RAPS club reports Upcoming programs Book Club chooses Le Guin novel We will meet at 1:30 p.m. on May 15 in a historic home in Portland Heights, 1125 SW St. Clair Ave., (corner of St. Clair & Kings Court), where Felicia Wirtz will host us. Call Felicia at 503-628-2252 for directions and to RSVP. We will discuss Always Coming Home by Ursula K. Le Guin, a prolific Portland writer with Portland State connections. She is the winner of the National Book Award and the Nebula and Hugo awards for science fiction. The book is described on the back cover: Ursula K. Le Guin’s Always Coming Homeis a major work of the imagination from one of America’s most respected writers. More than five years in creation, it is a novel unlike any other. A rich and complex interweaving of story and fable, poem, artwork and music, it totally immerses the reader in the culture of the Kesh, a peaceful people of the far future who inhabit a place called the Valley on the Northern Pacific Coast. Ursula K. Le Guin makes the inhabitants of the Valley as familiar, as immediate, as wholly human as our own friends or family. Looking ahead, the selection for June is a nonfiction book, Blue Latitudes, written by Tony Horowitz. Come join us! —Mary Brannan Hikers go to the Gorge The Friday, May 25, hike will take us into the Columbia Gorge. It is Hike 17 in Hiking the Columbia River Gorge (second edition) by Russ Schneider and complements our 2006 paved-trail hike from Toothrock Trailhead to Cascade Locks by following the next western portion of Gorge Trail #400, from Toothrock/Bonneville (exit 40) to John B. Yeon State Scenic Corridor Trailhead (exit 37). The hike is rated as easy with a moderate elevation gain to Elowah Falls. We will car pool from the Gateway Transit Center with two cars. Meet at the transit center at 9 a.m. We will car shuttle between exits 40 and 37. Lunch will be at the Multnomah Falls Restaurant. —Larry Sawyer Bridge Group meets May 8 The next meeting of the RAPS Bridge Group will be at 1:00 p.m. on Tuesday, May 8; deadline for reserving a chair for the May 8 meeting was May 4. If you have questions about the group, please give me a call or send an email. My phone number is 503292-0838. Please note my new email address: colinkeld@gmail.com. —Colin Dunkeld May 17: ‘Escape from Nazi-Occupied Norway’ Our annual Ice Cream Social is Thursday, May 17, at 1:00 pm, in the Willamette Room at University Place, 310 SW Lincoln St. Our speaker will be Leif Terdal, Ph.D., clinical psychologist and professor emeritus at Oregon Health & Science University. He will provide a talk and slideshow entitled “Escape from Nazi-Occupied Norway: A Mother and Three Boys.” Escape involved a wintertime crossing of the North Sea to Scotland’s Shetland Islands in a small wooden boat. Leif will also talk about the Norwegian resistance. Leif is the husband of Marjorie Terdal, professor emerita of linguistics and RAPS president-elect. June 8: Willamette River cruise Mark your calendar for a special evening aboard Sternwheeler Rose with friends in RAPS, and meet new friends from the Friends of the Library. We sail from OMSI at 6:30 p.m. for two and a half hours on the Willamette. Boarding begins at 6:00 p.m. There is a barbecue chuck wagon buffet and a no-host bar. The Portland Rose Festival will be celebrating its centennial; the fleet will be in, as will several tall ships. Visit sternwheelerrose.comfor pictures and information about this vessel. RSVP is required. Costs are $42 per person or $80 per couple. Parking is at OMSI. Please complete the RSVP on the flyer. The boards of RAPS and FOL are interested in exploring shared ventures with other volunteer groups that support Portland State University. PSU organizations have varying missions and goals, but there are mutual interests as well—and being there for PSU is common to us all. August 10: Summer picnic Please hold August 10 for our annual RAPS Picnic, which will be in Portland’s Willamette Park. —Bob Tufts
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