The Daily Bruin

The University Store will host a sale during Genesis Thursday and Friday, July 10-11. Save 20 percent on all George Fox imprinted items, 30 percent on all school and art supplies, Zulugrass jewelry, and World of Good products, and 50 percent on sunglasses and Prestige makeup. Diploma frames are excluded in the sale.

Please join us Wednesday, July 16 at 1 p.m. in the Duke Atrium of the Stevens Center for a farewell gathering for Dana Miller, chief advancement officer at George Fox University for 11 years. Dana is joining the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust in Vancouver, Wash., as senior program director for grant programs.

Miller has been a member of the senior leadership for three George Fox presidents. In 2002, Miller was promoted to vice president for marketing and advancement with responsibility for all external university functions, including admissions, marketing and university relations.

It’s Genesis time again. Please use alternate parking lots such as Bauman and Pennington and leave the Stevens and Hoover lots open for our guests this Thursday and Friday. We appreciate all of you making the effort to make our new students and their families feel welcome.

A friendly reminder from you security department.
 

Cost center numbers changed on July 1, 2008. Please use the new cost center numbers on your mail. If you do not know your new number, it is located on the Financial Affairs web page. Mail will be delayed if an old number is used.

Thank you,

Mail Services

Patrick Allen, a chief academic officer at three universities over the last two decades, began as provost of George Fox on July 1. He most recently served as provost at Southern Nazarene University in Bethany, Okla., where he was responsible for all day-to-day campus operations since 2005. Before that, he worked 10 years as provost and chief academic officer at Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego. He also has served as vice president for academic affairs at Anderson University in Indiana and as dean of the School of Business and Lloyd Pickrell Distinguished Professor of Management at Friends University in Wichita, Kan. Patrick earned a doctorate in higher education from the University of Oklahoma and holds master’s degrees in management (Southern Nazarene University) and liberal arts (Southern Methodist University). He also earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Olivet Nazarene University. Patrick and his wife Lori have moved to Newberg.

Linda Samek, provost of Corban College in Salem since 2006, returned to George Fox on July 1 to serve as dean of the School of Education. Before serving as provost, she worked at Corban as dean of education, director of teacher education, and professor of education and mathematics from 2002 to 2006. She worked previously as deputy director and coordinator of teacher education for the Oregon Teacher Standards and Practices Commission and was co-director of the Oregon University System’s Quality Assurance in Teaching Program. The hiring marks a return to George Fox for Linda, who taught at the university from 1996 to 2000 and was chair of the Department of Education from 1997 to 2000. In all, she has nearly 28 years of experience in higher education. Linda earned a bachelor’s degree in science education/mathematics from Oregon State, a master’s degree in math education from Portland State University, and a doctorate in educational leadership from Portland State. She lives in Sublimity with her husband Tom and attends Salem Alliance. The couple has two grown boys, Jeremiah and David.

Cliff Berger, an adjunct academic advisor and instructor at the seminary since 2004, began work as a half-time online facilitator at the seminary in June. He also teaches general studies courses for the Oregon campus of the University of Phoenix and is a faculty member in the adult degree program at Warner Pacific College in Portland. He also teaches online classes for Grand Canyon University in Phoenix. Cliff earned a doctorate in Christian education from Emmanuel School of Religion in Tennessee in 2003, a master of divinity degree from the same school in 1983, and a bachelor’s degree from Northwest Christian College in 1980. He also studied marriage and family therapy at George Fox in the early 2000s. Cliff lives in Tigard with wife Cindy and attends Potter’s Hands Church in Tigard. The couple has two teenage children, Alex and Libbie.

Tim Wheeler was hired as a custodian at the end of June. Since July of 2006, he has been the operations manager of One Source Home Solutions of San Luis Obispo, Calif., a business that specializes in custom window covering, closet, and garage products. He also has worked as a pro shop assistant at Black Lake and Avila Beach Golf Resort in Avila Beach, Calif., and as an equipment advisor and salesman at Pro Golf Discount of Yakima, Wash. Timothy attended California Polytechnic University. He lives in Newberg with his wife Michelle, who will be enrolling in the university’s PsyD program in the fall.

Dana Miller (Advancement) is leaving the university at the end of July. He has accepted a position with the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust as senior program director for grant programs. During his 11 years at George Fox, Dana served on the senior leadership teams of three presidents. A search has begun for a new vice president of advancement. Sheri Philips will serve as the interim executive director of advancement.

Michelle Welton (Tilikum) left her retreat center director position at Tilikum on June 30. She is moving to Portland with her husband Brent, who was recently hired by the Army Corps of Engineers.

Connor Edmonds (Library) left his part-time archivist position on June 30. He has been hired to oversee the records management unit for the secretary of state’s archives division, an agency that develops records retention schedules for all cities, counties, state agencies, and special districts in Oregon.

Sarah Myhre (Undergraduate Admissions) left the university in June and moved to Texas to work at the University of Texas at Arlington.

Sharon Westfall (Registrar) left George Fox in June to work in the registrar’s office at the Portland campus of Linfield College.

Kay Winters (Library) left George Fox in June to accept a position with Oregon Health & Science University’s family medicine department.

Clark Campbell (Psychology) has been elected president-elect of the National Council of Schools and Programs of Professional Psychology. Clark will assume office at the close of the organization’s business meeting in Boston on Aug. 14, 2008. He will be president of NCSPP in 2009-10.

Bill Buhrow (Health and Counseling Services) presented a poster, “Differences in Sexual Behavior and Contraceptive Use in Religious and Non-Religious Universities: A Comparison Using the National College Health Assessment,” at the American College Health Association national meeting in Orlando in June.

Kenn Willson (Performing Arts) completed a piano concert tour in his home state of Montana this spring. He performed a “Viennese Connections” program, featuring the music of Beethoven, in various churches in Billings and his hometown of Big Timber. The presentations included a slide show that Kenn compiled during his 2006 trip to Vienna, Austria.

Mike Goins (Financial Affairs) served on an accreditation site visit team for the Northwest Commission on Colleges & Universities at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma in April.

Ed Higgins’ (Writing/Literature) poem “week’s rain” was published in the most recent edition of the online literary magazine qarrtsiluni. This is the second poem of Ed’s that the publication has posted to its site.

Bryan Boyd (Performing Arts) and wife Kim adopted a baby girl. Sara Uriza Boyd was born May 25 in Florida and was 6 pounds, 9 ounces. She joins a big sister, Emmanuelle, and big brother, Mykel.

The husband of former HR director Marva Crecelius, alumnus Ron Crecelius Jr., died on June 11 from complications from hepatitis C and liver failure. He was 58. In addition to Marva, other survivors include two sons, including 1995 graduate Kyle Jackson.

Twila Tschan, daughter of Vicki (Student Financial Services) and Manfred Tschan, won a $1,000 scholarship for being one of the top five interviews at the America’s Junior Miss Competition contested in Mobile, Ala., June 26-28. Twila will be a George Fox freshman this fall.

Bob (Professor Emeritus) and Maurine Gilmore celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on June 21. A reception followed the Sunday morning worship at West Chehalem Friends Church on June 22. Bob sang and played the song “A Wedding Prayer,” which he wrote for their wedding 50 years ago.

July 8   Jesse Dillow, Jane Scott
July 9   Eloise Hockett, Kenn Willson
July 10   Lois Hutchinson, Ron Mitchell, Beth Molzahn
July 15   Gayle Denham
July 16   Mike Dillow, Candy Schlott
July 17   Mike Goins
July 18   Margi Macy, Scott Rueck
July 19   Kevin Carr, Patti Odenweller
July 20   Brenda Burg
July 21   Gordon Aarness
July 22   Carl Anderson, Sara Vulgan
July 23   Ronecca Dockter, Clyde Thomas
July 25   Sylvette Norre
July 26   Bob Dexter, Rand Michael, Carol Sherwood
July 27   Sandy Cornell, Vickie Timmons
July 30   Dale Isaak, Ron Mock, Thomas Peng
July 31   Lindsay Peterson, Gary Spivey
Aug. 1   Sandy Maurer, Rob Westervelt
Aug. 2   Larry Shutts
Aug. 3   Erin Macy, Nancy Thurston

Employees are invited to attend all-community strategic planning sessions from 1 to 3:30 p.m. Monday, July 14, in Hoover 105.

The sessions will include strategic planning updates from the chairs of the strategic planning work groups. The meeting will begin in Hoover 105 and then break out into rotating sessions in specified Hoover classrooms. Your participation is strongly encouraged.

Have an interesting story to tell about living in Oregon? Any George Fox or Pacific College tales that should be shared? As part of the Oregon’s 150th birthday celebration, the Oregon Stories Project (a part of the Oregon 150 celebration) is collecting stories to share via TV, radio and the Web.

Following are guidelines for sending in your unique Oregon stories at oregon150.org/oregon-stories:

• All forms of expression are welcomed, from poetry to photographs to video
• Stories must be 500 words or fewer and submitted as a Word document or as plain text
• For photos, send electronic, .jpeg files not to exceed 140 KB
• For audio files, send electronic, .mp3 files between one and three minutes in length
• For video files, send electronic, .flv or .mov files between one and three minutes in length

You may also mail stories to:

Oregon Stories Project
Oregon 150
1211 SW Fifth Ave., Ste L17
Portland, OR 97204

Once submitted, entries are the property of Oregon 150 and may be edited for length or clarity. All entrants must sign a release form allowing your story to be reproduced as part of the Oregon Story project.

The deadline for submission is Sept. 30, 2009.

To assist in closing the financial books on 2007-08, HR is requesting staff and administrators to submit June time sheets and time-off reports as soon as possible. This will enable HR to enter vacation and sick leave used in June right away so year-end balances can be reported and accounted for in a timely manner.

If you have any time-off reports or time sheets from earlier in 2007-08 that you have not yet submitted, please turn those in as well. If a supervisor’s absence will cause a delay, please send HR a copy of the original and submit the original after it has all of the requisite signatures.

Thank you,

Human Resources

The registrar’s office has two full-time openings for enrollment counselor, one at the Portland Center and one on the Newberg campus. The Portland position is posted at jobs.georgefox.edu and is open to both external and internal applicants. The Newberg position is currently open only to internal applicants (employees).

You can e-mail hr@georgefox.edu to request a transfer request if you would like to apply for either position. (Job description is the same for both positions.)

Don’t forget to join your colleagues at 3 p.m. Thursday, July 3, for ice cream bars in celebration of the Independence Day/holiday weekend that begins Friday. The bars will be served in the plaza in front of the Stevens Center.

The Salem Courier run will be on Thursday, July 3rd this week, because of the holiday on Friday.  Remember to have items for the Salem Center ready by 11:00 am on Thursday, July 3rd at the normal pick-up area at the Portland Center.

Thanks!

Mail Services

The Salem courier run will be on Thursday, July 3, this week because of the holiday on Friday.  Remember to have items for the Salem Center at Mail Services by 10 a.m. on Thursday, July 3.

Thank you,

Mail Services