RETIRED ASSOCIATES OF PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY An organization of seniors interested in lifelong learning, in cooperation with the Institute on Aging Editorial and Production David Sessions NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2009 NEWSLETTER OUR ONLY RAPSU GATHERING IN DECEMBER IS THE DEC. 3 HOLIDAY LUNCHEON NO SCHEDULED MEETINGS IN DECEMBER. The next newsletter will come out in late December. The next scheduled meetings will be January 7 and 14. PARTY TIME DEC. 3 Our Holiday Luncheon runs from 12:30 p.m. until 2:30 p.m. on the first Thursday
of December in the Willamette Falls Ballroom at University Place Hotel and
Conference Center, 310 SW Lincoln. It's $19 for RAPSU members, $22 for guests. Gratuities are included. Mail your check made out to RAPSU to Frances Sessions, 123 NW 12th Ave. Apt. 1324, Portland, OR 97209. Please indicate your preference for chicken, pork, or vegetarian entree. Deadline for mailing reservation: Nov. 23. Parking at University Place is $3 per hour. Street parking is $1.60 an hour. The streetcar can bring you within a long block's walk to the luncheon site. Click Here for reservation form. BOARD PROFILE Retiring Newsletter Editor Ralph Wright Ralph and his wife Milly,
native Ohioans, moved their family from Chicago to Oregon in 1971 after an
advertising career. Ralph worked as an administrator at Willamette U. and at Salem Hospital before moving to Portland. He has published both fiction and non-fiction. After a year as editor of RAPSU’s newsletter Ralph has resigned due to a heavy schedule. Ralph’s newsletters were innovative, witty and informative and will be missed by all of us. If you would be willing to edit our newsletter please call David Sessions at 503-735-3766 or email rapsuatpsu@gmail.com. ARE WE HALF EMPTY OR HALF FULL? 50% of our members have paid their dues for 2009/10. If you are in the half empty moiety you can re-up at either of November’s meetings or send a check to RAPSU ($15 singles/$25 couples). For a printable (first page) membership application Click Here. ***************** Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible. . . . Maya Angelou ***************** To subscribe or unsubscribe from the newsletter Click Here and put Subscribe or Unsubscribe in the Subject line.
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