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Follow chapter news and events on Facebook and on Twitter at "reedalumnipdx" (the Doyle Owl has been spotted there too!).
Thirsty Third Thursday
Meet other alumni, sample a few brews, and enjoy lively conversation on the third Thursday of every month. Look for the pink table-top sign and the stuffed griffin at a pub/bar/restaurant near you.
If you want to see where other Thirsty Third Thursday events are happening, check here.
Camp Westwind
Our 2012 getaway is scheduled for October 19-21; see details and register online!
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The Reed reading group meets the second Tuesday of every month in Psychology 102 , 7-8:30 p.m.
Tuesday May 8, 7 p.m., Psych 103 (NOTE temporary room change!): Theroux, Paul. Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: On the tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar.
From Amazon.com:
Half a lifetime ago, Paul Theroux virtually invented the modern travel narrative by recounting his grand tour by train through Asia. In the three decades since, the world he recorded in that book has undergone phenomenal change.The Soviet Union has collapsed and China has risen; India booms while Burma smothers under dictatorship; Vietnam flourishes
in the aftermath of the havoc America was unleashing on it the last time he passed through.
In Ghost Train to the Eastern Star, Theroux re-creates that earlier journey. His odyssey takes him from eastern Europe, still hung-over from communism, through tense but thriving Turkey into the Caucasus, where Georgia limps back toward feudalism while its neighbor Azerbaijan revels in oil-fueled capitalism.Theroux is firsthand witness to it all, encountering adventures only he could have: from the literary (sparring with the incisive Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk) to the dissolute (surviving a week-long bender on the Trans-Siberian Railroad).Wherever he goes, his omnivorous curiosity and unerring eye for detail never fail to inspire, enlighten, inform, and entertain.
Tuesday June 12, 7 p.m., Psych 102 (back in our current normal venue): Crawford, Matthew B. Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work.
From Amazon.com:
A philosopher/mechanic's wise (and sometimes funny) look at the challenges and pleasures of working with one's hands. Called "the sleeper hit of the publishing season" (The Boston Globe), Shop Class as Soulcraft became an instant bestseller, attracting readers with its radical (and timely) reappraisal of the merits of skilled manual labor. On both economic and psychological grounds, author Matthew B. Crawford questions the educational imperative of turning everyone into a "knowledge worker," based on a misguided separation of thinking from doing. Using his own experience as an electrician and mechanic, Crawford presents a wonderfully articulated call for self-reliance and a moving reflection on how we can live concretely in an ever more abstract world.
For more information, please call Kay Tousley '55 at 503/282-7953 or send email to Bonnie Cresap '75 at bonnie@bcresap.com.
Foster-Scholz Club
The Foster–Scholz Club is a subset of the alumni association made up of all Portland-area alumni who graduated from the college 40 or more years ago.
Listserve
The Portland chapter has recently set up an email listserve to arrange get-togethers with fellow Reedies on short notice. If you want to invite Reedies to join you for a concert, movie, drink, dinner or a hike, please send an email to the list. This is an opt-in list, which means the only people who will see the announcements will be people who have subscribed to the web page. There is an option to get the messages combined in one message daily or weekly; please subscribe at https://www.lists.reed.edu/mailman/listinfo/alumni-pdx-network
If you have an idea for an event please contact the chapter. We'd love to hear your ideas.
Steering Committee
To contact the chapter, send email to alumni-pdx-steering@lists.reed.edu or you can look up individual members using the alumni directory in IRIS.
Joanne Hossack '82, chapter secretary
Jim Kahan '64, chapter chair
Paul Manson '01
Kevin Morrice '76
Nancy Johannsen Morrice '76
Kate O'Hara '88
Ron Sato '68
Barbara Smith-Thomas '64