— 7 — Book Club: ‘People of the Book’ on March 17 The RAPS Book Club will meet on Tuesday, March 17, at 1:30 p.m. to discuss People of the Book, a novel by Geraldine Brooks. The meeting will at the Brannans’ house, 6901 SE Oaks Park Way, Slip No. 13, Portland. Please call Mary Brannan at 503-239-1077 or e-mail brannanmg@comcast.net to RSVP and for directions. People of the Book is described on the slip cover: In 1996, a rare book expert is offered the job of a lifetime: analysis and conservation of a mysterious, beautifully illuminated Hebrew manuscript created in fifteenth-century Spain and recently saved from destruction during the shelling of Sarajevo’s libraries. When Hanna Heath, a caustic Aussie loner with a passion for her work, discovers a series of tiny artifacts in the book’s ancient binding—an insect-wing fragment, wine stains, salt crystals, a white hair—she begins to unlock the mysteries of the book’s eventful past and to uncover the dramatic stories of those who created it and those who risked everything to protect it. BridgeGroup: Meets on March 10 The RAPS Bridge Group meets at 1:00 p.m. on the second Tuesday of each month. For information about the group or this month’s meeting, please call Colin Dunkeld, 503-292-0838. —Colin Dunkeld Hikers: Welcoming new members The hiking group is open to everyone. With a few exceptions, our core is mostly present or past board members, but this is by happenstance, not intention. Our hikes are social events, usually involving lunch afterwards. Our pace and distance are adjusted for the slowest hiker. If you are interested in joining, please contact the hikers’ coordinator, Larry Sawyer, at 503771-1616 or larry_sawyer@comcast.net. The RAPS Web site has a photo section containing several pictures of our past hikes. View them at www.raps.pdx.edu/ photo_gallery_ndx.php. The March hike will be Friday, March 20. We will meet at 9:30 a.m. in West Linn’s new Fields Bridge Park, which includes a paved interpretive trail on the Ice Age floods and Willamette Meteorite. This will be a suburban ramble along Willamette Falls Drive, using sidewalks and a few short shoulder walks, into the historic Willamette district, down to the confluence of the Willamette and Tualatin Rivers, and return. It is about four miles with 150 feet of elevation change. Lunch will be in the historic district. Please confirm by March 19 with Bob Tufts at 503-657-7216 or bobtufts@comcast.net. Directions: Take I-205 to Exit 6 (Tenth Street in West Linn), turn south to Willamette Falls Drive, and turn right for 1.2 miles. Turn left into the parking lot before the baseball fields. —Larry Sawyer RAPS club reports PAST TENSE ‘The Portland Review’ is founded in 1956 In the spring of 1956, Richard Sanders (center) was a founder and the first editor of the student literary quarterly, The Portland State Review of Student Writing, which evolved into The Portland Review. Prof. James Lill, English, served as faculty adviser. The other Reviewfounders were Don Carpenter (left), who become a successful novelist and screenwriter, and Richard J. Kennedy (right), author of the award-winning children’s novel Amy’s Eyes. In 2006—a half century later—Sanders was the spark behind another literary endeavor, a book chronicling the growth and development of Portland State. Over the next three years, he researched and wrote the text for Portland State: A History in Pictures, which celebrates the institution’s transformation from extension center to the largest university in the state. The book is currently in press, with delivery expected this spring. In the five decades between The Portland State Reviewand Portland State: A History in Pictures, Sanders taught high school English, journalism, and speech, wrote and edited textbooks, worked in public affairs for the California Department of Social Welfare, and became a speechwriter for governors in California and Oregon. He died Feb. 9 in Portland at the age of 77. —Dawn White 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.
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