President’s Message There is good news for RAPS this year. A new PSU policy allowing the title of “Distinguished Staff Retiree” to be awarded to retired staff, academic professionals, and administrative employees with long-term and distinguished service at the University has finally been adopted (see page 4.) Our thanks go to Provost Sona Andrews, Associate Vice President for Human Resources and University Policy and Procedure Shana Sechrist, and Past President of RAPS, Dave Krug. This has been a project of several years for Dave. He, along with Sona Andrews and Shana Sechrist, stayed on the job and got it done. RAPS donors to the Scholarship Fund have been very generous. We achieved our goal of raising enough in donations to meet our scholarship commitment in full by December 31, 2014. This means that gifts in 2015 will go into a fund lodged within the PSU Foundation to develop an endowed scholarship, which has been another goal of RAPS. The Scholarship Committee and Chair Nancy Chapman have reached out to the membership, and are largely responsible for our success. Many thanks to the committee volunteers and our wonderful donors for supporting the RAPS Scholarship. The 2014-15 RAPS Board This RAPS Board photo was taken at the December 2014 Board meeting. Back row, left to right: Larry Sawyer, Carissa Ponting, Chik Erzurumlu, Robert Lockerby, Simon Benson (in spirit only), Nancy Benson, Brian Lewis. Front row, left to right, Mary Ricks, Nancy Chapman, Priscilla Blumel, Susan Poulsen, and Eileen Brennan. Not pictured: Steve Brannan, Mary Gordon Brannan, Beryl Dahl, Vic Dahl.
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