![]() ![]() There’s ample gratification in live television, Chapman says. Her most embarrassing one was the day she put on ice skates (“I’m always sure I can do anything”) for a piece on the Ice Follies and went crashing into her microphone with the camera rolling during a live newscast.Īlthough Chapman’s early training was in print journalism, she has learned to exploit what television can do best, i.e., be first out with the news. Her biggest story in Portland was the eruption of Mount St. She returned to KWG as an anchor for two years. “Learning to be on television in a small market is probably much more painful for the viewers than for the person that is doing it,” she confesses with a smile.Īfter nine months in Tucson, she landed a job with KGW in Portland, Ore., where she stayed for four years as a reporter and then left for KRON in San Francisco for a year. Upon graduation, she took a television reporting job at KVOA in Tucson, Ariz. They thought she wanted to be a weather girl. Before she went to graduate school, Chapman remembers, she mentioned her broadcasting ambitions to colleagues in a summer clerical job. These were the days when local broadcasters were expanding news staffs and when women were scarce in the profession. The following year, she completed her master’s degree in journalism at UCLA. “Without question, she is the most honest, dependable and responsible student I have every taught,” she wrote.Ĭhapman went on to major in English literature at the University of California at Santa Barbara, graduating with high honors in 1972. Words she wrote years ago in recommending Chapman for a scholarship still hold true, she says. Marlene Schuessler, now assistant principal of the high school, said Chapman’s earnest willingness to learn and her equal ability made her a teacher’s dream. Her journalism teacher (Chapman was editor of the high school newspaper) took particular interest in the inquisitive and industrious student. That’s how he knew I wasn’t going to be a scientist.”īut if mathematics was a relative weakness, not many people noticed. “I don’t think my father has forgiven me to this day for getting a B in trigonometry. She graduated fifth in her class at Los Altos High School. Her parents always stressed the importance of striving for excellence. “I think my career is just an outgrowth of my interest in what goes on in the world.”Ĭhapman grew up in Los Altos, Calif., in the heart of Silicon Valley, where her father was a civil engineer. “Instead of reading two and three newspapers a day – which I do – because I’m a reporter and want to be well informed, I think I’m a reporter because I like to read two or three newspapers a day,” she says. ![]()
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