Dr. Vernon Stauffer [left] on the California Christian College campus, Los Angeles, California, 1921

Dr. Vernon Stauffer [left], Dean and Professor of New Testament and Church History and unidentified on the California Christian College campus [later Chapman College], Los Angeles, California, 1921.

Dr. Vernon Stauffer, first dean of California Christian College, Los Angeles, California

Seated outside the building entrance is Dr. Vernon Stauffer, first dean of California Christian College, Los Angeles, California, ca. 1921. [Later Chapman College]

Irvin [Ernie] Clarke Chapman in California Christian College football uniform. Los Angeles, California, 1930

Irvin [Ernie] Clarke Chapman in football uniform on the campus of California Christian College, Los Angeles, California, 1930.

Unidentified man on the campus of California Christian College, Los Angeles

Unidentified man in cap and gown on the campus of California Christian College, Los Angeles, in the 1920s.

Ruth Knox Dowling Chapman, California Christian College, Los Angeles, California, 1921

Ruth Knox Dowling Chapman, wife of George Arthur Chapman, by steps of a building at California Christian College [Chapman College], Los Angeles, California, 1921.

Christian Church member at pulpit; Chapman College Chapel, Orange, California

Chapman College Chapel, Orange, California. The wooden-shingled church, constructed in 1909 for the congregation of Trinity Episcopal Church, is located on the northeast corner of East Maple Avenue and North Grand Street. Chapman College (now Chapman University) purchased the church for their chapel when the congregation moved to a new church on Canal Street.