—2— President’s Message It was great to see so many retired faculty and staff at the President’s luncheon on April 16. I particularly appreciated the continued optimism in President Wim Wiewel’s talk despite the mandated budget cuts. The audience cheered as Mary Gordon Brannan, professor emerita, Speech and Hearing Sciences, received the Award for Outstanding Retired Faculty, honoring her service to the University and community as well as to RAPS. I have been especially impressed with her work on the PSU pictorial history book. Members of the History Preservation Committee—Steve Brannan, Roger Moseley, and Gordon Solie—have certainly earned the awards they each received recognizing their years of work, culminating in the February program, Remembering PSU’s History. At the luncheon Bob Vogelsang announced the inauguration of the RAPS scholarship fund. The scholarship will be for juniors, seniors, and graduate students who are planning careers in gerontology and health-related specialties. The candidates will be nominated by the department chair, and the fund will not be endowed at first to allow RAPS to award a scholarship to assist students in these difficult economic times. The committee developing this includes Bob Vogelsang, Larry Sawyer, Dave Krug, and Mike Fiasca. Donations of any amount will be gratefully received at the RAPS office. The RAPS board has had several requests to add links to our Web site from other organizations or individual faculty members. The following policy statement has been approved: “The purpose of the links posted on the RAPS Web site is to provide a service to the RAPS membership. The content of these links should be non-controversial in nature. Links involving political or religious activity will be excluded from the Web site. A disclaimer stating that placement of the links does not indicate endorsement by RAPS will be placed on the Web site immediately above the non-PSU links. Decisions regarding which links are posted on the Web site are subject to RAPS Board approval after being reviewed by the Webmaster and two additional board members.” I hope to see you at RAPS’ final program for this year, Wednesday, May 20, at the Alpenrose Dairy—the perfect place for our annual ice cream social! Vic Dahl will present his Hudson’s Bay artifacts slide show. —Marge Terdal RAPS awards . . . continued from page 1 author of the third edition of Clinical Management of Articulatory and Phonologic Disorders and as a consulting editor of Communication Disorders Quarterly. The special award to the RAPS History Preservation Committee—composed of Steve Brannan, professor emeritus of education; Roger Moseley, professor emeritus of business administration; and Gordon Solie, professor emeritus of music—honored the committee for its work in helping the University community recognize the importance of preserving its own history. The committee collaborated with Helen Spalding, University librarian, to recruit Geoff Wexler, an archival consultant from the Oregon Historical Society, whose study found that historical documentation was wanting; the result was the hiring of Portland State’s first archivist. The committee was also instrumental in producing a poster and display depicting the Vanport years; producing the recently publishedPortland State: A History in Pictures; and providing academic units with strategies to aid historical preservation. Mary Brannan Deadline for RAPS Directory May 13 If you haven’t already updated your listing for the RAPS Directory, the deadline is fast approaching. An update form was sent with the April issue of the RAPS Sheet. You need not fill out the form if your listing in the 2008-2009 RAPS Directory is correct. But if you wish to make changes, you’ll need to fill out the form, sign it, and mail it in time for it to be received in the RAPS Office by Wednesday, May 13. If you need an update form, request one from MiMi Bernal-Graves, RAPS Office manager, at 503-725-3447 or raps@pdx.edu. A sheet with the updated listings will be included with the June mailing of the RAPS Sheet. Photo by Larry Sawyer Pictorial history book arrives Portland State: A History in Pictures was unveiled at a book launch celebration at Millar Library on April 24. The 180-page book documents PSU’s history through text and more than 300 black-and-white and color photographs. The book is available through the RAPS Office and the PSU Bookstore, 1715 SW Fifth Avenue, or online at www.portlandstatebookstore.com.
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