3 RAPS Club Reports RAPS Hikers to visit Japanese Garden Eight RAPS hikers enjoyed a good 3+ mile hike around Round Lake in Lacamas Park in March. It was too early for the camas blooms. The camas weren't even up, much less blooming, but we did walk through the field. A good mile of the hike was near Lacamas Creek. The Japanese Garden, nestled in the scenic west hills of Portland, beckons the RAPS Hikers in April. On Friday, April 13 we will hike from the Forestry Center to the Japanese Garden and back, joining a garden tour at 10:45 am. Meet at 9:00 am at the Washington Park bus stop near the MAX elevators. The short trail down to the Japanese Garden is just before the two-mile post on the Wildwood Trail. The garden opens at 10:00 am. We will have time to pay our senior admission of $7.75 and browse the area and gift shop before the start of the tour, which is free with garden admission. The tour takes from 45 minutes to an hour. The exhibit in the pavilion is “Meditative Moments,” featuring tea ceramics and waterfall paintings. More information is available at http://japanesegarden.com/ events/meditative-moments.com. Afterwards, we will walk the two miles back up to the Zoo area. We can decide to eat at the zoo cafeteria or go up to the Sylvan area to eat. Please confirm your participation in the hike by Thursday afternoon, April 12 to Larry Sawyer 503-7711616 or larry_sawyer@comcast.net. --Larry Sawyer Book Club reads beastly nonfiction The RAPS Book Club meeting will be held at 1:00 on Tuesday, April 17 at the home of Linda Smeltzer located in the Mira Bella at 3550 SW Bond Ave, Apt. #2201. (Note the time change.) Contact her at smeltzerla@gmail.com or 503-688-6885 to RSVP and for directions. We will discuss In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson. This nonfiction book is described on the back cover as follows: The saga of an American father and daughter who in July 1933 suddenly found themselves, and the rest of their family, transported to the heart of Hitler's Berlin. The father was William E. Dodd, a mild-mannered history professor from Chicago who, much to his surprise and everyone else's, was chosen by Roosevelt to be America's first ambassador to Nazi Germany; Dodd's daughter, Martha, was 24 years old and came along for the adventure, and to escape a dead marriage. At first this new world seemed full of energy and goodwill, nothing like what newspapers back home had portrayed. But slowly a pall of intrigue and terror fell over the family-- until the cataclysmic weekend that changed them all forever. Looking ahead, the discussion of Blood Brothers by Elias Chacour has been postponed until May. As an added bonus, Marge Terdal and Maxine Thomas enhance the meeting by talking about their trip to Palestine and Israel. --Mary Brannan Bridge Group shuffles and deals April 10 The RAPS Bridge Group meets at 1:00 pm Tuesday, April 10 at Friendly House, 1737 NW 26th Ave. For further information, call Colin Dunkeld, 503-292-0838. Please call no later than noon Friday, April 6. --Colin Dunkeld Welcome, new RAPSters! etiring faculty and staff receive a free first year membership in RAPS. RAPS welcomes the following individuals who retired in late 2011: Kenneth Ames, Department Chair, Anthropology Kathleen Fishler, Revenue Agent 2, Business Affairs JoEllen Lucke, Scholarship Coordinator, Administration William Messer, Associate Professor, Urban Studies and Planning Kristine Nelson, Dean, School of Social Work Catherine Oelheim, Office Specialist 2, Administration Linda Reilly, Senior Instructor, School of Social Work Michael Soto, Director, Campus Public Safety Office Dennis Stovall, Assistant Professor, English Ronald Talarico, Assistant to Director, Regional Research Institute Sandra Wiscarson, Director of Development, Education The list above does not show everyone who retired from PSU in 2011 or the previous year. RAPS recently obtained a longer list of staff and faculty retirees from mid-2010 to mid-2011. With help from MiMi BernalGraves, former RAPS office manager, the data list is being updated and those retirees will soon receive their free membership, with names listed in a future RAPS Sheet. --Marge Terdal, Membership Chair R
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