Building Character:

47 - Sep / Oct 11

David Currey
David Currey   When David Currey joined Chapman University as the school’s Director of Athletics in 1990, the former football coach had officially retired from coaching. After 20 satisfying years coaching the football teams at Stanford University, Long... Read More →

46 - Jul / Aug 11

Dr. Marilyn Harran
Director, Rodgers Center for Holocaust Education
Dr. Marilyn Harran In 1976, during her first year teaching at Barnard College, Columbia University, Marilyn Harran spent many hours in her office writing her dissertation. As she worked late into the night, the school’s... Read More →

45 - May / Jun 11

Dr. Paul Apodaca
Dr. Paul Apodaca   In the mid–1950s, when Paul Apodaca opened up his history book at Tustin Elementary school and read that California Indians were extinct, the Native American Indian felt understandably puzzled. Thinking about the Indian... Read More →

44 - Mar / Apr 11

Chef Jim Douglas
Chef Jim Douglas   In the mid–1960s when Jim Douglas stood on tiptoe at the kitchen counter and pinched perogies for his Grandma Helen, she thought she was simply keeping the five–year–old busy making the dumplings from... Read More →

43 - Dec 10 / Jan 11

Dr. William Hall
Dr. William Hall   At the age of 3, Dr. William Hall, Dean of Chapman University's College of Performing Arts, decided that he wanted to be a concert pianist. With that goal in mind, he practiced for... Read More →

42 - Sept / Oct 10

Drs. Smith & Rassenti
Dr. Vernon Smith & Dr. Stephen Rassenti   One of Vernon Smith’s earliest memories involves fixing a broken clock. “I was under the age of six at the time, and I vividly remember the thrill of taking apart... Read More →

41 - Jun / Jul 10

Dr. Esmael Adibi
Dr. Esmael Adibi   In the early 1970s, when Esmael Adibi took a college entrance exam in his native Iran and the results determined he would major in economics, Chapman’s Director of the A. Gary Anderson Center for... Read More →

40 - Apr / May 10

Dean Bob Bassett
Dean Bob Bassett   Today if Bob Bassett were to grade the first film he created, the professor and dean of Chapman University’s renowned Dodge College of Film and Media Arts would have probably given himself a poor mark.... Read More →

39 - Feb / Mar 10

Dr. James Doti
Dr. James Doti Listen to James Doti speak and you’ll be surprised to find that he once struggled with a serious speech impediment. “It wasn’t until I was 7 or 8 years old that I began communicating... Read More →

38 - Nov / Dec 09

Dr. John C. Eastman
Dr. John C. Eastman   When Dr. John C. Eastman joined Chapman University in 1999 as a professor of law, he had no intenions of becoming Dean of the University’s School of Law. After the... Read More →