Town & Gown
TALK President’s Message Happy New Year! The calendar has turned another page and we are nearly half way through our Lunch at the Forum season for 2013– 2014. I suspect resolutions have been made and many already broken but, I can tell you for sure that the resolution of our board and membership remains 46 years strong. Town & Gown is such a remarkable, creative, dedicated group of individuals our members - determined to represent and champion Chapman University in every way possible! Of course, the easiest way to strengthen and support this fine organization is to bring someone to the Forum luncheons and introduce them to the outstanding lineup of professors and students who share with us new knowledge and insight from all their deliberate learning. Looking back, we had quite a year celebrating our 45th Anniversary of supporting the university. We raised over $10,000 with our Fund Our Scholar campaign, which was allocated directly to our student scholarship endowment fund, helping deserving students who might not otherwise be able to continue their educations. As members we can take pride in knowing that our endowment will provide student scholarships into perpetuity. Growing our endowed scholarship demonstrates that we value investing in these bright young minds, in this university and into the future. Thanks for being a member!
Penni McRoberts President
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Lunch at the Forum Twentieth Season Continues with Can’t Help Singing and Chapman Filmed Entertainment: The Real Business Kicking off the second half of our Lunch at the Forum season on February 6, is Jeralyn Refeld, Inaugural Holder of the William Hall Visiting Professorship and voice instructor at the Hall-Musco Conservatory of Music, College of Performing Arts. Through words and music, Professor Refeld will present Can’t Help Singing that explores a personal and authentic look at Broadway greats, featuring stories and songs by Gershwin, Cole Porter, Lerner and Loewe, Kurt Weill and Stephen Sondheim. This great legacy of songs is sure to please, inspire and entertain. Ms. Refeld has presented her show to audiences in Europe and California and has enjoyed a professional career of over 20 years on Broadway and many of the great opera and concert stages of the world. Christoph Weinhart from Wurzburg, Germany, will accompany her on the piano. On March 6, Travis Knox ’93, producer and adjunct faculty at Dodge College of Film and Media Arts will speak on Chapman Filmed Entertainment: The Business of the Business. With students interested in the business of entertainment at increasing rates, more and more universities are starting film programs. Dodge College has consistently risen in the national rankings, breaking the top ten for the first time in 2012, but won’t be content until it reaches the top of the list. Dodge College recently launched an initiative that’s unique among all film schools: Chapman Filmed Entertainment has completed production on a thriller, Trigger, its first for-profit feature film heavily crewed by alumni and students. Come hear Chapman graduate and producer Travis Knox first try to answer the age-old question: “What exactly does a producer do?” before sharing stories about this collision of academia and Hollywood. You won’t want to miss the second half or our season and the first two programs. I look forward to seeing you at each luncheon. Linda Ruth 1st VP, Programs
Where You There To Meet Marcia Clark? Town & Gown members and friends were invited to a special reception to meet and greet former Los Angeles District Attorney and bestselling author Marcia Clark, prior to attending her lecture in Memorial Hall. Marcia was one of the featured authors at Chapman University’s Big Orange Book Festival (BOB). Pictured with Marcia Clark are T&G members Nancy and Ray Fleeman.