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	News of Interest to Michigan Grantmakers
		When Richard "Rip" Rapson takes the helm of The Kresge Foundation as its new president and CEO next June, he says it also will be an enjoyable return to the past.
		Rapson will be taking over for the retiring John E. Marshall III who has served the venerable Troy-based foundation for 26 years.
		Rapson brings with him a distinguished track record as a lawyer, political expert, politician and foundation leader along with his expertise on the growth and development of rural and metropolitan communities in the 21
	www.cmif.org /News_Detailed.asp?ID=962 (917 words)

	Ralph Rapson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ralph Rapson (born September 13, 1914) is a modernist architect born in Alma, Michigan.
		Rapson led the New Bauhaus School in Chicago, and practiced in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Stockholm, and Paris before becoming head of the architecture school at the University of Minnesota in 1954.
		At age 93, Ralph Rapson, with Oscar Niemeyer, is among the world's oldest practicing architects.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rip_Rapson (166 words)

	from Raplh Rapson Sixty Years of Modern Design (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Rapson had made it clear that the architect must be more than a "hand" that he must instead bring to bear his own abilities of synthesis in translating a client's needs into physical form.
		Rapson's approach was not fundamentally different from the one he had pursued with less difficult clients in the past: draw, draw, draw.
		Rapson agreed with Guthrie that the number of seats should be reduced from nearly 1,800 to 1,437 to create a greater sense of intimacy; two or three rows of seats at the back were eliminated.
	www.savetheguthrie.org /whysaveit/rapschap9.htm (5424 words)

	Mpls.St.Paul Magazine
		Rapson proceeds to his small, unremarkable cubicle at the back of the narrow, cluttered, white-walled space he shares with his son Toby (the firm’s president, though not, according to Toby, “the boss”—that would be Ralph), Peter Goelzer, a former student and occasional collaborator, and a couple of young associates.
		Rip Rapson, who was in his late teens and early twenties at the time, remembers his father coming home after work and sitting down with Mary to discuss, over a beer, the day’s developments.
		Rip Rapson recalls the early years of “optimism and idealism” and suggests that his father probably wouldn’t have started the project if he thought things wouldn’t go the way they were originally designed.
	www.mspmag.com /feature.asp?featureid=3040 (4595 words)

	the guthrie: an architectural history \| why save it? \| save the Guthrie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Rapson picked up one of his initial design concepts - a square theater with a thrust stage projecting from a back wall, with seating wrapped around the stage in segmented sections in a 210-degree configuration.
		Rapson's irregular-shaped thrust stage, with main floor and balcony seating sections that were slightly skewed, were surmounted by ceiling-hung acoustical "clouds" that tilted and hovered in a whimsical pattern.
		Rapson's widely-acclaimed success with his design of the Guthrie, along with that theater's rise to international prominence propelled Rapson's design and academic productivity, and served to solidify his leadership in modern architecture.
	www.savetheguthrie.org /whysaveit/roscoe_archanalysis.htm (943 words)

	Cuningham Group: News: Urban Currents (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		August 1999 began Rip Rapson’s tenure as The McKnight Foundation’s president.
		Rip’s background as a senior fellow at the University of Minnesota’s Design Center for American Urban Landscape, Deputy Mayor of Minneapolis, and as a partner in a local law firm provide a unique mixture of public, private, nonprofit and academic experience to his role at McKnight.
		While serving as Deputy Mayor, Rip was the chief architect of the City’s pioneering Neighborhood Revitalization Program and initiated an innovative redesign of the City’s budget process.
	www.cuningham.com /events/ViewUrbanCurrents.html?Which=23 (111 words)

	Pomona College : Alumni : Alumni What's New (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Richard (Rip) Rapson '74 has been named president and CEO of The Kresge Foundation, a $2.9 billion national foundation that seeks to strengthen communities by strengthening nonprofits.
		Rapson was most recently president of the McKnight Foundation, a $1.8 billion private foundation in Minneapolis.
		Prior to his tenure with McKnight, Rapson served as a Senior Fellow at the University of Minnesota, as the Deputy Mayor in Minneapolis during the early 1990s, and acted as a liaison between Washington and Minneapolis as a legislative assistant to U.S. Rep. Donald Fraser from the mid- to late-1970s.
	www.pomona.edu /adwr/alumni/alumniwhatsnew.shtml (5955 words)

	MPR: Rapson stepping down as head of McKnight Foundation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Rip Rapson is stepping down as president of the McKnight Foundation, the state's largest.
		"Rip proved himself to be as adept at leading the organization during the economic belt-tightening of recent years as he was during the economic boom times that marked his arrival at the foundation," said Binger.
		Prior to joining the foundation, Rapson was a senior fellow at the University of Minnesota's Design Center for American Urban Landscape, where he led an effort to help revitalize aging suburban communities.
	news.minnesota.publicradio.org /features/2005/05/31_newsroom_riprapson (460 words)

	Institute on Race and Poverty
		Rip Rapson of the McKnight Foundation provided remarks about the role of philanthropy in regional equity; Richard T. Ford discussed regional governance models during his lunchhour talk.
		Rapson is McKnight’s third executive since 1975 and reports to the 10-member board, of which all but one are descendents of the founding family.
		Prior to joining the Foundation, Rapson was a senior fellow at the University of Minnesota’s Design Center for American Urban Landscape, where he directed a multidisciplinary effort to help aging suburban communities, both locally and throughout the country, address the challenges generated by rapidly changing social, economic, and political forces.
	www.irpumn.org /website/conference/index.php?strWebAction=luncheon2 (268 words)

	Rapson to Step Down as President of McKnight (6/7/05)
		Rapson is the foundation's third president, having served in the position since 1999.
		During Rapson's tenure as president, McKnight, like foundations across the country, was forced to reduce its grantmaking in response to the stock market decline.
		Rapson will continue with the foundation, providing an orderly transition until Birk is able to assume her duties.
	www.mcf.org /mcf/whatsnew/archives/June2005/rapson050607.htm (627 words)

	Richard Rapson: ZoomInfo Business People Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Richard Rapson's summary was automatically generated using 6 references found on the Internet.
		When Rapson announced his retirement in May, McKnight Foundation board chair Erika Binger said in a release, "Rip proved himself to be as adept at leading the organization during the economic belt-tightening of recent years as he was during the economic boom times that marked his arrival at the foundation."
		Rapson brings with him a distinguished track record as a lawyer, political expert, politician and foundation leader along with his expertise on the growth and development of rural and metropolitan communities in the 21st century.
	www.zoominfo.com /directory/Rapson_Richard_865729413.htm (738 words)

	Cookbook Store @ iChef (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Rapson's most significant works took place at a time in architectural history where, "everything was possible" and the future was limited only by one's imagination.
		Along with the drawings, buildings, and furniture which made Rapson famous (which is well displayed), a timeline of Rapson's professional and personal life allows the reader to gain more insight as to some of the formitive forces of his designs.
		As any purveyor or architecture may know, design is quite interdisciplinary, and often design descisions are based on firmly rooted 'everyday-life' ideals and experience, not solely as a spark of genious to the gifted few.
	www.ichef.com /cookbookstore.cfm?SearchType=SearchByAuthor&SearchTerm=Jane%20King%2C%20Rip%20Rapson%2C%20Bruce%20N%2E%20Wright%20Hession (310 words)

	PND - News - Kresge Foundation Selects Rip Rapson as New President, CEO
		The Kresge Foundation in Troy, Michigan, has announced the appointment of Richard "Rip" Rapson, a one-time Minneapolis mayoral candidate and former president of the McKnight Foundation, as its new president and CEO.
		Rapson will succeed John E. Marshall, who will retire in June 2006 after twenty-seven years at the head of the $2.9 billion foundation, which connects nonprofits with stakeholders in their communities and, most famously, provides challenge grants for capital projects.
		Rapson brings suits the Kresge Foundation, since our grants advance the work of many types of nonprofits," said Elaine Rosen, a foundation trustee and chair of the search committee that selected him.
	foundationcenter.org /pnd/news/story.jhtml?id=126200008 (232 words)

	Ralph Rapson: Sixty Years of Modern Design (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Ralph Rapson is the most influential Minnesota architect of the twentieth century.
		Beginning in the late 1930s, at Cranbrook under Eliel Saarinen, Rapson became famous for his rapid, exquisite renderings and his creative reexamination of traditional furniture and housing forms.
		In 1954 Rapson assumed leadership of the University of Minnesota’s School of Architecture, beginning a thirty-year tenure that would transform not only the school itself but the standing of the design profession within the state.
	familyhaven.com /architecture/architecture48/1890434140AMUS501385.shtml (206 words)

	MDO - U fellow will head McKnight Foundation - 07/16/1999
		Rip Rapson, a senior fellow in the University's Design Center for American Urban Landscape, was named Wednesday to be the next president of the Minneapolis-based McKnight Foundation.
		Rapson's experience includes a melange of legal, political and institutional forays into community building, earning the foundation's confidence in his ability to accomplish its priorities.
		His first steps are to become familiar with the foundation's staff and board members and to become acclimated to the community's expectations of him and the foundation.
	www.mndaily.com /daily/1999/07/16/news/riprap (640 words)

	Ralph Rapson: Sixty Years of Modern Design by Jane King Hession, Rip Rapson, Bruce N. Wright
		Ralph Rapson is best known as the designer of the Gutherie, Minneapolis’s landmark of theater design, but because he worked, taught and competed with most of the world’s first modernists – Wright, Mies, Corbusier, Saarinen – his elder son and biographer calls him “the Forest Gump of architecture.”
		Ralph Rapson: Sixty Years of Modern Design, by Rip Rapson, Jane King Hession and Bruce N. Wright, documents the architect’s vast career and uncanny associations.
		Rapson believed design should be reflect the moment – furniture, houses, cities – but his take on modernism was never pompous.
	www.aftonpress.com /Reviews/Ralph%20Rapson.htm (259 words)

	Windustry - Community Wind Energy Conference - June 23, 24, 2004 - Minneapolis, Minnesota (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Rip Rapson has been president of The McKnight Foundation since August 1999.
		Rapson was a senior fellow at the University of Minnesota's Design Center for American Urban Landscape and a consultant with the Annie E. Casey Foundation, a Baltimore-based philanthropic organization.
		Rapson served for four years as deputy mayor of Minneapolis.
	www.windustry.org /conferences/june2004/june2004_proceedings/W8opening.htm (835 words)

	Principal for a Day
		Erika Binger, Chair of McKnight Foundation board of directors and Rip Rapson, President of McKnight Foundation shared duties as principal for a day with North High School Principal Mike Favor, April 14, 2005.
		Erika Binger and Rip Rapson have been involved in the North High School Community on different levels.
		Rip Rapson has guided the expansion of the McKnight Foundation in regional growth and development issues, alternative energy, energy policy, and early childhood development intiatives.
	north.mpls.k12.mn.us /14Apr2005.html (230 words)

	Re: [Mpls] 8th Ward gathers, no endorsement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		When Sharon won the endorsement over Rip Rapson, it was hard fought.
		Don Fraser broke the tie when he said he would support SSB rather than Rapson, his deputy mayor.
		Rapson's support, the big back-room-deal support, was provided by Sam and Sylvia Kaplan.
	www.mail-archive.com /mpls@mnforum.org/msg36143.html (513 words)

	Local Initiatives Support Corporation: Media Center: Nation’s Leading Community Development Support Organization ...
		Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), the nation's leading community development support organization, today announced that Kevin Johnson, Don Randel, Rip Rapson and George H. Walker have been elected to its national board of directors.
		After 12 seasons as an All-Star player in the National Basketball Association, Kevin Johnson in 2000 returned to the Sacramento, Calif., neighborhood in which he grew up to become chairman and CEO of St. HOPE Academy.
		Rip Rapson became president and CEO of The Kresge Foundation earlier this year.
	www.lisc.org /content/article/detail/3403 (523 words)

	MCN
		Rip Rapson presented "The State We're In" at MCN's Philanthropy Leaders Breakfast Series Event
		Rip Rapson, President and CEO of The McKnight Foundation, was the featured guest at MCN's March 9 Philanthropy Leaders Breakfast Series Event.
		In his speech, Rapson called on nonprofits leaders to "drive this community's future...with boldness and focus" in a social and political environment where we are we are facing "the dismantling of
	www.mncn.org /media1.htm (547 words)

	Amazon.com: Ralph Rapson: Sketches and Drawings from Around the World: Books: Ralph Rapson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Ralph Rapson, faia, is the most influential Minnesota architect of the modern age.
		Beginning in the late 1930s, at Cranbrook under Eliel Saarinen, Rapson became famous for his rapid, exquisite renderings and his creative examination of traditional furniture and housing forms.
		As architectural fads and fashions have come and gone, Ralph Rapson has maintained a consistency and commitment to the basic and best principals of modern architecture.
	amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1890434493?v=glance (630 words)

	Windustry - Community Wind Energy Conference - June 23, 24, 2004 - Minneapolis, Minnesota (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Rapson was a senior fellow at the University of Minnesota's Design Center for American Urban Landscape and a consultant with the Annie E. Casey Foundation, a Baltimore-based philanthropic organization.
		Rapson served for four years as deputy mayor of Minneapolis.
		Before his law training at Columbia University, he served for four years as a legislative assistant in the Washington office of US Rep. Donald Fraser, spending his final two years overseeing the development and passage of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness Act of 1978.
	windustry.org /conferences/june2004/june2004_proceedings/w8opening.htm (835 words)

	McKnight Foundation : Region Viewpoint
		April 22, 2005 - Rip Rapson, Keynote Address, Mississippi River Parkway Commission.
		April 2005 - Rip Rapson, Address to staff of the Local Initiatives Support Corporation.
		March 9, 2005 - Rip Rapson, Address to the Minnesota Council on Nonprofits.
	www.mcknight.org /region/viewpoint.aspx (359 words)

	Rip Books (Used, New, Out-of-Print) - Alibris
		This comprehensive textbook is the first to offer an integrated approach to geoarchaeology -- the direct use of geologic concepts, methods, and knowledge to solve archaeological problems and interpret archaeological records.
		Architect, artist, furniture designer, and educator, Ralph Rapson has played a leading role in the development and practice of modern architecture and design, both nationally and internationally.
		While most Americans are aware of the use of these technological wonders, frequently viewing images of pinpoint accuracy on their television screens, few understand how the weapons work.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Rip (554 words)

	EmbraceOpenSpace.org: News
		September 29, 2002 - Rip Rapson, originally published in the Star Tribune.
		Just as many small open spaces destroyed equal a much greater loss to the region, many small acts can give birth to a powerful movement.
		—Rip Rapson, of Minneapolis, is president of the McKnight Foundation.
	www.embraceopenspace.org /news/news_detail.aspx?itemID=248&catID=1014&typeID=2 (918 words)

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