Original Chapman home ranch packing house, Santa Ysabel, California, ca. 1900

Original Chapman home ranch packing house, Santa Ysabel, California, ca. 1900. [copy print]

Charles C. Chapman and Ethel Chapman Wickett at a birthday picnic for Charles C. Chapman at Orange County Park, California, July 2, 1937

Charles C. Chapman and Ethel Chapman Wickett at a birthday picnic for Charles C. Chapman at Orange County Park, California, July 2, 1937. [Copy an excerpt of CCCF27]

Charles C. Chapman, Ethel Chapman Wickett and Stanley Chapman at Orange County Park, 1937

Charles C. Chapman, Ethel Chapman Wickett and Stanley Chapman at birthday picnic for Charles C. Chapman at Orange County Park, California, July 2, 1937.

Vern Ummel and Irvin C. (Ernie) Chapman at the Chapman College 124th Anniversary, 1985.

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

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]

Stan and Carol Chapman stand behind Edy and Ernie Chapman

Chapman College trustees, left to right [above] Stan and Carol Chapman; [seated] Edy and Ernie Chapman at a dinner event.

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.

Coach Ken Visser, Matt Hertzler and; Ernie Chapman

Football coach Ken Visser, Matt Hertzler and Ernie Chapman. Hertzler was awarded ESPN the Magazine Academic All-District VIII Offensive line in 1997 and All-American Offensive Line in 1997 and 1998.

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.