—5— RAPS club reports Hikers repriseWillamette walk Our February hike will be a repeat of one we did a few years ago. Meet at 9:30 a.m. in Willamette Park on Friday, February 22, for a walk along the west bank of the Willamette to River Place. We will have lunch at a restaurant in River Place before walking back to Willamette Park. There is a hiking/cycling paved path along the riverbank. We will pass new condos and the new OHSU facility at the base of the tram and some bronze artwork. Estimated distance is five or six miles on a level, paved pathway. The March 28 hike will be in the Hoyt Arboretum. We are hoping some early flowering trees will be in bloom. We are considering a hike along the Old Columbia River Highway through the Mosier Tunnels this summer. More information on these and other hikes will be in future editions of The RAPS Sheet. Confirm your February hike participation to Larry Sawyer by Thursday, Feb. 21. Phone 503-771-1616 or e-mail larry_sawyer@comcast.net. Five hikers and two dogs braved the cold on Jan. 25 for a short hike on Mt. Tabor. Mt. Tabor has several viewpoints overlooking downtown Portland and a handful of mountain viewpoints. While hiking we met fellow RAPS member Mary Kinnick, who is a member of a volunteer group that walks and polices the grounds of the park. We had an economical lunch at a Chinese restaurant at SE 82nd and Division. —Larry Sawyer Book Clubchews on ’The LemonTree’ The RAPS Book Club will meet on Tuesday, Feb. 19, at the home of Maxine Thomas, 6535 SW Canyon Court, in Portland. Contact her at 503-291-1279 to RSVP and for directions. We will discuss The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East, written by Sandy Tolan, who has written for more than 40 magazines and newspapers, including the New York Times Magazine. He has produced several radio documentaries for NPR and PRI. The Lemon Tree, which is a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist, is described on the jacket: In 1967, Bashir Khairi, a twenty-fiveyear-old Palestinian, journeyed to Israel PAST TENSE The Auditory Rehabilitation Mobile In 1972 an audiology project was launched at Portland State that became a prototype for the nation. A mobile hearing testing van was built with funds from the Kresge Foundation and the Administration on Aging. Aimed at low-income aging persons in the tri-county area, this unique community service project was conceived of and led by James Maurer, Ph.D., Speech Hearing Sciences Program. Project ARM was staffed by SPH Program faculty and graduate students who tested and rehabilitated thousands of hearing-impaired older persons in the tri-county area over a period of nearly 20 years. Past Tense features glimpses into Portland State’s history. To submit a story (or an idea for one), email the RAPS History Preservation Committee at raps@pdx.edu. Left to right: Arthur Fleming, U.S. commissioner on Aging and former UO president; Marion Hughes, head of Oregon Program on Aging; James McCartney, audiologist; and Prof. James Maurer, Speech and Hearing Sciences. with the goal of seeing the beloved old stone house with the lemon tree behind it that he and his family had fled nineteen years earlier. To his surprise, when he found the house he was greeted by Dalia Eshkenazi Landau, a nineteen-year-old Israeli college student, whose family fled continued on page 6 RAPS hikers paused during their Jan. 25 hike on Mt. Tabor. From left to right: Bob Vogelsang; Maxine Thomas; Bob Tufts; Bob Vogelsang’s daughter, Suzanne Bengel (with her dogs, Fiona and Jack); and Larry Sawyer.
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