—2— The first edition of RAPS’ 2009-2010 Program/ Speaker Series will be a guided tour of the Portland Classical Chinese Garden, beginning at 11 a.m., Thursday, Sept. 17. There is a $6 per person charge for the tour, and we will collect the money at the Garden to facilitate the purchase of tickets. Please RSVP to MiMi BernalGraves at raps@pdx.edu or 503-725-3447 by Sept. 10 so we can provide the Garden an accurate count. A postage-paid response card is enclosed in this issue of The RAPS Sheet should you prefer to respond by mail. The tour takes about 45 minutes, and you are free to remain in the Garden following the tour to continue touring or to visit the Tea House. You also may want to walk a few blocks for lunch or other activities in the Pearl. Parking may be difficult at the Garden, although there is a Smart Park Garage at Naito Parkway and Davis. The new MAX line will be operating from PSU to Union Station and the ride is within Fareless Square. There also are several bus lines that go by the Garden. However, the buses will no longer be free downtown at the time of the tour. The Garden, which opened in September 2000, is based on a garden built in Suzhou during the Ming Dynasty. These gardens attempted to duplicate nature found in traditional Chinese landscape painting and were used to entertain guests and to engage in intellectual pursuits. Clarence Hein, RAPS president-elect, is program chair for 2009-2010. RAPS has a shiny new Web site. It contains all the information the old website had—upcoming events, archives of past RAPS Sheets, links to other sites of interest to PSU retirees, and, of course, those riveting biographies of the executive RAPS will tour the Portland Classical Chinese Garden on Sept. 17. Chinese Classical Garden tour inaugurates 2009-10 program series Major Morris, former Affirmative Action officer at Portland State, who now lives in Escondido, Calif., has publishedNurture Their Dreams, a book of photography of urban children “being children in an extremely underprivileged environment—their innercity communities.” RAPS Web site undergoes major overhaul, makes its debut Former PSU administrator publishes book of photographs board. The new site also conforms with the graphic standards of the University. TheURL is www.pdx.edu/raps. If you have any questions or comments, e-mail MiMi Bernal-Graves, RAPS office manager, at raps@pdx.edu, or call 503-725-3447. Morris reports, “Nurture Their Dreams has enjoyed a successful debut, albeit a limited one. I have had two book signings and in general the book has been well received.” The book can be reviewed and purchased at www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/647214. Photo by Larry Sawyer
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