[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 11]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages 15389-15390]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




        A TRIBUTE TO HONOR THE LIFE OF RICHARD F. CHAPMAN, M.D.

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                           HON. ANNA G. ESHOO

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                       Friday, November 16, 2012

  Ms. ESHOO. Mr. Speaker, I rise to honor the life of an extraordinary 
man, Dr. Richard F. Chapman, who passed away on October 12, 2012, in 
Menlo Park, California, after decades of living and adjusting to life 
with multiple sclerosis.
  Dr. Chapman was the son of a pediatrician whose father was a 
Congregational Church minister with deep roots in Old Saybrook, 
Connecticut. His mother graduated from Vassar and taught mathematics. 
Dr. Chapman graduated from Yale University, as did his two brothers, 
Rob and Ned, and he received his M.D. from Northwestern University in 
1959.
  Following his internship at Highland Hospital in Alameda County, 
California, he took his residency training in psychiatry at the 
Menninger School of Psychiatry. Dr. Chapman served as a Captain in the 
U.S. Army at Fort Sill where he developed a program of group mental 
health consultation that was used as a model for the delivery of mental 
health services to U.S. forces in Vietnam.
  He moved to the Bay Area in 1966 with his young family and 
established a private practice, helping to found one of the first 
approved psychiatry training programs within a community mental health 
center. The center was an early model for the national community mental 
health center movement. He later became a clinical professor of 
psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University.
  He served as President of the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute, 
and later as Dean of Faculty of the Pacific Graduate School of 
Psychology, now known as Palo Alto University. He was known by many for 
his soft spoken manner, his enthusiastic laugh, and more than anything 
else his ability to inspire and encourage those around him to pursue 
their dreams, hopes and aspirations.
  He leaves his loving daughter, Karen, who cared for him daily with 
great devotion for the last several years of his life, and his dear son 
Eric (Sarah) Chapman; his grandchildren, Ryan, Katie and Jack; his 
brother, Robert, and

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sister-in-law, Virginia; his nieces, Lucia and Sarah (Barry); his 
nephew, Robert (Laurie); as well as his devoted caregivers, Mercedes, 
Mildred, Marcia and Ricky.
  Mr. Speaker, I ask my colleagues to join me in extending our 
condolences to Dr. Chapman's family, and honoring this great and good 
man who gave so much of himself in service to his country and his 
community. He will be missed by all who had the good fortune to know 
him, and I count myself privileged to be among that special group.

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