4 RAPS SHEET n SUMMER 2022 Janine Allen joins RAPS board as new co-president JANINE ALLEN, professor emerita of education, is joining Bruce Stern at the helm of RAPS. Allen was elected to a two-year term as co-president last spring. Stern is beginning the second year of his term as co-president. Allen arrived at Portland State in 1995 as vice provost and dean of enrollment and student services. She joined the School of Education as a professor in 2001 and retired in 2011, but coordinated Education’s doctoral program for an additional three years. “Involvement with RAPS is a way of serving the university that gave me a professional home,” said Allen, a Nebraska native who earned a bachelor’s degree at the University of Nebraska-Kearney and a master’s at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She completed her Ph.D. studies at the University of Oregon. “RAPS has done a wonderful job of serving the people who retired from PSU and serving the University by drawing people together,” said Allen, who added that she wants to get the word out about RAPS to the University community. “The monthly programs are really excellent, and the way the board has delivered the programs in a safe manner over the past two years is commendable.” Allen is looking forward to working with the RAPS Board. “There’s some really great people,” she said. “Bruce has such a wonderful sense of humor. He wants us to be a team, and I’m really looking forward to working with him.” Also joining the board is Kris Kern, a Portland State Library retiree, who was elected to a two-year term as a member-at-large. Brian Lewis was re-elected as secretary and Ansel Johnson was re-elected as treasurer. Upcoming RAPS events. SEPTEMBER Thursday, September 15 Guided Tour of the Vanport Building, new home of PSU’s College of Education and the OSHU-PSU School of Public Health. OCTOBER Thursday, October 20 “The Inside Story on Who First Planted Pinot Noir in Oregon. It Might Not Be Who You Think,” a presentation by Michael Alberty, wine writer for The Oregonian. To be held in Smith Memorial Student Union. NOVEMBER Thursday, November 17 A presentation by Nicholas Kristof, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and general manager of Kristof Family Farms in Yamhill, Oregon, on the challenges facing Oregon and his vision for addressing them. In-person or Zoom to be determined. DECEMBER Thursday, December 8 Annual Holiday Party, Augustana Lutheran Church in Northeast Portland.
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