{"id":1406,"date":"2018-09-27T22:04:59","date_gmt":"2018-09-27T22:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogschapman.wpenginepowered.com\/community-relations\/2018\/09\/27\/chapman-family-homecoming-celebration-a-salute-to-hometown-heroes\/"},"modified":"2018-09-27T22:04:59","modified_gmt":"2018-09-27T22:04:59","slug":"chapman-family-homecoming-celebration-a-salute-to-hometown-heroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/community-relations\/2018\/09\/27\/chapman-family-homecoming-celebration-a-salute-to-hometown-heroes\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapman Family Homecoming Celebration \u2013 A Salute to Hometown Heroes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the weekend of October 11-13, Chapman University will be celebrating its annual <strong>Chapman<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Family Homecoming Celebration<\/strong>. The schedule of events includes the grand opening of the Keck Center for Science and Engineering, distinguished alumni awards, faculty master classes, the annual chili cook-off, homecoming football game, and so much more! Registration and the full event schedule can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chapman.edu\/homecoming\">chapman.edu\/homecoming<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This year, in accordance with the theme, \u201cA Salute to Hometown Heroes,\u201d Chapman is supporting two non-profit organizations: <a href=\"https:\/\/workingwardrobes.org\/\">Working Wardrobes<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/amillionthanks.org\/\">A Million Thanks<\/a>. Working Wardrobes\u2019 mission is to help men, women, young adults, and veterans prepare for the workforce by providing wardrobe services, career workshops, and job placement assistance. Since the organization was founded in 1990, they have helped nearly 95,000 people. A Million Thanks supports both active and veteran men and women by sending letters and granting wishes, in addition to providing scholarships for higher education for their children.<\/p>\n<h3>How to get Involved<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Join the Chapman Family at the Hometown Heroes picnic lunch on Saturday, October 13th at 11:30am on Memorial Lawn to<strong> donate your professional clothing, shoes, and accessories<\/strong>.\u00a0All sizes are needed.\n<ul>\n<li>Men\u2019s clothing: suits, suit jackets, dress shirts, dress pants, dress shoes, dress socks, ties, bents, cufflinks.<\/li>\n<li>Women\u2019s clothing: suits, blazers, dress pants, blouses, skirts, dresses, cardigans, dress shoes, handbags, jewelry, scarves<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Stop by to <strong>write a note of thanks<\/strong> to a service member or first responder. We\u2019ll provide all the supplies!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Free Admission for Neighbors!<\/h3>\n<p>Neighbors are invited to use the coupon code <strong><em>orange<\/em> <\/strong>and register online to waive the $10 registration fee for an array of Homecoming activities. (Some<br \/>\nevents and food items have an additional charge, but there is a free continental-style breakfast Saturday morning for those who have registered.) Register now at <a href=\"http:\/\/chapman.edu\/homecoming\">chapman.edu\/homecoming<\/a>!<\/p>\n<h3>Can&#8217;t Make the Event? Drop off your donations beforehand!<\/h3>\n<p>Various locations will be accepting donations on campus from Wednesday, October 10 through Friday, October 12.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Office of Community Relations<\/em>, 332 N. Olive Street<\/li>\n<li><em>Elliott Alumni House<\/em>, 204 N. Olive Street<\/li>\n<li><em>Veterans Resource Center<\/em>, 526 N. Shaffer Street<\/li>\n<li><em>Admissions Office<\/em>, Argyros Forum &#8211; 2nd Floor<\/li>\n<li><em>University Advancement<\/em>, 633 W. Palm<\/li>\n<li><em>Chapman Grand Residence Facility<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Please contact Alisa Driscoll in the Office of Community Relations at <a href=\"mailto:driscoll@chapman.edu\">driscoll@chapman.edu<\/a> for any questions.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Service Project to Benefit A Million Thanks &amp; Working Wardrobes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2658,"featured_media":1407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[221,143,222],"class_list":["post-1406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-events","tag-a-million-thanks","tag-homecoming","tag-working-wardrobes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/community-relations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/community-relations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/community-relations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/community-relations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2658"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/community-relations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/community-relations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/community-relations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/community-relations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/community-relations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/community-relations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}