President   Robert Tufts [bio]   Registrar   bobtufts@comcast.net	President-elect   Majorie Terdal [bio]   Linguistics   terdalm@pdx.edu
Past President   Bruce Stern [bio]   Marketing   bruce@thesternfamily.net	Treasurer   Robert Vogelsang [bio]   Communication Studies   drvogie@yahoo.com
Secretary   Larry Sawyer [bio]   AV Services   larry_sawyer@comcast.net	Newsletter Editor   Doug Swanson [bio]     vikingdoug@comcast.net
Webmaster Robert Pearson [bio]   Information Technology   pearson_r@comcast.net

Members at large    

Roger Moseley [bio]   Business   Term Expires: 30June2008   randsmoseley@hevanet.com	Jan DeCarrico [bio]     Term Expires: 30June2009   decarrico@pdx.edu
Charlene Levesque [bio]     Term expires: 30June2010   chl@pdx.edu

Standing Committees    

RAPS Office Manager / Graduate Administrative Assistant  

Amy Valdez [bio]   Public Administration   raps@pdx.edu

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Biographies of Board Members    

Robert Tufts: President
Bob received his BA, cum laude, 1967, majoring in economics, minor in business, from Cleveland State U.; MA from Case Western Reserve U., 1972; and a year of Ed.D. work at the U. of Akron in the mid-70s.

Bob came to PSU in 1978 as University Registrar, after eleven years in three Ohio urban universities in admissions, financial aid, information systems - and registrar activities. He left PSU in 2000, and worked five years as registrar at The Art Institute of Portland, retiring in 2005.

At PSU, Bob served on many key academic committees, and provided consultation and guidance. He was on the leadership team that brought the first Banner SIS in Oregon, the first OUS touchtone registration, computer printed transcripts, contracted services, and other initiatives that were later adopted by other colleges. He's a national expert on the FERPA, the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974, student confidentiality, and fraudulent credentials.

Professionally, Bob has been active for 38 years in national, regional and state associations. At all levels, he has served on and chaired professional committees, including the national Facilities Planning and Management Comm., as Publicity Chair for the 1996 annual meeting; chaired the western regional meeting in 1990, and several state meetings. He has received several distinguished service awards and has been honored as a "founding father" of the state association.
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Marge Terdal: President-Elect
Committee:Program (Chair)
Marge Terdal got her BA in English and History from Taylor University in 1959, MA in English from Michigan State University in 1963, and Ph.D. in Curriculum & Instruction from University of Oregon in 1985.

She began teaching English as a Second Language at Portland State University in 1973. After earning her Ph.D. she joined Portland State's new Department of Applied Linguistics, where she developed and taught courses for students in the TESL Certificate and MA TESOL programs. She was active in the local and international TESOL organizations, and taught in short-term programs in China, Germany, Hungary, and Costa Rica.

After retirement as Emerita Professor in 2001, she continued to teach in Germany, China, Qatar, and Ukraine. Marge and her husband, Leif, a retired OHSU clinical psychologist, travel internationally each year, volunteer with their church and Friendship Force, and spend as much time as possible with grandsons in Portland and Oklahoma. Marge also is active in the RAPS Book Group and RAPS Hikers.
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Bruce Stern: Past President
Bruce Stern is professor emeritus of marketing at Portland State University --retiring from teaching in June 2003. He received his BS and MBA degrees from Portland State University and his Ph.D. in 1974 from Arizona State University in marketing, management, and social psychology.

His teaching interests were in the areas of marketing research and consumer behavior while his notable research focused on marketing pedagogy and marketing communication. He was the first recipient of the Earl Wantland Outstanding Business Professor award in 1981 and has been honored (1997, 1998, and 2001) by PSU's School of Business Administration for outstanding research, outstanding overall performance, and outstanding service. In 1984 he received the Branford Price Millar Award, given to outstanding professors in the university.

He has authored 3 anthologies and over 60 refereed articles appearing in outlets such as the Journal of Marketing, Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Advertising, Journal of Advertising Research, Psychological Reports, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of Marketing Education, and the University of Chicago's Journal of Business. From 1995-1998 he served as editor of the Journal of Marketing Education and served as editor of Marketing Education Review from 2001-2004.

He has lectured on various marketing, research, and international trade topics to students and businesspersons in the U.S., Russia, China, and Poland.

He has served as president of the Oregon Chapter of the American Marketing Association, the PSU Chapter of the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, and the Marketing Educator's Association. The MEA named him Educator of the Year in 1992 and presented him their lifetime achievement award in 2004. Bruce is listed in Who's Who in America.
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Robert Vogelsang:
Treasurer
Regional Retirement Association Committee (Chair)
Robert Vogelsang came to PSU as chair of the Speech Communication department in fall of 1970. Previously he had been on the faculty (full & part time) for 14 years in Speech, Theatre & Communication Disorders at Washington State University. Vogelsang held the department chair post for nine years, and during that time was Executive Secretary of the Western Speech Communication Association from 1969 - 76. 

Vogelsang has been an educational puppeteer since 1954 & belonged to local, national, and international puppet associations. The majority of his career has been spent in teaching and research in teacher training in Speech Communication & Theatre Arts. Vogelsang was president of Western Speech Communication Association in 1980 - 81. That year he was also awarded a Fulbright Fellowship as an exchange professor to West Germany.

He has been active since retirement doing volunteer work in the Communication department, with REPPS (now RAPS), and with the University of Washington Retirement Association (UWRA). He recently completed a three-year tenure as Executive Secretary/Treasurer of the North West Communication Association (NWCA).  Robert has previously served as President of RAPS from 2002-2003.  He is currently the Retirement Associations Committee Chair, which is working to form a coalition between retirement associations in Oregon.  Robert is married to Barbara Exner Vogelsang, they have two grown daughters and a son. Vogelsang is a caregiver who enjoys gardening and dear granddaughters – Teagan and Kiri Isabella.
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Lawrence J. (Larry) Sawyer: Secretary
Thirty-one years of staff service in PSU AV Services as an AV Technician. Retired as a management service Supervising AV Technician in 1997.
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Doug Swanson: Newsletter Editor
Doug Swanson joined the RAPS Board in January 2007 as editor of the RAPS Sheet, the organization's monthly newsletter. He was director of the Office of Publications at Portland State before retiring in 2006 after nearly 27 years with the University. He was born in California and is a graduate of the University of Oregon.

Doug lives in Tigard with his wife, Barbara. They have a daughter, Lauren. The family dog, Ladybird, admires Doug very much.
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Robert Pearson: Webmaster
Robert Pearson was born in Sacramento, CA while his parents were finishing their PhD programs in Agricultural Genetics at UC-Davis. Shortly thereafter, the family moved to the east coast and Robert grew up in the small town of Amherst, MA. He has a BS in Chemistry from Univ of Rochester, a MS in Physics from Illinois Inst. of Technology, and a PhD in Bio-Physics from the Univ. of Maryland. He did a Post-Doc at the Medical Chemistry Department of Sahlgrenska Hospital in Goteberg, Sweden and another Post-Doc in the Bio-Physics Dept of Roswell Park Cancer Hospital in Buffalo, NY. Robert became the Principle Investigator of a 3 year project funded by NIH on the x-ray structure of Lecethin, a principle component of most biological membranes.

Robert Pearson has taught at 3 institutions: as an Instructor of Physics at St. Lawrence Univ., an Associate Professor of computer science at SUNY-Buffalo (the Med School), and as an Instructor of Computer Science at Lewis & Clark Univ. here in Portland. He has also served as Chairman of the Wilamette Valley Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery(ACM).

Robert came to Portland in 1985 with his bride, Susan. They have 2 children, Jennifer and Robert, Jr. Jennifer is a Senior here at PSU and Robert, Jr. is a Freshman at OSU. In order to support this family, Robert took employment in the Administrative Computing Department here at PSU just as the interactive version of BANNER was being installed. He retired from this position after 10 years.

Currently Robert is spending his time: trying to keep up with his childern (being the at-home parent while his wife works at the VA), repairing and otherwise improving his 'fixer-upper' home, judging some of the ISEF High school science projects sponsered by Intel, and going on occasional camping trips. He has a web page at: home.comcast.net/~pearson_r.
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Roger Moseley: Board Member-at-Large
Roger Moseley joined the faculty of the School of Business Administration at PSU in 1967 to teach in the new MBA program. Previously he served at the University of Hawaii for 12 years, primarily in such administrative posts as Assistant Dean and Interim Dean of The College of General Studies and the Director of the University of Hawaii, Hilo Campus.

At PSU his teaching and research was focussed on organization theory and organization behavior, which included strategic planning, decision processes, the relationship of organizations and their environments, and organization design. He also served as Head of the Management Dept. and Interim Dean of the School of Business. He served on numerous school and University committees and boards.

During his tenure at PSU he engaged in consulting with local organizations to enhance his theoretical background with the realism of experience. He was a consultant with US Bancorp for 10 years ( moving women into management Positions), US Forrest Service off and on for 15 years, Oregonian for 2 years (improving human relations skills of supervisors in the Production Department), and, after retirement, 6 years with Western Family Foods (Strategic planning and executive development).

He now devotes his time to RAPS (of course), his beloved wife, Sylvia, fund raising and other PSU support activities and events, friends, magic for various children's organizations and trying to keep up with the rapidly growing knowledge of the world.
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Jan DeCarrico: Board Member-at-Large
Jan DeCarrico is Professor Emerita of Linguistics at Portland State University. She received her BA and MA in English from PSU in the early 70s, and her Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Washington, 1980. The following year, she did her post doctoral research at M.I.T. with Noam Chomsky. She taught ESL at PSU after receiving her MA in 1973, and became Director of English for Non-Native Residents in 1983. Following the establishment of the Linguistics Dept. in 1987, she taught various theoretical linguistics and applied linguistics courses until her retirement in 2003. She served as Dept Head from 1997-2000.

On the eve of her retirement, she was awarded a Fulbright Distinguished Chair position in Linguistics at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. In previous years, she also taught as visiting professor of linguistics at the University of Hawaii, University of Oregon, Oregon State University, and at universities in China and Germany.

Through the years she has presented refereed papers and invited talks at many national and international linguistics and applied linguistics conferences, and she has authored/co-authored many book chapters and professional journal articles. She is also author of a book and workbook on the structure of English, and is co-author (with James R. Nattinger) of a book on lexical phrases, which won the Duke of Edinburgh Award for the Most Outstanding Book in Applied Linguistics in 1992.
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Charlene Levesque: Board Member-at-Large
Charlene Levesque retired as PSU's experienced and respected Manager of Campus Event Scheduling this year, and joined our Board. Reading her life story is challenging. Born Chicago pre-WWII, and an eighth-grade country school house, married, a family in 1978 and settled in Eugene raising sheep, publishing the Black Sheep Newsletter.

Her change of life was PSU's Johanna Brenner's Returning Women's Studies class around 1986. Fast forward, resulting in 1994 as a PSU bartender moving onto the position of Campus Events Scheduler. She handled those responsibilities in the most professional manner - and I speak from the Registrar position I held. She comes to serve RAPS, while dealing with personal issues that have brought PSU women to her support. Charlene serves with, to name a few, Walk of Heroines board, MLK Celebration committee, African American Visual Arts Scholarship, and others.
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Mary Gordon-Brannan:
Committee: Awards (chair)
    Pictoral History Book (Chair)
Mary Gordon-Brannan completed her BS and MS degrees in Speech-Language Pathology at Purdue University in1965 and 1967, respectively and her PhD in Communication Disorders and Sciences at Wichita State University in 1993. She is a professor emeritus at Portland State University and served on the faculty in the Speech & Hearing Sciences Program from 1972 to 2002 in the roles of clinical supervisor, professor, Program Director, and Acting Department Chair.

During Winter, 2003, she taught at the Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC. Prior to working at PSU, she practiced as a speech-language pathologist in public schools in Minnesota and Oregon. She is the co-author of a major textbook in articulation/phonological disorders, Clinic Management of Articulatory and Phonological Disorders. Her primary areas of teaching and research include articulation/phonological disorders, phonetics, intelligibility, and articulation/phonological treatment efficacy.

Over the years, she was active in both state and national professional associations. Mary has made several presentations at professional conferences, as well as workshops and inservice presentations across the country. She is a Fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association and the Oregon Speech-Language and Hearing Association.

Mary is continuing some professional activities by writing the 3rd edition of the textbook and teaching a bit. Mostly, she is enjoying traveling and retirement!
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Steve Brannan:
History Preservation Committee (Chair)
Steve Brannan received his BS in 1957 from Portland State College (PSC), MS in 1961 from Oregon College of Education in Elementary Education and Psychology, and EdD in 1965 in Special Education from Colorado State College. He came to PSC in 1966 to help found the teacher preparation program in Special Education. He retired in 1992 as professor emeritus and continued part-time as principal investigator of nationwide research grants in his field until 2000. During his PSU career, Brannan was a teacher, author, program chair, practicum supervisor, researcher, grant writer and director, and coordinator of the PSU/Kiwanis Camp Program for campers with disabilities.

In 1993 Steve became a life-time member of RAPS and, as president in 2000/2001, spearheaded inclusion of retired PSU staff as members, PSU funding for graduate student management of the RAPS office, and groundwork for RAPS taking a leadership role in furthering PSU's preservation and celebration of its history. Steve helped form the RAPS History Preservation Committee and initiated a campus-wide study leading to recruitment of a full-time archivist for the institution.

Steve and his wife, Mary, both retired to a floating home on the Willamette river and enjoy boating, photography, biking, skiing, writing, and travel, with recent trips to Spain and Greece. Steve and Mary are especially fond of their grandchildren, whom they visit often in Bend, Oregon, where the children all snowboard downhill on Mt. Bachelor while grandpa Steve continues to honor the tradition of skiing.
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Vic Dahl:
Social/Friendship Committee (Co-chair)
Vic Dahl began service at Portland State on January 2, 1959, and retired on July 1, 1990. In addition to teaching history courses nearly every term, Dahl served in various minor administrative posts in the offices of the President, Dean of Faculty, International Programs, and Graduate Studies, and with his wife Beryl's aid, fulfilled some assignments abroad. Together they travel 3-4 months annually, his preference being the Spanish-speaking world.

Dahl’s proudest bragging achievement at PSU was that after 1964 he was elected to serve on the President's Advisory Council every term for which he was constitutionally eligible. He used to be a gym rat, regularly playing handball and swimming, and was obsessed with auto mechanics and restoration, but aging has limited his activities--a lot! These days much of his time is devoted to reading the New York Times and yard maintenance.
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Beryl A. Dahl:
Social/Friendship Committee (Co-chair)
Beryl A. Dahl has served Portland State University since 1959 as a Member and officer of PSU Faculty Women's Association. During this time, Dahl allocated scholarships to four students and subsequently delegated this function to PSU Financial Aid Office. Other bequests to the University included purchase of one of the first computer units for the library, hosting faculty receptions and teas for newcomers, assisting the President's wife at campus events, and making epaulets for graduating seniors.

Dahl held the offices of President, Vice President, Secretary and various committee memberships until the organization disbanded around 1995. Subsequently, Barbara Alberty and Dahl were assigned responsibility to administer the remaining account consisting of about $100,000. Dahl was also heavily involved with PSU Friends of History as a member of the Board of Directors, 1994-2002. She also served as Vice President, member-at-large, and a member of the Arrangements committee at various times.

As a Volunteer Aid, Dahl was involved in the management of study abroad programs in Yugoslavia (1970-72); Soviet Union (April 1971); Ecuador and Peru (July-August 1979); and Mexico (April-June 1985). She also collected teaching and research materials for spouse on field trips in Mexico, Guatemala, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Argentina, and Brazil from 1979-1990.

Dahl is active in International and national travel on an annual basis; caring for her grandchildren; music, theatre, and artistic entertainment. She participates in community organizations and political party activities, and enjoys socializing with friends.
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Amy Valdez:
RAPS Office Manager / Graduate Administrative Assistant
Amy Valdez is currently pursuing a Masters of Public Administration degree, specializing in Global Leadership and Management, at PSU. She received her undergraduate degree in Social Work from University of Portland in 1998. Upon receiving her bachelor's degree, she accepted a Youth Development Worker position with the United States Peace Corps in the Eastern Caribbean. She served on the island of St. Lucia from 1998-2000.

Amy is the daughter of retired Boise State University English professor. She has worked with Portland and Hillsboro's homeless, youth, and survivors of domestic violence. Most recently, she gained four years experience working as a Program Coordinator for a disability agency in the area of vocational services. She also possesses two years experience serving as Treasurer/Secretary for the National Rehabilitation Association-Idaho Chapter and was responsible for planning and organizing several statewide conferences and fundraisers.
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