3 RAPS SHEET n SUMMER 2023 NOTES FROM THE SCHOLARSHIP CHAIR An invitation to travel and benefit a PSU student IS ALL THE TRAVEL you see others doing this summer starting to fire up your own enthusiasm? Here’s a great idea: from July 20 to August 2, 2024, you can take a wonderful trip with RAPS members to Portugal! Collette, a renowned travel company with which RAPS has partnered, has dubbed the tour “Portugal and Its Islands.” And at the same time, you can make a big difference for a Portland State student. “How can that be?” you ask. As part of a long-standing relationship between Collette and RAPS, Collette will contribute a 10 percent commission to the RAPS Scholarship for each person who signs up using the website included below. If you sign up by the deadline, you get an early payment discount. These benefits also extend to friends and family who are not RAPS members. And you have until January 21, 2024, to decide. You can still sign up after January 21 if there is space available, but there will be no early payment discount. Please take a look at the website and consider this RAPSpromoted tour: https://gateway.gocollette.com/link/1180745 Other tours are coming up. For example, you can enjoy “The Colors of New England,” October 2-9, 2024. Please watch the RAPS website https://www.psu-raps.org/and future editions of The RAPS Sheet for information. These opportunities are thanks to RAPS member Larry Sawyer’s long-standing relationship with Collette. —Sherwin Davidson The sharecroppers’ son who became president of PSU Dan Bernstine was president of Portland State University during the 10-year period between 1997 and 2007. His parents were Louisiana sharecroppers who moved to California after World War II. His father worked as a janitor. Dan accompanied his dad to clean attorneys’ offices, and that got him interested in the field of law. After earning his bachelor’s degree at the University of California, Berkeley, he went on to earn a law degree at Northwestern University, and then a Master of Laws degree at the University of Wisconsin. Prior to his tenure at Portland State, Dan was dean of the University of Wisconsin Law School. During his time as president Portland State’s enrollment grew by 70 percent. Building renovations and new construction also occurred on campus during his time. Additionally, he helped bring in millions of dollars of private support to the University’s endowment. Dan’s leadership style was quiet, congenial, and reflected honesty and fairness. According to Stan Hillman, professor emeritus of biology, “Dan’s vision (for PSU) was to be a university of the world, rather than one to simply service a city that consistently undervalued what PSU could be.” Earl Molander remembers Dan as a “very committed internationalist.” He supported the efforts of PSU faculty to have international exposure and experience. One example was the School of Business Administration’s free market business development efforts to establish a relationship with a partner university in Khabarovsk, Russia, Portland’s sister city. Many PSU faculty taught classes to Russian students and businesspersons in Khabarovsk and several other locations in Russia. In doing so, faculty not only learned about Russia’s culture, but also helped Russians better understand business principles and practices that occur in capitalistic societies. After his time as president of PSU, Dan went on to become president of the Law School Admissions Council in Pennsylvania. He died too soon at the age of 69 in September 2016. Dan’s legacy and contributions to Portland State should not be forgotten. —Bruce Stern PAST TENSE: Looking back at PSU’s early history
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