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WHO LET THE PHOTOS OUT? Seth Casteel ’03 still isn’t sure how the whole viral eruption began, but the image on the cover and the one on these pages are among those that helped make him an Internet sensation. Now his underwater dog photos are known all over the globe, but especially wherever there’s a swimming pool, a rubber ball and a really wet nose. The shot seen here is of Nevada the border collie and Bardot the yellow Lab, and it comes with a back story. Casteel wanted an underwater image of two dogs chasing the same ball, but he knew his window of opportunity would be small because once the two figured out which was the dominant pooch, the other would quit chasing the ball. “We only had a few takes,” he said, “but I got this really cool shot.” To learn more about Casteel’s animal photography adventures, turn to page 37.

IN THIS ISSUE UP FRONT

ALUMNI NEWS

President’s Message

40 A New Compact Unites Chapman With Alumni

First Person: Out of the Darkness, a Journey to Remember

41 Class Notes

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Another Quantum Leap for Research at Chapman

A Chapman Professor Helps Unearth Revelations of Ancient Bling

Bold Concepts Take Flight at TEDx Event

Chapman Olympians Show Their Mettle

New Deans at Argyros, Wilkinson and CoPA Bring Passion and Vision to Their Roles

10 Elie Wiesel Explores Issues of Faith, Justice and Community During His Annual Visit 12 Undergrad Research: Mixing Math with Dance 13 Harpoon Economics: Professor Bart Wilson Plies the High Seas of Yore for Insights on Property Rights 14 Renowned Novelist and Short-Story Writer Richard Bausch Joins Chapman Faculty 15 Research Suggests That ‘Pregnancy Brain’ is Actually a Positive Sign

42 Profile: Sinan Kanatsiz ’97 (M.A. ’00) 43 Profile: Courtney Lewis (J.D. ’09) 45 Profile: Michael Koll ’11 46 Profile: Benjamin K. Yee ’82 47 Panthers on the Prowl 47 Friends We Will Miss 48 Return to Chapman Is a ‘Redemptive Experience’ for WWII Internee Paul Nagano ’42

DEPARTMENTS 16 Philanthropy News: A Global Foundation for Giving 17 Seen & Heard: Commencement 2012 18 Sports: Women’s Basketball Team Gets a Taste of International Play 19 Sports: A Hall of Fame Celebration

15 Students Earn Fulbright, Udall Scholarships

30 In Memoriam: Marv Meyer, Barbara Mulch, John Flowers, Shaun Naidoo, Donna Crean

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36 Faculty Bookshelf

20 54 Hours: Entrepreneurs Go from Idea to Launch Over a Startup Weekend 26 Writer Gustavo Arellano ’01 Tells How Mexican Food Conquered America 37 It’s a Wet and Wild Ride for Photographer Seth Casteel ’03

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Honoring Those Who Invest Their Humanity

“Search and see whether there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.” DR. ALBERT SCHWEITZER

You may have noticed that the cover of this issue of Chapman Magazine has a different feel. We are venturing away from a thematic approach to highlight the specific talents and work of the extraordinary people who comprise our Chapman family. This issue’s cover celebrates the remarkable photography of Seth Casteel ’03, whose images of swimming dogs have captured the national and international imagination. Chapman’s commitment to personalized education means that even as our university changes and grows, the strength of our academic community depends on the work of individuals who care about the future of this institution. In this light, it bears mentioning that we’ve lost a lot of friends in recent months. I want to acknowledge the passing some of these amazing people who have done so much to advance the mission and quality of our University. These members of our Chapman family include professors Marv Meyer and Shaun Naidoo, Professor Emerita Donna Cucunato, longtime friend Eleanor Leatherby, Professor Laszlo Lak, Trustee Emeritus Donald P. Kennedy, Trustee Emeritus Thomas J. Liggett, President’s Cabinet member Robert Gray, Professor Rickard Doetkott, Professor Katherine Darmer, longtime friend Louise Booth, Professor John Flowers, Professor Barbara Mulch and longtime friend Donna Crean. I am reminded of the bronze bust of humanitarian and philosopher Dr. Albert Schweitzer that I see every day on our campus, inscribed with his famous call to action: “Search and see whether there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.” As we share our grief for the loss of these beloved Chapman family members, we are reminded that we can’t take life for granted, but we can pursue the same ideals that make us as strong as we are today, and will perhaps make us even stronger in the future. I am honored to share this journey with the many students, alumni, colleagues and friends who choose to invest their humanity in Chapman University. Regards,

James L. Doti

Board of Trustees OFFICERS Donald E. Sodaro Chairman Doy B. Henley Executive Vice Chairman David A. Janes, Sr. Vice Chairman David E.I. Pyott 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 W. 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 Jennifer L. Keller 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 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 Reverend H. Ben Bohren, Jr. Marcia Cooley Reverend Don Dewey James L. Doti Kelsey C. Flewellen ’05 Judi Garfi-Partridge Reverend Stanley D. Smith ’67 Reverend Felix Villanueva Reverend Denny Williams TRUSTEES EMERITI Richard Bertea Lynn Hirsch Booth J. Ben Crowell Leslie N. Duryea Robert A. Elliott Marion Knott Jack B. Lindquist Randall R. McCardle ’58 Cecilia Presley Barry Rodgers Richard R. Schmid

Board of Governors OFFICERS Judi Garfi-Partridge Chair

Melinda M. Masson Executive Vice Chair Thomas E. Malloy Vice Chair Douglas E. Willits ’72 Secretary GOVERNORS George Adams, Jr. Marilyn Alexander Lisa Argyros ’95 Margaret Baldwin Marta S. Bhathal Kathleen A. Bronstein Kim B. Burdick Michael J. Carver Eva Chen Ronn C. Cornelius Rico Garcia Kathleen M. Gardarian Lula F. Halfacre Sue Kint Scott A. Kisting John L. Kokulis Dennis Kuhl Stephen M. Lavin ’88 Jean H. Macino Richard D. Marconi Betty Mower Potalivo

Jerrel T. Richards Daniel J. Starck GOVERNORS EMERITI Donald A. Buschenfield Gary E. Liebl EX-OFFICIO GOVERNORS Sheryl A. Bourgeois James L. Doti

President’s Cabinet Nicolaos G. Alexopoulos Julianne Argyros Heidi Cortese Sherman Lawrence K. Dodge Onnolee B. Elliott (M.A.’64) Douglas K. Freeman Frank P. Greinke Gavin S. Herbert Steeve Kay General William Lyon The Honorable Milan Panic James H. Randall The Honorable Ed Royce Susan Samueli Ralph Stern David Stone

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By Kristyn von Rotz ’01

a Journey to Remember

Y SON JOSEPH THOMAS WAS BORN JULY 8, 2004, WITH LIPS JUST LIKE MINE AND EYES JUST LIKE HIS DADDY’S. IN THAT MOMENT, I EXPERIENCED THE JOY OF BECOMING A MOM. AND IN AN INSTANT, AS I WATCHED HIS CHEST RISE AND THEN FALL FOR THE LAST TIME, I BECAME A GRIEVING MOTHER.

When I started OC Walk to Remember My son was born with alobar eight years ago, I never dreamed it would holoprosencephaly, a rare brain grow to what it is today. Our annual walk abnormality. His case was so severe now has more than 2,000 participants, that he was unable to survive. I watched and the funds we raise support every the nurse walk out of the delivery room, Orange County hospital with a labor and carrying the body of my precious baby delivery unit or NICU unit, as well as boy in her arms. My world changed local support groups that help parents forever that day. grieving the loss of a baby. In addition, I left the hospital after his birth with we educate medical professionals on how a memory box containing his footprints to care for a mother losing a baby, direct in ink, photographs and the hat and grieving families to support groups and blanket he was wrapped in after birth. provide memory boxes to all Orange They became my most prized possessions. County families that have lost a baby. I spent hours locked up in our home, Over its eight years, the walk has raised arms wrapped around that memory box. $150,000, aiding the one in four women The thought of going out and seeing who will lose a baby to miscarriage, pregnant women or babies was too much stillbirth, SIDS or other causes. to bear, so I searched for a place to find I went on to have another son, Evan other women like me and get support. Joseph, and another daughter, Sara Faith. I live in Orange, and though it I also experienced an early miscarriage. wasn’t easy I found a local support It’ s a challenge to balance my duties group for moms who had experienced Chapman University alumna Kristyn von as executive director of OC Walk to pregnancy or infant loss. It was the only Rotz ’01 holds a box of keepsakes from the Remember with being a wife and mother thing that got me through the darkest all-too-short life of her son, Joseph, at an event to promote the OC Walk to Remember. as well as grieving not just for my son moments of grief. It was a place where Von Rotz co-founded the event in 2005 but for all the babies who have died. I could talk about my son, and people to support family members who have suffered But the day my first home pregnancy test would listen with compassion and care. the loss of an infant. This year’s walk is turned positive I vowed that I would be At this group I met a mother whose scheduled for Oct. 6 at The District at Tustin the best mom I could. And as I stared at daughter had been stillborn. We had Legacy. To register or for more information, visit www.ocwalktoremember.org. Joseph’s tiny white coffin at his funeral, heard of walks in other parts of the I told him I would keep that promise. country to support family members who My life has taken a path I never had lost a baby, and we decided to start imagined. But I am so grateful for the lessons I’ve learned and the one locally. For the first OC Walk to Remember in 2005, I carried compassion I’ve gained. Our firstborn son will always be a part of against my chest my 3-month-old daughter, Leah Grace, who was our lives and hold a special place in our hearts. From the moment I born 11 months after Joseph died. One hundred friends, family found out I was pregnant, I dreamed the baby I was carrying would and support group members joined us on that journey through make a difference in this world. And Joseph has done just that. a local park. FA L L 2 0 1 2

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he spring 2012 Chapman Magazine — with its focus on creativity — provided much wonderful food for thought! However, the “Ask the Experts” article on “pumped-up” gas prices seemed to lack the creativity that the rest of the magazine extolled. Surely there are better, more creative “opportunities for improvement” than biofuels and fracking. James J. Coyle wrote that the solution “doesn’t have to mean people riding everywhere on bicycles.” To me, that sentence implies that bicycles are a desperate solution of last resort. Perhaps I misunderstood what Professor Coyle was saying. However, it seems to me that a more creative solution would be redesigning our cities so that they are, in fact, more bicycle-friendly, as has been done here in Long Beach. I recently joined 300 other people on a family-friendly community bike ride, which demonstrated that riding bikes is not only a creative solution to high gas prices, it’s also a fun way to get around. THE REV. DANNY BRADFIELD ’93 SIGNAL HILL, CALIF.

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have a story I’d like to share about what a small world it can be when you’re a member of the Chapman community. As a student last winter during Interterm, I went to Germany, Austria and Switzerland with the Athletic Training Education Program, and during the first week of the trip, I lost my camera in Regensburg, Germany. The most upsetting part was losing pictures I had taken during and before the trip. So you can understand my excitement when I received word that someone had found my camera and was returning it to me. Here’s how it happened. A German citizen found it and looked through the pictures, where among others he saw a photo of my boyfriend and me atop Half Dome in Yosemite. We were proudly wearing our Chapman T-shirts, and the German man recognized the university. He contacted a friend who works at Chapman, and they tracked down my program director, Professor Jason Bennett, to tell him the camera had been rescued. The camera was sent to our liaison’s home in Germany, and to my extreme excitement it was given to me when we met up with him in Munich. The morals of the story? There are many good and helpful people in the world, and when you show your true Chapman colors, wonderful things can happen. SARA BARTLETT ‘13, ORANGE

Happy Baseball Memories

he article by Doug Aiken ’99, ’09 featuring All-American baseball pitcher Brian Rauh ’13 (in the spring 2012 issue) brought back fond memories of watching “mini-brute” Chapman beat Division I National Champion USC at Hart Park in 1968. That was the year the Panthers won the small-school national championship. I was sitting in the Sunken Lawn at the 1968 Commencement when the 11– 0 victory over Delta State in the championship game was announced. That was quite a team. ROBERT WIENS ’69, SACRAMENTO Members of the 1968 national championship baseball squad attend the 2008 ceremony inducting the team into the Chapman Athletics Hall of Fame.

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ANOTHER QUANTUM LEAP for Research at Chapman

hen one of the world’s most renowned physicists turns 80, a celebration is definitely in order. So to mark the birthday of Yakir Aharonov, professor of theoretical physics and holder of the James J. Farley Professorship in Natural Philosophy in the Schmid College of Science and Technology, Chapman University hosted a gathering of the world’s most noted physicists in late August. The event included a three-day physics conference and the formal dedication of the Institute for Quantum Studies.

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The Institute for Quantum Studies will be a hub of study and thought advancing the applications of quantum physics.

“Chapman is fortunate to launch an institute that will consolidate global research interests around the foundational theoretical work of Yakir,” said Chapman Chancellor Daniele Struppa. “This will be a distinctive institute that will foster further development of quantum physics by the world’s leading experts — including several Nobel laureates

A Chapman conference featuring some of the world’s leading physicists marks the 80th birthday of Professor Yakir Aharonov.

— and establish an academic entity known internationally as a model for science education and research.” Quantum physics is widely regarded as the most successful scientific theory in history. It has led to many of the technological advances that drive our economy, such as electronics and lasers. A critical step in the discovery of quantum

CLASS OF 2016: An Impressive Bunch

he new freshman class arrives at Chapman University with some impressive credentials. Preliminary figures show that those admitted have an average SAT score of 1,881 and a combined GPA of 3.70. It is also a geographically diverse bunch, representing 43 states and 33 nations. Among the new arrivals is Kela Chamandy-Cook, who hails from Montreal but went to school in Ohio, where she played both ice hockey and lacrosse. In addition, she helped found the Entrepreneurship Club, was president of the Spirit Club and a member of her school’s honor council, even as she launched her own business creating videos for clients selling or renting homes. Her dad is a native of Canada, while her mom is from Venezuela, and she is fluent in French, Spanish and English. Tres bien, Kela, and bienvenidos to you and the rest of the Class of 2016.

physics was the act of bringing together a small number of creative geniuses. Nobel Laureate David Gross, a member of the Chapman Institute, recently organized a conference to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the famous Solvay Conference, attended by luminaries such as Albert Einstein and Max Planck. Chapman’s event was a followup to the one hosted by Gross, featuring many of the same high-profile attendees. “Since its beginning, quantum theory has been so intuitively bizarre that even to this day nobody knows what the theory really means,” said Jeff Tollaksen, Chapman professor and co-director of the Chapman Institute. “These conferences and the institute are trying to change that.” Aharonov has said, “We are close to a second revolution in physics as big as the one a century ago.” “Everyone involved with the Institute is helping to answer fundamental questions about the universe, like the deep nature of reality or the mysteries of time,” Tollaksen noted. “Part of our intention is to support the academic programs here at Chapman and to provide a truly remarkable opportunity for studentfaculty collaboration.”

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Revelations of Ancient Bling

from semi-precious stones. The find bout 3,100 years ago, a cache of was made in the dig area Bidmead helps gold jewelry, beads and a single supervise each summer, and she is elated, earring adorned with tiny animal although not because of its glitz. Finds images was stuffed into a nest of three of jewelry tend to be close to palaces and clay pots — including a beer strainer — archives, “and the most important thing an seemingly in hopes that no one would archaeologist could find is a text, a tablet, find the treasure in a dusty corner of a writing,” she said. “It’s an indication ancient Canaan. that we’re close to some big But people did find discovery.” the secret stash. And now Megiddo, a UNESCO World Chapman University Heritage Site rich with biblical Professor Julye Bidmead history, is a multi-period is helping to supervise an archaeological dig with 27 layers excavation at this hotbed of civilization from about 3500 of history, as she and BCE to 100 C.E. Archaeological others work to bring its About 1,000 gold, silver and excavations began there in the insights to light. carnelian beads are among the finds. early 20th century and are This most-recent led today by the Institute of Archaeology of find in what is now Israel was first Tel Aviv, in collaboration with a consortium unearthed in 2010, but archaeologists of U.S. universities, including Chapman, with the Megiddo Expedition are just George Washington and Vanderbilt. now releasing news of their impressive Bidmead, who works as a field finds after extensive tests and study. The archaeologist and registrar for the expedition, artifacts include gold, silver and bronze has been an integral part of the Megiddo jewelry and hundreds of beads crafted

Chapman University Professor Julye Bidmead, second from left, is among the archaeologists supervising the historic Megiddo dig in Israel, where finds of jewelry and beads are providing insights into the lives of ancients. The artifacts indicate “that we’re close to a big discovery,” Bidmead said.

staff since 1996. As a scholar of gender studies and biblical archaeology, she is especially interested in what the jewelry conveys about the lives of ancient women. “Here we get a glimpse into their lives and luxury items, and we can see that they weren’t much different than we are,” she said.

BOLD CONCEPTS Take Flight at TEDx Event Can a big idea be explained in less than 18 minutes?

learly, yes. It happened repeatedly when Chapman University hosted its inaugural TEDxChapmanU, held on campus June 15. Topics from the provocative — Why shouldn’t athletes use steroids? — to the inspirational — Can a small charity change lives? — were tackled at the event, an enhancement to the now-famous TED conferences, renowned for their 18-minute talks about “ideas worth spreading.” With “Icons, Geniuses & Mavericks” as the event’s theme, organizers assembled a roster of speakers representing some of Chapman’s leading faculty, alumni and friends, as well as other top innovators. Each speaker seemed to inspire audience members to embrace their own maverick moments. Even the musicians who performed during the breaks had stories that reflected forge-ahead thinking. Virtual Boy, a band founded by Henry Allen ’11 and Preston Walker ’11, records with Alpha Pup Records, a hothouse of young electronic artists delivering a new genre of music that the Los Angeles Times called “the most exciting sounds on the planet.” Bold ideas were a thematic thread throughout the presentations. Speaker Yossie Hollander, co-founder of the Fuel Freedom Foundation, detailed how the energy market could be transformed by alternative fuels, including methanol made from garbage. “And we are the Saudi Arabia of garbage,” Hollander said, eliciting laughter from the audience. Among the other speakers were Henrik Fisker, chairman and co-founder of Fisker Automotive; Frank Frisch, professor in Chapman’s Schmid College of Science and Technology; Erin Gruwell, the teacher whose experiences with at-risk students inspired the movie Freedom Writers; Ryan Heuser ’95, co-founder of Paul Frank Industries; Joe Kiani, founder, chairman and CEO of Masimo Corp.; Leigh Steinberg, the real-life inspiration for the film Jerry Ryan Heuser ’95, co-founder Maguire; and Richard Sudek, angel investor and professor in the Argyros School of of Paul Frank Industries, talks about the company’s earliest Business and Economics, who also hosted the program. days designing and producing vinyl fashion accessories out of a garage.

To view the talks, visit www.TEDxChapmanU.com.

Ariana Kukors ’12, left, and Kate Ziegler ’13 excelled at the U.S. Trials in July, earning a chance to test themselves at the Aquatics Centre in the London Olympics.

Ariana Kukors is immersed in a ‘wonderful experience.’

Kate Ziegler takes on an unexpected challenge.

s world-record-holding swimmer Ariana Kukors ’12 prepared for her first Olympics, she sought to strike a balance between competing on the world’s biggest stage and enjoying one of the globe’s most culturally rich experiences. “I’m going to allow myself to get excited, but my first priority is competing and representing my country the best way I can,” the Chapman University alumna said before leaving for London. “There will be time for enjoying the village and other experiences after the racing is done.” By all measures, Kukors achieved the balance she sought. In the pool, she battled through two qualifying races to reach the finals in the 200-meter individual medley, which requires participants to swim legs of butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke and freestyle. She finished fifth in the finals, narrowly missing a medal but proving she remains one of the fastest swimmers in the world. When she wasn’t racing, she was rooting on her teammates — five of whom were also her roommates in the Olympic Village. In addition to the cross-cultural spirit and camaraderie, a highlight of the village was the food, she said. “There was more variety than anything I’d ever seen.” She added that she appreciated all the good wishes she’d received from the Chapman community — “wonderful words of support from friends, former classmates and professors.” Once the racing was done, she got to explore London with friends and family, sharing the journey via Twitter. “Toured Buckingham Palace yesterday,” one Tweet said. “Ummmm amazing!” As the two weeks wound down, she pronounced it “a wonderful experience, and something I’ll never forget. Thank you to everyone for your words of support and encouragement.” Asked what comes next, her answer was short but gleeful. “A vacation!”

n many ways, the Olympics are a hero-making machine, offering up feats of strength and determination packaged for prime time. But what of the tests that take place outside the limelight? For swimmer Kate Ziegler ’13, a communications studies major at Chapman University, the London Games were a second chance at a medal after she fell short of the finals in two freestyle events at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. This time she qualified in the 800-meter freestyle, posting the thirdfastest time in the world along the way. “I couldn’t be more thankful to have another opportunity to go to the Olympics,” Ziegler said after her success at the U.S. Olympic Trials in July, “and I couldn’t be any more proud to represent my country again.” Then the day after the opening ceremony in London, just as the swimming competition was beginning, she awoke feeling ill. The dreaded diagnosis: She had the flu. Determined to endure, she continued to train, just on a reduced schedule. “I did a lot of sleeping, and I was in the water each day,” Ziegler told the Los Angeles Times, “but we had to cut back on what we did.” By the time of her qualifying race Aug. 2, she had little energy but persevered, finishing with one last lunge to the wall. Still, she was last to touch, in a time that was well short of her personal best. Her Olympics were over. Under the best of circumstances, the 800 free can be a grueling challenge. Fighting the flu, it’s a tortuous test. In the end, Ziegler’s evaluation was simple. The race was “a bummer.” But there in the water, several lanes removed from the glare of the network cameras, hadn’t a test been passed? “I came into this race thinking I was going to fight and do the best I could,” she said, “and that’s what I did.”

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VISION GUIDE REGGIE GILYARD IN NEW ROLE

fter 20 years as an Air Force enlisted man, Clarence Alfred Gilyard Sr. wanted a change, and he turned to higher education to get it. Reggie Gilyard, the youngest of Clarence’s six children, saw nothing less than a transformation as his father first earned a degree in sociology, then a master’s in marriage and family counseling from Chapman University before embarking on a career helping the disabled mainstream into the work force. “He had a more enlightened outlook,” Reggie Gilyard said of his father. “He learned how to discipline in a different way, how to motivate in a different way. He had a hunger for education, and seeing what it could do for him instilled a passion in me.” Now Reggie Gilyard is bringing that passion to Chapman University as the new dean of the Argyros School of Business and Economics. He is also bringing a unique perspective as someone who for years has worked nationally to help colleges and universities as well as K-12 school districts transform the way they educate and the way they measure their success. Reginald H. Gilyard replaces Arthur Kraft, who served as dean since January 2006, and who announced last year his decision to retire. Gilyard began his tenure as the 10th dean of the Argyros School on Aug. 1. Gilyard is transitioning from his role as partner and managing director in the CHAPMAN MAGAZINE

Los Angeles office of The Boston Consulting Group (BCG), one of the country’s top management consulting firms, advising some of the world’s largest companies and public institutions. In that role, Gilyard led BCG’s U.S. Education Practice, developing and implementing performance improvement strategies for a wide range of clients, including universities in the Southeast and school systems in New Orleans, Cleveland and Memphis. He also led recruiting efforts for BCG, covering undergraduate, MBA, Ph.D. and lateral hiring programs. “The University is extraordinarily fortunate to recruit an individual with Reggie’s attributes and leadership abilities,” Chapman Chancellor Daniele Struppa said in a statement announcing his appointment. “His interest in being part of the Chapman family illustrates our growing regional and national presence, and suggests exciting new opportunities for the Argyros School.” A 1996 Harvard MBA graduate, Gilyard also earned an M.S. in Computer Systems Engineering in 1989 from the Air Force Institute of Technology. He graduated with a B.S. in mathematics/operations research from the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1985. Gilyard was attracted to the Argyros School because “it has a strong foundation, and now we need to determine where we go from here. I’ll be helping to set the strategic vision, which is something I’ve been doing for many years in both the private and public sectors.” As he meets with faculty and staff, specific goals will emerge, Gilyard said. But for now, he has two broad objectives: “continuously improving outcomes for students and raising the profile of the institution.” “If we can get faculty and everyone else focused on these goals, my time here will be beneficial,” he said. Photo by Max Kosydar ‘13

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and Wilkinson College of Humanities and Social Sciences.

t was only five years ago that Chapman University launched the College of Performing Arts, uniting the departments of Dance and Theatre with the Conservatory of Music. Now more than ever, CoPA Dean Dale Merrill is determined to form a more perfect union. “We had so many years of working separately, it’s going to take a while for us to start to work collectively, but we’re getting there,” said Merrill, who in June was named the college’s second dean. He had been serving as interim dean since 2010, when William Hall had moved to the new role of dean and artistic director of Chapman’s new Center for the Arts. “Theatre, dance and music — we all speak the same language, but maybe with different dialects,” Merrill added. “And it’s important we come to that realization, that colleagues in music, theatre and dance are dealing with many of the same issues and collectively we can solve and accomplish more things together.”

Merrill previously served as chairman of Chapman’s Department of Dance for five years, while also for one year serving as co-chair of the Department of Theatre. During that time, he led both departments to achieve national accreditation. With the formation of the College of Performing Arts in 2007, Merrill was named its first associate dean. In addition, for the past five years he has served as artistic director and producer of Chapman’s acclaimed American Celebration stage revue. Merrill has a rich background in arts administration, having served for 20 years as artistic director of Spectrum Dance Theater, a professional dance company and community arts educational facility in Seattle. There he led the company to

national prominence, performing works by Ann Reinking, Lar Lubovitch, Dwight Rhoden and Lynne Taylor-Corbett, among many others. While in Seattle, Merrill received recognition and numerous awards for his community leadership, including the prestigious Corporate Council for the Arts Unsung Hero Award in 2002 and a 2001 “Rudy,” a national award presented by Safeco Insurance Co. for community leadership and advocacy. Merrill has more than two decades of choreography credits, including the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Fundraising Auction, and Voices Across America starring Paul and Mira Sorvino for public television. He’s an active member of the National Association of Schools of Dance, where he is a committee member of the Board of Directors.

atrick Fuery isn’t afraid to stare down a challenge — maybe even give it a little wink and nod. So as he steps into his new role of dean of the Wilkinson College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Chapman University, Fuery is championing two research initiatives. One is called CRASH (Chapman Research in Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities), and the other BURN (Building Undergraduate Research Networks). “I made (BURN) up as a joke, but it may stick,” he said with a smile. There’s a disarming method behind Fuery’s lighthearted manner, but there’s no doubting his seriousness in promoting Wilkinson as a home for important research projects that cut across disciplinary boundaries.

“Wilkinson has wonderful potential to be a very strong research college,” said Fuery, previously chair of the Department of English at Chapman. Fuery was named dean this summer, replacing Patrick Quinn, who stepped down to return to a full-time faculty role. “I’ve heard for years that there’s this big tension between research and teaching,” the new dean added. “I’ve never seen it that way. I’ve seen that the best teaching often emerges from research. Also, because things are so competitive, anything we can give students to align them with viable research opportunities will really improve their future prospects.” CRASH will be driven by faculty groups and provide an umbrella of support, with one caveat: projects can’t be based

in just one department. Initially, research groups will be launched like startup companies, the dean said. Some will succeed and some will fail, and that’s OK. “We’re going to instill the mindset that we can take risks,” he said. Drawing in faculty and students from schools with a professional focus will only enhance the reach and impact, Fuery noted. With CRASH as a platform, Wilkinson will draw “really innovative students because they’ll be working outside the traditional model,” Fuery added. He also foresees Wilkinson hosting an international research conference every other year. Ultimately, he sees Wilkinson developing a strong national and international reputation in niche areas of study. “I’m so used to seeing truly innovative research emerge from interdisciplinary efforts that I can’t help but think we will succeed,” Fuery said. FA L L 2 0 1 2

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â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;REMAIN WITH THE QUESTâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; During his annual weeklong visit, Distinguished Presidential Fellow Elie Wiesel explores issues of faith, justice and community, urging students to heed the lessons of history. Story by Dawn Bonker Photos by Jeanine Hill

Conversations moderated by Chapman faculty, including School of Law Dean Tom Campbell, at left, highlighted Elie Wiesel’s visit.

uestions were central to Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel’s annual Chapman University visit this spring. But in the first of several informal campus talks he gave in April, the Holocaust survivor, author and human-rights champion warned against quick answers to big queries. “Nobody knows everything. The thing is: Do we have the questions? I love questions because they contain the word quest. … Beware of answers. Remain with the quest,” Wiesel told an audience of nearly 300 students, faculty and guests gathered in the Wallace All Faiths Chapel of Fish Interfaith Center. The talk was part of “Conversations with Elie Wiesel,” a new component to Wiesel’s second annual weeklong stay at Chapman as a Distinguished Presidential Fellow. In concert with the conversations, his classroom visits and a reflection delivered at the April 19 Evening of Holocaust Remembrance, Wiesel’s visit became an event that touched the lives of many students. “It was just amazing being in the presence of someone who has been in such a terrible experience,” said Carli Hawkins ’15, who read Wiesel’s book Night in high school and attended his “Why Believe?” talk, moderated by the Rev. Gail Stearns, dean of the chapel.

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The conversations focused on four profound questions central to Wiesel’s work: “Why Study?” “Why Write?” “Why Be Just?” and “Why Believe?” The series opened with the first question, “Why Study?” The session was moderated by Chancellor Daniele Struppa. Based on Wiesel’s comments, the answer could indeed have been another question in reply — how could one not?

“The beauty in the classroom is that it’s a community,” Wiesel said. The professor added that for him such a sensibility extends even to when he is studying others’ writing, books, ancient scripts and texts. To realize that such texts have survived and that “many great minds” have sat and pondered their content is to be connected to them and to forever be a student himself, he said. “The joy is that in my study I feel the presence of so many others around me — other teachers, other students — that I know that I am not alone,” he said. Writing also brings its own joys — “My life is with words, and I love it,” he told the audience at the “Why Write?” talk with Patrick Fuery, dean of Wilkinson College of Humanities and Social Sciences. But it came with a price. Among Holocaust survivors, writers experienced the highest rate of suicide, Wiesel said. In “Why Be Just?” moderated by Tom Campbell, dean of the Chapman School of Law, Wiesel wrestled with the problems of meting out justice to human-rights violators, while still protecting victims. It may be pragmatic to end atrocities by allowing a warlord to flee without punishment, but “It hurts my sense of justice and compassion for the victims,” Wiesel said. Wiesel shared a hopeful message at the Evening of Holocaust Remembrance, where he delivered a reflection titled “Why Remember?” “Hope is a beginning. Hope is the only beginning,” he told the packed Memorial Hall audience, which included some 100 Holocaust survivors and their families. Wiesel said he feels called not just to honor the memories and

Professor Wiesel shares his message of hope and determination with Chapman University students. “The beauty in the classroom is that it’s a community,” he said.

lives of those who perished or suffered in the Holocaust out of respect, but to also use memory as a spark for action in today’s world. Citing the places around the globe where strife and atrocities continue, Wiesel lamented that “the world has not learned” the lessons of the past and urged all to continue the effort. He urged determination. “We continue,” he said.

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Chapman student Whitney Kofford seeks to prove that math and dance are meant for each other.

n Whitney Kofford’s mind, this is not one of those right-brain, left-brain things. It’s more like math and dance are arm-in-arm, cheek-to-cheek as they cohabitate in her consciousness. “People are always saying, ‘Those are such opposites,’” Kofford ’13 says of her two academic passions. “I really wanted to show how math and dance are so similar. They both require creativity and critical thinking. I thought that if I could explain things in a simplified and unified manner, just about anyone could relate.” So Kofford embarked on research that became her capstone project for Chapman University’s Honors Program, as well as her calling card for a career she hopes to build as a stage manager. But first she had to win over her two mentors — Chapman Chancellor Daniele Struppa, with whom Kofford has taken math classes, and College of Performing Arts Dean Dale Merrill, who is also a dance professor. “She showed us how fluent and articulate she could be in both languages — math and dance,” Merrill said. “Her use of mathematical equations speaks to Chancellor Struppa, then she can talk to me in the language of the arabesque. The impressive part is the way she fuses math and dance.” In addition to presenting before an Honors review panel, Kofford shared her research findings at Chapman’s Student Research Fair in May, and she may have opportunities to present at academic conferences as well.

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The connection between math and dance became even stronger while she worked on the research project. “I was seeing movement in nearly every mathematical equation my teachers wrote on the board,” she said. In her 55-page paper, Kofford also makes the case that moderndance pioneer Isadora Duncan and German mathematician Georg Cantor are kindred spirits. While Cantor was redefining infinity, Duncan was reshaping possibility. The early-20th-century contemporaries may never have met, but they come together in Kofford’s world. Elsewhere in her paper, the Chapman student covers concepts such as torque, rotational momentum and Newton’s third law of motion — all foundational elements of dance, even if the performers don’t always realize it. She shows how dance can help teach math, and vice versa. Then she covers how rhythm and physicality come together on stage in the hands of choreographers such as Jessica Gaynor. For instance, the piece Theory of Games by the New Yorkbased artist is grounded in game theory, the study of mathematical models of conflict and cooperation. Then there’s Kofford’s own piece, called Singularity, which was inspired by the concept of a big bang creating a universe. “My imagination ran wild with the thought of so many individual particles working together to create a beautiful, complex piece,” she said in her paper. “I was enthralled by the idea of chaos becoming ordered and order becoming chaotic.” Since it’s the job of a stage manager to build harmony and singularity from the chaos of competing visions, it’s no wonder that Kofford targets the role as her career aspiration. “I like working with the performers, the technicians, the creative minds that put a show together, as well as the businessoriented people who organize and maintain the logistics,” she said. “I want to use the creativity and critical-thinking skills that I’ve worked so hard to develop.” In Kofford’s mind, it all adds up. “A stage manager,” she said, “ties everything together.”

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“I was enthralled by the idea of chaos becoming ordered and order becoming chaotic,” Kofford says of her dance piece called Singularity.

By Dawn Bonker hat do 19th-century whalers and 21st-century college students have in common? It turns out they share a boatload of similar instincts at deciding when stuff that’s just stuff rises to become the things that we all think of as property, according to research by Bart Wilson, a professor in Chapman University’s Economic Science Institute. Curious about how ownership and property rules spark to life, Wilson started thinking about the self-regulating instincts of early whalers, who were fairly adept at working a shared hunting territory. So he created a laboratory experiment replicating the old whaling environment. Land-lubbing students sat in a lab playing a simple game that challenged them to hunt and collect circles for profit. No rules were given. So what happened? The students naturally developed among themselves the same rules of pursuit and possession that evolved amid whalers of yore. The paper describing the research, “The Ecological and Civil Mainsprings of Property: An Experimental Economic History of Whalers’ Rules of Capture,” was published in the Oxford University Press Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization. It won the journal’s 2012 Oliver E. Williamson Prize for best article. Wilson says the research provides evidence that humans are innately swift at creating rules about how things evolve to “mine and thine,” be it whales on the high seas or circles in a video game. More importantly, though, the findings suggest that humans have an innate interest in building relationships and avoiding expensive conflict, Wilson says. He suggests that the results may also offer insights into how creative arts industries might navigate the tumultuous seas of today’s information era, where intellectual property rights are increasingly challenged, he says. “Intellectual property is one of these big hot topics now, and we don’t know what the customary thinking of this is from the ground,” he says. In their day, whalers had to self-monitor. Far from the courts that might have shaped their industry, they became keen negotiators of shared territory. They essentially followed a playground-like law for many years — the ship that landed a harpoon in a whale “owned” the whale. Whale slips away? It’s fair game. The rule was labeled “fast fish, loose fish.”

That sufficed for the slow-moving right whales that were the dominant target of early whalers. But when those mariners turned to the dangerous and deep-diving sperm whales prevalent in the North Atlantic, more nuanced rules emerged that acknowledged the greater risks and costs associated with the faster whales. For sperm whales, the whalers attached a drogue (to make the whales more buoyant) to the harpoon, which could serve as a marker of its owner as long as the ship was in hot pursuit. So even if the harpooned whale broke away, the ship that had landed the harpoon was understood to be well vested in the hunt and so “owned” the whale and the right of pursuit. The new rule was called “iron holds the whale.”

In the lab, similar rules naturally developed among students competing to gather moving circles in the video game. When the circles were slow and easy to collect, students adhered to the “fast fish, loose fish” rule. When the circles sped up and gamers had to buy more expensive tools to catch them, the “iron holds the whale” rule emerged. “The big point of this is that you can’t understand property as one shoe fits all,” Wilson says. “It depends on the things, the place and as one philosopher put it, ‘the tempers of men.’ You can’t control for that.” But when it comes to that business of intellectual property rights in an information revolution, it’s still going to be a whale of a struggle. “The lines are not so clear,” he says.

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ACCLAIMED WRITER RICHARD BAUSCH JOINS FACULTY

ichard Bausch, an acknowledged master of the short story form, has joined the Chapman University faculty this fall, bolstering an already strong creative writing faculty in the Wilkinson College of Humanities and Social Sciences. “No writer has a finer insight into the delicate nuances of the human heart than Richard Bausch,” hails Pulitzer Prizewinning author Robert Olen Butler. In addition to teaching classes, Bausch will launch a writing workshop at Chapman, bringing together students and others who qualify to work in a more focused format toward the development of writing styles and the publishing of works. Bausch enjoyed success with a similar workshop at the University of Memphis, where he taught before moving to Chapman. The author of 11 novels and eight collections of short stories, Bausch has won two National Magazine Awards, a Guggenheim Fellowship,

the Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the 2004 PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story. In 1995, he was elected to the Fellowship of Southern Writers. Since 1999, he has edited or co-edited the prestigious Norton Anthology of Short Fiction. In addition, his work has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, Harper’s, The New Yorker and Best American Short Stories. His most recent work is Something Is Out There, a collection of short stories that Booklist called “endlessly imaginative and empathetic.” Bausch served in the Air Force in the late ’60s before touring the Midwest and South as a singer and guitarist in a rock band, as he also wrote poetry. He holds a B.A. from George Mason University and an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa. Previously, Bausch was the Heritage Chair in Writing at George Mason and more recently the Moss Chair of Excellence in the writing program at Memphis.

Richard Bausch is the author of 11 novels and eight collections of short stories. He has won a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the 2004 PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story.

CHAPMAN ATTRACTS SOME LOVELY ACCOLADES

Chapman University’s Attallah Piazza is at the center of the third most beautiful campus in the nation, according to Newsweek magazine’s rankings.

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ho says you have to choose beauty over brains? Chapman University’s growing body of legal research, renowned film school and even the attractiveness of the campus have won the university a variety of accolades recently. In its annual college rankings issue, Newsweek magazine placed Chapman No. 3 on its list of the most beautiful campuses in the nation. In addition, the ABA Journal published an article shining an academic spotlight on the scholarly work of the Chapman School of Law. The article, discussing a new University of St. Thomas report, identified Chapman as one of three law schools accredited within the past two decades that “have already made a scholarly impact.” “We’re one of the youngest law schools in the country,” said Dean Tom Campbell, “and our faculty are already tremendously over-performing. We’re confident that as we become better known, all of our ratings will rise.” On the Hollywood Reporter’s new list of top film schools, Chapman’s Dodge College of Film and Media Arts jumped nine places, from No. 22 to No. 13. “This year’s list included schools from around the world, making our position at No. 13 even more impressive,” said Bob Bassett, dean of Dodge College. “It also means that we are among the top 10 U.S. film schools.”

A HEAD START ON MOTHERHOOD Research suggests that the fuzziness of ‘pregnancy brain’ is actually a positive sign.

any women have long attested to an annoying bit of fuzzyheadedness during pregnancy, but thanks to a Chapman University professor and researcher they can actually celebrate those temporary bouts of what’s commonly known as “pregnancy brain.” Laura Glynn, a professor of psychology in the Schmid College of Science and Technology, suggests that the irksome symptoms of mild forgetfulness — Where did those car keys go? — may actually be a sign that pregnancy hormones are busy flooding the brain, laying the groundwork for maternal bonding and prodding the maternal brain into a caretaking mode. “There may be a cost” of these reproductionrelated cognitive and emotional changes, says Glynn, “but the benefit is a more sensitive, effective mother.” Glynn and colleague Curt Sandman, a professor emeritus at UC Irvine, made the conclusions about pregnancy hormones in a paper published in a recent issue of Current Directions in Psychological Science. Since then their findings captured attention in The Daily Beast, Live Science and the Disney blog Baby Zone. Glynn cautions that most research on the maternal brain has been conducted with rodents, whose pregnancies differ enormously from those of women; more research on human mothers is needed. But she is optimistic that a more comprehensive picture of the persisting brain changes wrought by The benefits of pregnancy pregnancy will yield interventions hormones may include “a more to help at-risk mothers do better sensitive, effective mother,” by their babies and themselves. says Laura Glynn, a Chapman But exploring the effects of fetal University professor and researcher. cells on mothers’ brains is especially intriguing and something she hopes to pursue, she says. “It’s exciting to think about whether those cells are attracted to certain regions in the brain,” Glynn says.

Sabrina Davis ’12 used her academic background in graphic design and food science to create a nutrition labeling system for the Randall Dining Commons at Chapman University. Now she’s studying in Spain as a Fulbright scholar.

STUDENTS EARN FULBRIGHT, UDALL SCHOLARSHIPS

hapman University students continue to earn many of the country’s most prestigious fellowships and scholarships. Following are a few highlights from this summer and spring. Miriam Allred ’12 and Shalanda Martin ’13 were selected for internships with the Clerk’s Office of the U.S. Supreme Court this summer. In addition to their internship tasks, they enjoyed opportunities to sit in court sessions and participate in seminars with one or more justices. Allred has a B.A. in economics and is a U.S. Navy veteran as well as a mother of four teenagers. Martin is a political science major from the U.S. Virgin Islands. Both plan to attend law school. Presidential Scholar Sabrina Davis ’12, who created a colorful nutrition labeling program to help students make smart food choices, was awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship. Davis, who graduated this spring with a major in graphic design and a minor in food science, will use the scholarship to study and work in Madrid, Spain, where she will refine her Spanish and immerse herself in European culture and cuisine. Angel Flores ’13, an environmental science and policy major who also helps with his family recycling business and is a member of the cross country team, has been named a 2012 Udall Scholar by the Udall Foundation. In addition to the $5,000 scholarship for his senior year, Flores attended a fourday Udall Foundation program in August in Arizona, where the scholars met with policymakers and community leaders in environmental fields, tribal health care and governance. The Udall Foundation selected 80 students from a pool of 585 candidates who were evaluated on factors such as their leadership potential, academic achievement and commitment to health care and environmental careers. FA L L 2 0 1 2

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A GLOBAL FOUNDATION FOR GIVING A bequest by Sussan Mashhoodi ’82 will aid international students and promote a free exchange of ideas.

ussan Mashhoodi ’82 knows firsthand the value of global citizenship. As a teenager, she left Iran to attend Chapman University just before the revolution in her native country. The experience still colors her belief in the importance of campus diversity. “Having exposure to a diverse student body and faculty from across the globe cultivates the fertile ground in a young scholar’s mind,” said Mashhoodi, who earned a bachelor’s degree in business. “I am confident such exposure can result in better understanding and tolerance of opposing views.” To empower more students from Iran to come to Chapman, Mashhoodi established a living trust that includes a bequest to Chapman University. Working with David Moore, Chapman’s director of planned giving, she made plans so that the bequest will eventually create the Sussan MashhoodiKhabiri Endowed Scholarship. Sussan Mashhoodi ’82 “I come from a family where education and facilitating opportunities set up a living trust that for others have been regarded as a duty to the society,” she said. “Upon will endow a scholarship, reflecting on the issue, I decided to continue with the family tradition.” empowering more Iranian The scholarship will be awarded to students from Iran or those from students to attend the United States who have demonstrated a strong commitment to the Chapman University. Persian-American community. Also considered will be applicants’ commitment to women’s rights in Iran and the promotion of a free exchange of ideas. By working with Chapman’s Center for Global Education and the Office of Admission, Mashhoodi already is helping to build a foundation for future generations of Iranian students. “We touch someone’s life and make a difference by every decision we make and what we do on a daily basis,” said Mashhoodi. “I believe we can and should continue doing so when we are no longer around.”

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HIS VISION IS LIFTING A VILLAGE

wo ambulances, five doctors, 50 hospital beds and 40,000 books. Add it all up and you get a small sense of the impact being made by Chapman University Public Safety officer Michael Belay in his home region of Ethiopia. Belay, who sold his home in Corona, Calif., to build a school in his native village of Tembien, has now set his sights on medical care and clean water as well as education. One ambulance is in the village, thanks to support from Chapman University S. Paul Musco with Michael Belay. Trustee S. Paul Musco, and another is on the way. Belay’s nonprofit, HAPPY (Hands Across the Planet to Poor Youth), also helped bring U.S. doctors, supplies and equipment to perform surgeries to nearby Mekelle, Ethiopia. Next on the to-do list: Get Tembien its own hospital, plus a water-purification system, new 12-classroom school and a library for those books. Belay has never been afraid to aim high and dream big. To learn more about these projects, visit www.happyinethiopia.org.

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Education has the power to change conditions by addressing the root causes of poverty and social failure. I believe education is the civil rights issue of our generation.” We need more attorneys in family law. We need more attorneys in landlordtenant. We need more attorneys to help those who cannot help themselves, because the years of economic downturn in California have created heartaches. Tani Gorre Cantil-Sakauye, chief justice of California, School of Law speaker

Thelma Meléndez de Santa Ana, superintendent of schools, Santa Ana Unified School District, and former assistant secretary at the U.S. Department of Education, speaking to graduates of the College of Educational Studies

“You are stepping into a world of great uncertainty, great struggle and great pain. You’re also stepping into a world of great beauty, great hope and great love. May you find the courage to love the pain and love the possibilities and make the contribution that you are uniquely gifted to make in this life.” Ocean Robbins, environmental activist, Wilkinson College of Humanities and Social Sciences speaker

“THE INTERNET IS CHANGING THE FUNDAMENTALS OF PERSONAL DISCOURSE IN OUR SOCIETY. AND THIS NEW WORLD REQUIRES THAT WE ALL BE SCIENTISTS.”

“There’s an old lady. She lives on a fixed income, but she wants to see your show. She’s saved the money. She’s gone without some luxuries. And she’ll be here tonight. Every performance is that night, and she’s there. And you’ve got to realize that you have the power to inspire others as someone else inspired you. What a wonderful responsibility.”

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HOOPS AND HOOPLA Panthers get a taste of spirited competition and international attention during trip to Taiwan.

inner with the mayor, dancing with local fans and world-class basketball competition highlighted an eye-opening summer journey to Taiwan by the Chapman University women’s basketball team. The Panthers represented the United States by competing in the 34th William Jones Cup International Basketball Tournament July 7–11 at the Miaoli Dome Gymnasium in Miaoli County, Taiwan. The six-team tournament included highly skilled squads from India, Japan, Korea and Taiwan. Taiwan’s Cathay Women’s team won the championship with a 5–0 record. Chapman ended the tournament 0–5. “Our team never gave up. Though we were outsized and out-skilled, we played our game and showed that we will keep playing no matter what,” said Panthers head coach Carol Jue.

The team not only performed on the court but also onstage. The mayor of Miaoli City invited the participating teams to a dinner celebration to kick off the tournament, and each team had to do a dance performance. Chapman sang and danced to Call Me Maybe by Carly Rae Jepsen and YMCA by The Village People. “The crowd begged for an encore so we topped it off with the Cupid Shuffle and tried to get as many willing bodies as we could onto our makeshift dance floor,” said forward Liz Hartnett ’12. As U.S. representatives, the Panthers became something like celebrities, with local media doing stories about Chapman players such as forward Stephanie Servin ’12. Also, many local fans took to rooting for Chapman, including waiting after the games to take pictures with Panther players. One that became a fan favorite was guard Brittany Quon ’15.

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Chapman University guard Kimi Takaoka ‘14 signs an autograph for a local basketball fan during the William Jones Cup tournament in Taiwan.

Some young girls even made a sign saying “Go Fighting Brittany!” And there were moments of competitive success. Guard Emily McCoy ’13 scored 16 points against the national team of India, and Kimi Takaoka ’14 made eight of 11 shots to finish with 19 points vs. Chunghwa Telecom. The Panthers didn’t leave Taiwan as victors, but Hartnett said they left with more confidence on the court. “Playing against national teams opened our eyes to the life and level of professional athletics,” she said.

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SCIAC’S THE LIMIT AS NEW ERA BEGINS

he 2012–13 school year will be historic for Chapman University Athletics. For the first time the Panthers will compete as full-fledged members of the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC – pronounced SKY-ack). This marks the first time in the 19 years since Chapman transitioned to NCAA Division III that the Panthers have participated in conference play, which will not only provide opportunities to hoist conference championship trophies but will also allow for greater focus on regional and national titles. Chapman’s men’s soccer and women’s volleyball teams were the only two Chapman teams to reach the postseason in 2011–12 and are determined to return to the NCAA playoffs again this year. Both teams earned their second championships berth in the past three years, and they return the majority

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of their starting rosters from last year. The Panther football team won four of its first five games in 2011 and will return nine of 11 starters on offense and all of its starters on defense in 2012, providing optimism that Chapman will get over the hump that has seen it finish with a record of 4-5 each of the past three seasons. In addition to the season opener Sept. 8 vs. Puget Sound, must-see games include Oct. 6 vs. Pomona-Pitzer (Homecoming and first-ever home SCIAC contest) and Oct. 27 vs. La Verne (Hall of Fame Game and Senior Night). For all the latest stats, stories, news and information on Panthers sports or to purchase tickets online to any upcoming events, visit www.chapmanathletics.com. Two-time All-American Kate Ferrin ’13 will try to lead Chapman volleyball to its second straight playoff berth as the Panthers compete for the first time as members of the SCIAC.

A HALL OF FAME CELEBRATION hapman University will host its 34th annual Hall of Fame Banquet on Saturday, Oct. 27, in a celebration of Panther Athletics past, present and future. Chapman will honor men’s tennis greatness from the 1980s by inducting its 1985-88 teams that won three NCAA Division II national championships and earned one second-place finish. The University will also enshrine former All-Americans Jeffrey Blitstein ’99 (baseball) and Dawn Lopez-Aguila ’01 (softball). The night will begin with a dinner and induction ceremony on campus at 5 p.m., followed by the Panthers’ final home football game of the season against the University of La Verne at 7 p.m. at Ernie Chapman Stadium. Last year more than 20 Chapman Hall of Famers returned for this event, and once again all of those in attendance will be recognized during a halftime ceremony preceding the unveiling of the newest bronze Hall of Fame plaques on Gray Victory Way. Tickets are available online at www.chapmanathletics.com/hof or by contacting Hilda Douvas at 714-744-2191or douvas@chapman.edu.

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Former All-Americans Jeffrey Blitstein ’99 and Dawn Lopez-Aguila ’01 will be among the Hall of Fame inductees.

hapman University pitcher Brian Rauh ’13 was selected by the Washington Nationals in the 11th round of Major League Baseball’s 2012 First-Year Player Draft in June. The threetime All-America junior was the 354th pick overall and becomes the 11th Panther since 1999 to be drafted by a major-league organization. In three seasons for Chapman, Rauh is 30–1 with a 1.78 ERA and holds Chapman’s all-time strikeout record with 355 in just 289 innings. In 2012, Rauh went 8–1 with a 1.27 earned run average while being named first-team Division III All-America for the third year in a row. A business administration major with a 3.53 GPA, Rauh also became the third athlete in Chapman history to earn All-America and Academic All-America honors in the same year. Since 1966, 67 Chapman baseball players have been selected in the major-league draft. Six players — Randy Jones ’72, Gary Lucas ’77, Tim Flannery ’79, Marty Castillo ’79, Jay Pettibone ’79 and Don August ’84 — have reached the major leagues.

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The Friday night pitches that kick off Startup Weekend put the budding entrepreneurs in the spotlight, asking them to sell their ideas in 60 seconds or less.

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Fueled by dreams, ambition and plenty of caffeine, a hundred next-gen entrepreneurs turn a Beckman Hall conference room into a crucible of new-venture capitalism. Welcome to Startup Weekend.

t 6:30 on a quiet Friday evening, Startup Weekend Orange County officially launched at Chapman University, and by 6:31 the George H.W. Bush Conference Center in Beckman Hall was a hive of activity. Over the next 54 hours, this boot camp for budding business moguls would push all enlistees outside their comfort zones until by Sunday evening, some 100 people who had never met before would coalesce into 16 dynamic teams determined to create 16 new companies completely from scratch. It was exactly as Marc Nager ’06 planned it. “The team is the single biggest piece of the pie,” says Nager, CEO of Startup

Many of those at Startup Weekend Orange County have links to Chapman, starting with event co-organizer Nicole Provansal ’07 (MBA ’09), who has been best friends with Nager since the two met during freshman class registration at Chapman in 2003. The reward for the hard work of conducting a Startup Weekend is “seeing an entrepreneurial community grow in Orange County,” Provansal said. “It’s exciting to be a part of that growth, and to partner with Chapman along the way.” One of the entrepreneurs participating is Hunter Kirby ’13, who was working on campus for Abacus Project Management when he started in the MBA program at the

If, as many strategists contend, entrepreneurship is the engine that will propel the U.S. economy out of its doldrums, then Startup Weekend just might be where that powertrain gets sparked to life. Weekend, a nonprofit that’s boosting entrepreneurship via as many as a dozen similar events just about every weekend all over the world. “The biggest lesson is that it is not about the ideas, it is about the team assembled to execute the ideas, the passion of the team members. It is the getting together, the sharing — you can learn a ton, and contribute a ton.” It’s all part of a noble pursuit, says Nager, who earned a bachelor’s degree in international business from Chapman. Startup Weekend “helps gather communities together and empower them to help themselves.”

Argyros School of Business and Economics. His idea is Car-nivore.com, a venture to simplify the car-buying process while boosting the sellers’ inventory-turnover rate. Then there’s William Leek ’07, who earned a B.S. in accounting from Chapman. Leek, who was in his final semester of a Flex MBA with an emphasis on entrepreneurship in the spring and is a contract administrator for ICU Medical in Irvine, came armed with an idea for a health-industry computer tool — and wound up working on a startup for brides. That’s not unusual; attendees at a Startup Weekend should expect to be flexible. Many teams do an about-face while working on FA L L 2 0 1 2

Bill Drobish, a Leatherby Center Entrepreneur in Residence, offers insights to a Startup Weekend team.

an idea, even completely discarding it in midstream and adopting another. Sometimes, says Nager, the right business model just needs to be found and its potential energy converted into forward momentum. If, as many strategists contend, entrepreneurship is the engine that will propel the U.S. economy out of its doldrums, then Startup Weekend just might be where that powertrain gets sparked to life.

First Pitch On that Friday night, Startup Weekend Orange County participants had an hour to meet and greet, scarf down some El Pollo Loco and bounce ideas and mini-resumes off each other. There was even a crew shooting a pilot for a reality TV show. The crowd was called to order by an event facilitator, who quickly laid out the program and launched an icebreaker — not that this gung-ho collection of Zuckerberg wannabes needed it. At the facilitator’s urging, participants shouted out random words before being put into informal groups. Each group picked three words, then got five minutes to come up with a company based on their choices, followed by 60 seconds to sell it. The resulting pitches were often silly (“Spiked Porcupine Hummus: You’ll need medical marijuana to eat it!”), but the participants got a taste of the teamwork and camaraderie needed to succeed. Next up were 60-second pitches for participants’ real ideas, which for this 22

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tech-savvy crowd of mostly 20- and 30-somethings tended to be based on Internet and cell phone platforms. No surprise there, says Nager. Startup Weekends attract a “generation that can start a company with a laptop and Internet connection from anywhere in the world,” and cyberbusinesses can be up and running by the end of Startup Weekend’s intense regimen. Among the concepts pitched: an online dating site keyed to specific events (“You like Arcade Fire? So do I! Let’s go to the Honda Center for the concert!”); businesses targeting brides and wedding service providers; an intra-company site for workers to swap and cover shifts. There were services to help consumers change habits, calculate price per serving in recipes, get custom grocery coupons, share teaching ideas and resources, upload video greetings for those who just can’t make it to a far-flung wedding. Another phone app would help athletes find nearby pickup games; a Web page would connect property owners with filmmakers who want to rent locations. The pitches were followed by a vote for the top ideas — via the decidedly non-tech method of collecting Post-its. If you got 10 approving notes, you were in. After that, teams started forming — and were off to the races.

A Range of Motivations Some of the participants were scratching an itch — they weren’t sure what they wanted to do but were positive they wanted to be part of a bold new venture. Marc Nager can relate. After earning his degree from Chapman in 2006, he dropped out of grad school, moved to Switzerland (even though he didn’t speak German) and worked in his uncle’s auto repair shop, then at a bar. That was before he broke his leg skiing, ran out of money and had to return home,

where he landed a job as a project engineer for Southern California Pipeline. He didn’t enjoy it. Still searching for a professional spark, Nager moved to Seattle and joined a company that eventually went under. At loose ends, he attended a Startup Weekend event. Bingo! The self-described risk-taker dived in and became so impassioned that he wound up buying the for-profit business with two partners in 2009. They changed it to a “more open model” and made it a nonprofit “since we wanted to emphasize impact over money.” They immediately put out a call for anyone interested in joining “a global movement.” The idea spread rapidly, says Nager, because “the model is 100 percent applicable wherever you go.” Under Nager’s leadership, the concept has gone from regional to global. By the end of 2012, he and his Startup Weekend team will have staged some 450 events in countries ranging from Chile to Belarus, Tunisia to Mongolia. A recent Startup Weekend in Christchurch, New Zealand, was held in tents amid rubble at the one-year anniversary of the earthquake that devastated the region. The weekend event “so intensified how that

community has come together,” Nager said. Volunteers power Startup Weekend’s events, and the organization’s small staff relies on them. As for funding, Nager says 80 percent of the bottom line is contributions from donors and sponsors — one of them, CloudMine, actually got launched from Startup Weekend, completing the circle. Twenty percent of funding comes from the events themselves. Participants pay less than $100 for a ticket that includes meals, snacks and drinks; half of the revenue goes back to Seattle, and half is put into a “community chest” for local organizers to use at their discretion for future events, to thank mentors or to pay for a much-appreciated post-event party for exhausted participants.

Teaming Up Back at Beckman Hall, teams were taking shape. Participants were encouraged to be honest about what skills they brought to the table, and each team was expected to be straightforward about their needs. There was a flurry of quick assessments akin to speeddating, and matches were made. The noise level ratcheted up as attendees looked for soul mates, then the volume went down a notch as the teams started to mesh, and work into the night.

Building an ‘Entrepreneurial Ecosystem’ When Richard Sudek, director of Chapman University’s Leatherby Center for Entrepreneurship and Business Ethics, heard about Startup Weekend, he realized it was a perfect complement to the center’s efforts to “build an entrepreneurial ecosystem in Orange County.” After all, the Leatherby Center’s mission is for Chapman to become the place for entrepreneurs, inventors and investors to get together, says Sudek. Startup Weekend dovetails Richard Sudek with the center’s growing menu of offerings, which include a speaker series, seminars and mixers that make it easy to network. One of the Leatherby Center’s crown jewels is eVillage — “both a physical space and a concept” designed to incubate student entrepreneurs as well as those in the local community. About 20 percent of Startup Weekend participants have links to eVillage, where the idea is for entrepreneurs “to meet, connect and launch,” with students from just about all disciplines of the university represented. Sudek notes that eVillage and Startup Weekend would have made his life a lot easier when he was launching Nadek Computer Systems in the 1980s. “Any former entrepreneur who is a little older — not 25 — knows how important it is to support these enterprises. It absolutely would have been invaluable; I literally made every mistake — hired too quickly, used credit cards to meet payroll.” Sudek, who eventually sold his business and is now chairman emeritus of Tech Coast Angels, a large venture capital fund, as well as an assistant professor at Chapman’s Argyros School of Business and Economics, says the Leatherby Center will host more Startup Weekends. “The energy was awesome; the mentors were so positive,” he said. “There were a lot of things going on in that process — collaboration within teams and collaboration between teams. It was great to see all those people in one room focused on figuring things out.”

The Growunity team calls on a variety of resources as it scrambles to finish its presentation.

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After the Launch Justin Harris ’08 (M.A. ‘09) worked like crazy during the first Startup Weekend Orange County, held at Chapman University in fall 2011. Then the real work began. The weekend was a great experience, says the 25-year-old, whose B.A. is in communications / leadership and M.A. is in health communication. During Startup Weekend, he led a team project to connect events and sponsors. “You really learn that you must take down all barriers and move forward.” That weekend launch evolved into FunBlend (www.funblend.com), an online business to which Harris is more committed than ever. The site — a mobile platform to help users find local events and activities that match their interests — offers a variety of searchable categories and lets users post comments on Justin Harris specific items. Harris calls it “a social discovery engine to explore and enjoy the world around you.” Harris, who is developing the concept with Startup Weekend teammate Aurelio Agundez, says the intense workshop helped him “realize the true opportunities of the idea.” The most memorable moment was the Sunday pitch before the panel of judges — a presentation for which he says his Chapman experience prepared him. “My involvement in Greek life, internships and my liberal arts education helped me a lot,” he said. “I felt that I had seen many of these obstacles before in preparing for an exam, completing internship credits or rehearsing for Skit Night. Startup Weekend allowed me to apply (the skills learned at Chapman) in a formal business setting.”

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Saturday was calm — but only in comparison. This was an all-consuming workday, fueled by coffee and energy drinks, interrupted only by a keynote speech from Hiten Shah, the founder of KISSmetrics and Crazy Egg, two firms that help website owners track and understand customer usage. It was a good day to get advice from venture-capital mentors such as Amir Banifatemi of the Bayspring Group, Sean Ellis of CatchFree and Jonathon Schuster of Logicube, all volunteers. Banifatemi’s company, an angel investor group, guaranteed a slot in their accelerator program — and up to $25,000 — to the team with the winning pitch at the end of the weekend. Hunter Kirby and the Car-Nivore team also got help from the mentors. Two of them, said Kirby, weighed in on how to qualify the users and how to parse out what value they actually had for car dealers, while a third emphasized using technology to enhance the experience for car buyers. Then, after much group discussion, CarNivore did a big pivot, as the team decided to focus strictly on the consumer. Dan Ing and his team made an even bigger change — a complete switch from their original idea. The initial business model was an online site that featured anonymous reviews of bad managers. That project morphed into TidySig, which offered email signatures that look like premium business cards, with live buttons for LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter accounts. The mentors were “particularly helpful in weeding out less-valuable ideas,” said Ing, a banker from Los Angeles.

Progress — and Frustration By Sunday morning, the 16 teams were powering through their fatigue, fueled by exhilaration. Groups worked madly at conference tables, every power

outlet maxed out to charge a small battalion of laptops, iPads and cell phones. Web landing pages were up, and site surveys were being crunched. PowerPoint presentations blocked out on paper illustrated progress — and frustration — as ideas were marked up or crossed out with bright blue and red Sharpies. Other teams were scattered around the building, on couches and in hallways, oblivious to the collection of modern art that graces Beckman Hall. One group practiced their presentation framed by the backdrop of a striking Rauschenberg; another munched potato chips as team members paced in front of prints from Masami Teraoka’s “McDonald’s Hamburgers Invading Japan” series. In one hallway, facilitator John Beadle critiqued a presentation by Growunity, which team members hoped would become “the Etsy of backyard growers” by connecting them directly with local consumers. Beadle timed the team with a stopwatch and made suggestions for organizing the PowerPoint show they would make in front of the judges that evening. He gave concrete advice: The video of potential users should be up front instead of at the end, and there should be more emphasis on what the service does for both sides of the transaction. Beadle also offered encouragement: “You guys have done some really good work.” Finally, as adrenalin was peaking and the weekend wound down, the presentations began at 5 p.m. Each team got five minutes to make their case to the panel of judges, who then hit them with hardball questions. The pressure was on, always with a team champing in the on-deck circle, eager to start setting up even as the on-stage team was answering the judges’ queries. The Car-Nivore team went fourth. “Spend 10 minutes with us,” Kirby told the judges, “and we’ll save you 10 hours of time.” Team members demonstrated how the service’s steps would let vehicle buyers post what they want and get bids from three dealers within 48 hours. The judges asked why dealers would pay to use it (“We’d offer prequalified, ready-to-buy leads”) and about its value to car buyers (“There’s no charge to users if there is no sale”).

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Bloomh.com (“Brides set the price and vendors come to them”) went 12th in the rotation. “Four years ago when I was getting married,” began Brian Park, who came up with the idea, “I had no idea how crazy it all was.” (The team decided to have Park as the sole presenter; nonetheless, said Leek, “It was a lot of nervousness combined with excitement combined with a sense of relief that it was over.”) Park continued: The goal was to address “pain points for brides who feel overwhelmed from lack of control” and to help vendors “find customers in a

Last up was Growunity, which drew the same line of questioning (the fresh produce service expected to earn revenue by transaction fees and small ads; when the judges seemed doubtful that the modest exchanges would generate sufficient funds, the team brought up “add-ons, sponsorships and storefronts for growers” as possible sources of income). Amid the hopeful presentations, there was unexpected drama. IntroSpark members used their slot to explain that they had learned from their research that their business model was invalid, so they decided to jettison the concept late Sunday. The other attendees gave them a rousing ovation, and facilitator John Beadle added a shout-out that “their presentation really represents the spirit of the weekend.” Mentor and event judge Jonathan Schuster called it humbling and an incredible learning experience. It was a moment that Nager, who was unable to attend Startup Weekend Orange County, would have appreciated. “Sometimes,” he says, “the best outcome is to save someone the pain and energy. Be prepared to fail, it’s OK. Good ideas are an evolution, a process.” In the end, the intense process of this

Sometimes the best outcome is to save someone the pain and energy. Be prepared to fail,. it’s OK. Good ideas are an evolution, a process. MARC NAGER cost-effective way.” How would it work? (“Brides would post needs for wedding photos, for example, and photographers would bid for the job.”) How would they monetize the business? (“We’d get a percentage of each transaction, with secondary income from small ads.”) Ing and TidySig (“Finally, an e-mail that matches your style!”) were in the 15th spot. The judges peppered the team with questions about the target group of users and price points. Revenue from free electronic signature cards? (“With a clickable line of advertising below the card” and from a “premium service with analytics to see who has viewed you via the card.”)

‘Platforms to Pursue Our Passions’ A week later, the Startup Weekend Orange County participants had caught up on their sleep and were reflective. They expressed enthusiasm and a readiness to do it all again. William Leek, who cheerfully admitted to “feeling mentally exhausted toward the end of Sunday night,” said the weekend was a “lot of work, but well worth it.” Hunter Kirby seconded that: “The experience was nothing short of phenomenal. Meeting and working with my fantastic teammates was a great experience.” Dan Ing agreed, and noted that he particularly “enjoyed working with smart individuals who want to change the world.” “Change the world” — the words are music to the entrepreneurial ears of Nager. “That’s one of our core values,” he said. “The way to create a better world is to build platforms for us to pursue our passions.” Startup Weekend helps design the springboard, he added, but it’s up to participants to take the leap, to “not just solve your problem, but solve it for everyone in the world.” All that’s needed is determination, a little direction, a good team, a bit of capital. And 54 hours.

Startup Weekend came down to a decision by the judges. Growunity took top honors, with TidySig being named the runner-up. In a surprise twist, Amir Banifatemi of the Bayspring Group invited TidySig, IntroSpark, Bloomh and three other teams to “commit to their venture, demonstrate seriousness” and get another shot at backing from his company. It was an affirming way to end the weekend. And so the 100 participants — the winners and the wistful — unplugged, decompressed and prepared to head home. For many, the most immediate commitment was to a new work week that fast approached. Adrenalin peaks for the final make-or-break presentations.

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With his new book, a Chapman alumnus and best-selling author shows how Mexican food conquered America. By Gustavo Arellano ’01 bout 213 miles up in space, the Earth below a cerulean blue, the universe around them infinite and awesome, Jose Hernandez and Danny Olivas wanted Mexican food. The two had come prepared. They were astronauts on STS-128, a NASA mission that flew the Discovery space shuttle to rendezvous with the International Space Station on Aug. 30, 2009. Discovery’s seven-member crew spent 10 days at the research station, primarily to resupply the people already up there and to rotate members. Olivas — raised in El Paso, Texas — went on a spacewalk to repair an ammonia tank, among other tasks; Hernandez — a native of Mexico who picked crops in California’s Central Valley alongside family members as a child — sent his thoughts to our planet en español. “Espero la cosecha de mi sueño sirva como inspiración a todos!” he enthused via Twitter. “I hope the harvest of my dream serves as inspiration to all!” On Sept. 8, the Discovery crew undocked from the Space Station. It was morning. It was time for breakfast burritos. The rest of the crew had earlier asked Hernandez and Olivas if they might cook the meal, as Olivas was the NASA member who knew how to make them best. Of course. A video camera transmitted footage of the duo floating toward the galley of the mid-deck to open a shelf containing the ingredients they needed to construct the cylindrical god in zero gravity: flour tortillas sealed in a vacuum pack, clumps of ready-to-eat scrambled eggs and fat sausage patties. Olivas pulled out a tortilla, letting it float in front of him while tearing open a thumb-sized salsa packet. He smeared a smiley face on the tortilla and tried to roll it up; since it wasn’t cooked, the flour flatbread bent into a U-shape but wobbled back into its outstretched natural state. Hernandez, meanwhile, opened a pouch that contained the patty. Olivas placed the tortilla near the meat, expecting the sausage to plop down on it, as it would in terra firma. Instead, the brownish, glistening mass popped out of the bag, away from the tortilla below it; presumably, it would’ve continued on an endless trajectory in zero gravity if the fast-thinking Olivas

hadn’t grabbed the sausage with the tortilla. The salsa acted as a binding agent and secured the incipient Icarus. The eggs proved more manageable. Hernandez cut them out of a packet; Olivas used a spoon to guide each mini-mound onto the tortilla, then promptly chopped them into smaller pieces, the better to smush and smear — if the tortilla would only bend. The moment of truth arrived: Olivas folded the vessel in half, wrapping one flap over the other, and rolled it tight. Success! A breakfast burrito was born, and more were on the way. This wasn’t the first time burritos had orbited Earth — Olivas had made a batch on his visit to the Space Station two years earlier. In fact, NASA had used tortillas for astronaut sustenance as early as 1985, when Mexican scientist Rodolfo Neri Vela requested a pack as part of his food provisions to make tacos. At the time, the media treated Neri’s food choices with bemusement, but astronauts quickly took to flour tortillas — not only because of the flavor, redolent of flour and slightly sweet, but also because they were better than most of the sterilized slop they ate. Tortillas didn’t spoil easily. Astronauts could wrap one around anything and make a quick meal. They also weren’t as dangerous as bread, whose crumbs crippled air vents and sensitive equipment. NASA took tortillas so seriously that it

discovered that 6-month-old space tortillas became bitter — and no one deserves a bitter tortilla. Finally, NASA found a manufacturer that made an extendedshelf-life tortilla that lasted up to a year and retained its allure, a maker that also sold the product to fast-food Mexican chains. Hundreds of thousands of dollars well-spent. “I cannot think of anything that cannot be put on a tortilla or has not been put on a tortilla,” wrote veteran astronaut Sandra Magnus in a blog post while aboard the International Space Station in 2008. “When a shuttle shows up, you are in tortilla heaven because [astronauts] show up with tons of them and graciously donate all of the extras to the ISS crews. You really want to be swimming in tortillas your whole increment.” And for short missions of five to seven days? Astronauts often bring flour tortillas fresh from a Houston tortillería. No modifications, no chemicals — just unadulterated rapture. The perfect food. “Danny is an expert in zero-g burritomaking,” Hernandez radioed to Mission Control after the burrito party. It was a mission of celebration: Never had two Mexican-Americans flown in space on the same mission, and never had burritos shone so brightly. Sure, Hernandez and Olivas

Mexican food is as much of an ambassador for the U.S. as the hot dog, whether or not either country wants to admit it.

tinkered with the recipe — which hadn’t substantially changed in millennia save for the introduction of flour — to keep stacks fresh for up to six months. Scientists created a nitrogen-filled packet that removed almost all the oxygen present in the pouch, so as to prevent mold from growing. One major problem arose: Astronauts

offered a service to their crewmates that hundreds of thousands of their fellow Mexicans provided daily back on Earth — prepping Mexican food for Americans more than happy to gobble it up. The feast made the news; a video soon went viral across the Internet, the astronauts’ beaming, proud smiles as they hoisted their fast food available for humanity to see. So high up in the heavens, up above the world, the burrito not only had become universal — but it was now finally, truly cosmic as well.

In The Fold Mexican food appears at our state dinners in elegant presentations. Mexican food appears in our school cafeterias; packaged as chimichangas or in bags of Fritos; in convenience stores, heating on rolling racks, waiting for the hands of hurried customers. Mexican food sponsors college bowl games such as the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl, and buys naming rights for sporting venues such as the Taco Bell Arena at Boise State in Idaho. Mexican-food commercials blanket television airwaves, hawking salsa and hard-shelled taco packets and high-priced tequilas and imported beers, promising a day at the beach and endless fiestas. Mexican food fills our grocery aisles, feeds college dorm residents, sits in our freezers and pantries, is the focus of massive festivals, becomes a tween trend or front-page news — and if you don’t know what I’m talking about, ask your kid about spaghetti tacos. That wonderful culinary metaphor, the melting pot, has absorbed Mexican in this country just as so many immigrant cuisines of the past — but in a demanding way unique from other traditions that have FA L L 2 0 1 2

and flatlands of the Midwest to Maine’s rocky shores and Alaska’s tundra to the Florida Keys, we’re experiencing a renaissance of Mexican food — a perpetual foreigner perfectly at home. Generations of Americans have scarfed down tacos and burritos just as previous ones forked through chicken potpies and ate pastrami on rye. And that’s just in the United States. As globalization sets in, so does Mexican food. Mexican restaurants operate across Europe, in Turkey, in Nepal and Addis Ababa. Down Under, Taco Bill’s has sold fish tacos to Australians for nearly 25 years. Sometimes Mexicans run these restaurants; many times it’s American expats. Sometimes locals dine there, but more often it’s American tourists seeking a taste of home. It’s too easy to say Mexican food is an all-American food; to do so is to

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penetrated the American palate. While there are more Chinese restaurants than Mexican in this country, the latter is the easier sell; you don’t see hundreds of different soy-sauce brands sold at supermarkets or General Tso’s chicken cook-offs at your local community fair, but you do see hot sauces and chili contests. While pizza is the best-selling and furthestreaching item of Italian-American cuisine in fast food, its rise, and that of pasta and Italian restaurants, is only relatively recent; the United States, on the other hand, has loved Mexican food for more than 125 years — bought it, sold it, made it, spread it, supplied it, cooked it, savored it, loved it. Comida Mexicana in the United States is similar to M.C. Escher’s Relativity — each staircase helping the climber reach a particular plateau, only to whisper promises

OC Weekly editor Gustavo Arellano ’01 will be working with Chapman journalism students this fall.

of higher, better planes in an endless hat dance of delights. Americans have defined Mexican food as combo platters and enchiladas, margaritas and guacamole, tortilla chips and actual tortillas, frozen burritos and burritos made to order. There are mom-and-pop shops and multinationals, taco carts and tamale men, taco trucks operating under cover of night, and luxe loncheras that tweet their latest specials. Beans, rice, carne asada, soyrizo — all of it absorbed, enjoyed, demanded by Americans, all of it whetting appetites for more. And with this country’s latest Great Migration stretching brown folks beyond the American Southwest to all 50 states, covering virtually all metropolitan areas, from the prairies 28

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ignore the tortured relationship between Mexicans and their adopted country. But Mexican food is as much of an ambassador for the U.S. as the hot dog, whether or not either country wants to admit it.

‘ ‘A Party on Your Plate’ Let me give ustedes an example. Tom Tancredo doesn’t like Mexicans — no way, no how, no duh. The former Colorado Republican congressman and onetime presidential candidate has spent most of his political career railing against a supposed invasion of the United States by Mexico, and while intelligent minds can disagree

about unchecked migration to this country, Tancredo flat-out feels Mexicans are downright deficient. “Sadly, corruption is deeply ingrained in Mexican society, from the local police to the government-owned utilities,” Tancredo wrote for the conservative website WorldNetDaily. “It’s a way of doing everyday business.” This statement was a direct dig at me. In Denver in November 2010, we debated whether Mexicans ever assimilate. I maintained that we do; Tancredo didn’t accept the possibility, yet he never explained how someone such as myself — who spoke only Spanish when I entered kindergarten, is the child of two Mexican immigrants (one of whom came into this country in the trunk of a Chevy), and who now favors English and Chuck Taylor All-Stars — did it. The backand-forth squabble happened at Su Teatro, an old movie house now home to one of the most vibrant Chicano theaters in the United States. There’s no need to go into the details of our discussion, except for one pertinent point: Before lambasting Mexicans and our supposed refusal to join American society, Tancredo joined me for a Mexican dinner. The restaurant was across the street from Su Teatro — El Noa Noa, a large eatery that advertises itself as the Mile High City’s “best and most authentic Mexican restaurant.” At night, Art Deco neon lights flash the restaurant’s name, a reference to a legendary nightclub in Ciudad Juárez that was the subject of a famous Mexican song. A party on your plate. The atmosphere isn’t aggressively ethnic: no strolling mariachis or women fluttering fans and eyelids. Eaters sit; waiters bring out plates of chips and salsa and fetch drinks. People of all ethnicities come in to eat, though the clientele leans more American than Mexican. From the early days of Mexico’s birth in 1811, when our young country longingly looked west toward its newly christened southern neighbor’s vast provinces, lonely and so full of potential, Mexican food has entranced Americans while Mexicans themselves have perplexed Americans. In the history of Mexican food in this country, you’ll find the tortured, fascinating history of two people fighting, arguing, but ultimately accepting each other, if only in the comfort of breakfast, lunch and dinner. See, the greatest apostles of Mexican food in this country haven’t been Mexicans but rather Americans, the unknowing masses who — having tasted the Bread of Life that is a steaming taco, a bowl of chili, a foil-wrapped

burrito — sought to proclaim its gospel. While we’ve long quarreled with Mexico over seemingly everything, we’ve always embraced the food, wanting to experience the “authenticity” of the Other Half: enjoying the meals Aztec emperors might have feasted on before meeting their fate; dining before handsome, bronze-skinned waiters and beautiful señoritas; eating as a Mexican might, on the street, in poverty back in Mexico, in the cantina, through cookbooks, with canned products, classes, trips to the motherland or the local taquería — but always within the prism of America. That consumption hasn’t always been pretty; caricatures of hot tamales, Montezuma’s revenge, questionable ingredients, Frito Banditos, talking Chihuahuas and sleeping peons litter the landscape and continue to influence American perceptions of Mexican food, as well as of Mexicans themselves. But even negative stereotypes and digestive concerns never stopped our collective yen for the stuff.

Peppers in His Pocket Mexican food’s American journey is obviously personal to me. I consider tortillas and hot sauce as essential to life as oxygen, walk about with a bag of serrano peppers in my pocket, have served as a food editor for a newspaper for nearly a decade, and have always pushed for Mexican food to be treated seriously. I’m someone whose fondest childhood memories usually involved smuggled cheese wheels from my parents’ ancestral villages, whose mom was a tomato canner and got up early in the morning to make us a Mexican breakfast of eggs and beans, went to work, and returned in the evening with the wherewithal to make us a full dinner. Mexican food is a way of life, which isn’t a surprise, of course. But that so many Americans, with no blood ties to Mexico and who might not even like the country, revere my cuisine? The reporter in me is piqued, the Mexican in me flabbergasted. My book Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America isn’t about me, though. It’s about a food that deserves documentation, examination, celebration —

to be hailed as the epic it is. While Mexican culinary culture is an unquestioned part of America’s gastronomic essence, the stories of how we got to this point are largely unknown. The evolution of food in the United States has until recently been dismissed as a frivolous subject, but we’re now in an age of culinary reminiscing, when scholars and journalists alike examine cuisines as they do customs. The history of Mexican food in the United States has bubbled up in articles and chapters in books over the years, but never has a full volume tracked each foodstuff, each craze, each pioneer, each controversy. What’s so cosmic about a burrito? Everything. It says something about us that Taco Bell makes billions of dollars each year, that Koreans in this country are making millions by stuffing barbecue into tortillas and selling them from fancy food trucks — and it’s a good thing. Anyone who dismisses this reality as not indicative of something seismic in the American story is more deluded than someone who thinks refried beans are actually fried twice. It has been conquest by a thousand tacos, a million tamales and a hell of a lot of salsa, which surpassed ketchup as America’s topselling condiment back in the 1990s and only continues to grow. Through interviews and archival material, via chronological and thematic chapters, and never, ever losing focus that we are after all talking about food, here the story is told of the best cuisine on Earth, one now set to take over the world. The U.S. is on the losing side of this Mexican-American War — and boy, are we grateful. As I’ve driven and flown around the country and come across a mild salsa, a mutated muchaco (a ground-beef taco served in pita bread by the Midwestern Taco Bueno chain) and other items I immediately wanted to decry, I remembered the concept the legendary Chicano scholar Américo Paredes deemed “Greater Mexico: The influence of Mexico” doesn’t cease at the Rio Grande. Wherever there is something even minutely Mexican, whether people, food, language, or rituals, even centuries removed from the original mestizo source, it remains Mexican. Even in outer space.

Arellano, Levin, Sebold to Headline Campus Book Festival Gustavo Arellano ’01 will be joined by conservative commentator and best-selling author Mark Levin as well as acclaimed writer Alice Sebold (The Lovely Bones) and other master storytellers of print and screen for the first Big Orange Book Festival, to be held Sept. 21–22 at Chapman University. More than two dozen authors and other tellers of tales will discuss their craft, give readings, take questions and sign their works during the Friday–Saturday festival at various venues on the Chapman campus. Poets, mystery and romance writers and renowned authors from Chapman’s creative writing program will headline the Friday sessions, which will close with a featured talk by Mary Badham, who played Scout in the screen version of To Kill a Mockingbird. The film Alice Sebold adaptation of Harper Lee’s novel turns 50 this year and will be shown before Badham’s presentation. Levin, who hosts a syndicated and top-rated radio talk show, is author of Ameritopia: The Unmaking of America, which debuted at No. 1 on the New York Times best seller list. He will speak at 2:30 p.m. on Friday in Memorial Hall. Among the Saturday morning presenters will be Sapphire, whose novel Push was made into the acclaimed movie Precious. Arellano will talk not just about Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America but also his previous best seller, Ask a Mexican. Sebold, author of Lucky and The Almost Moon in addition to the runaway best seller The Lovely Bones, will close the festival with a Saturday evening keynote. All festival sessions are free. For more information, visit http://bigorangebookfestival.com.

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MARV MEYER As this fall issue of Chapman Magazine was almost ready to go to press, the University community learned of another nearly inconceivable loss. Professor Marvin Meyer, Griset Chair in Bible and Christian Studies and director of the Albert Schweitzer Institute, passed away Aug. 16 at age 64, of complications from melanoma. He had battled an earlier occurrence of the disease a few years ago; successfully, it was believed. But in July the cancer recurred. “In typical Marv style,” said Chapman University Chancellor Daniele Struppa, “he maintained his optimism, asking for leave from teaching and his other duties so that he could devote all of his considerable strength to what he — and we — knew was to be a titanic battle. It was with inestimable shock and sadness that we learned just two weeks later that he had lost that battle.” Marvin Meyer — “Marv,” as he was known to faculty and students alike (with its not-so-hidden evocation of “marvelous”) — was a remarkable teacher, a gifted translator and scholar, and a pillar of the Chapman community. Serving as director of the Schweitzer Institute and chair of the Department of Religious Studies, he did so much for the University, taking on at one point or another nearly every position of faculty leadership and service in his 27 years at Chapman. Yet though Meyer reached levels of fame as a scholar that few do — as a frequent on-camera commentator on History and Discovery Channel documentaries and as one of the National Geographic team of scholars who translated the famous Gospel of Judas — he was always there with a smile, his laughter infectious, his trademark mellifluous voice engaging his colleagues in discussions of their research, teaching or travels and offering encouragement to everyone. And he was always ready with a story or “magic spell,” whether it was at Opening Convocation, Commencement and graduation activities or as the first president of Chapman’s Faculty Senate. Meyer brought the ancient world alive in his lucid and poetic translations and in his teaching both inside and outside the classroom, not only for students and colleagues but also for others around the globe. Beloved by his students, he was extremely generous with his time, working individually with them, taking groups to Egypt and teaching Greek and Coptic on top of his regular courses, and challenging students to think deeply about life’s meaning and purpose in his Schweitzer and Freshman Foundations courses. He was a true leader in

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challenging times and situations on campus, with a talent for putting people at ease and moderating between diverse constituencies, and he never shied away from such challenges. What many will always remember is Meyer’s deep love of the Gnostic authors whose writings he helped bring out from the darkness, where they had long been dismissed as heretical. He invested decades in learning the languages so he could enable their ideas to speak in a way both fresh and true. He never sought fame, although it deservedly came to him — but he sought to bring ideas hidden by history into the open. “If anyone ever loved learning for learning’s sake — utterly and unabashedly so — it was Marv Meyer,” said his close friend and colleague, Professor Marilyn Harran, Stern Chair in Holocaust education and director of the Rodgers Center for Holocaust Education at Chapman. “And he loved even more opening this astonishing world of ideas to his students who had never thought there was a gospel beyond the canonical four. Meyer helped his students to see the world with different eyes, to see how exciting and fun it could be, and always, always to think about the ethical dimension of ideas.” Meyer also worked tirelessly in the wider scholarly community, collaborating with colleagues around the world, publishing extensively and lecturing across the United States and Europe and around the globe in places from China to India. There was more than a bit of Indiana Jones in him, whether it was taking on a difficult issue of faculty governance or scholarly controversy, trekking through the Galapagos, collaborating with fellow translators in Germany and Switzerland, eating scorpions on a stick in Southeast Asia (his verdict: “crunchy!”), tackling the vast archives of Egypt’s Coptic Museum, filming a TV special on location at an ancient shrine or tomb in Greece or Turkey, laboring on a translation of a “secret gospel” at the headquarters of the National Geographic Society in Washington, D.C. or zip-lining through the jungles of Costa Rica. His work as director of Chapman’s Albert Schweitzer Institute — dedicated to preserving and critically interpreting the ethical teachings of Schweitzer within the context of the study of ethics and ethical values — was also vital to the University. Through Meyer’s work (carrying on the foundational efforts of the late faculty members Kurt and Alice Bergel), Schweitzer’s place as the “guiding spirit” of Chapman University was assured, and

he taught hundreds of Chapman students the life story and works of the great physician, philosopher, theologian and ethicist through his course on Schweitzer’s life and thought. Countless others have been reached through the Schweitzer Award of Excellence, presented each year to an individual or organization that epitomizes Schweitzer’s values; the Schweitzer Scholarships, which have enabled many deserving students to attend Chapman; and the university’s Schweitzer Collection, one of the world’s foremost assemblages of books and memorabilia on Albert Schweitzer. “This will be the first year we will not be hearing Marv tell the incoming freshmen class at Opening Convocation about the ‘biggest, baddest bust on campus’ — the one of Schweitzer

commentator on documentaries such as National Geographic’s two-hour special The Gospel of Judas, the BBC’s Lives of Jesus, A&E’s The Rise of Christianity and ABC’s Jesus and Paul and The Search for Jesus. Meyer, who received his Ph.D. from the Claremont Graduate University in early Christian studies, was a fellow of the Jesus Seminar and served as research project director for the Coptic Magical Texts Project of CGU’s Institute for Antiquity and Christianity. He was a past president of the Society of Biblical Literature’s Pacific Coast Region and was recently appointed chair of the society’s Nag Hammadi and Gnosticism Section. He presented scholarly and popular lectures all over the globe. At Chapman, he received the Wang-Fradkin Professorship,

Professor Marv Meyer, shown on a hillside in Greece, infused his research and his teaching with a spirit of adventure.

that stands in front of Argyros Forum,” said Chancellor Struppa. “I know we will all miss that phrase terribly — and the presence of the unforgettable man who said it.” Meyer’s best-known books include Judas: The Definitive Collection of Gospels and Legends About the Infamous Apostle of Jesus; The Gnostic Discoveries; The Gospel of Thomas: The Hidden Sayings of Jesus; The Gnostic Bible; and The Gospels of Mary: The Secret Tradition of Mary Magdalene, the Companion of Jesus. With the poet Willis Barnstone, he recently released the book and audio CD set The Gnostic Bible: Gnostic Texts of Mystical Wisdom from the Ancient and Medieval Worlds. On television, Meyer appeared regularly as an expert

the university’s highest faculty honor, as well as the Valerie Scudder Distinguished Faculty Award and the Awards of Excellence in research and teaching. In closing his message to the campus community about Meyer’s passing, Struppa urged all to “remember Marv’s extraordinary life, his acclaimed scholarly work, his irrepressibly exuberant spirit … and his laughter” — and shared a thought sent by one of Meyer’s dearest friends: “Marv, you touched the world gently but left big footprints.” Meyer is survived by his wife, Bonnie, and their three children, Stephen Frederick Meyer, Jonathan James Meyer and Elisabeth Anne Meyer.

Watch a tribute video about Professor Marvin Meyer created by the Office of Undergraduate Research and Panther Productions at Http://bit.ly/CU_MarvMeyer.

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BARBARA MULCH Following are the reflections of Marilyn Harran, Stern Chair in Holocaust Education, director of the Rodgers Center for Holocaust Education and professor of religious studies and history at Chapman University. Her longtime friend, Barbara Mulch, director of fellowships and scholar programs at Chapman, passed away April 29 after a stroke. She was 77.

Among the many stacks of papers on the desk of Barbara Gooden Mulch was her most recent informational student flier about fellowships. On the first page, written in Barbara’s inimitable script, was one word, “integrity.” If one had to choose a single word to describe Barbara, that would be it, but many other words would be close competitors, from “kind” to “courageous” to “outspoken” to “funny” (not always intentionally). Barbara lived the ideals of friendship, compassion and service to others. She made it seem easy, because it was so natural to her. She was always there for her friends, her colleagues and especially for students, but she was also there for people she barely knew but found for one or another reason “interesting.” Nothing gave her more pleasure than when a student gained a fellowship or grant or when alumni or friends celebrated a happy occasion such as a marriage. Barbara lived out the words of Albert Schweitzer, “Search and see whether there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.” For Barbara, that place was above all Chapman University, which she joined as a full-time faculty member in 1968, when it was Chapman College. It is fitting that Barbara’s last position was director of fellowships and scholar programs, for Barbara was deeply committed to global education and learning. She was thrilled when students gained fellowships to India or Lebanon or Tunisia or wherever their dreams and desires to make a difference took them. It was the lure of travel and teaching that first brought Barbara to Chapman as a faculty member on World Campus Afloat, the shipboard study-abroad

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program then sponsored by Chapman and now known as Semester at Sea. Interspersed among the papers on Barbara's desk were dozens of thank-you notes from students and colleagues. Barbara never touted her generosity, whether it was to the many organizations she helped support or to the students to whom she quietly gave funds when they had a medical or family problem. She loved meeting new people. With Barbara, strangers quickly became friends, whether she met them on a European river cruise or at Curves or at new-faculty orientation or a staff lunch. Across the campus and in every office, Barbara seemingly knew everyone and usually knew their birthday as well. Barbara held more positions than anyone in the history of Chapman, first as a full-time faculty member in the Department of History and then as an administrator. In 1975, she became the first woman elected chair of the faculty, an achievement that gave her great pride. She chaired the Department of History and the Division of Social Sciences before becoming dean of graduate studies and associate dean of the faculty. Her many positions also included dean of the faculty and vice provost and dean of graduate studies, but undoubtedly it was her last position as director of fellowships and scholar programs that gave Barbara the most satisfaction. It afforded her the opportunity to advise, mentor and, yes, cajole, students into applying for fellowships and grants. Her patience with students, her willingness to work with them in writing and rewriting draft after draft of their

applications, and her joy when they succeeded, were unmatched. There were lots of sides to Barbara. She was fearless and outspoken in her political beliefs while respecting the freedom of others to think differently. She was a wonderful cook, could throw an awesome party, but was perfectly happy with a hot dog — if the buns were properly toasted. She was the producer of a rock ’n’ roll show and loved classical music. No one could wrap a present as beautifully as Barbara. She loved College of Performing Arts events but may have loved Chapman football and especially basketball a little more. She enjoyed travel and was especially knowledgeable about Chinese history, the area in which she earned her Ph.D. from the University of Kansas. She collected Early American antiques and could be a fierce competitor at an auction. She loved touring house museums in New England and never met a cat she couldn’t immediately persuade to climb onto her lap. She liked mysteries, especially

British ones. She enjoyed all weather, as long as the temperature never deviated from 70 degrees. She found technology challenging but mastered it so she could send out dozens of reminder emails to students about their application deadlines. She preferred the yellow pad but understood that no one could decipher her handwriting. She introduced hundreds of people to her favorite Thai restaurant, where the owners treated her like family. And she made sure we all knew the difference between burgundy and “real” red, her favorite color. Barbara loved learning and loved people. She deeply loved her family. She became an adventurous world traveler but never lost touch with her roots in Iowa. She was always true to her values, her friends, her family and all who were part of her beloved Chapman University. She defined the word “integrity” and did so with all the power of her formidable intellect and huge heart.

JOHN FLOWERS Professor John V. Flowers, an acclaimed teacher and researcher who helped shape the Chapman University Department of Psychology and beloved for his “thundering laugh” and passion for students, passed away suddenly in April while in New Orleans with students presenting at the annual meeting of the Society of Behavioral Medicine. Longtime friend and colleague Ron Scott, professor emeritus, described Flowers as one of the best psychologists he ever knew and an authority in the field. “His talents as a supervisor of student interns was amazing,” Scott said. “An empirically-based psychologist, he demonstrated this in both his teaching and his practice. John was a walking encyclopedia of psychology — if you wanted to do research on any field of psychology, you could do a thorough review of the literature, or you could have lunch with John.”

Former student Susan Jester ’91, now the associate director at Chapman University’s Frances Smith Center for Individual & Family Therapy, recalled Flowers as a consummate teacher. “He did not just teach. He connected and mentored thousands of students here at Chapman. We will miss his thundering laugh,” Jester said. Flowers joined Chapman in 1981 and played a central role in the growth and development of the Department of Psychology, serving at various times as chair and director of its graduate programs. He was also a highly respected scholar and private clinician. He authored numerous journal articles, book chapters and books and gave more than 225 presentations at conferences and workshops nationally and internationally. Among his books for parents is Help Your Children Be Self-Confident, published by Prentice Hall. Flowers is survived by his wife, Jennifer, their daughter, Jaime, and son, Jonpaul ’16.

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SHAUN NAIDOO Chapman University Professor Shaun Naidoo, the awardwinning composer who wrote the sweeping fanfare for the University’s 150th anniversary last year, passed away May 18. He was 49. Naidoo’s contributions to the University will long be remembered, from his many special compositions for fellow faculty, to the contributions he made in shaping the programs within the Conservatory of Music, said Amy Graziano, associate professor and chair of Chapman’s Conservatory of Music. “Chapman’s reputation as one of the best music programs on the West Coast is due in no small part to Shaun Naidoo’s restructuring of our basic core music theory program,” Graziano said. “He threw himself into participating in all important, big events and projects that involved the conservatory. And he made us all laugh. He was one of a kind — the sheer presence he had, the accent, the humor, the dedication, the fierce loyalty. He will be missed.” Students also are feeling the loss. “To say that Dr. Naidoo was a talented composer and educator would be a gross understatement,” said Scott Stedman ’14, a music composition major. “His matchless combination of wit, dry humor and passion for the music he wrote and oversaw in the composition students will be sorely missed. Dr. Naidoo once told me, as I was working on writing a bit of a composition in his theory class, ‘Scott, a composer who uses a pen is either a genius, or a fool.’ Then, upon looking at my writing, he patted me on the head, smiled and said, ‘Just as I thought.’” In a February interview with Chapman Magazine to discuss his fanfare, Naidoo described the conservatory as a place where creativity thrived and extended to faculty. For him, composing influenced teaching, and vice versa. “Very often when I’m teaching something, it sparks an idea,” he said.

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Born in South Africa in 1962, Naidoo composed extensively for cabaret, musical theatre and modern dance in the late 1980s. His cabaret troupe, Shaun Naidoo and the Panic Attacks, received the Fringe Award at the South African National Festival of the Arts in 1988 for the revue “Everything but the Shower Scene.” Collaborations with the City Theater and Dance group as composer and musical director resulted in the acclaimed musicals Hotel Polana (1989) and Sunrise City (1988). The latter became the last work to be banned by the apartheid regime in South Africa. In 1990, he was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship and settled in Los Angeles, where he earned a master’s degree and doctorate in composition at USC and composed numerous electroacoustic works, which can be heard on C.R.I., New World Records, Evander Music and Capstone Records. Over the past 20 years, he wrote for ensembles and artists around the world. Most recently his music was showcased at Carnegie Hall, Dartington Castle (England), Walt Disney Concert Hall, REDCAT Theater, the Lincoln Theater in Miami Beach, the Bang on a Can Festival at MassMoca in Massachusetts, in Brisbane, Australia, and at premieres in Germany and Taiwan. Naidoo is survived by his wife, Vicki Ray, and son, Joseph “JoJo” Naidoo ’15, an integrated educational studies major at Chapman. Over the summer, family, friends and colleagues worked to create a tribute concert — Sept. 12 at 8 p.m. in Memorial Hall — showcasing some of Naidoo’s major works, performed by the friends for whom he wrote the music. Included in the planning: a pre-concert “Reflection & Celebration” — 7 p.m. in the Salmon Recital Hall, Bertea Hall, Room 100 — designed to give students, colleagues and friends a forum to share feelings and stories about Naidoo.

DONNA CREAN Matriarch of a family whose gifts go to the heart of Chapman University and Orange County, Donna Crean passed away July 20 at her home, the fabled Village Crean in Newport Beach, with her loved ones by her side. She was 82. Speaking at Crean’s memorial service, Orange County Register columnist Barbara Venezia praised her longtime friend’s philanthropic spirit as a model to emulate. “She lived a life of love and service. Through her example we all should do what we can to help others. ‘If you can’t give money, give of yourself,’ she’d tell me. Donna was a moral compass for all who knew and loved her. She was not only the heart of the Crean family, but of her family of friends as well. Her strength was rooted in faith and love to all she held dear,” Venezia said. That unique brand of Crean generosity touched many Chapman programs. Among the projects supported by the Crean Family Foundation are the naming of the John and Donna Crean School of Health and Life Sciences in the Schmid College of Science and Technology, as well as the Dodge College of Film and Media Arts, the Leatherby Libraries Campaign, Oliphant Hall, the Chapel Fund, the science building campaign and American Celebration. Her legacy forever will be felt in the scholarly and cultural life at Chapman, said President Jim Doti. “To get an idea how critically important Donna was to the success of her husband, John, all one has to do is read his autobiography, The Wheel and I,” President Doti said. “Donna was not only an essential part of John's business success as an entrepreneur, but she also served as his moral compass.” In 1981, Donna Crean and her late husband, former Chapman Trustee John Crean, established the family foundation

that grew to become one of Orange County’s greatest philanthropic organizations. Last year alone, the foundation gave $5 million to various charities. The arts and education were Donna’s passion, reflected by the foundation’s support not just for Chapman, but also for Discovery Science Center, the Orange County-based Children’s Bureau, Newport Beach’s Mariner’s Library and Crean High School in Irvine, to name just a few projects. The Creans’ generosity was made possible by their business success, first in Venetian blinds and later with Fleetwood Enterprises, a manufacturer of mobile homes and travel trailers. But they never forgot their humble beginnings, said daughter and Chapman Trustee Emily Crean Vogler. “Mom and Dad did not feel that they were any better than the average Joe,” she said. “Combined with their deep abiding faith, they attributed their good fortune to just plain being blessed by the grace of God, and they felt that they owed back a portion of what they were blessed with. “They started tithing the customary 10 percent, and when Dad’s company went public and they were presented with an enormous check at the New York Stock Exchange, they began to donate half of their income to the church and various charities. Eventually they formed a foundation to establish a formal, regular conduit to support local organizations that benefited the less fortunate in the community,” Emily said. In addition to Emily, Donna Crean is survived by three other children — Andy, Susan and Johnnie — as well as 14 grandchildren and eight great grandchildren.

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Detroit: A Biography (Chicago Review Press) Scott Martelle, adjunct professor of English A former Los Angeles Times and Detroit News reporter, Martelle “vividly recounts the rise and downfall of a once-great city,” says a Publishers Weekly review. Kirkus Reviews calls it “a valuable biography sure to appeal to readers seeking to come to grips with important problems facing not just a city, but a country.” A Christmas Adventure in Little Italy (Jabberwocky Books)

A Safeway in Arizona: What the Gabrielle Giffords Shooting Tells Us About the Grand Canyon State and Life in America (Viking) Tom Zoellner, associate professor of English Zoellner, an award-winning journalist and fifth-generation Arizonan, is a longtime friend of Rep. Giffords. He examines the social conditions that made such a horrific event possible. The Boston Globe called it “staggeringly ambitious” and “a masterly work of reporting, historical analysis and sly cultural criticism.”

James L. Doti, president; with illustrations by Lisa Mertins

Open Your Eyes: Toward Living More Deeply in the Present (Wipf & Stock)

President Doti’s book for young readers tells the tale of Jimmy and his dog, Blackie, who becomes lost as snow begins to fall on Christmas Eve. The story is set against the backdrop of a 1950s-era Italian neighborhood, with evocative illustrations.

The Rev. Gail Stearns, dean of the chapel

Responsive School Practices to Support Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning Students and Families

To discover inner peace and peace in our world, we will need to let go of traditional understandings of pain and suffering as God’s will, Stearns writes. The author brings insight from biblical scholars, spiritual leaders and her own experience as a pastor and university teacher to make the case for dwelling more deeply and living in a more compassionate world.

(Routledge)

Kelly Kennedy, assistant professor of education; Emily S. Fisher This book provides a practical and useful guide for school-based mental health professionals to support LGBTQ students and others, addressing discrimination, bullying and violence. Research Handbook on International Banking and Governance (Edwin Elgar) Clas Wihlborg, Fletcher Jones Chair in International Business; James R. Barth; Chen Lin The book features a collection of articles by leading academics exploring the role of governance in explaining the risk-taking behavior and efficiency of financial institutions. From Three to Five (Amazon.com) Hank Adler, assistant professor of accounting Adler’s fast-paced novel examines the potential political, electoral and legislative impacts of the emergence of a well-funded third-party candidate in the 2012 election.

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Rebellion in Print: Political Ideas Against the Current (Addleton Academic Publishers)

Tibor R. Machan, R.C. Hoiles Chair in Business Ethics and Free Enterprise Drawing on his many years of study in the field of political economy and theory, Machan seeks to show that the peaceful, civilized alternative within the classic liberal tradition is morally and practically superior to a reliance on coercive force. Introduction to Public Conversing (Kona Publishing and Media Group)

Richard P. Doetkott, professor of communication studies; Lance R. Lockwood, adjunct professor of communication studies; with Patricia L. Doetkott “There are two proven approaches to public speaking. This is the other one,” it says on the cover. Co-authored by Richard Doetkott, who passed away Dec. 21, the book chronicles the history of public speaking, in theory and in practice, focusing on the conversing approach, which Doetkott championed.

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hen the phone rings at 3 a.m., it’s never good news. Or so Seth Casteel ’03 thought before that bleary-eyed morning in February when his whole world started clicking at a hundred frames per second. The first call was from a blogger somewhere in the U.K. — or was it a London newspaper? It doesn’t really matter because within an hour there were a dozen more just like it, mostly from Europe and Asia, asking Casteel how they could get access to his underwater dog photos.

“All I remember saying was ‘I don’t understand.’ It was all very confusing,” recalls Casteel, who has a BFA in film and television from Chapman University. By the light of the next day, the focus started to sharpen. Seeking new paths for his pet photography business, he had invested in a waterproof housing for his camera and posted a few underwater dog photos to his website — www.littlefriendsphoto.com

no time the images made their way to Pinterest and then across more walls and into more tweets than anyone could count. In a matter of hours, the viral momentum was so strong that there was simply no stopping it — as if anyone wanted to try. The calls and emails just kept coming. At one time Casteel was talking with Good Morning America while CNN World Report was on the other line. His modest website, which usually generated about 200 unique visits a day, crashed under the weight of

“I’ve always loved animals, and I’ve always liked making something from nothing.”SETH CASTEEL — and to his Facebook page. He’d gotten the equipment, BTW, even though the $4,000 cost was more than prudence and his friends said he should be spending. “My friends thought I was an idiot,” Casteel said. It turns out that someone — Casteel still doesn’t know who — thought enough of those quirky, wild-eyed photos to repost them to the social news website Reddit. In

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hundreds of thousands of hits. “Within a few days, I had 10,000 emails,” he said. Suddenly the guy who’d been turned down by the stock-photo agencies Corbis and Getty Images because his work was “too niche-oriented” had 10 of the nation’s biggest publishing houses bidding for the rights to a book. “We turned down Random House,” said Casteel, his voice rising with incredulity, “and went with Little Brown because they

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had the best plan for the book.” That high-end gift book, titled simply Underwater Dogs and featuring dozens of shots not yet seen online, will be released Oct. 23, but preorders have pushed it as high as No. 61 overall on Amazon, Casteel said. As he readies to hit the book-tour trail, he’s already doing a lot of traveling from his dual home bases of Los Angeles and Chicago. There’s a reality-TV gig in London he can’t yet talk more about and a photo in the August 2012 issue of National Geographic. He’s promoting a calendar that’s available on his website and elsewhere, and he’s working to fulfill a ballooning list of commercial and commission shoots, even as he launches a nonprofit venture — www.secondchancephotos.org — to increase adoption rates at animal shelters through better use of photography. It’s still hard to believe that it all started with a few photos of stray cats on the studio lot where he worked designing print advertising campaigns for Disney. Those volunteer efforts in 2007 helped the cats find homes and Casteel launch a new career. “I’ve always loved animals, and I’ve always liked making something from nothing,” he said. “I’d taken a couple of photography courses at Chapman and really got a lot out of them. It was all a new challenge.”

He started doing freelance work for publishing companies, with his pet photos ending up in calendars and books as well as on the cover of Tails magazine. He started getting commission shoots, including one of a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel that lived right down the street from Chapman. The dog kept jumping into the family’s pool, and Casteel quickly realized that to capture his personality he’d need to jump in, too. His early pool work yielded some expressive results, but looking back Casteel says he was only scratching the surface.

“I was still figuring out how to work with dogs, and working with them in water affects the dynamic,” he said. “After shoots with 250 dogs, I’m still working on it. The whole thing is so unpredictable.” A key to Casteel’s success is that he gains the dogs’ trust on land before shifting to the water. That bond helps him coax out the wildly emotive reactions that connect with viewers. Plus, it doesn’t hurt that he’s really good at holding his breath. Casteel says his “amazing experience” at Chapman helped prepare him for the challenges he has faced. He particularly credits an entertainment marketing course taught by Professor Cory O’Connor with giving him the confidence to launch his business in the first place. For instance, he knew to have his copyright protections in place so he could monetize attention that came his way. “We made a lot of money in a very short time,” he said. Now a second book is in the works, and Casteel has other ideas bubbling to the surface. His phone just keeps ringing — and that, he notes, is still a good problem to have, no matter the hour. “This project is allowing me to have the career I want,” he said. “I’d be happy if I could do this job forever.”

Above left, Seth Casteel ’03 is shown with his Labradoodle, Nala. His new high-end gift book Underwater Dogs features dozens of photos not yet seen online.

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Chapman University and Its Alumni: A COMPACT BUILDING BRIDGES TO ENGAGEMENT

he first large-scale survey of Chapman University graduates has yielded a wealth of information about the alumni experience. Now the University has established a formal Compact to “ensure we make real and lasting changes in our alumni relations,” President Jim Doti said in a letter sent to graduates in late June. Although the survey showed that 87 percent of alumni respondents have a good or very good overall opinion of Chapman, and a strong majority are proud to state that they graduated from the University, there are areas targeted for improvement, President Doti said. Only 43 percent of survey respondents were satisfied with their overall alumni experience, clearly illuminating three areas of need:

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More focused and personalized communication with alumni. Better networking opportunities and career assistance.

Chapman, in order to create a more perfect University community, seeks to strengthen its compact with its alumni. For its part, Chapman pledges to:

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More vibrant engagement with worldwide Chapman alumni.

The formal Compact with alumni, which accompanies this story, Provide information, programs and services “represents our pledge to create ways for meaningful dialogue and that correspond with the strongest alumni more frequent interaction,” said Sheryl Bourgeois, executive vice interests and needs. president for University Advancement at Chapman. “It also gives us the means to measure our success in fulfilling our commitments.” Welcome them back, through various avenues, Chapman will take tangible steps to keep the promises in the and celebrate their return home. Compact, said Jillian Gray, director of Alumni Engagement. For instance, the Board of Trustees has established a task force charged with bolstering the connections within the Chapman community. And during Opening Convocation each fall, a past winner of the Cheverton Award Chapman Alumni will speak to the incoming class, so students can build an immediate connection with alumni achievement. By the Numbers Bringing alumni and students together for the benefit of both is a key goal of this new Total: 41,825 initiative, Bourgeois said. In the U.S.: 34,669 “We’re working to open more doors of learning and opportunity,” she added. “We want On Facebook: 5,127 alumni to know that their wisdom and experience is valued, and that they can benefit when they hire Panthers first, as employees and interns.” On LinkedIn: 3,266 Travis Knox ’93 addressed that subject when he spoke On Twitter: 667 at the most recent Commencement ceremony for Dodge Class Year Breakdown College of Film and Media Arts. Knox has worked widely in the entertainment industry and now is director of feature 2002– 2012: 17,412 film development at Dodge. He has seen how relationships 1987 – 2001: 14,241 born through Chapman connections and nurtured 1972 – 1986: 6,463 throughout a career can be immensely rewarding. “A decade ago I gave a Chapman student his first 1971 and earlier: 3,709 internship, and he used that as the foundation for a great Degrees career,” Knox said. “He was recently a producer on Drive Undergraduate: 20,544 Travis Knox ‘93 with Ryan Gosling and is currently working on Enders Game. One of the best assistants I’ve had was a kid straight Graduate: 9,091 out of Chapman who’s now worked his way up the ladder at Disney and — get this — has Doctorate: 286 my old office. I couldn’t be more stoked for each of them. But selfishly, I’m also thrilled to Law School: 1,816 know that they are in a position to help me when I need it.” As these connections grow and more outreach efforts spring from Alumni Engagement, “please share with us your thoughts and suggestions, your concerns and compliments, and your needs and opportunities,” President Doti said.

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1950s Maxine (Todd) Mc Intosh, B.A. liberal studies and education ’57 and Don Mc Intosh, B.A. education ’58 (M.A. education ’64), wanted to share recent achievements. Don Mc Intosh, a San Juan Mission docent since 1963, was presented a plaque for his “devotion and passion” where he “inspires, educates and encourages donations, that help preserve the mission.” Don, as a Vietnamera veteran and first vice commander of American Legion Post 257 of Laguna Woods, has encouraged his students and post members to write letters to veterans serving overseas. They have also sent 48 decorated soccer balls for children with a Camp Pendleton Marine battalion serving overseas, as well as 1,880 care packages to overseas troops. Also, his wife of 56 years, Maxine Mc Intosh, has received a commendation as the Laguna Woods villager of the month, in April, was elected to serve as a director for the GRF Facility Board, and serves as its secretary.

1960s Ruth Hopkins, B.A. sociology ’64, and Steve Hopkins, B.A. sociology ’63, will celebrate 48 years of marriage in September. Steve and Ruth live in the Blue Ridge Mountains of western North Carolina and plan to visit Chapman soon.

1980s A Ted Hardwick B.A. communications ’83, Tony Matulic, Class of ’00, and Alex Dobbs, BFA film production ’10, are crew members on TV’s Criminal Minds. The photo at right shows them at the Universal Studios back lot while filming the season seven finale.

1990s Chris Borrelli, B.A. communications ’94, has had his action spec project Sad Jack picked up by Code Entertainment following more than a week of negotiations amid multiple bids. B Ruth Herrera, B.A. sociology ’99, married Eric Guelcher on June 25, 2011, in Long Beach, where they reside. Chapman alumna and Alpha Phi sorority sister Kathy Camacho, BFA film and television ‘98, who works as a producer for a major television news network, was a bridesmaid. Ruth also has her MSW and has worked as a social worker in Los Angeles County for 11 years. Eric is from Pennsylvania and works for United Health Care as an analyst. The couple are expecting their first child, Lucia Michelle, in September. The baby will be named in memory of Ruth’s mother.

2000s 1970s Brian Collier, B.A. economics and business administration ’71, has become a grandfather. His grandson, Rocco Marrello, was born at Hoag Hospital in Newport Beach on May 31.

Mian Ahmad, MFA film production ’09, recently premiered HEAL, his graduate thesis film at Dodge College. The film has received more than 20 awards at film festivals worldwide.

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C Adrienne (Kimble) Ainbinder, BFA dance and B.A. communications ’01, was married in November to Adam Ainbinder at Callaway Vineyards and Winery in Temecula, Calif., where she grew up.

Real Impact at Pretend City By Breana Fischer ’13

s an entrepreneur and community leader, Sinan Kanatsiz ’97 (M.A.’00) has made quite an impact in the real world. Now he’s putting his talents to work at Pretend City. A 3-year-old hands-on children’s museum in Irvine, Calif., Pretend City has welcomed a half-million youngsters to its city limits, which include a kid-size fire department, restaurant and farm, among other features. Kanatsiz is a driving force behind the nonprofit project. “The idea was presented on a napkin,” said Kanatsiz, who serves on Pretend City’s Board of Directors. “I like to build things, and my wife and I reviewed the project and got engaged completely.” His penchant for building is also evident at KCOMM, the public relations and internet marketing company Kanatsiz has developed from a startup in his parents’ sewing room into a multimillion-dollar force, with a national and international presence. “I started my business while I was at Chapman,” he said. “I walked up to (President) Jim Doti and asked to build websites for free at Chapman.” Kanatsiz is still taking on influential roles at the University. It turns out that like building, making a difference comes naturally to him. “Chapman is where the roots of my tree started,” he said. “And as someone who has done pretty well in the business world, it makes me want to give back.”

Patricia Anders, M.A. English literature ’06 and MFA creative writing ’07, recently published her first novel, A Winter’s Blooming, through the HNN Press. D Michael Ashley and Charles Borg, both MFA screenwriting ’07, are writers on a new series called Dome. Their trailer features endorsements from Damon Lindelof (Lost), Nolan Bushnell (the founder of Atari) and Martin Starr (Knocked Up and Adventureland). They also had their Kickstarter campaign featured in USA Today. E Crystal Berg, B.A. political

science ’04, and Chad Berg had a baby this year, named Preston. Also, Crystal launched her new book, Defining Moments of Courage, on Amazon. Heather Binns, B.A. communications ’00, was recently honored by the PremierExperts organization, which recognizes leading experts across a wide array of industries. Heather was acknowledged for her fitness expertise. F Benjamin Bliss, BFA film production ’09, is an artist in the Domingo/Thornton Young Artist Program of Los Angeles Opera. Bliss recently made his NBC primetime debut with a guest appearance on the sitcom Whitney, in which he serenaded lead characters Whitney and Alex.

Charles Box Jr., MFA film production ’09, finished writing, producing and directing his first film with his own company, MailBox Productions. The trailer for Welcome to the South is at www.facebook.com/ welcometothesouthmovie.

Melissa Brown, MFA Film Production ’07, was featured in the Sundance Special Edition of MovieMaker Magazine as one of the “Five Editors to Watch.” Tiffany Christian, MFA creative writing ’05, has been admitted to the Ph.D. program in American Studies at Washington State University. In addition, her most recent folklore documentary film, Zombies R Us: Preparedness Groups, Self Reliance and the Death of Modernity, has been selected for presentation at the annual conference of the Southwestern Anthropological Association on April 19–22 in Chico, Calif. Tiffany graduated with her second master’s degree in folklore from the University of Oregon in 2011. Ted Collins, MBA business administration ’09, has been elected president of the Inland Empire chapter of the California Society of Certified Public Accountants for 2011–12. The CalCPA Inland Empire Chapter serves more than 1,850 members, offering services such as business consulting and personal financial planning to tax and estate planning.

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G Ryan Corry, B.A. political science ’08, and Rachel Bugai married June 9. H Ashley Davisson, B.A. psychology ’07, and Devin Drag, B.S. business ’07, were married Nov. 5, 2011, in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif. After honeymooning in Hawaii, they moved to Corona del Mar, where they currently reside. While at Chapman, Ashley played on the soccer team, and Devin was a baseball All-American.

Stephanie Domurat, BFA television broadcast journalism ’05, recently rejoined KULR / TV in Billings, Mont., after a stint in Georgia, where she gained experience working as a weekday evening anchor for WGXA-TV.

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I Michael Fisk, B.A. music education ’05, and Lindsay Fisk, B.A. music education ’06, met in 2002 at Chapman University in the trombone section of orchestra rehearsal. They married on July 7, 2007. On Nov. 28, 2011, they welcomed a baby boy named Cameron Robert Fisk.

Chris Frazier, MFA screenwriting ’08, and his brother Charlie have sold their spy thriller screenplay In the Company of Lies to the newly formed Sentinel Pictures and production/distribution company Pipeline MPG.

Mark Hammer, B.A. screenwriting ’09, had his script Two Night Stand featured on the Black List, as was Hidden, by Matt and Ross Duffer, both BFA film production ’07. William Heatley, B.S. computer science ’09, has helped DarbeeVision Inc. develop a new computational imaging consumer electronics accessory product called the Darblet.

Lucien Knotter, BFA film production ’08, (MFA screenwriting ’12) won first place in the Scriptapalooza TV writing competition in the Sitcom Category for his 30 Rock script. Scott L. Levitt, J.D. ’03 (LL.M ’10), recently announced the opening of his new law firm, Levitt Law, APC, in his hometown of Seal Beach, Calif. Levitt Law caters to business clients serving all their corporate, transactional and business litigation needs, in addition to handling all real property and real estate development matters. Scott is very active with Chapman and sits on the School of Law alumni board.

J Caroline Lucas, B.A. political science ’09, is a community business development volunteer with the Peace Corps and is involved with Berd Bears, an arts project helping women earn sustainable income in Berd, Armenia.

Collin Martin, B.M. music performance (percussion) and composition ’09, is attending New York University’s Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program. Honor and Family, a new 15-minute musical co-written by Collin, was featured in this year’s West Village Musical Theatre Festival. A combination of audience votes and industry professionals awarded Collin Best Original Score as well as awarding Collin and Thirza Best Song for “Who I Am.” Collin has begun work on a full-length musical, which will have an equity reading next spring. Steven Olveda, BFA television broadcast journalism ’08, married Alyssa Chambers on Dec. 17, 2011, in Renton, Wash. In the wedding party were Chapman alumni Robert Quiring, B.S. accounting ’08, and Darin Pretti, B.A. accounting and business administration ’07. Also attending was Danielle (DiFede) Pretti, B.A. communication and B.S. business administration ’07. Nate Orloff, BFA film production ’09, started working for Bad Robot Productions in January as in-house assistant editor/Avid technician. Orloff has helped edit and finished the behind-the-scenes documentary for MI4 and helped with dailies for the new Star Trek movie. “For me it’s a dream come true working here,” he said. Nicholas Ozeki, MFA film production ’08, is nominated

Courting Success

laying Division I college basketball, Courtney Lewis (J.D. ’09) got closer than most people do to the childhood dream job of professional athlete. But in the end, she took take a different path to the court. She recently landed a job as the associate counsel for the NBA’s Phoenix Suns, fulfilling her more recent dream of using her Chapman law degree to score points for a professional team. Throughout her 3L year at the Chapman School of Law, Lewis had an unpaid externship with Major League Baseball’s Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. The opportunity broadened her professional network, which eventually led to her first job out of law school, as legal counsel for the National Hockey League’s Phoenix Coyotes. During her two-year tenure there, she managed the legal department during a turbulent time, as the team navigated bankruptcy proceedings and sought an owner. In March, Lewis transitioned to her new role, in which she manages the legal operations for the Suns, the WNBA Phoenix Mercury and the US Airways Center. Lewis earned her undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College, where she was a Division I athlete. She also has a graduate degree in sports business management from New York University. “In both grad school and law school,” she said, “the ability to supplement my classroom learning with practical experience gave me a competitive advantage and the tools necessary to land my dream job.”

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Praised in Prague

o celebrate Shakespeare Orange County’s 20th anniversary, artistic director Tom Bradac — also a Chapman University associate professor — developed an international production of the Bard’s seldom-produced erotic poem Venus and Adonis. It was staged June 5–9 as part of the Fringe Festival in Prague, Czech Republic, and some of the featured players were Chapman alumni. Amanda Zarr ’04, Misha Bouvion ’04 and Michael Drace Fountain ’02 all took on roles, as did Michael Nehring, professor of theatre. Katie Wilson, adjunct faculty, was costume designer for the production. The play is a wry, poignant poem laden with theatricality, irony, passion and pathos. It captures passages and themes dating back to Ovid and has been immortalized in paintings by artists ranging from Titian to Rubens. In short, it’s perfect Fringe Festival material. “Shakespeare’s tale of obsessive female lust was denounced as lewd by critics, which only boosted its appeal in 16th-century England,” Bradac explains. “Our production of Venus and Adonis examines the feminine sexual drive to love, couple and reproduce, contrasting with the masculine desire for solitude and the hunt.” The festival is an international event that has hosted theatre companies from throughout Europe, Asia and elsewhere. It’s known as “the famous Edinburgh Festival’s naughty grandchild.” So how was the production received? Well, the Prague Post lauded the actors for their “fiery passion” before elevating its rave review to a new level of praise. “The production,” it concluded, “is performed by actors whose skills cannot be overstated.”

for the Someone to Watch Award of the 2012 Film Independent Spirit Awards for his film Mamitas. Ozeki and his producer, Adam Renehan, MFA film and television producing ’07, spent two years raising money to produce the feature-length film with a crew that included cinematographer Andrew Davis, BFA film production ’10, and editor Melissa Brown, MFA film production ’07. They have since screened the film at numerous festivals and managed to secure distribution. Screening details: http://mamitasthemovie.com. K Brent Poppen, B.A. social science ’01, was paralyzed from the neck down when he was 16 but never let that become an obstacle to achievement. He has penned two new books and won a bronze medal in rugby in the 2004 Paralympic Games in Athens, Greece.

Tom Ptasinski, BFA film production ’08, and Stanley Von Medvey raised $15,000 through Kickstarter and Indiegogo contributions to shoot a science fiction Web series pilot called L5. Nick Erickson and Adam Nelson, BFA Film Production ’10, helped produce the project, which featured a largely Chapman crew. The pilot went live on the web through VODO on Feb. 21. Ian Reitz, B.A. political science, BFA film and television ’04, was named best news anchor at the annual Tennessee Associated Press Broadcast Awards. Ian is the co-anchor of the WSMV Channel 4 News Today. Lisa Roach, M.A. education ’08, recently worked with Chapman Alumni Relations to provide Panther apparel to her first-grade class at Girls Preparatory Charter School of New York during College Week. Lisa said, “As a proud alumna of Chapman University, I am eager to share my college experience with my

students. I look forward to telling them all about my time on the Orange campus, especially during the acquisition of the piece of the Berlin Wall for the reflection pool, and learning how to be the learner and educator that I am today.” L Scott Shaffstall, B.A. English/journalism ’08, was awarded the Tomorrow’s Leaders’ MBA scholarship by Chapman’s Argyros School of Business and Economics. Shaffstall is the regional manager of the Motorcycle Industry Council’s East Coast dirt bike and ATV safety training divisions. He is also the coordinator of special communications, website and marketing projects for the Motorcycle Safety Foundation. M Brian Singbiel, BFA film production ’04, edited and co-produced the documentary Exporting Raymond. The film has been picked up by HBO and will be premiering Feb. 16 (8 p.m. ET/PT). It is also available on Blu-Ray and DVD. The documentary chronicles the efforts of Everybody Loves Raymond creator Phil Rosenthal to adapt the show for Russian television. Singbiel and Rosenthal previously screened the film at Chapman and got feedback from Dodge College students. N Dr. Bonni (Frazee) Stachowiak, B.A. social sciences ’93 (M.A. organizational leadership ’04), and Dr. Dave Stachowiak, M.A. organizational leadership ’04, welcomed a son, Luke, born in February. Bonni is an associate professor of business and management at Vanguard University and Dave serves organizations that want to develop the coaching skills of their leaders. Chapman alumni grandparents Jan (Ewall) Frazee, B.A. French ’68, and Jim Frazee, B.A. business administration ’68, are glad to live nearby to Luke to watch him as he grows. Both

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couples met at Chapman and are grateful for their education and their relationships. John Swetnam, MFA screenwriting ’05, had his spec script picked up by New Line Cinema. Steven Quale has been hired to direct the film, called Category Six.

Raelyn Tepper, BFA film production ’10, and Christina Weston, Class of ’09, both worked on the set of the film Sound of My Voice. Raelyn was a set dresser and Christina was the prop master. The movie screened at Sundance and is now playing in select theaters. Ashlee Tuttleman, BA business administration ’09, just graduated from The New School’s graduate program in International Affairs, concentrating in development. She took a summer position as an advisor for ThinkImpact, a for-profit company that “teaches” social innovation/ entrepreneurship in rural communities in Rwanda, Kenya, Ghana and South Africa. They apply human-centered design methodology to an asset based community development approach. Katie Vlietstra, B.A. history/ political science ’03, recently joined the National Association for the Self-Employed as director of government affairs in Washington, D.C.

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Bianca Arevalo, B.S. accounting and business administration ’12, will be studying for the CPA exam this summer before accepting a full-time position in the fall as a tax accountant at White Nelson Diehl Evans LLP.

Alvaro Berrios, B.S. business administration ’10, is working on his MBA at Pepperdine University and recently started work at Disney as a project controls specialist, developing and executing financial controls for the Corporate Real Estate Design and Delivery team. Jessica Browne, B.A. political science ’12, has accepted a full-time position at GKN Aerospace. She is moving to Long Beach with two fellow Chapman alumni. O Daniel de Arakal, B.M. music composition and instrumental performance (Classical Guitar) ’10, has received his Master of Music Degree with honors in classical guitar performance from the USC Thornton School of Music. He is a guitar instructor at the Tustin Music Center. Daniel is planning to pursue his D.M.A. and seek an associate professor position at a major university.

Hannah d’Angerio, BFA film production ’11, was promoted to casting assistant at Ronna Kress Casting, after beginning there as an intern in August. P Zeinab Dabbah, M.D., J.D. ’12, has been hired as the chief medical officer for Inter Valley Health Plan.

Dustin Davis, MFA film production ’11, has been working as a set production assistant on the newest season of American Idol. Brianna Donath, B.A. public relations and advertising ’11, recently joined Orange Label Art + Advertising as an integrated advertising coordinator. James Ellett, MBA business administration ’12, has been offered a full-time position with Ingram Micro as a Web technology

Numbers Worth Crunching

n a business that’s all about the numbers, Chapman University accounting alumnus Michael Koll ’11 has landed a big one — a near-perfect score on the Uniform CPA Examination. The achievement won him the highly selective 2011 Elijah Watt Sells Award. Out of 90,000 candidates who sat for the CPA exam in 2011, only 37 met the criteria for the award. It is an extraordinary accomplishment, says Glenn Pfeiffer, professor in the Argyros School of Business and Economics. “In my 32 years as an accounting professor, Michael Koll is the first student I have known who won the award,” Pfeiffer says. “Given the scope and caliber of the competition, this is truly a rare and remarkable achievement. Michael epitomizes the qualities of so many of our students. He is an outstanding representative of Chapman University.” Koll is the only recipient from a university in California. He is currently an associate with PricewaterhouseCoopers in Irvine, Calif. According to the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the 2011 award was presented to candidates who obtained a cumulative average score above 95.50 across all four sections of the Uniform CPA Examination, completed testing during the previous calendar year and passed all four sections of the examination on their first attempt. So how does it feel to earn such a selective award? “Kind of surreal,” Koll said. “I didn’t go into the exam trying to get it. I just wanted to pass the first time through.”

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analyst after having interned with them last summer. Joe Fann, BFA television broadcasting ’12, is working for the Seattle Seahawks and is a member of the Sounders FC Digital Media team for next year.

His Dominoes Really Deliver By Emily Pizanie ’13

ith a patent to his name in assisted GPS tracking and credit for helping to grow the pharmaceutical giant Astra Zeneca as well as launching four other companies, Benjamin K. Yee ’82 has proved himself as an innovative business leader. But perhaps his highest-profile feat involves a really big game of dominoes. The project started when officials contacted Yee seeking a way to connect Chinese high school students with their U.S. counterparts leading up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Thinking big, Yee saw an opportunity to also raise money for school districts in the Silicon Valley, where he lives. Big is one thing. But a domino chain that stretches from California to China? What sounds impossible was done simply, with the aid of the Internet, Yee said. Multiple sites were connected virtually using a computer program developed by a Chinese student. The chains were coordinated so that the last domino of each chain fell on a laptop keyboard, sending a signal to the next location, where a new chain started falling. In all, more than 200 U.S. students and 2,000 in China worked to set up and knock down 325,000 dominoes. It took hours and hours to assemble but just 15 minutes for all the dominoes to fall. The event was televised live in China, with CNN later picking it up. But the best measure of success from this domino effect is that more than $250,000 was raised to support school programs.

Sarah Faulkner, B.A. literature and society ’12, will attend a master’s program in literature at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. David Finch, B.A. screenwriting ’12, has started working with OMD communications agency as an assistant strategist for the Henkel Dial Account. Meghan Grace, B.A. communication studies ’12, will pursue her master’s in higher education at the University of Arizona. Q Katie Gunderson, BFA theatre performance ’11, and Tyler Cherman, BFA theatre performance ’10, married June 9.

Jessica Hendricks, BFA film production ’11, recently spent six months working as film composer/director Cyril Morin’s assistant and line producer. Morgan Horowitz, B.A. political science ’12, is traveling to Prague for a semester. Morgan will be returning from Prague to study for the LSAT and to eventually attend law school. Nicole Knicker, B.S. business administration ’12, is pursuing an MBA at Chapman. Hilary Leath, B.A. art history ’12, has been working in the office of the executive vice president at Chapman since early June and will soon start in a new position at the College of Educational Studies. Krystal Nungaray, BFA television broadcast journalism ’12, is working on the new NFL Network show NFL AM!.

R Diana (Dee Dee) Patterson, B.M. musical performance ’11, married Todd Bui, B.S. athletic training ’10, on May 26.

Jeanette Pineda, B.S. biochemistry and molecular biology ’12, is working in Hampton, Va., as an intern at the NASA Langley Research Center. She will return in the fall to get her master’s in hazards and global environmental change at Chapman. S Martha Rivera, B.A. Spanish and B.S. psychology ’12, is getting her master’s in education with an emphasis in human development and psychology at Harvard University. After that, she plans to pursue a Ph.D. in education.

Ryan Robinson, B.S. business administration ’12, and Holly McDaniel, B.A. religious studies ’12, became engaged at the Wilkinson College Commencement in May. T Sierra Stevens, B.S. business administration ’11, is a leadership development associate at Consolidated Graphics in Denver after initially meeting recruiters at the Chapman University Meet the Employers Job & Internship Day event.

Carl Tomlinson, DPT ’10, was awarded Therapist of the Year 2011 by Concentra Inc. Not only has Carl consistently met market targets for productivity and revenue production, he has eagerly performed several educational training courses for local employers.

Taylor Underwood, B.A. communication studies and public relations /advertising ’12, has been hired as the special events assistant for Chapman University as he pursues his MBA. Kristen Vega, B.A. sociology ’12, will be moving to Denver to work with Campus Speak, a company that provides leadership speakers to college campuses across the nation.

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U Ajay Viswanathan, B.S. business administration ’12, recently relocated to New York City and is a Digital Group Intern at Fleishman-Hillard.

Amanda Vo, B.A. public relations and advertising /communication studies ’11, has been hired as a social media coordinator for DGWB Advertising and Communications, Orange County’s largest independent ad agency. Clients include Dole Fresh Fruit, KFC SoCal, Thermador, Toshiba American Business Solutions and Bard Valley Natural Delights Medjool Dates. William Walsh, BFA film production ’10, and Parker Howell just released a video shot at Burning Man, adapting the book Oh! The Places You’ll Go! by Dr. Seuss. In just a few days the video reached a half-million views at http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=ahv_1IS7SiE Katherine Wilcox, B.A. French and political science ’11, is moving to Detroit to work for Teach For America as she works on a master’s in education with an emphasis in Urban Studies at the University of Michigan. Greg Winkler, BFA creative producing ’12, spent a month this summer in Italy before starting work at American Honda Motor Co. in Torrance, Calif. Justine Zahara, MFA film and television producing ’12, will be returning to Chapman to earn her MBA. Sara Zotovich, BFA film studies ’10, recently landed a job working for the executive vice president of production for Paramount Animation.

Panthers on the Prowl Tom Elliott ’60 and Pat Elliott ’60 (M.A. ’74) recently enjoyed an 18-day Silversea Cruise from Bangkok to Dubai. When the cruise stopped in Cochin, India, the Elliotts got off and flew to New Delhi before taking a tour to Agra to see the Taj Mahal. Exploring one of the world’s wonders, especially at dawn, was “a fabulous experience,” the Elliotts said.

Friends We Will Miss Ruth Devine, B.A. liberal arts ’39, passed away April 3. Ruth cherished the time she spent with family and her many friends in church, the philanthropic organization PEO International and the League of Women Voters. Her husband, Chuck Devine ’41, passed away July 13. He was a past president of United Way of King County, Wash. Dwain Houser, B.A. political science ’59, passed away May 29 after a brief illness. He was a bishop in the Celtic Catholic Orthodox Church in Brea, Calif.

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Heather Huntington, B.A. English ’79, passed away Nov. 10, 2011. She earned her degree in media rhetoric, a three-fold major combining communications, journalism and literature. One of Heather’s fondest memories of college was her Semester at Sea experience, which confirmed her love of the ocean and ignited her passion for traveling. Heather pursued post-graduate work in information science at USC, UCLA and Simmons College in Boston. Margaret Silva, B.A. sociology ’39, passed away Feb. 2, 2011, at age 95. She was born April 12, 1915, and lived most of her life in Fullerton, Calif. She had moved to a retirement home in Placentia, and finally to Watsonville, Calif., in 2005 to be closer to family.

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‘A Redemptive Experience’ By Dawn Bonker

Returning to Chapman as an honoree, the Rev. Paul Nagano ’42 recalls a dark period in U.S. history and speaks of the faith that helped him endure.

n 1941, Paul Nagano ’42 was a carefree student at then-Chapman College, enjoying pranks with his fraternity brothers, studying theology and playing basketball on a squad that was “too short to play varsity.” That life quickly ended after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, and in 1942 Nagano was incarcerated in a relocation camp by the U.S. government. It meant an early end to his senior year — no grad week antics with friends, no place in the traditional Commencement procession. But deep in the Arizona desert where Nagano and his family were interned, a package arrived — Nagano’s diploma from Chapman.

“I received my bachelor of arts degree, sent to me in the wilderness camp. It was a total surprise, but meant a great deal for me to be remembered,” Nagano said.

Paul Nagano’s senior year at Chapman abruptly ended after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941 and the U.S. government sent him to a relocation camp in the Arizona desert.

On Saturday, May 19, the Rev. Nagano, Ph.D., was remembered again by his alma mater, Chapman University, when he was presented an honorary doctorate at the Commencement ceremony for Wilkinson College of Humanities and Social Sciences. It was his first visit to the Orange campus, having attended Chapman when it was in Los Angeles. “It’s very exciting,” Nagano said, speaking days before Commencement from Atherton Baptist Homes in Alhambra, Calif., where he resides and serves as a chaplain. “It’s a redemptive experience, because to have your education interrupted and go into a concentration camp, it’s kind of disappointing.” Disappointment is just about the harshest word the 92-year-old Nagano has for the internment experience that interrupted the lives of nearly 120,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans during World War II. He recalled tense moments in the days after Pearl Harbor, including a scuffle in a diner with an angry man who called him “a damn Jap,” as well as detainment by police when he was visiting two Baptist missions he served in Japanese neighborhoods near Los Angeles Harbor and Terminal Island. By spring he was in Poston internment camp. But he says his faith, work and even the process of writing his doctoral dissertation helped him rebuild and mend his life. “Because I was in service to God, I was able to handle it,” he said. Nagano was allowed to leave the camp to attend Bethel Baptist Seminary in Minnesota so he could enlist in the Army as a chaplain, but the war ended before he completed his degree. After earning the degree he went on to a successful career in ministry, serving congregations in Los Angeles, Hawaii, Seattle, Oakland and elsewhere in Northern California. He earned his doctorate at the Claremont School of Theology. There Nagano spent a year of intense study on the subject of race, ethnicity and identity. The process helped him resolve the questions that “haunted” him after the war and internment, he says. “In our world, we have to learn to live with diversity. In this diversity, life becomes much more interesting and exciting. Not only interracial, but interfaith, too.”

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PARTING SHOT

Tess Pocock ’13 gravitates toward The Levitation of the Enchanted Princess, the metal sculpture by artist Tony DeLap that traverses the lawn south of Leatherby Libraries. Pocock is a double major in creative producing and philosophy, with a minor in women’s studies. She plans to pursue a career in entertainment law. (Photo by Jeanine Hill)

save the dates! American Celebration, Nov. 2–3

Economic Forecast 2013, Nov. 28

There’s a lot to roar about during this larger-thanever kickoff to Homecoming Month. Included are student socials, a Big Band Champagne Brunch, Chapman Toyota of Orange 5K Run/Walk, Tailgate with ChiliFest, plus the first SCIAC Homecoming football game.

Always one of Southern California’s most highly anticipated events, this Broadway-style revue features dazzling entertainment by more than 100 students from Chapman’s acclaimed College of Performing Arts. Proceeds benefit Chapman’s General Scholarship Fund.

Hosted by Chapman’s Anderson Center for Economic Research, this nationally recognized report looks ahead to the coming year in the Orange County, California and U.S. economies. Make plans to attend at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa.

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Homecoming and Family Weekend, Oct. 5–7