 92675. Memories may also be posted at www.memorialwebsites.legacy.com

A longtime Chapman University faculty member who taught generations of piano students, Laszlo Lak passed away June 28.

Friends and colleagues from the Conservatory of Music in the College of Performing Arts remembered Lak as a consummate musician and instructor.

“We will never forget the lessons we have learned from Laszlo — much about music, but mostly about life,” said Grace Fong, DMA, assistant professor and director of keyboard studies at Chapman. “He was always up for a good conversation, bristling with new ideas, and sharing his positive force. His life was rich with his faith, music, friends and family, and he was younger at heart than most of us! What I remember most about Laszlo is his humor. In one of my last visits with him, he joked, ‘I guess I will be jammin’ with Liszt!’”

Lak’s imprint on the university’s music programs will be lasting, Dr. Fong said.

“His spirit and lessons live on. We are all the better for having known Laszlo,” she said.

Rick Christophersen, director of administrative operations at the College of Performing Arts, studied under Lak as an undergraduate and recalls him as an inspired teacher.

“Laszlo was an amazingly talented teacher, motivator and kindhearted man. He will be missed dearly by his colleagues, students and generations of Chapman University alumni,” Christophersen said.

Lak received his musical training in Budapest, Hungary, and continued his studies at the Chicago Conservatory College and the University of Southern California. He received his master’s degree from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

He was an active soloist and performed at every major campus in Southern California as well as throughout the United States and Austria. He frequently performed in solo recitals at the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest.

Since 1987, he gave annual faculty recitals at Chapman University. He was considered a specialist in the music of Liszt and Béla Bartók, featuring their works in his recitals.

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IMOTHY CANOVA, professor of economic law and the co-director of the Center for Global Law and Development at the Chapman University School of Law, has been chosen to serve on a panel of top economic advisors, including Nobel Prize winner Joseph Stiglitz, to help Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) draft legislation to reform the Federal Reserve. Sen. Sanders announced the formation of his expert advisory panel in the wake of a damning report that faulted apparent conflicts of interest by bank-picked board members at the 12 regional Fed banks.

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onsumer-protection expert KURT EGGERT, a professor in the Chapman University School of Law, testified Oct. 25 before the House Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade at a hearing titled “Internet Gaming: Is there a Safe Bet?” Though in April the Justice Department cracked down on Internet sites that were circumventing a 2006 law against Internet gambling, some lawmakers are proposing legislation that would legalize poker websites. “Gamblers used to be looked down on, but now they’re just consumers, and we should treat them as consumers, giving them the tools to make informed decisions,” Professor Eggert testified.

Performance by Fong Wows Critics

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RACE FONG, Ph.D., director of keyboard studies in the Chapman Conservatory of Music, recently returned after performing An Evening in Olde Vienna with the Indianapolis Symphony. Of the performance, critic Tom Aldridge wrote: “With K. 271 she shared one of Mozart's supreme compositions, possibly as Mozart himself might have played it (or wished it done). Every note audible with perfect phrasing, clean articulation and delicate nuance — seemingly effortless passage and octave work in the difficult final movement ... one sits back and goes, wow!” A week later, a music video by Oscar-nominated director Mike Figgis that featured Dr. Fong premiered at the Royal Opera House in London at the Deloitte Ignite Festival.

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EN TYE, Ed.D., professor emeritus, College of Educational Studies, was selected to receive the Distinguished Global Scholar award at the annual conference of the National Council for the Social Studies in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 2. Before retiring from Chapman in 1993, Dr. Tye taught in the School of Education, was chair of the Education Department and briefly was assistant provost for international programs. The council’s selection committee praised Professor Tye for his “highly productive professional life” driving global and international education.

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Himalayan Glacial Melt Detailed

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he Center of Excellence in Earth Observing team Anup Prasad, Ph.D. at Chapman University’s Schmid College of Science and Technology has published a book chapter exploring the causes behind Himalayan ice melt, an environmental occurrence critical to the people, agriculture and economy of the region.

The chapter, titled “Melting of Major Glaciers in Himalayas: Role of Desert Dust and Anthropogenic Aerosols,” was published

by InTECH in Planet Earth 2011— Global Warming Challenges and opportunities for policy and practice. The authors are ANUP PRASAD, Ph.D., HESHAM EL-ASKARY, Ph.D., GHASSEM ASRAR, Ph.D., and MENAS KAFATOS, Ph.D., dean of Schmid College.

Choral Directors Honor Hall

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ILLIAM HALL, Ph.D., dean and artistic director of the Center for the Arts at Chapman University, received the 2011 Howard Swan Award at the recent annual conference of the California Chapter of the American Choral Directors Association. The prestigious lifetime achievement recognizes Dr. Hall for his 45 years as director of choral activities at Chapman, where he “has had a profound impact on the choral art through his teaching and mentoring of thousands of young musicians.”

The award also honors Dr. Hall for his professional conducting career, including his leadership of the William Hall Master Chorale, which was under contract to Columbia Artists Management for more than 30 years and sang throughout the U.S. and abroad.

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By Dawn Bonker part of this family forever,” she says.

And, of course, there’s the parlor of award-winning Elliott Alumni House, honored by the Old Towne Preservation Association in Orange for the university’s renovation and re-use of the Folk Victorian manor. To encourage drop-in visits, Gray says there are plans to soon outfit the parlor

with comfortable furnishings and iPads, so visiting alumni can stop to check their email, take a break or tour the charming house.

“Alumni want ways to connect,” she says.

And soon there should be no shortage of avenues, digitally and otherwise.

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aybe it will be the Friday business networking lunches or the opportunity to mentor student interns in the workplace. Then again it might just come down to the free Wi-Fi and comfy sofa in the parlor of a sweet old house.

One new way or another, Chapman University alumni will soon have the chance to reconnect with their alma mater, thanks to a multifaceted plan

by Chapman University’s new director of alumni engagement.

“We’re really looking forward to doing things that are relevant to people at their different life stages. We know alumni love this place and love their alma mater, and we want to help them make relevant connections,” says Jillian Y. Gray, the new director of alumni engagement.

Linking alumni to meaningful projects and programs was a major emphasis for Gray in her previous position as director of alumni advancement at the Bishop’s School in La Jolla. Those relationships and friendships led to a base of active and supportive alumni volunteers, says Gray, who joined Chapman University this past summer. An added benefit is that a spirit of loyalty soon evolves, she says.

“We want to build a culture of pride, a culture of philanthropy,” she says.

In addition to the Friday lunches — which kicked off this fall in south Orange County — Gray’s immediate plans include a new emphasis on regional events in Northern California, New York and elsewhere, as well as a “think Chapman first” campaign to link student interns with alumni needs. Outreach to the almost-alumni demographic is also getting a boost under Gray’s direction, with increased sponsorship of special events like September’s “Senior Sunrise” for the Class of 2012.

“The alumni experience really begins early. As soon as you’re admitted, you’re

“We want to build a culture of pride, a culture of philanthropy,” says Jillian Y. Gray, new director of alumni engagement at Chapman University.

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Love in the Time of Global Citizenship T wo of Chapman’s most dedicated global citizens, Zach

Bloomfield ’07 and Kelsea Ballantyne ’07, were married this

past June in a world-traveler-themed wedding in their home state of Idaho. Now they’re trying something new in their post-graduate lives as a couple: sharing the same continent.

After graduating with degrees from Chapman’s Argyros School of Business and Economics, Bloomfield and Ballantyne both earned Fulbright scholarships — Zach to promote economic development in Tunisia, and Kelsea to build a business that helps women leave the sex trade in India by providing them fair-wage jobs.

“Being married has meant really committing, because for three years we

Chapman staff member Dani Smith performed the Idaho wedding ceremony of Kelsea Ballantyne ’07 and Zach Bloomfield ’07, whose world-traveler-themed nuptials included a cake fashioned after a stack of suitcases.

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were living long distance,” Ballantyne said.

“Now we make life decisions together. I love coming home to my husband every day.”

The two live in Tunisia, where Bloomfield works at the African Development Bank, running a fund that invests in small renewable-energy projects throughout Africa.

Ballantyne is a development consultant while also traveling regularly to India to assist with the business she helped launch.

Among Ballantyne’s business successes in India is a line of organic T-shirts. She got to see Chapman freshmen wearing the shirts during Orientation Week last fall, when the students filled Memorial Hall for a Skype call from Ballantyne, who spoke about microlending.

As for the couple’s wedding, the ceremony was “plenty serious,” Bloomfield said, “but we threw in our own touch of fun and creativity.

It was really well-tailored to us.”

An eco-friendly wedding was important to the couple. The invitations were sent electronically, and the room was filled with reused globes and travel books, as well as decorations made by Ballantyne’s parents, including flowers made from recycled paper.

Two unique items at the wedding were Ballantyne’s bouquet of antique brooches made by her mother and Bloomfield’s boutonniére with a picture of his mother that he wore close to his heart. The wedding was officiated by the couple’s close friend, Chapman staff member Dani Smith,

Ballantyne and Bloomfield in Tunisia.

who coordinates the C.A.R.E.S. (Creating a Rape-free Environment for Students) program — one of many projects for which Kelsea and Zach became leaders at Chapman.

Ballantyne was also Associated Students president and an inductee into Chapman’s Schweitzer Chapter of Mortar Board.

“Dani was around in some of the best and some of the hardest times in our relationship,” Bloomfield said. “She was a good friend as well as a mentor and counselor for us when we needed it.”

Smith called Bloomfield and Ballantyne “two of the smartest and most generous souls that I have ever met.”

Wedding attendees included 20 Chapman alumni, four of whom were members of the wedding party: Ryan Corry ’08, Jeffrey Harris ’07, Kelsey Bains ’07 and Tavia Jefferson ’07.

It was the people who made the day special, the couple said.

Now Ballantyne and Bloomfield have begun applying to U.S. graduate schools, with mixed feelings about the prospect of returning to domestic lives.

“It feels a bit weird coming back (to the U.S.), especially after living in India for so long with almost nothing and working alongside women who have really hard lives and seeing what they can come through,” Ballantyne said. “But I love the U.S., and we miss our family and friends a lot.”

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James Smith ‘01

By Laurie Swain ’12 ometimes James Smith ’01 wades through a stack of 40 or more submitted scripts without finding one he’d like his company to produce. So it’s easy to remember moments like the one he enjoyed when the screenplay for Drive landed on his desk.

“I remember reading the first 10 pages, and I immediately began emailing people at my company saying we need to get involved in this,” said Smith, vice president of development for Oddlot Entertainment.

“It was just incredibly well written (by Hossein Amini).”

The story kept pulling him in deeper with each scene, and a film that Warner Brothers had passed on quickly became Smith’s passion and Oddlot’s treasure.

Smith’s zeal for filmmaking first flowered at Chapman University’s Dodge College of Film and Media Arts and now is reflected in Drive, for which he earned a credit as a co-producer.

Smith worked with other producers and Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn on various drafts of the script, as well as helping with casting and giving notes on each day’s filming.

The movie, which stars Ryan Gosling as a Hollywood stunt driver who freelances as the wheelman on heists, is a hit with both critics and filmgoers.

Like Smith, Gosling was a driver of the project, as he helped get Refn involved.

During development, the script evolved greatly, and Carey Mulligan was cast as the love interest for Gosling’s character.

“She fought for that role,” Smith said of Mulligan.

Several other roles were filled by actors who were cast against type, making the film that much more memorable. For instance,

Albert Brooks, known for voicing Marlin in Finding Nemo, plays a brutal crime boss.

Working with the talented Refn was “unique,” Smith noted, adding that he and the director butted heads on some choices, but ultimately everything worked out for the best. Refn had creative liberty to change the script, and he took full advantage — in the best possible way, Smith said.

Refn was named best director at the Cannes Film Festival, where Drive was

first job as an assistant to legendary producer Robert Evans, known for his work on Academy Award winners The Godfather and Chinatown. Later Smith assisted producer Gavin Polone, earning credits on films such as The Secret Window and My Super Ex-Girlfriend.

With Drive, it seems, Smith’s career is really accelerating. These days, he and Oddlot are working on bringing to the screen Orson Scott Card’s sci-fi novel

Drive, starring Ryan Gosling as a Hollywood stunt driver who freelances as a wheelman on heists, is a hit with both audiences and critics.

an audience favorite. There’s considerable buzz that the film will also earn Oscar nominations.

Such talk shows how far Smith has come since his graduation from Chapman, where each year he worked at filmindustry internships.

Those internships helped Smith get his

Ender’s Game, as well as a film biography of Albert Einstein.

The Drive experience has taught him a lot.

“A movie can take a long, winding road to release, but even with a lot of varying opinions, you can still end up with a great product,” he said. “Trust your instincts, but leave room for others’ as well.”

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Any pictures received by mail will be scanned and returned. Class Notes are subject to editing due to space. To post Class Notes and photos online, visit www.alumni.chapman.edu

1950s Forged by Fire: The Devastation and Renewal of a Mountain Community

by Mary Ellen Zimmerman Barnes, B.A. English literature ’50, was named one of the top 10 Southwest Books of the Year by the Pima County Public Library.

Mary Ellen has since written two other books: The Road to Mount Lemmon: A Father, a Family, and the Making of Summerhaven, and Teresa and the Cowboy: Un Cuento de Amor Tusconese.

1960s Dave Bunten, B.A. economics and business administration ’65, retired after 11 years with Ruehlin Associates, doing career transition consulting for career service members and civil service employees who were retiring.

Dave is also a retired Navy captain.

Dave and his wife, Pina, plan to split their time between homes in Springfield, Va., and Acitrezza, Italy, as well as visits to spend time with their 2-year-old granddaughter in Phoenix.

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1970s Lynn Coccia Beal, B.A. physical education ‘73, has retired after 36 years of teaching for the Fontana Unified School District.

She would love to hear from classmates and friends.

1980s The Rev. Darren T. Galindo B.A. religion ’81, a Disciples of Christ minister, was called and voted in to be the senior pastor of the United Church of Christ at Judd Street, in Honolulu, Hawaii, after serving 16 years as pastor of Windward United Church of Christ in Kailua, Hawaii. He began his new ministry in August. Darren and his wife, Liza, have three daughters.

Nicole Cosand, B.A. communications and broadcast journalism ’89, has returned to Southern California after living in the Bay Area for the past 17 years.

After working in the development field for more than a decade, Nicole is now the annual giving and alumnae relations manager at Mayfield Senior School in Pasadena. Nicole looks forward to reconnecting with fellow Chapman alumni.

▲ Eric-Long Dang, B.S. chemistry ’03, was accepted into the Navy’s prestigious Nuclear Power Officer Program and was sworn in as a soon-tobe-commissioned officer in September. He credits Chapman University’s Department of Chemistry and its faculty for helping him achieve this honor.

1990s Randy Heinrich (M.A. education ’96) has co-authored a book titled Do Children Drop Out of School in Kindergarten?

Melissa Hartley, B.A. communications ’99, married Greg Kohnke on Oct. 1 at a private residence in Scottsdale, Ariz.

Melissa serves as director of community relations for Horizon Community Learning Center and is vice president of communications for The Junior League of Phoenix.

Greg is the information technology director for ITS-Infinity Trading.

The couple reside in Chandler.

2000s Sam Argier, BFA film and television ’03, won his second Emmy award for best weather anchor as the morning meteorologist at the Seattle CBS affiliate, KIRO 7.

Shawn Thomas Norris, B.A. Kinesiology-Athletic Training ’03, is engaged to Jennifer Zerbst. They met more than a year ago in Austin, Texas. The proposal took place on Mount Bonnell, overlooking Lake Austin. The wedding is planned for Austin in about a year.

Kevin Edmunds, B.A. communication studies ’06 (M.A.), and Karla Brasch, B.A. psychology ’09 (M.A.), were engaged on Sept. 2 at Multnomah Falls in Oregon. Kevin works as sales director for Palace Resorts, while Karla is pursuing her doctorate in clinical psychology at the California School of Professional Psychology. The couple reside in San Diego with their golden retriever, Roxi.

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Coralee (Cora Hoffmaster) Johnson, B.A. physical education ’66, was selected to ride on the 2012 Donate Life Rose Parade float called “… One More Day,” sponsored by One Legacy, a nonprofit organ and tissue recovery organization serving the greater Los Angeles area. Bob Johnson, Cora’s husband of 39 years, received a heart transplant in 2001 after suffering several heart attacks and severe cardiomyopathy.

They became Donate Life ambassadors, educating the

community about organ donation and the importance of signing up on the California Donor Registry.

Bob passed away in 2009 of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Cora is a retired teacher and continues her advocacy for organ, eye and tissue donation and volunteers many hours for the cause.

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2010s Matt Brown (MBA ’10) is leaving his job as a production coordinator at DreamWorks Animation for a new position as an associate integrated producer at an ad agency in Chicago.

Angela Vogen, B.A. communication studies ’10, obtained a position as a job developer with Goodwill of Orange County, helping individuals with disabilities achieve independence through employment.

▲ Trent Huston, B.S. accounting ’08, married Amanda Eacker over the New Year’s weekend 2011 at Falkner Winery of Temecula. The wedding party included best man Ryan Corry, B.A. political science ’08; and groomsmen Teren Shaffer, BFA music ’09; Andy Nguyen, B.S. biological sciences ’10; Taylor Underwood, Class of ’11; and brother of the groom Dru Huston, Class of ’95. The couple enjoyed a Caribbean cruise honeymoon, returning to their home in Orange.

Both Trent and Amanda are financial planners at Huston & Associates, Tustin, and can be reached at trent@hustonandassociates.com.

▲ Paul Sweeney, B.A. graphic design ’05, and Becky Kirsch, B.A. film and television ’05, were married at the Inn of the Seventh Ray in Topanga, Calif. on Nov. 6, 2010. They danced the night away with Chapman alumni Ryan Quinn ’04, Adam Sass ’05, Phil Warren ’05, Cat Lamb ’04, ’11, Adam Griffith ’09, Cooper Holmes ’11, Janelle Meinert ’05, Kelly Kooser ’04, Kayla Westergard-Dobson ’10 and Ryan ’05 and Stephanie Witherspoon ’06. Paul is a software engineer at ad-sales company Gorilla Nation, and Becky is a television writer for the TNT series Leverage.

They live in Culver City.

Ryan Hougardy, B.A. business administration ’09, accepted a position with Strategic Financial Group — Northwestern Mutual Financial Network as a financial representative. He will receive his MBA from Chapman in December.

Omorefe Igbinosa, B.A. organizational leadership ’11, has published a non-fiction book titled The Sanusi Effect: Banking Tsunami Wipes out Corporate Fraudsters in Nigeria. The book chronicles the actions taken by the current governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria in the aftermath of the 2008 – 2009 global financial crisis.

▲ Christina (Marshall) Zermeno, B.S. business administration ’06 (M.A. organizational leadership ’11), and Wally Zermeno were married at the El Adobe de Capistrano restaurant in San Juan Capistrano on Sept. 4. Chapman graduates, students and staff were there to help celebrate the day. Chapman graduates in the wedding party included maid of honor Amy Heine, B.A. public relations ’05, and bridesmaid Natalie (Jackson) Blalock, B.A. public relations ’06 (M.A. in counseling ’11). Also on hand to make the day special were Margie McCoy (College of Educational Studies), who coordinated the event; Susanna Branch (Office of the Chancellor), who officiated; Erika Curiel (Office of the Chancellor), who was a fellow bridesmaid; and Carly (Daniel) Street, B.A. leadership and organizational studies ’06, who photographed the day, as well as Chancellor Daniele Struppa and Professor Lisa Sparks, Ph.D., whose daughters served as flower girls.

Christina works in the Office of the Chancellor as the assistant to the chancellor, and Wally works as an emergency department technician at Long Beach Memorial Hospital. The couple reside in Long Beach with their two children, Connor and Logan.

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New Association Supports MBA Alumni

By Justin Pribilovics-Wade

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he recently launched MBA Alumni Association is already making an impact at Chapman University.

Headed by Arash Sayadi, who earned his Flex MBA from the Argyros School of Business and Economics in 2007, the association is aiming to give graduates the chance to support each other, the program and current MBA students, Sayadi said. Joining him in the association leadership are Christopher Buckstein (MBA ’11) and Tyler Watkins (MBA ’10).

So far, the MBA Alumni Association has hosted two events: Chapman President Jim Doti spoke at a get-together in February at the Sandhu Conference Center, and Esmael Adibi, Ph.D., director of the A. Gary Anderson Center for Economic Research, delivered an MBA Exclusive Chapman Economic Forecast Update in June at the same site.

The association is planning more events and is eager for more MBA alumni to get involved.

For more information, email info@chapmanmbaaa.org.

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Paris, the Loire Valley and the Normandy region of France were on the summer 2011 itinerary for five Chapman alumni. Travel highlights included the Bayeux Medieval Festival and World War II landmarks. Shown, from left, are Stephanie Blanchard, B.S. health sciences ’00; Jennifer “Jenny” (Heide) Hall, B.S. business administration ’03; Ryan Hall, BFA film & television ’02; Jeff Huston, B.A. business administration ’68; and Lynn (Kinder) Huston, B.A. home economics ’68 (M.A. education ’76) as they display the Chapman colors in front of Sacré-Couer Basilica atop Montmartre in Paris.

FRIENDS WE WILL MISS Janet W. Parker ’39 passed away Sept. 1 in Claremont at age 94. Janet babysat and graded papers to put herself through what was then Chapman College during the Great Depression, earning the 1939 Cheverton Award. After graduating, Janet taught fourth and fifth grade as well as music in Pasadena. On Aug. 30, 1940, she married W. John Parker, whom she met at church camp. The next year, he accepted the call to preach in Paducah, Ky. They spent seven years there and had three sons before returning to Southern California, where their daughter was born. Janet returned to the classroom in 1955 and spent 22 years teaching kindergarten.

After retiring in 1977, she and her husband enjoyed traveling and spending time with their grandchildren. John passed away in 1984, and Janet moved to Pilgrim Place in Claremont.

She is survived by sons J. Bruce Parker of Hacienda Heights; David L. Parker of Bellevue, Wash.; daughter Janet P. Booth of Reno, Nev.; seven grandchildren; and 13 greatgrandchildren. She was preceded in death by son Gary W. Parker and grandson Seth Parker.

Services were held Oct. 9 in Claremont.

Frank Raab, ’50 passed away peacefully on Aug. 26 with family at his side. He is survived by his wife of 62 years, Velma ’47, ’49, and children Gordon, Sharon and Debi ’78. He worked in juvenile probation for Alameda County for 35 years.

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The fall of the Berlin Wall inspired the internationally renowned artist Fitz Maurice to create a series of works on the theme of transformation. Those paintings are on display through January in the Great Room of Chapman University’s new Student Union, on the first floor of Argyros Forum. The exhibit, titled Berlin: Metamorphosis Collection, toured Germany for three years and includes this oil-on-canvas work, The Quadriga in Celebration. Fitz Maurice, a resident of Laguna Beach, Calif., said she hopes the exhibit prompts viewers to consider where barriers still exist in the world and to work to eliminate them.

A Sky-High Celebration

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American Celebration has yet to disappoint, each year

delivering a glittering, grand fête that befits the show’s name. This year’s celebration was no exception.

In November, American Celebration doubled down on the exclamation points, providing plenty of good news to accompany the show-stopping performances by students from the College of Performing Arts. The annual Broadway revue and gala raised $2.12 million for student scholarships and was the setting for the announcement that a $2 million gift from Chapman University Trustee Wylie Aitken and his wife, Bette, put the university a giant leap closer to achieving its goal of building a 1,100-seat Center for the Arts.

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The Aitkens’ gift was announced to a sold-out audience in Memorial Hall, where more than 100 singing and dancing Chapman students took the audience on a journey through 150 years of American music. The Aitkens served as co-chairs of the fundraiser with Glenn and Mindy Stearns. “(The gift) comes at a wonderful time, as we celebrate the university’s 150th birthday as well as the 30th anniversary of American Celebration, which Bette and Wylie have guided to perfection this year, as they do with all of their passionate causes,” said Chapman President Jim Doti.

The performers received a gift of another kind.

“I was floored by the performance this evening,” said American Celebration honoree Mike Stoller, who, with late songwriting partner Jerry Lieber composed numerous American classics, from Hound Dog to On Broadway. Stoller received the university’s 2011 Lifetime Achievement in the Arts Award and predicted bright futures for the students, saying “they would be right at home on Broadway, I’m sure of that. And many of these people will someday grace those stages.”

Also honored during the event was the Schmid family, longtime university friends and supporters. Represented by Dick and Patty Schmid as well as Marty Schmid, the widow of the late Don Schmid, the family was selected 2011 Chapman Corporate Citizens of the Year.

Dick Schmid said the tradition of supporting Chapman University began with their parents and is one the family is proud to continue.

“We feel fortunate to be a small part of this university’s success,” he said.

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Loretta Sanchez ’82 with George ‘59 and Julianne Argyros

Jim and Kelly Mazzo

Other highlights of the evening included the traditional appearance of President Doti in the performance.

He did a tongue-in-cheek tango number with university supporter Julianne Argyros, and later was a cowboy in a chorus line number from Will Rogers Follies that ended with him in full flight over the stage, thanks to some tricky theatrical rigging.

The trick next year will be topping this night full of high points.

Brenda and Mike Carver

Glenn and Mindy Stearns

Holly and David Wilson

To view a slide show of behind-the-scenes photos and other highlights of the 2011 American Celebration, visit www.chapman.edu/magazine