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Goal is $250
$675 donated
Please join me and my father in spirit for the 2025 Mt. Eisenhower Hike for Mental Health.
Mr. Chapman was an Ivy League-educated scholar, an All-American swimmer, and a loving father of three young children who was diagnosed with schizophrenia in 1966 while working on his thesis in Greek at the University of Michigan. After he lost his ability to thrive, he lost his career, his family and his future. My father was taken away from us while we were still a very young family. But I reunited with him later in life and became his guardian in 2009, managing all aspects of his person and estate. A multitude of healthcare professionals over the years enabled him to preserve what little of his dignity remained. Mr. Chapman passed away in May 2025 at the age of 88 after nearly 60 years of institutionalization.
In his youth, Mr. Chapman was an avid outdoorsperson. He was a camp counselor at several camps in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New Hampshire. Throughout high school and college, he excelled in soccer, swimming and other sports. He twice qualified as an All-American swimmer and set numerous scholastic records in the individual medley, butterfly and backstroke events.
Mr. Chapman specialized in classical history and languages. After earning his Masters in Latin at Columbia University he attended the Virgilian School in Italy and the Institute for Classical Studies in Athens, Greece. In his early career he taught at the Lawrenceville School in New Jersey and was the Chairman of the Classical Languages departments at the Maumee Country Day School in Ohio and later at Episcopal Academy in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania. He also coached soccer and tennis and was involved in numerous community and professional associations before his illness overtook any hope for his future. Mr. Chapman’s obituary is located at legacy.com here: https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/legacyremembers/alfred-chapman-obituary?id=58634946
Please help me raise awareness of the impact of serious mental illness on families and help to eradicate the stigma by supporting Hike for Mental Health.
Thank you.
1 in 4 families is affected by mental illness.
HIKE for Mental Health is a recognized 501(c)(3) nonprofit founded on the vision of a world in which everyone, including those who suffer mental illness, can find the simple joy of living.
Our mission is to alleviate the suffering of those afflicted by mental illness, eliminate the associated stigma, and foster responsible use of wilderness trails.
As an all-volunteer organization, we distribute 100% of contributions raised by our hikes.
- 80% funds scientific research to understand and treat mental illness
- 20% conserves national wilderness trails
Your donations are tax-deductible to the fullest extent allowed by the IRS. Thank you for your support.
Want to join a hike yourself? Visit our hike schedule.
Donations
Chapman-King Trust
$100
Thanks for raising awareness. Keep on trekking & hope you have great experience.
Joan
$50
Frank Mynar and Laura McGeorge
$100
Good luck, Hank. We wish we were there to hike with you.
Betty Lou Thompson
$200.
Thinking of you and this very important and personal cause.
Janice Kosel
$25
Tricia Braunlich
$50
Hank, you are just awesome!
Chris Thompson
$100
It’s wonderful how you are honoring him, Hank. Thank you for letting us be part of it. I hope to see you soon someday.
Leslie Siebert
$50
