November 19th 2009 at 1p.m. Smith Memorial Union 238
Proffesor Grant Farr on the future of the Middle East and U.S. policy in the world’s hottest hot spot
December 6th 2009: Noon to 5:00pm
RAPS will feature the book PSU: A History in Pictures at the 42nd Annual Holiday Cheer at the Oregon Historical Society. Author signings and readings until 4:00pm. For a complete list of participating authors, books, & scheduled readings visit: www.ohs.org
General Admission is $5. OHS Members and Chidren under 18: Free.
Board Meetings:
Meetings are held on the second Thursday of each month on the first floor of the Simon Benson House promptly at 12:30pm.
Writers Group:
The
RAPS Writers’ Group meets at 1:15pm on the first Tuesday of each month. We discuss each other’s work in ways similar to the way Book Groups respond to the books chosen by the group. We are primarily a supportive response group as opposed to an editing group. We answer questions members ask about their own work and offer suggestions. please leave your name with MiMi Bernal-Graves, RAPS office manager, at 503-725-3447, or e-mail her at raps@pdx.edu.
Bridge Group:
The next meeting of the RAPS Bridge Group will be at Willamette View, 12705 SE River Road, Portland, at 1:00 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 10. The group is open to all members of RAPS. If you need information about the group, please call Colin Dunkeld at 503-292-0838. If you would like to play, please let Colin Dunkeld know no later than Friday, Nov. 6.
Book Club:
Upcoming Meetings:
November: Out Stealing Horses
will meet on Tuesday, Nov. 17, at 1:30 p.m., at the home of Betsey Brown at Holiday Park Plaza, 1300 NE 16th Ave., Portland. Contact her at 503-280-2334 or aebport@hevanet.com to RSVP and for directions. We will discuss Out Stealing Horses, written by Per Petterson, translated by Anne Born. On the cover, it is described as: Out Stealing Horses has been embraced across the world as a classic, a novel of universal relevance and power. Panoramic and gripping, it tells the story of Tround Sander, a 67-year-old man who has moved from the city to a remote, riverside cabin, only to have all the turbulence, grief, and overwhelming beauty of his youth come back to him one night while he’s out on a walk. From the moment Trond sees a strange figure coming out of the dark behind his home, the reader is immersed in a decades-deep story of searching and loss, and in the precise, irresistible prose of a newly crowned master of fiction. If you want to read further ahead, we will be reading The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg Larsson, for December. —Mary Brannan
Forest Park on November 20th Due to the Thanksgiving holiday, our November hike will be a week earlier, on November 20th. We will hike a loop of trails in Forest Park north of Cornell Road. Round trip will be four miles or less with some elevation gain. Lunch will be at a restaurant in Northwest Portland. Meet at 9:30 a.m. at the Portland Audubon Society located on Cornell Road.
