It begins on a mid-August Monday in a neighborhood of this revitalized city that’s mostly sleeping out the heat. Fifteen high school students – nine girls and six boys, all African Americans – signed up for this...
Alumni play a pivotal role at Disneyland, where innovators are always in demand
At age 3, Jean-Eric Khalife ’08 spent hours playing Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on his friend’s Nintendo. Even then, he was preparing for the professional life he now leads. These days, Khalife...
Laura Farinella ’86 has been on the job as Laguna Beach’s first woman police chief just since March, but her personal “road show” is quickly educating her about this artsy...
An educator who first dreamed of becoming a football coach has now scored a high-profile award as a school district administrator. Gregory Franklin (M.A. ’91) was named 2014 California...
Cruz Medina (M.A./MFA ’08) has developed an appreciation for California’s diversity awareness. “I had the benefit of growing up in a progressive state in schools that...
Eliana Moreno ’10 didn’t envision herself hovering over millions of Southern Californians, but at age 11 she already knew she wanted to be a TV news reporter. The bird’s-eye view is just a perk of the job. Since...
This story appeared in the spring 2015 issue of Chapman Magazine 1970s Tina Costantino-Lane, B.A. multiple subjects ’77, graduated from the doctoral program in educational leadership at Azusa Pacific University and...
To discover what alumni of Opera Chapman have been up to lately, look no further than what some of the critics have been saying. Of tenor Daniel Curran ’08, The New York Times wrote that his performance in the title...
The first two days had been a breeze, but lack of sleep eventually started catching up with Rick Eisleben as in spring 1969 he continuously spun vinyl in the broadcast booth of what was then called Radio Chapman...
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