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ANOTHER YEAR OF CHAPMAN SUCCESSES
Consider food pantries. They’re not high-tech. They don’t
quarterly health screenings at this facility are primarily
There’s also a Chapman Humanities and Arts in Medicine
grab headlines. Yet they represent an important part of what focused on the homeless populations in downtown Tallahassee. Program, which is expected to complete work on a Chapman
the College of Medicine teaches: compassion. As second-year The people who attend are always so sweet and appreciative.” Memorial Garden by summer 2020.
student Shanquell Dixon said, there’s a lot to learn from
There are Chapman Scholarships for Humanism, which
Through 2019, the various Chapman funds have contributed
the food pantry that M.D. students help maintain at the reward students for their compassionate care. In fact, nearly $700,000 to the College of Medicine. So numerous are
Maryland Oaks Crossing transitional housing community: the recipients are chosen primarily by the med school’s the funds and associated projects that, in 2019, an advisory
standardized patients – the people who know firsthand how board was created to coordinate the five largest ones and
personal relationships with the Maryland Oaks residents, getting these physicians-in-training treat their patients. The 2019 maximize the good they can do.
to laugh with them, see how life is treating them since I last saw scholarships went to Dixon and to Garrett Barr (Class of Also in late 2019, Chapman paid the way for 14 students
them, learn what foods or brands they like, and what they may ’22), Barry Bradley (’21), Beau Billings (’21), Elizabeth to attend a Chapman Conference hosted by the University of
be planning to cook that week with the food. I knew who would Hull Dennison (’21, two-time recipient), Shelby Hartwell Central Florida, which has its own Chapman chapter. Said
be getting the food for what family, I knew who would bring (’21, two-time recipient), Brittany Jonap (’22), Akshita Watson, the Chapman trustee: “To see all these humanistic,
their brown paper bags back for us to reuse, I knew who would Madala (’21), Shani Peter (’21), Abigail Schirmer (’22) and enthusiastic, upbeat students from all over the place doing
want the random bag of coffee or box of cookies I happened to Alexis Spangler (’22). these projects was inspirational.”
“My favorite part of the food pantry is the ability to build
find in the pantry while organizing the shelves, and I knew who
may need a little extra of a particular food item. Food has this
incredible ability to bring people together.”
Dixon is a community affairs director for the Chapman
Community Health Project – which is the best-known of the
growing family of Chapman funds. All of them spring from
the Jules B. Chapman, M.D., and Annie Lou Chapman
Private Foundation, overseen by Trustee and College of
Medicine Professor Robert Watson. And all of them celebrate
medical humanism – qualities such as compassion and empathy.
CCHP’s primary focus is supporting the medical students’
many and varied activities at Maryland Oaks. But that’s not
its only project.
“One of the moments that I most enjoyed was the November
2019 health screening at Grace Mission Episcopal Church,”
said Blaire Cote, CCHP’s co-executive director. “Our