Doti has a passion beyond Chapman

You may think you know James Doti. But the secret Doti needs a shed. Of course, he was president of Chapman University for 25 years, elevating the sleepy Christian college to a university with more than 8,000 students while raising tens of millions of dollars. You may know that Doti stepped down as president and went back to teaching economics at Chapman. He s also semifamously a marathon runner and mountain climber. The thing you might not know is that he loves to make wooden bowls and even invented the Doti Bowl. He uses a lathe and a bandsaw and a medieval-looking implement called a gouge. With these tools and a lot of patience, he finds the beauty inside a homely chunk of wood. For a couple of hours a week, between walking Angel, the rescue German shepherd, and cooking pasta dinner for wife Lynne, Doti makes wooden bowls. This hobby requires a shed. It bears little resemblance to the sheds where most people keep their yard tools, but it is indeed a shed. When Doti started turningspace from a local carpenter who had a wood shop. But then the carpenter moved, so Doti had to have a space of his own.