4 NOTES FROM THE SCHOLARSHIP CHAIR Behind the scenes with your scholarship committee WE DON’T HAVE a tally yet of RAPS member generosity in our year-end request for your contributions. It takes time for the December-January financial reports to get settled. Please stay tuned. And in advance, thanks to all of you who gave, and in particular to those members who stepped up to enable a match! The Scholarship Committee has been considering ways to generate student interest in applying. To apply, they enter an online portal for The Scholarship Universe. Once in, they are introduced to the scholarships that are available and they complete their application online. To get the word out to students, the members of the Scholarship Committee have been in touch with the Institute on Aging and the School of Education programs relevant to serving older adults, such as Counseling, and with some specific programs like Social Work and Psychology. However, advising no longer takes place within the departments. Advisers are now organized into clusters of related majors called Advising Pathways. We’re working with the person who heads advisers for the Society and Identity Pathway. Through her, we’re encouraging students to highlight their specific interest in aging as part of their application. At the same time, because PSU doesn’t have a specific gerontology major, students can also describe their health- related interests. It really helps to have on the committee a cross-section of staff and faculty with ideas and contacts. We meet via Zoom once a month at the most and not during the summer. Please consider stepping up as a committee member. New England and Portuguese horizons await WITH 2024 upon us, you may want to begin planning the year’s travel opportunities. Here is the link featuring RAPS offerings, through Collette Travel, for “The Colors of New England.” It will be offered in fall 2024. Reviewing the information will give you important deadlines. And there is still time to sign up for Portugal. Follow this link to get information: https://gateway.gocollette.com/link/1180507 Each person who signs up through this link by the deadline gains for RAPS a contribution to the Scholarship Fund. —Sherwin Davidson RAPS SHEET n JANUARY 2024 MORGAN POPE, who served Portland State in several administrative roles for more than 15 years, died November 23 in Portland. He was 86 years old. Mr. Pope was born April 29, 1937, in Bagnell, Missouri, the only child of Walter Morgan Pope and Hazel Alice (Sullivan) Pope. In 1955 he graduated from School of the Osage High School in Lake Ozark, Missouri. He enrolled at the University of Missouri, where he graduated in 1959 with a bachelor’s degree in physics. In 1962 he completed a master’s degree in physics and mathematics at New Mexico Highlands University. As a freshman at Missouri he met his wife, Constance Gayle Clark. The couple married in September 1960 and honeymooned in Oregon, where Mr. Pope joined the research division of Tektronix. He spent the next 28 years at the company as a scientist and manager of research and development labs, then took early retirement to work as a consultant for the state of Oregon and city of Portland on work force development for high-tech companies. In memoriam: Morgan Pope, 1937-2023 Mr. Pope joined Portland State in 1990 as a coordinator for university-industry interactions. He moved to University Relations as an acting vice president, then became associate dean in the College of Engineering and Computer Science, once again serving as a coordinator with industry. Mr. Pope retired from Portland State in 2002, but continued his association with PSU for an additional three years as a consultant with the college, overseeing its relationships with architects, construction companies, and PSU Facilities and Property Management during the construction of the building that houses the Maseeh College of Engineering and Computer Science. Mr. Pope is survived by his wife of 63 years, Constance; sons Sean Sullivan Pope and Morgan Clark Pope; daughterin-law Carrie Frances White; granddaughter Scout Edie Cohen Pope (Scott Steinhouse); and grandson Sullivan Cohen Pope (Cascade Laree Hall). A celebration of life will be held for family and friends on Sunday, February 4, from 2:30 to 6 p.m., at Nordia House, 8800 SW Oleson Road, Portland. 1990 PSU Digital Archives Gallery
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