6 The RAPS Sheet January 2022 In memoriam: Robert Leonard Casteel, 1931-2021 PSU Archives Digital Gallery PSU Archives Digital Gallery ROBERT L. CASTEEL, who served Portland State as a professor of speech communication for more than 25 years, died October 8 at the age of 90. Professor Casteel was born March 4, 1931, in Aloha, to Robert F. Casteel and Mable Casteel (Dodson). A 1949 graduate of Beaverton High School, he participated in debate and made all-conference in football and track. The Casteel family was involved in raising and racing greyhounds, and during high school Professor Casteel began working at Multnomah Kennel Club. After graduation from Beaverton High, he enrolled at Vanport Extension Center, which was located at the former Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation buildings following the Memorial Day flood of 1948 that destroyed Vanport City. He later entered Pacific University on a debate scholarship. While at Pacific he met Barbara Jo Pelton. They were married March 13, 1954, at Aloha Community Baptist Church, and Professor Casteel graduated from Pacific later that year. Professor Casteel received a master’s degree from the University of Washington in 1960 and a Ph.D. from the University of Oregon Medical School (now Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine) in 1969. Professor Casteel joined the Portland State faculty in 1966, but his association with PSU began 10 years earlier. According to a “Past Tense” article written by Mary Brannan for the June 2009 edition of The RAPS Sheet, Professor Casteel started teaching courses in 1956, and was one of the early leaders of the Speech and Hearing Sciences Program, along with Robert English and James Maurer. Professor Casteel was recognized with the Frank R. Kleffner Clinical Career Award for his work to better the understanding and treatment of stuttering and was a fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. He twice served as president of OSHA and received OSHA’s Honors of the Association, and also served as the academic adviser for the PSU Athletic Department. In July 1992 he suffered a major stroke. He retired from Portland State and was promoted to professor emeritus. Professor Casteel is survived by his wife, Barbara Jo; their son, Robert G. Casteel (Lori); daughter, Joann Marie Price (Steven); and seven grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren, as well as several nieces and nephews. Remembrances may be made to the general scholarship fund of Pacific University, attention Zach Wallace, 2043 College Way, Forest Grove, OR 97116. 1986 1967 In memoriam: Raymond P. Mariels, 1936-2021 RAYMOND P. MARIELS, who graduated from Portland State with a bachelor’s degree in 1961 and retired from the University as a professor of English 41 years later, died in Portland on October 13. He was 85 years old. Professor Mariels was born on August 25, 1936, in Astoria to Jess Raymond Mariels and Annette Mildred Martin. He graduated from Lincoln High School in 1955, then entered the U.S. Army and was stationed in Germany. After his discharge from the Army in 1957, Professor Mariels completed a bachelor’s degree at Portland State, then entered the University of Oregon, where he received an M.A. in 1963 and a Ph.D. in 1967. He joined PSU that same year as an assistant professor. He was promoted to associate professor in 1970 and to professor in 1993, and became an emeritus professor upon his retirement in 2002. During his years in the Department of English, Professor Mariels served as assistant department head, graduate program coordinator, and coordinator in English for Teacher Education. He taught British Romantic literature and specialized in courses on Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Keats, and Shelley. Professor Mariels was an avid reader, and was most interested in William Blake as an author, poet, and artist. He visited London several times to visit the Blake Museum and other historical sites related to the British Romantics, and published numerous poems in reviews and journals between 1959 and 1994. As much as he enjoyed traveling overseas, Professor Mariels and his wife, Maureen, were also fond of the Oregon coast, particularly Cannon Beach. Professor Mariels is survived by his sister, Jan Wagner; his eldest son, Kurt Mariels, and middle son, Tim Mariels, from his first marriage, and his youngest son, Nathan Mariels, from his second marriage. He is also survived by his stepdaughter, Jennifer Turner Bitterman, and her two sons, Austin and Hugo Bitterman. Professor Mariels’s ashes were interred next to those of his wife of 35 years, Maureen Mariels (Anderson), at Riverview Cemetery.
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