The RAPS Book Group discussed “The President’s Club: Inside the World’s Most Exclusive Fraternity” by Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy at our April meeting. We met at the home of Nancy Chapman, at our usual 1:30 pm time. The group has selected Timothy Egan’s “Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher” as the book to discuss in May. This is a biography of Edward Curtis, whose photographs are on display at the Portland Art Museum through early May. We will meet on May 17 at 1:30 at the home of Joan Shireman, 13584 SE Snowfire Dr., Happy Valley. E-mail her at joanshireman@gmail.com or telephone her at 503-698-9951 for directions and to let her know whether you will attend. Having read two substantial books in the spring, we selected fiction for our summer reading. In June we will read “The Moor’s Account” by Laila Lalami, a tale told in the voice of a crew member of Pánfilo de Narváez’s expedition to the new world in 1527. In July, we will dip into science fiction with “The Martian” by Anthony Weir, the tale of a member of a space exploration accidentally left behind on Mars. In August we will leave the distant past and the distant future and return to something closer to our own time with Annie Barrows “The Truth According to Us,” a story of an inquisitive young girl in a small town in West Virginia in the late 1930s. (Of course, one has to be a RAPS member to feel that the 1930s are close to our time). The Book Group meets at 1:30 pm on the third Tuesday of every month. New members are always welcome. --Joan Shireman The RAPS Bridge Group meets on the first Tuesday afternoon each month. We are changing our meeting time to 12:15 pm from May onward. The time change is to give us better opportunity for parking. Please mark your calendars for the next two months’ bridge dates and times: Tuesday May 3 at 12:15 pm in SMSU 238 Tuesday June 7 at 12:15 pm in SMSU 236 We will continue to play throughout the summer. Meeting rooms for summer play are to be announced. I will send out a reminder email notice closer to each date we play. The RAPS bridge group is very friendly, and we are always looking for new players. If you wish to join us, please contact Steve Brennan, 503-646-6297. My email address is the.steve.brennan@gmail.com. --Steve Brennan The RAPS Hiking Group hiked around Round Lake in Lacamas Lake Park in Camas, WA on April 12. In Larry’s absence, Marge Terdal led the hike. This was the last “local” hike until the November Oaks Bottom hike. We start our longer carpool hikes in May with a walk through the Mosier Tunnels in the Columbia Gorge. This will be a carpool/car shuttle hike. Meet at the SE corner of the Gateway Transit Parking Structure at 9:00 am. We will leave extra cars there. Do not park in the Fred Meyer lot, or your car will be towed. If we hike west to east, we can have lunch in Mosier. More information about the hike appears on the RAPS website, www.pdx.edu/raps. Click on the Hiking Group tab at the left of the page. --Larry Sawyer 3
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