The RAPS Sheet The newsletter of the Retirement Association of Portland State JANUARY 2020 Retirement Association of Portland State Portland State University—RAPS Post Office Box 751 Portland OR 97207-0751 Campus Public Safety Building Second Floor, Room 212 SW Montgomery at Broadway Office Manager Emily Caparelli Telephone: 503-725-3447 Email: rapsmail@pdx.edu Office hours: Monday, 10 am-5 pm Tuesday & Thursday, 11 am-1:30 pm Wednesday, 10 am-2 pm Friday, 1-5:30 pm Campus mail: RAPS Web: www.pdx.edu/raps Board Members Co-Presidents Steve Brennan David Krug Secretary Brian Lewis Treasurer Ansel Johnson Members-at-Large Constance Andersen Steven Brenner Nancy Eriksson RAPS Sheet Editor Doug Swanson Website Editor Larry Sawyer RAPS Representative to Regional & National Retirement Associations Larry Sawyer Committees Awards Steve Brennan, Chair History Preservation David Krug, Chair Membership/Program Dawn White, Chair Scholarships Joan Shireman, Chair Social Nancy Eriksson, Chair “SURVIVING AND THRIVING as We Age” is the subject of the first RAPS member meeting of the new year on Thursday, January 16. The presenters are Susan Poulsen, professor emeritus of speech communication and a licensed nurse; Christine A. Krueger, physical therapist; and Ann-Marie Cordova, physical therapy assistant. Poulsen earned a Ph.D. in speech communication from the University of Washington in 1988. She also holds a Master of Science in psychiatricmental health nursing from the University of Maryland and a Bachelor of Science in nursing from UW. Poulsen came to PSU in 1990, retiring in 2010. She maintained her nursing credentials after entering academia. Her research interests include cultural issues relating to aging in women and avoiding caregiver burnout. A 1986 graduate of the University of Washington school of medicine, Christine Krueger focused on sports medicine in the early years of her physical therapy career. Since 1990 she has worked as a physical therapist with West Portland Physical Therapy Clinic, undertaking additional coursework in spine care, joint mobilization, soft tissue techniques, osteoporosis, dance, and exercise. Ann-Marie Cordova was born and raised in Portland. As a physical therapy assistant at West Portland Physical Therapy Clinic, her specialty is manual therapy. She has taken many courses in myofascial release and soft tissue work. She holds a B.A. in communication studies from the University of Portland and an A.S. from the Mt. Hood Community College physical therapy assistant program. The January 16 program begins at noon in 333 Smith Memorial Student Union, 1825 SW Broadway, with a light deli lunch, followed by the presentation at about 12:45 p.m. —Dawn White Susan Poulsen Professor emeritus, PSU Christine Krueger Physical therapist Ann-Marie Cordova Physical therapy assistant Learn tips of ‘surviving and thriving’ as RAPS kicks off 2020 presentations
2 The RAPS Sheet January 2020 CO-PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE RAPS is your ticket to bridge, hiking, and much more RAPS MEMBERS, LET ME TAKE this opportunity to try to entice you all to expand your involvement in our group’s activities. I know you are aware of our monthly general meetings. These gatherings let us eat a light lunch together and get some social visiting done. RAPS members come from working in a wide variety of academic departments. Some of us worked in non-academic areas within PSU. Some members are not actually retired from PSU (spouses, partners, and folks retired from other universities). The RAPS program committee always gets interesting speakers for these meetings. We all get a chance to further our understanding of topics outside of our main work (scientists and engineers can learn something about art, for example). RAPS groups (the Book Group, the Hiking Group, and the Bridge Group) are another way of keeping active and meeting periodically with like-minded RAPS members. I organize the Bridge Group’s monthly sessions, so I am most familiar with bridge as a way to engage socially while keeping our aging brains challenged by the complexities of contract bridge. The Bridge Group players are always willing to include folks with different bidding systems and playing styles. We are adaptable and welcome newcomers. I also periodically hike with the Hiking Group. I tend to avoid the longer, more difficult hikes. Shorter hikes give me a chance keep my aching body working to explore nature (birds, trees, streams, and some hills). A few times a year I meet with the Book Group. This group reads both fiction and non-fiction selections. Thoughts from other folks always enhance my experience of the books. For example, we have read some biographies (Steve Jobs and Leonardo di Vinci among them) which raised questions about technology. In those situations “techies” like me try to assist the non-techies in the group. I am suggesting RAPS offers social events, intellectual experiences, brain sustaining activity, and healthy hiking for its members. Please consider stretching out and trying something new with your fellow RAPSters. —Steve Brennan Hikers enjoy planning 2020 hiking schedule The Hiking Group gathered on December 10 at Larry and Diane Sawyer’s home to plan the 2020 hiking schedule. Left, from foreground: Diane Sawyer, Deve Swaim, Eileen Brennan, Steve Brennan, Cilla Murray-Dieterich, and Mary Lane Stevens. Right, from foreground: Tom Hard, Tom Dieterich, Leif Terdal, and Marge Terdal. Not pictured: Larry Sawyer. Larry Sawyer photo
3 The RAPS Sheet January 2020 Retirement Association of Portland State 2020 Outstanding Portland State Retiree Award 2020 Special Recognition Award Each spring at the President’s Luncheon RAPS gives the Outstanding Portland State Retiree Award to one or more PSU retirees. Nominees do not need to be RAPS members. The awards are in recognition of outstanding accomplishments post-retirement in two or more of the following areas: Service to the community Service to the University Professional or career achievements Service to RAPS The Special Recognition Award may be given to a nonretiree who has aided the University and RAPS. This award has often gone to present PSU employees, but community members are also eligible. RAPS gives at least one Outstanding Portland State Retiree Award annually; there is no requirement to give the Special Recognition Award annually. Any RAPS member may submit nominations. Please take a few minutes to think about your RAPS colleagues and others who are deserving of recognition, and make one or more nominations. Members of the current RAPS Board are ineligible for nomination. For your convenience, a nomination form is on the reverse side of this page. It will also be available online at https://www.pdx.edu/raps/calendar-events. —Steve Brennan, Chair, Awards Committee Please send nominations by U.S. mail to RAPS, Portland State University, PO Box 751, Portland OR 972070751 or by email (you don’t have to use the form) to Emily Caparelli, RAPS office manager, at rapsmail@pdx.edu. Deadline for receipt of nominations is Wednesday, March 4, 2020. Questions? Please contact Steve Brennan, chair of the Awards Committee, by email or phone at: the.steve.brennan@gmail.com or 503-646-6297.
4 The RAPS Sheet January 2020 Retirement Association of Portland State 2020 Award Nomination Form OUTSTANDING PORTLAND STATE RETIREE AWARD SPECIAL RECOGNITION AWARD Each spring at the President’s Luncheon RAPS gives the Outstanding Portland State Retiree Award to one or more PSU retirees. The awards are in recognition of outstanding accomplishments post-retirement in two or more of these four areas: (1) service to the community, (2) service to the University, (3) professional or career achievements, and (4) service to RAPS. The Special Recognition Award may go to any individual—including a community member—who has aided both RAPS and the University. Nominee __________________________________________________________________________ Nominated for: Outstanding Portland State Retiree Award Special Recognition Award Nominee’s position(s) at PSU __________________________________________________________ Please outline, in the space below, the accomplishments of the person you are nominating. Attach an additional page if needed. Nominator________________________________________________________________________________ Contact information (phone and email) ______________________________________________________ Please send nominations by U.S. mail to RAPS, Portland State University, PO Box 751, Portland OR 97207-0751 or by email (you don’t have to use the form) to Emily Caparelli, RAPS office manager, at rapsmail@pdx.edu. Deadline for receipt of nominations is Wednesday, March 4, 2020. Questions? Please contact Steve Brennan, chair of the Awards Committee, at the.steve.brennan@gmail.com or 503-646-6297.
5 The RAPS Sheet January 2020 RAPS Group Reports Book Group ON DECEMBER 17 the Book Group met at Joan Shireman’s house and discussed Rules of Civility by Amor Towles. There was a range of opinions about the book. Generally, the group liked it, noting particularly the excellent writing. The book, set in 1938 in Manhattan, evokes a different society in a different era. Often we were uncertain about some of the dimensions of that society and that era. In January we will be reading Lynne Olson’s Citizens of London: The Americans Who Stood with England in its Darkest, Finest Hour. The book explores the origins of an AngloAmerican alliance that helped turn the tide during the most widespread conflict in history. We will meet at 1:30 p.m. on January 21 at Leif and Marge Terdal’s home in Terwilliger Plaza, 2545 SW Terwilliger Blvd., Apt. 812. 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. 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 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, January 7, in 329 Smith Center. Please mark your calendars for the following upcoming meetings in winter term: Tuesday, February 4; and Tuesday, March 3. I will send out a 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 THE RAPS HIKERS planned our 2020 hikes at our potluck on December 10. Due to conflicts with the Thanksgiving holiday, we rescheduled our November hike to January 28. We will hike the section of the Banks-to-Vernonia Trail from the Buxton Trestle trailhead to Stub Steward State Park. We meet at the Buxton Trailhead at 9:30 a.m. To get there, take Highway 26 toward the coast until it merges with Highway 47. Continue on Highway 47 as it turns right toward Vernonia. Turn right on NW Fisher Road; it is the first road after leaving Highway 26. There is no trailhead sign at the turn. Continue into Buxton, where you will see a trailhead sign directing you to turn left onto NW Bacona Road. The marked trailhead is a short distance up the road. You can find more information at: https://oregonstateparks.org/index.cfm?do=parkPage.dsp_ parkPage&parkId=104 The route is approximately three miles long. We will eat sack lunches in the park picnic area, which has water and a restroom. The strong hikers will return to the Buxton Trailhead, hiking a total of under seven miles. Those who don’t want to hike that distance can carpool back to the Buxton Trailhead. Those planning to car shuttle should arrive a little earlier to spot a car in the park. Confirm your participation by emailing larry_sawyer@comcast.net or calling 503-7711616. —Larry Sawyer Brunch rings in holiday season Lauren Brown, recipient of this year’s RAPS Scholarship, speaks at the RAPS Holiday Brunch. The annual brunch, held on December 12, drew about 50 RAPS members, who enjoyed numerous hot dishes and raised $523 for the RAPS Scholarship through donations, a raffle, and the sale of homemade holiday goodies. Larry Sawyer photo
6 The RAPS Sheet January 2020 SPECIAL EDUCATION PROGRAMS AT PORTLAND STATE During the summer of 1963 Prof. Keith Larson, a newly minted graduate of the University of Oregon, met with Dean Ray Wolf, of the School of Education. Larson presented the dean with a proposal to initiate a program for preparing elementary teachers to obtain licensure to work with students with special needs as well as to form the first-in-the-Northwest program for preparing teachers to work with students with visual impairment. Wolf approved. Larson submitted a large teacher preparation grant proposal to the Department of Education in 1964, and was successful in obtaining a fully funded multi-year federal grant to provide scholarships and stipends to 30-plus elementary education teachers per year. These students were expected to complete the program in one year, graduating with a master’s degree and an Oregon special education certificate. Following notification of receiving the grant, Larson hired Prof. Madge Leslie to lead the visual impairment program and Prof. Steve Brannan to lead the program for students with mental disabilities. Over the past 56 years the program has evolved into the Department of Special Education. Faculty members have received several million dollars in teacher preparation and research grants, and more than 2,000 teachers have been prepared to work with students with special needs. —Dave Krug Keith Larson RAPS GOES TO Portugal! October 3-12, 2020 $3,649 per person, double occupancy. Includes round-trip airfare from Portland, air taxes, fees/surcharges, and hotel transfers. HIGHLIGHTS Portuguese Riviera Lisbon Obidos Sintra Arraiolos Evora Alentego Join RAPS as Collette takes us to sunny Portugal for 10 wonderful days! Fare includes round-trip airfare from Portland, hotel transfers, and 12 meals. Extend your experience with an optional four nights on Madeira, an island noted for its wine and cuisine. To learn more, visit: https://gateway.gocollette.com/link/944136 Questions? Ask Larry! Larry Sawyer 503-771-1616 larry_sawyer@comcast.net Lagos Algarve Faro Tavira Sagres and... Five UNESCO World Heritage Sites! PAST TENSE: Looking back at PSU’s early history Photo courtesy PSU Archives Digital Gallery
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