The Daily Bruin

Learn to make those gorgeous hanging baskets that grace our George Fox quad area. You will learn this valuable lesson on how these beauties are assembled and help us in the process.

Join us Wednesday, May 16, beginning at 9 a.m. at the Plant Services Building at 1101 Villa Road. We will work on baskets for about four hours.

You are welcome to join in the class at any time. Please contact the Plant Services office at 503-554-2010 if you have questions.

If you are planning any move requiring help from Plant Services, please fill out a “Relocation Form” located on our Plant Services web page at this link.

Thank You,
Plant Services

This could be the best year for the university’s Community Garden yet … are you interested in being a part of it?

Here are some highlights to note:

• We’re trying a new, lower-maintenance form of gardening (less weeding, less watering)
• We’re putting in a fruit tree orchard (apples, pears, figs, more!)
• We are benefiting from the fact that we double dug all our beds last year and the soil is great

So, if you would like to join the garden this year, please let Corey Beals know by the end of the week. He can be contacted at cbeals@georgefox.edu.

Joining the garden involves a $10 joining fee (or $15 if not a student) and adopting a bed that you will plant, tend and harvest (or share in this work/harvest with others). We will have work/eating parties on Wednesday evenings.

There will be no delivery of student mail after 2 p.m. on Friday, April 27. This allows time for Mail Services to convert mailboxes from spring semester to summer time use.

Mail delivery to campus boxes that have been requested to remain open will begin on Monday. Forwarding of mail for all other students will also begin next week.

Questions? Contact Linda Sartwell at lsartwel@georgefox.edu.

Returning students: Class papers being returned to you after finals week will be in your campus mailbox when you come back.

Non-returning students: Your class papers will be held at Mail Services for six months. You can stop at Mail Services and ask for them the second week of May or later.

Questions? Contact Linda Sartwell at lsartwel@georgefox.edu.

Graduating seniors and other non-returning students: Remember to return your mailbox key by Friday, April 27, to avoid a $15 key charge to your student account.

Returning students should keep their mailbox keys over the summer.

For more information, please contact Linda Sartwell at lsartwel@georgefox.edu.

Good News Associates will again sponsor its annual Leadership Institute for Group Discernment in Newberg. Designed to help Christian leaders come to consensus and unity around a common sense of Christ’s leading, the event is scheduled May 21-24 at the Tilikum Retreat Center.

A limited number of George Fox student scholarships are available (reducing the cost from $325 to $50), and it can be taken for credit as a special study with Paul Anderson for 1-4 hours (CHMN 485 or PSTD 585).

Contact Paul Anderson (panderso@georgefox.edu) if you have questions or would like more information.

Beginning next week, the courier will be delivering to the Salem campus on Tuesdays only for the summer months. We will deliver this Thursday, April 26, as our final trip for the academic year.

Questions or concerns? Contact Sherrie Frost at ext. 2556.

The university will host two commencement ceremonies this Saturday, April 28. This year, the ceremony for graduate, seminary and adult degree programs is scheduled for 10 a.m., while the undergraduate ceremony is set for 3 p.m. Both will take place in Miller Gymnasium in the Wheeler Sports Center. A live streaming of the undergraduate ceremony will be shown in Bauman Auditorium.

Angela Bymaster, a 2000 alumna of George Fox who become an MD and now works for the Santa Clara County Homeless Healthcare Program, will speak to the undergraduates. Jeanette Eggert, an associate professor of math and physics at Concordia University in Portland, Ore., will address the graduate, seminary and adult degree program students. Audience seating begins an hour before each ceremony.

Commencement can be viewed live at this link 15 minutes prior to the start of the ceremony.

Also on Saturday, undergraduate department receptions are scheduled at 1 p.m. For a complete guide to commencement events, visit this page.

Is there someone at George Fox who has made a difference in your academic career? Someone who ignited a spark to make you want to learn or attend class or who has acted as a role model? Take a moment to write an e-mail, e-card, or traditional “thank you” card to that professor (or other person). Try to be specific as you describe how this person has contributed to your life.

Newberg students can stop by the SUB to pick up a blank card. Of course, one can make or buy one’s own card.

Mark your calendars for a treat!

On Friday, May 4, your Staff Development Committee will be distributing ice cream. Please join us at 3 p.m. in the “party hall” at the Portland Center.

Mark your calendars for a treat!

On Wednesday, May 9, your Staff Development Committee will be serving up ice cream. The university’s annual ice cream social will take place between 2:30 and 3:30 p.m. in the Ron Gregory (EHS) Atrium.

Security services is striving to provide you with the opportunity to get involved by joining our Campus Community Emergency Response Team (C-CERT). We will be hosting training daily from 8 a.m. to noon the week of May 7-12 in EHS 125.

Volunteers will be the first on-the-scene emergency responders to an event that happens on campus, especially when firefighters, police and public safety are overwhelmed with requests for help and could be slowed down by impassable streets and other damage.

In a large-scale disaster, George Fox needs to be prepared to be self-sufficient, too. This is why we are providing this training. Become part of the team and be prepared.

More information is available at this link, and you can also sign up for the upcoming training in May via the link.

Questions? Contact Nadine Kincaid at nkincaid@georgefox.edu.

Sign up today for Run for Romania! Run for Romania will be held at 9 a.m. on Sunday, April 22, at the Newberg campus track. It is a 5K walk that will benefit the June Serve team’s trip to Romania and Moldova this summer.

In this year’s June Serve, a group of George Fox students and faculty that will partner with the organization Word Made Flesh, which seeks to serve Jesus amongst the poorest of the poor in Romania and Moldova.

Registration is $30 for adults and $15 for children (12 and under) and $15 for George Fox Students. To register, go to this link.

There will be registration on Sunday starting at 8 a.m..

For more information, please contact Brian Goodwin at bgoodwin10@georgeofox.edu

Just a reminder: Please check your MyGFU to make sure that you are on track with your chapel credit.

You are responsible to make sure that all of your credits are correct. All chapel credit is due this Friday, April 20, at 11:59 p.m.

For more information, please contact Spiritual Life at spirituallife@georgefox.edu.

The university community is invited to the music department’s spring concert, featuring the Symphonic Band, Concert Choir and Women’s Chorale, tonight (Friday) at 7:30 p.m. in Bauman Auditorium.

Students and employees are entitled to one complimentary ticket that can be picked up at the box office on the first floor of the Stevens Center. Additional tickets are available for purchase at music.georgefox.edu. Tickets will also be available at the door from 6:45 to 7:30 p.m.

Questions? Contact Debbie Hawblitzel at ext. 2620 or dhawblit@georgefox.edu.

Saturday, April 21, noon – Baseball vs. Linfield, DH (at University of Portland)
Sunday, April 22, 1 p.m. – Baseball vs. Linfield (at University of Portland)

Several George Fox teams are involved in Northwest Conference tournaments this weekend. On Friday-Saturday, the track and field teams are in the NWC Championships at Pacific Lutheran in Parkland, Wash. On Saturday-Sunday, the softball team is in the NWC Tournament at Linfield in McMinnville, Ore.; the men’s tennis team is in the NWC Tournament at Whitman in Walla Walla, Wash.; the men’s golf team is in the NWC Championship Tournament in Kennewick, Wash.; and the women’s golf team is in the NWC Championship Tournament in Richland, Wash.

For more information, contact the sports information office at ext. 2926 or visit the sports website at gfubruins.com.

Don’t forget the all-employee meeting scheduled for this afternoon (Thursday) from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in Hoover 105.

For those at the university’s regional sites, the meeting will be available at a stream site that you can access from MyGFU. Simply log into MyGFU and click the “Community Meeting Link” located under “Staff Resources/Faculty Resources.” It is the bottom link in that section. The link will take you to all the information relating to community meetings and include a live-stream link (the password changes each meeting) and a chat room link.

Videos from previously recorded meetings will be added to this page in the days following. Please bookmark the page for quick access each month.

Come join the fun as the engineering freshmen battle it out with their robots on the robot course in our annual Engineering Robotics Competition! The competition will begin at 2:45 p.m. this afternoon (Thursday) in the EHS Atrium. All are welcome to attend!

Questions? Contact Kristin Bontrager at kbontrager@georgefox.edu.

Need an on-campus job? Seeking an internship or even a full-time career? Use BruinCareers for all your job-search needs! We’ve even incorporated a new design.

The new design makes looking for on-campus jobs, internships and careers much easier and makes finding other useful materials, like interview tips and resources, simple as well. BruinCareers also allows you to save a search and receive e-mail alerts when new jobs are posted.

There is also a mobile version of the website available for the iPhone and Android systems. You can access it from your phone at this link. BruinCareers is accessible through MyGFU.

Questions? Contact Career Services at 503-554-2330 or careers@georgefox.edu.

Faculty, please let your students know about the benefits of BruinCareers.