Talk
of the
SPRING 2008
Town
PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
Dear Town & Gown Members, We are well into our 40th Anniversary year and many plans are underway to surprise you and make this 40th year one we all will remember in the history of Town & Gown. The elected and appointed leadership board of Town & Gown meets monthly. I would like to share with you some of the recent actions undertaken by this group of volunteers who represent you. Sometime ago your board made a five-year commitment to fund refurbishment of the T&G Conference Room in Memorial Hall. This year the Board voted to accelerate payment on this commitment and $12,000 has been designated for our pledge payment this year. If we are able to pay the same amount next year we will have paid off our commitment one year earlier than planned and you as members will have donated $40,000 to create a special meeting place for faculty and staff of Chapman University. Another recent action was to authorize purchase of a new banner for Town & Gown. Barbara Parker is heading up the team to design and procure this new banner. We hope to have it in place for the Annual Spring Luncheon on May 1. Throughout this newsletter you will read more about the many exciting plans and events that are planned for the remainder of this year. Be sure to mark your calendars and be present at our May 1 Luncheon. Town & Gown is you - our loyal members!
– Donna Gladson
Along with Daniel Alfred Wachs, music director for Chapman’s Conservatory of Music at the piano(l), students (from left) Adrianna Hernandez, violin; Kathleen Mangusing, violin, Philipp Triggs, viola and Ian Flatt, cello; played Mozart for those attending the March Lunch at the Forum.
ANNUAL LUNCHEON TO FEATURE DANCE ENSEMBLE’S “THE CREATIVE SPARK: DANCE AND INSPIRATION” The Town & Gown Board is planning a festive Annual Spring Luncheon in celebration of its 40th year as a Chapman support group at 11:30 a.m. on Thursday, May 1, in the William and Willa Dean Lyon Conference Center, second floor, Argyros Forum, Room 209. Special guests will include Chapman President James L.Doti and the faculty guest speakers from the 2007-08 Lunch at the Forum series who will be inducted into our Hall of Lecturers: Dr. Fred Caporaso, Dr. Stephen Polcari, Instructor Lynda Hall and Assistant Professor Daniel Alfred Wachs. Asst. Professor Dale Merrill, chair of Chapman’s department of dance, and faculty liaison to the Town & Gown Board, will introduce the Chapman Dance Ensemble which will present excerpts from its recent touring production entitled “The Creative Spark: Dance and Inspiration.” Four pieces have been selected that highlight the choreographic skills and technical prowess of Chapman’s dance majors. Before joining Chapman’s faculty, Professor Merrill was artistic director for
the nationally known Spectrum Dance Theater in Seattle, Washington. For two years he has been artistic director of Chapman’s highly-acclaimed scholarship fund raiser “American Celebration.” Professor Merrill’s presentation will follow the luncheon, (continued on page 2)
WHERE’S THE SPARKLE? Town & Gown is celebrating its 40th Anniversary in various ways. One way will be for some of us to make a special additional donation to Town & Gown and be given a pin to wear that “REALLY” sparkles! We have ordered a limited edition* of 100 T&G 40th Anniversary pins to be a onetime gift to T&G members who make a special 40th Anniversary donation of at least $100. Your gift will be 100% taxdeductible and your name will be listed as a special 40th Anniversary donor in a future issue of Talk of the Town. T&G’s 40th Anniversary donor pins will be patterned after our logo (continued on page 3)