Chapman University

A major serving of inspiration accompanied a luncheon last week at Big Canyon Country Club. The Fashionable Women of Chapman University held a “Film Makers Luncheon,” welcoming some 100 guests in support of Chapman University and in particular the Dodge College of Film and Media Arts. This was, however, not just another ladies luncheon on the social circuit. Amid the well-dressed women were four young men who had been invited as the special guests to come and share their story of a life-changing adventure.

Local Assistance Leagues of Newport Mesa and Orange are joining with ACT Today! to bring a groundbreaking film on autism to Chapman University at 6 p.m. Saturday. Founded by Dr. Doreen Granpeesheh, ACT Today! (Autism care and treatment today) is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to increase access to effective autism treatments. The film — “RECOVERED: Journeys Through the Autism Spectrum and Back” — is produced by Granpeesheh, who will be on hand along with award-winning actor Lou Diamond Phillips for the event.

        Newport Beach residents Michael McCarthy and Walter Schindler are among a panel of Orange County’s brightest “green” minds brought together by Toshiba to judge its second-annual Toshiba Green Innovations Awards on Oct. 1, 2008.           The press release below features more information on the awards, for which the submission deadline has been newly extended to Sept. 19, 2008.           Here’s a little more information about Michael McCarthy and Walter Schindler:           Michael McCarthy, President & CEO, Hobbs Institute (Chapman University)

Newport Harbor High School: The  two voted "most athletic guy and girl" of Newport Harbor, Kyle Caldwell and Cassidy Gayner, are CIF finalists in two different sports, but choose to  stay close to home at UCLA and Chapman University, respectively. Kyle is the grandchild of legendary George Yardley and Cassidy is the daughter of Scott Gayner (Daily Pilot Hall of Fame from Estancia) who played football for Chapman in 1980 and was taught by Jim Doti. Theme: We have the best college schools (and ranked tops)

Adams Elementary School is the latest Newport-Mesa Unified School District campus to take a seat in the dunk booth. TeWinkle Middle School could use the break. As the Costa Mesa school most often targeted by disgruntled parents, TeWinkle needs the time to come up for air and towel off. But the persistent question — most recently pressed by the parent collective known as the Mesa Verde Education Committee — remains: Can the district improve under-performing schools in Costa Mesa?

COSTA MESA — Chapman University officials predicted a recession in 2008 at their annual economic forecast conference, with drops in construction and consumer spending and a glut of unsold homes on the market. Chapman President James Doti, in a slide presentation before about 2,000 people, said the United States economy was clearly headed for a slump next year and that the figures for the current year were more discouraging than the university predicted last December. Exporting, he said, continued to bring in healthy revenues for the U.S., but most other categories were in free fall.

COSTA MESA — Chapman University officials predicted a recession in 2008 at their annual economic forecast conference, with drops in construction and consumer spending and a glut of unsold homes on the market. Chapman President James Doti, in a slide presentation before about 2,000 people, said the United States economy was clearly headed for a slump next year and that the figures for the current year were more discouraging than the university predicted last December. Exporting, he said, continued to bring in healthy revenues for the U.S., but most other categories were in free fall.