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Bill Buhrow (Health and Counseling) presented the poster “The relationship between student credit card debt, volunteerism, academic achievement, and health” at the American College Health Association’s annual meeting in San Francisco in May. The poster was coauthored by Jeremy Stevenson, a PsyD student. Bill also coauthored two posters for the Christian Association of Psychological Studies annual conference in Orlando in April: “Sex and Regret” (coauthored with PsyD students Marcie Courter, Rebecca Sponaugle and Chloe Lee), and “Spirituality and Generosity” (coauthored with PsyD students Misty Tuerck, Jonathan Milner, Jeremy Stevenson and Rychel Mock.)

A piece written by Brent Weaver (Performing Arts) was featured in a concert series, “Celebration Works: Music & Art at First Presbyterian,” at First Presbyterian Church in Portland May 31. Weaver’s Chehalem Sketches, a work for piano and winds, was performed by the Alder Street Sextet. The piece was inspired by the scenery and ethos of the Pacific Northwest.

Melanie Hulbert (Sociology) was one of three authors to receive the “2008 WorldatWork Publications Contributor of the Year” award. Hulbert wrote “Lessons from the Office: The Organizational Implementation of Work-Life Policies” for the WorldatWork Journal’s Second Quarter 2008 edition. The paper explored the factors that influence organizational decision makers to implement work-life policies. The awards were presented at the annual WorldatWork Total Rewards Conference & Exhibition in Seattle on June 2.

Quentin Nordyke, a 1958 George Fox graduate and a resident of Friendsview Retirement Community, was named the university’s 2009 Volunteer of the Year on May 19. Quentin spends two to three days a week year-round creating directional and identification signs for the Newberg campus.

Paul Anderson’s (Religious Studies) essay on the 50-year contribution of the Quaker Theological Discussion Group and Quaker Religious Thought, “In Person and In Print: Engaging in Theological Discussion as Friends,” appeared in Quaker Life (May/June, 2009). The essay also features the residential meeting of QTDG to be held in Barnesville Ohio, in June, which Paul is organizing. Paul also responded as a panelist to Dennis MacDonald’s paper (“What Kind of Book is a Gospel? What Kind of Question is That?”) and to Lane McGauthy’s paper (“Framing Jesus: The Mythic Structure of Ancient Lives and its Influence on the Gospels”) at the Symposium on Epic, Biography, and The Gospels held at Willamette University April 29-30. Paul also outlined his own theory of gospel origins and relations, “A Bi-Optic Hypothesis.”

Ryan Backman (IT) and wife Lisa welcomed a daughter, Sierra Grace, on May 9. The baby was born at Sunnyside Community Hospital and weighed 7 pounds, 11 ounces.

Fred Gregory (President’s Office) married Viola Artikova, a medical doctor from Uzbekistan, in Charlotte, N.C., on May 6. Viola, who just graduated from the University of North Carolina/Charlotte with a master’s degree in public health, will be returning to Uzbekistan to manage a USAID-funded program to develop policy and procedures with the Ministry of Education for mainstreaming children with disabilities into the school system. She will work both from Uzbekistan and Newberg on this project over the next year.

Patti Cooke’s (Plant Services) father died on May 27. James W. Meireis had been a groundskeeper at George Fox many years ago. He was with his family in Redmond, Ore., when he passed. A graveside service took place at Newberg Friends Cemetery on June 6.

Join the Undergraduate Teacher Education Department by donating a few hours of your time on Tuesday, June 23 to serve Sherwood Schools! The district is opening two new school next fall and need a GFU crew of students to help unpack all the new furniture and equipment. The serve project begins at 9:00 a.m.; any hours you can donate that day would be greatly appreciated. 

Contact Karen Buchanan at kbuchana@georgefox.edu to sign up.

Serve Day is in need of team leaders to serve on Wednesday, Sept. 9. Here is a rundown of team leader responsibilities:

• Attend a meeting on Sept. 2  to receive information about site
• Contact both site and RA prior to Serve Day to confirm details
• Supervise volunteers and ensure communication on Serve Day

If you are willing to be a team leader, please contact Rachel at serveday@georgefox.edu or 503-554-2326.

Just a reminder that the Bruin Den and everything else in Heacock Commons will be closed on Thursday, June 11, due to a PGE power conversion.

Employees are invited to attend an all-employee meeting from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. Thursday, June 11, in Hoover 105. The meeting will provide employees an opportunity to receive campus updates. Your participation is strongly encouraged.

For those at the university’s regional sites, the meeting will be available for viewing at stream.georgefox.edu/live/commmtg.sdp. For best results, use Mozilla Firefox for your web browser, and your computer must have QuickTime Player installed. Simply copy the link into the address bar of your browser. If you have any problems, contact the Service Desk at ext. 2569.

A video recording of the meeting will be available for viewing the following day at itunesu.georgefox.edu.

Did you know that your university e-mail account is also a Google Account? (Note that it is just a Google Account, not a Google E-mail Account). Want to know more? Visit this link on the IT website.

You’re invited to a brown bag Lunch-n- Learn to hear how colleagues are using FaceBook (Rob Felton, Peter Crackenberg and Tamara Cissna)and Twitter (Robin Ashford).

When:     June 11, noon to 1 p.m.

Where:    Portland Center, Room 210

Cost:     Free

Bring:    Your lunch and, if you wish, your laptop.

R.S.V.P.  arussell@georgefox.edu

The University Store will be closed on Thursday, June 11, due to a power outage that will affect all of Heacock Commons.

Have an e-nnouncement you’d like to post? You can submit your news using a form online at georgefox.edu/online_community/e-nnouncement_request.

The submission form is no longer available on Bruindata.

Shane Roghaar, the university’s TIAA-CREF representative, will be on the Newberg campus Wednesday and Thursday, June 10-11. Sessions will meet in Hoover 104. You may make an appointment with him to discuss your investments (see the invitation posted on the HR/Benefits web page). Employees in other locations may contact Shane to arrange a telephone consultation at 503-452-6981.

There is a new class schedule available on the Web that displays classes in the familiar format used in Bruindata. Go to http://class.georgefox.edu to access the same MyGFU class schedule listing in a table format to assist with registration and advising.

You will notice changes in Bruindata today. As we continue the PeopleSoft implementation (MyGFU), some of the information in Bruindata has become outdated and is now available at MyGFU. We have removed data that is no longer current from Bruindata to prevent confusion.

Personal biographical information is being maintained in Bruindata; however, new students who begin classes for the first time in fall 2009 will not be in Bruindata and will only utilize PeopleSoft. IT is working on the PeopleSoft/Bruindata replacement portal this summer in preparation for fall semester.

– IT

The 09-10 application for the Juan Young Trust Scholarship is posted on the Student Financial Services website:

http://www.georgefox.edu/offices/stu_fin_srv/index.html

Juan Young is a former president of Kienow’s Food Stores.  This trust was set up to first help Kienow’s employees descendants with college expenses, therefore first priority must be given to them. 

If no applicants meet this criteria, the scholarship will be open to other candidates who fit the following qualifications: 

Oregon resident and under 21 years old on April 24, 2009

Four recipients will be chosen and the scholarship amount is $3,000 each.  Deadline is June 30, 2009.