—2— President’s Message LARRY SAWYER Your board of directors would like to extend the length of office for the treasurer and secretary from one to two years. This would result in more continuity in these positions and one fewer new officer each year. This is a bylaws amendment. We have also made some minor changes in the wording to better define the elected and appointed offices. We have also added a very short statement of purpose at the beginning, before the listing of our nine main objectives. As the election of officers will take place very soon, we are asking for your approval of this amendment before voting on the new officers slate. If the amendment passes, we will adjust the length of office of the secretary and treasurer for the next election only to allow these two offices to be elected alternate years. The RAPS Board has approved the proposed amendment. As many of you know, the Ferdinand Society disbanded a few years ago. The RAPS History Preservation Committee has made arrangements for their records to be housed in the Library archives. RAPS donated $2,500 up front for the publication of Portland State: A History in Pictures, and we are listed as the publisher and owner of its ISBN number. Money from the book sales is now paying back the investment. Some of this money will be held for a future edition of the book. The board has authorized two other specific areas for use of the as-yet unknown total amount of income. First, we have transferred $1,000 to the Library for its oral history project. This donation increased available funds to $2,000. Many of the interesting details of PSU’s history exist only in the memory of people like us, and the Library is interested in documenting these recollections. I urge you to contact the Library if you have PSU historical non-print (or print) information you feel should be documented. The second area is the scholarship fund. At the Jan. 14 board meeting, the treasurer reported $690 in the fund. We would like the fund to be at least $1,000 before requesting scholarship applications. In memoriam: Jack C. Finley, 1930-2009 Jack C. Finley, associate professor emeritus of social work, died Dec. 31, 2009, after a year-long illness with cancer, in Vancouver, Wash., where he resided for most of his life. Services were held on Jan. 8 at Liberty Bible Church in Vancouver. His guest book may be signed at www.columbian.com/obits. Prof. Finley was born in Portland on Oct. 25, 1930. After graduating from Fort Vancouver High School, Prof. Finley enlisted in the United States Navy Reserve, and in January 1952, during the Korean Conflict, he was called to active duty to serve as a weatherman. After his discharge, he attended Clark Community College and the University of Washington, and earned a B.S. degree in psychology at Lewis & Clark College in 1958. He completed a Master of Social Work degree at the University of Washington in 1961. After more than a decade of service in various public welfare and mental health agencies in western Washington, he took an appointment as an assistant professor at the PSU School of Social Work in 1967. In 1986 he earned a Ph.D. degree at the University of Oregon, emphasizing educational policy and management. After a long and distinguished PSU career, Prof. Finley received emeritus status on July 1, 1993. Prof. Finley’s campus tenure coincided with the School of Social Work’s development as the institution’s first graduate program, which in 1961 had been mandated to serve the Portland metropolitan community and the state of Oregon. To that end, the school’s founding dean, Gordon Hearn, recruited highly qualified faculty members to launch a thoroughly professional degree program. Prof. Finley came to the pioneer School of Social Work in 1967 as an experienced, skillful practitioner who contributed substantially to its formative development by collaborating with his colleagues in devising appropriate curriculum, instruction, and management procedures. In 1984 Prof. Finley was appointed coordinator of the social work undergraduate program. Concurrently with School of Social Work responsibilities, Prof. Finley served on many University-wide academic governance bodies, such as the Faculty Senate and Graduate Council. All those who worked with him held his contributions to institutional objectives in continued on page 4
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