UCI Professor to Give Orphanage Lecture
UC Irvine professor Richard McKenzie, who spent his childhood in an orphanage and recounted the experience in his memoir, “The Home,” will speak at Chapman University on April 22.
His talk, called “Effective American Compassion: Private Orphanages,” will address the return of private orphanages and the public policy issues relating to their resurgence.
The free event is sponsored by the Henry Salvatori Foundation. It begins at 11 a.m. in the university’s Waltmar Theatre, 333 N. Glassell St.
Information: (714) 997-6611.
--BY LESLEY WRIGHT, MIMI KO CRUZ AND JOHN CANALIS
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