Come wish Kendra Irons well as she finishes her final semester at George Fox and completes her move to Texas. As an associate professor, Kendra has been an important part of our Religious Studies Department for the past six and a half years.
A farewell reception is scheduled from 4:30 to 6 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 2, in the Hoover Lounge (Hoover 250). Both colleagues and students will miss her.
Please send an e-mail to Peggy Kilburg (HR) if you would like to nominate a support staff member or administrator for Employee of the Month for December. Your e-mail should include the person’s name, job title, a concise but specific summary of this person’s recent contributions (past 30 days or so) to the university, its students, and/or its employees (what was done, who was impacted, etc.), and any other information that you believe makes this person deserving of this award.
Please submit your nomination by Friday, Dec. 11. The President’s Executive Leadership Team will then select the Employee(s) of the Month from the nominations submitted. The winner(s) will be announced at the all-employee meeting on Wednesday, Dec. 16, and will receive a $100 gift card to The Allison.
Students-if you have a bike on campus, please put it in your room during Thanksgiving break for safekeeping. If you have not registered your bike with Security, please bring it over and get your gratis registration. You might also want to consider taking your bikes home during the winter, and bringing them back at spring break when the weather improves. Happy Thanksgiving!
The university will be closed Thursday and Friday, Nov. 26-27, for the Thanksgiving holiday. All offices, bookstores and libraries will be closed those two days.
The Baker family invites you and your family to their third annual Christmas Open House from 6 to 8 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 13, at the Edwards House, 402 S. College St., in Newberg. Join us for light appetizers and holiday sweets as we celebrate the Christmas season together!
Thomas Peng (China and East Asia Studies Program) will speak at a George Fox Auxiliary luncheon scheduled for noon Friday, Dec. 4, in the Cap and Gown Room. Reservations are required and tickets are $7.50 per person.
Also appearing will be several international students. To make reservations, contact Margene Haworth at 503-538-0604 by Tuesday, Dec. 1.
The Bruin Bookstore will close early this Wednesday, Nov. 25, for the Thanksgiving holiday. The store will reopen at 8 a.m. on Monday, Nov. 30. All the bookstore employees wish everyone a safe and restful holiday break.
Come to the men’s basketball team versus Corban College Tuesday, November 24 at 7:30 p.m. in the Wheeler Gymnasium. Halftime will feature a performance by the McMinnville High School Grizzly Dance Team to “Thriller”. The Grizzly Dance Team is preparing to perform in the Orange Bowl halftime show, where they will be working with renown choreographers such as Mandy Moore, Chris Judd, and Shane Sparks.
We will be closing the Bruin Den at 1:30 p.m. and the grill will close at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 25, in anticipation of the Thanksgiving holiday. We will reopen on Monday, Nov. 30.
Wishing everyone a wonderful Thanksgiving with family and friends.
– Bon Appetit
With the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday, Bon Appetit will be revising the hours of service in the Klages Dining Room for those students remaining on campus throughout the holiday. Following is the schedule.
Wednesday dinner: 4:30-5:30 p.m.
Thursday bunch: 10:30-11 a.m.
Dinner:Â 4-4:30 p.m.
Friday & Saturday brunch: 10:30-11 a.m.
Dinner: 5-5:30 p.m.
Sunday brunch: 10:30-11 a.m.
Dinner: 5-7 p.m.
For those students who are anticipating to be eating meals with us on Thanksgiving Day, please let us know by signing up at our front desk so that we know how much food to prepare.
The Portland Center Bookstore will be closed for the Thanksgiving Holiday from Wed., November 25 through Fri., November 27. We will resume regular store hours on Monday, November 30.
The Bruin Bookstore invites you to gobble up the savings of leftover and reduced merchandise during our “Turkey Sale” on Thanksgiving week, Monday through Wednesday, Nov. 23-25. It’s a great opportunity to buy gift items to stuff in Christmas stockings!
The store is open from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday and Tuesday and 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday.
Attention students living in dorms and suites:
The Public Health Nursing class is still in need of your help. Please take a few moments to complete a short survey related to the flu by clicking the link below. It will take less than 3 minutes to complete.
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=A0vh0n27zA9Xh_2bdA5aaSLQ_3d_3d
Your participation is greatly appreciated!
Time change update: An edited recording of the ASC town hall of Nov. 10, in which a discussion took place regarding a proposed campus fire pit project, will be broadcast on KFOX at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 24. Listen online at kfoxradio.georgefox.edu. This is two hours earlier than originally reported.
An edited recording of the ASC town hall of Nov. 10, in which a discussion took place regarding a proposed campus fire pit project, will be broadcast on KFOX from 8 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 24. Listen online at kfoxradio.georgefox.edu.
Everyone is encouraged to come to the Bruin Basketball games this Friday, but if you are unable to attend in person, watching on the Internet should be a better experience this year. Stretch Internet is the host that will be delivering our video stream. We are excited because the quality should be better thanks to more bandwidth and better production software.
Check out the schedule by clicking this Stretch Internet link. The first games to be broadcast will be Friday’s (Nov. 20) home openers.
– IT
The Fitness Center will be closed from 5 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 25, until 6 a.m. Monday, Nov. 30, for the Thanksgiving holiday.
The Moore House will officially close for renovations on Friday, December 18th and will reopen in May 2010 as a Cultural Center/Cross-Cultural House.
The Commuter Lounge will move to the Foxhole in the Student Union Building (SUB) for the spring 2010 semester.
Card access to the Foxhole can be obtained by e-mailing Jere Witherspoon in the Student Life Office. Once you have been confirmed as a commuter you will be granted access for the spring semester starting January 11, 2010.
Beginning in the spring, the Foxhole will be open for commuters from 8 a.m. – 5 p.m. every day.
IF YOU WOULD LIKE ACCESS TO THE COMMUTER LOUNGE IN THE FOXHOLE, PLEASE E-MAIL YOUR 7-DIGIT STUDENT ID NUMBER TO JERE WITHERSPOON.
Please contact the Student Life Office (x2316) or ASC.
Come to the Turkey Bowl PowderPuff Football game Saturday, November 21 at 10 a.m. on the track field.
Correction:
Sophomores and Juniors vs. Freshmen and Seniors
Come with your BlueZone shirt and support your class of women.
This Monday, Nov. 23, between 12:30 and 4 p.m., the seniors in Liberal Arts and Critical Issues will be presenting their research on the Majority World and the West. We will have 39 project tables located in Hoover and EHS. Please drop by and see what the seniors have been doing this semester.
