3 The RAPS Sheet February 2020 RAPS Group Reports Book Group IN JANUARY WE MET at Leif and Marge Terdal’s home and discussed Lynne Olson’s Citizens of London: The Americans Who Stood with England in its Darkest, Finest Hour. A detailed history, the book introduces many individuals that we did not know much about. It explores the origins of an Anglo-American alliance and the tensions that it endured. With its focus on London, it presents material new to many of us. In February we have decided to discuss The Overstory by Richard Powers. A Pulitzer Prize winner, it has won wide acclaim, and we are eager to read and talk about it. We will meet at the home of Felicia Wirtz, 16433 Avamere Court, Portland. Contact Felicia at 503-645 0947 or feliciawritz@gmail.com to let her know whether you will be able to be there. The book group meets at 1:30 p.m. on the third Tuesday of each month. New members are always welcome. —Joan Shireman Bridge Group THE RAPS BRIDGE GROUP meets in the afternoon on the first Tuesday of each month. We begin play at 12:15 p.m. and try to finish up by 4 p.m. We meet in Smith Center. We have had some new and returning members join us for our last few meetings. Please feel free to be another one of our new members for bridge (we really would welcome more new members). Our next meeting will be on the afternoon of Tuesday, February 4, in 329 Smith Center. Please mark your calendars for our Tuesday, March 3, meeting. I will send out the reminder email notice about one week prior to each date we play. If you wish to join us, please contact Steve Brennan, 503-646-6297. My email address is: the.steve.brennan@gmail.com. —Steve Brennan Hiking Group OUR TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, hike will go from Kenton to the bluffs over Swan Island, across Swan Island, then back to the MAX Yellow Line. Total distance is 6.1 miles. Almost the entire hike will be on city streets, including a stretch along busy North Basin Avenue on Swan Island. The best way to get there is on the MAX Yellow Line. Meet at 9:30 a.m. at the northbound platform of the North Lombard Transit Center, which is at the intersection of North Interstate Avenue and Lombard Street. The hike will end at the Prescott and Interstate MAX station. We will eat at one of the many cafes in the area; one possibility is a cafe on Swan Island before the end of the hike. The exact lunch location will be decided by the hikers. This hike can be found on page 14 of the 2008 edition of Portland City Walks by Laura Foster. The RAPS website link to the hike is https://www.pdx.edu/raps/raps-hikers Confirm your participation to Larry Sawyer by emailing Larry at larry_sawyer@comcast.net or calling him at 503-771-1616. —Larry Sawyer Please update your RAPS Directory information DO YOU HAVE YOUR COPY of the 2017-2018 RAPS Directory? RAPS is planning to publish a new directory later this year, so please check your entry in your 20172018 directory and notify the RAPS Office of any updates or corrections. You can send an email to rapsmail@pdx.edu or call Emily Caparelli, RAPS office manager, at 503-7253447. Don’t have a copy of the latest directory? Let Emily know, and she’ll mail you one. Is that new 2020 calendar looking bare? These RAPS events will help! March Thursday, March19 ANNUAL MARCH POTLUCK and spring opera preview with PSU opera program director Christine Meadows. This year’s production is Merry Wives of Windsor, an operetta in three acts by Otto Nicolai, featuring PSU faculty member Richard Zeller in the role of Falstaff. April Wednesday, April 15 PRESIDENT’S LUNCHEON for Retired Staff and Faculty hosted by interim president Stephen Percy.
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