Clara Irvin Chapman, Thurmond Clarke Memorial Library Heritage Room, Chapman College, Orange, California

Clara Irvin Chapman's last visit to the Chapman campus was in March, 1967 for the opening of the Thurmond Clarke Memorial Library. She is in the Heritage Room by a portrait of her late husband, Charles Clarke Chapman, for whom the college is named.

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.

Clara Irvin Chapman, Thurmond Clarke Memorial Library Heritage Room, Chapman College, Orange, California

Clara Irvin Chapman's last visit to the Chapman campus was in March, 1967 for the opening of the Thurmond Clarke Memorial Library. She is in the Heritage Room by a portrait of her late husband, Charles Clarke Chapman, for whom the college is named.

Clara Irvin Chapman, Thurmond Clarke Memorial Library Heritage Room, Chapman College, Orange, California

Clara Irvin Chapman's last visit to the Chapman campus was in March, 1967 for the opening of the Thurmond Clarke Memorial Library. She is in the Heritage Room of the library.

Chapman College Homecoming, Orange, California, 1978

Chapman College Homecoming, Orange, California, 1978. Left to right: Irvin "Ernie" Chapman, Agnes Burghardt, and Edy Chapman.

Chapman College Founders Day Banquet, Anaheim, California, 1968

Chapman College Founders Day Banquet, Anaheim Convention Center, Anaheim, California, 1968. Left to right: Myron Cole, Mrs. C. C. Chapman, and Arlene Reasnor Sayres [author of Chapman Remembers].

Cecilia and Randall Presley, Irvin C. "Ernie" Chapman, and C. James Beneley at a Chapman College event in 1983

Honorees [left to right] Cecilia and Randall Presley, Irvin C. "Ernie" Chapman, and C. James Beneley at a Chapman College event in 1983. Cecilia Presley is the granddaughter of Cecil B. DeMille. [Chapman Quarterly, Winter 1983]

Chapman College Alumni Trustees pose for a portrait on the campus in Orange, California

Chapman College Alumni Trustees pose for a portrait on the campus in Orange, California in the late 1980s. Left to right: James Roosevelt, A. Andrew Johnson, George Argyros, Harmon Wilkinson, Irvin C. Chapman and Myron Cole.

Clara Irvin Chapman, Thurmond Clarke Memorial Library Heritage Room, Chapman College, Orange, California

Clara Irvin Chapman's last visit to the Chapman campus was in March, 1967 for the opening of the Thurmond Clarke Memorial Library. She is in the Heritage Room by a portrait of her late husband, Charles Clarke Chapman, for whom the college is named.

Irvin C. (Ernie) Chapman at the Chapman College 124th Anniversary, Orange, California, March 4, 1985.

Irvin C. (Ernie) Chapman at the Chapman College 124th Anniversary, Orange, California, March 4, 1985.

Liz Lin and Irvin C. (Ernie) Chapman at the Chapman College 124th Anniversary, Orange, California, March 4, 1985

Liz Lin and Irvin C. (Ernie) Chapman at the Chapman College 124th Anniversary, Orange, California, March 4, 1985.

Irvin C. (Ernie) Chapman at the Chapman College 124th Anniversary, Orange, California, March 4, 1985.

Irvin C. (Ernie) Chapman at the Chapman College 124th Anniversary, Orange, California, March 4, 1985.

Irvin C. (Ernie) Chapman at the Chapman College 124th Anniversary, Orange, California, March 4, 1985.

Irvin C. (Ernie) Chapman at the Chapman College 124th Anniversary, Orange, California, March 4, 1985.

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.