The Daily Bruin

Do you anticipate receiving a five-, 10-, 15-, 20-, 25-, or 30-year service award this spring? If so, please check to be sure your name is included in one of the lists below. Awards will be presented on May 3 to employees, half time and above.

If your name is not included in one of these lists but you believe you should receive an award, or if your name is on the list and you don’t think you should receive an award this year, contact Peggy Kilburg (Human Resources) by e-mail and include your hire date and any other information you think may be helpful. (If you are a rehire, your previous benefits-eligible experience at George Fox counts toward your service award.) Your help is most appreciated to ensure that the right employees are honored at this event. Only service at half-time or above is used in determining your years of service.

• To receive a five-year award, your hire date is between Sept. 2, 2004 and Sept. 1, 2005
• To receive a 10-year award, your hire date is between Sept. 2, 1999 and Sept. 1, 2000
• To receive a 15-year award, your hire date is between Sept. 2, 1994 and Sept. 1, 1995
• To receive a 20-year award, your hire date is between Sept. 2, 1989 and Sept. 1, 1990
• To receive a 25-year award, your hire date is between Sept. 2, 1984 and Sept. 1, 1985
• To receive a 30-year award, your hire date is between Sept. 2, 1979 and Sept. 1, 1980
• To receive a 35-year award, your hire date is between Sept. 2, 1974 and Sept. 1, 1975

Five-Year: Sarah Marvin, Sheila Abercrombie, Jan Carpenter, Paul Griffith, Kris Kays, Matt Meyer, Robert Nava, John Schmitt, Robert Simpson, Kathleen Sims, Sarah Baldwin, Kathi Newton, Elaine Smith, Ben Kulpa, Travis Morgan, Peter Crackenberg, Christee Wise, Tim Goodfellow, Reid Kisling, Marcus Peters, Deb Herb-Sepich, Colleen Huffman, Ronecca Dockter, Julie Green, Sue Harrison, Shary Wortman, Holly Kirby, Sandi Gregory, Andrea Byerley, Ryan Backman

10-Year: Adina Briggs McConaughey, Brenda Burg, Ginny Birky, Neal Ninteman, Marc Shelton, Mark Sundquist, Lynn Scott, Cindy Howard, Ryan Dougherty, Brad Lau, Rich Bass, Chris Young, Russ DeVore, Tony Longstroth, Melanie Mock, Piper Parks, John Stewart, Edwin Espana, Elizabeth Holme, Carrie McNeal

15-Year: Steve Bearden, Anna Berardi, Dan Brunner, Jenny Getsinger, Richard Shaw, Dale Isaak, Clella Jaffe, John Natzke, Paul Corbett-Furgal, Carl Anderson, Mike Rader, Vicki Tschan, Cheri Hampton

20-Year: Doug Campbell, Alex Pia, Byron Shenk, Rodger Bufford, Howard Macy

25-Year: Terrie Boehr, Ron Mock, Ron Stansell, Sherrie Frost, Karon Bell, Patty Findley

30-Year: Jim Foster, Bonnie Jerke, Jim Jackson, Merrill Johnson

Employees may notice a change in their net pay on their Jan. 29 pay statements from 2009. This change is likely due to a change in the amount withheld for federal income taxes. New tax tables went into effect for 2010 as a result of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009.

Student supervisors, please submit your students’ January time sheets to HR right away – by 3 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 2.

Please be sure the student’s name, ID number and cost center number is legible on each one. Also, don’t forget to sign them and be sure the students did as well. (If the student is not available to sign it this week, please send it without the signature, and HR will contact the student.) Please do not send students to HR to sign their time sheets.

Federal Work Study regulations require that students delivering their own time sheets must have them in a sealed envelope. If you happen to still have any paperwork to submit on a newly hired student who worked in January, please hand-deliver it right away – no later than Monday, Feb. 1. We need to set up students in the system before the time sheets arrive.

Thanks very much.
HR

This Monday, Feb. 1, Dan Merchant, the writer, director and producer of Lord, Save Us from Your Followers, will speak at the university’s Liberal Arts and Critical Issues Forum. Merchant spent the last four years traveling the U.S. talking to people from all viewpoints about Christianity and civility.  He will show highlights from his documentary and share about his experiences.

Two sessions are scheduled, from 4:40 to 5:35 p.m. and from 7 to 7:55 p.m. Both will take place in Hoover 105 on the Newberg campus.

For more information, contact Caitlin Corning at ccorning@georgefox.edu or visit georgefox.edu/laci.

W-2’s were put in employees’ campus boxes on Wednesday (except for those that normally receive their pay statements at their home addresses). Please watch for yours if you have not already picked it up. Most of the information on these forms is easy to understand or explained in the fine print on the reverse, but we thought it would be helpful to provide a little extra information:

Items in Boxes 12a-12d are required by the IRS. The amount (if any) in Box 12a labeled “C” is the taxable cost of your group term life insurance paid by the university in 2009. (This amount was also included in your pay as taxable income in 2009.) The amount (if any) in 12b labeled “E” is the contribution you made to a supplemental retirement plan beyond the 3 percent that the university matches.

Box 14 shows the amount of your contribution to the university-sponsored retirement plan and is labeled “TIAA,” which is the IRS code/section assigned to our plan. This represents 3 percent of your pay from the time you began participation.

Employees (and their tax preparers) often ask why the amount in Box 1 is different than the amount listed in Box 3 and 5. Because any contributions you made to the retirement plan(s) are not subject to income taxes, those amounts (shown in 12b and 14) are not included in Box 1. However, those contributions are still subject to Social Security and Medicare (FICA) taxes, so they are included in the amount shown in both Box 3 and 5. If you add the amount in Box 1 to any amounts in Boxes 12b and 14, the total will equal the amount in Box 3 and 5.

You may find this information boring and/or confusing, but we recommend you save and keep it in a safe place, along with your W2, so you will have both when you (or your tax preparer) files your tax return.

Finally, big kudos and many thanks to Brooke McGillivray, Melodee Powers and Tory Cole for their extra efforts to get these 2,200 W2’s out ahead of the legal deadline of Feb. 1.

For anyone interested in events/opportunities/conversation regarding the Friends/Quaker church, please accept this open invitation to join QuakeSpace, a Google group administered by the undergraduate Friends Center at George Fox. Send an e-mail to Jamie Johnson (jejohnson@georgefox.edu) to be added, and join the 100 other people in the group.

I need a few more volunteers to help out with the Kaleo conference. I am looking for a few employees who would be willing to help out with various activities that day (Saturday, Feb. 20). If you are interested, please contact Amy Lorenz at alorenz@georgefox.edu or ext. 2134.

All Kaleo volunteers receive a $10 discount on their ticket price and a free Kaleo T-shirt. For more information about the conference, visit kaleo.georgefox.edu.

The community has spoken, and it is reflected in the university’s strategic plan, so plans are being made for a program that will nurture and develop the leadership potential of George Fox University women. If you aspire to develop your experience, style and skills as a leader, plan to join us for the February kick-off event.

Newberg event:
Monday, Feb. 15
3:30-5 p.m.
Klages Dining Room (west end)
Refreshments will be served
Administrators and staff will be released from office responsibilities

Portland/Salem event: TBD

During this time together, led by President Robin Baker, you will have an opportunity to hear about the significance of the women’s leadership development initiative within the university’s strategic plan, the steps that have been made to carry the conversation to this point, and our vision for the future development of leadership among women at George Fox. At the event your questions and insights will be valued.

The theatre’s winter production of A Grand Night For Singing will be showing in Wood-Mar Auditorium Feb. 4-6 and Feb. 11-13 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, Feb. 7, at 2 p.m.

A Grand Night for Singing is a musical review of 36 of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s most memorable romantic ballads. The arc of Grand Night takes the audience on a musical journey through all the emotional stages of love.

All George Fox University employees and students receive one complementary ticket. Your complimentary ticket is only available at the Box Office in the University Bookstore. Additional tickets are $10 for adults, $8 for alumni and seniors, and $6 for students and children under 12. Tickets may be purchased on the university’s website.

Don’t forget to support the senior capstone community Saturday market on Saturday, Jan. 30, in EHS from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

There will be food, live music (including Chad Strutz from Just Lions), a wide array of different gifts from local vendors, and good company. Some of the local vendors include Honest Chocolate, Scarf it Up, and authors Dirk Barram, Jim Foster and Erin Macy. A percentage of sales are going toward the Patrick Kibler Fund and the Women’s and Children’s Shelter in Newberg.

The university is invited to a showing of Jesus Freaks at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday, Feb. 2-3, in Hoover 105.

Jesus Freaks is a character-driven documentary chronicling a Youth With a Mission discipleship training school that uses skateboarding and snow boarding as tools for ministry. The film follows the lives of students as they wrestle with faith, relationships, substance abuse and death.

A YWAM team will be here both nights the film is shown on campus. Come hear their stories, watch the film and support them as they take their ministry to the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, B.C.

Do you want to receive Christian News Northwest newspapers in your offices? For aesthetics purposes on campus, the newspapers will now be placed only in wire racks in the same locations as the university magazine (except for the library and mailrooms). The editor, John Fortmeyer, will continue bringing the papers to the administrative offices for those who indicate interest.

Please write Tamara Cissna at tcissna@georgefox.edu if your office would like to continue receiving them, and specify if you want enough copies to leave a stack for visitors or just enough for employees to help ensure surplus copies aren’t wasted.

We are looking for extras for a short student film project. The film takes place on a bus, so were are looking for a wide range of ages, children through adults. Filming will be from 5 to 7 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 30, in McMinnville. If interested, please contact Sarah Tremayne at stremayne06@georgefox.edu.

The university community is invited to hear Howard Kenyon, co-chair of the board of human trafficking for the Oregon Center for Christian Values, at 8 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 28, in Hoover 206. Kenyon will speak about sex trafficking in Oregon.

Attendees will have the opportunity to discuss and ask questions about the multitude of issues OCCV covers, what sex trafficking looks like in Portland, and recent legislation regarding human trafficking (look for info on HB 3623). The event is sponsored by the university’s International Justice Mission Chapter. It was originally scheduled for last week but was changed.

If there is any possibility that you will use tuition remission during the 2010-11 academic year, whether for yourself, a spouse, and/or dependent(s), be sure to complete a Tuition Remission Request Form for each person and submit it as soon as possible. These are due by Monday, March 1, but we would appreciate receiving them as early as possible.

Please visit this link to an HR Employee Benefits page that provides instructions for completing the forms and a link to the forms themselves. It is important to read this information before you begin completing a Tuition Remission Request Form. Incomplete forms will be returned without being processed. For information about the Tuition Exchange program, contact Karlyn Fleming (Academic Affairs).

Are you interested in whole-language techniques for learning or teaching a language? Don’t miss “Reflections on Fluency First from a Learner’s Perspective” on Tuesday, Feb. 2, from 2:45 to 4 p.m. in Ross 141. Presenter Martha Iancu teaches English using Fluency First techniques and experienced them as a learner of Spanish.

Shane Roghaar, our TIAA-CREF representative, will be on the Newberg campus Feb. 9 and April 13. You may make an appointment with him to discuss your investments by visiting this link on the HR/Benefits web page. Employees in other locations may contact Shane to arrange a telephone consultation at 866-928-4221.

Come support one of the senior business capstone groups this weekend! Join us this Saturday, Jan. 30, at the monthly Community Saturday Market. It will be held at the Newberg campus in EHS from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

There will be food, live music, including Chad Strutz from Just Lions, a wide array of different gifts from local vendors, and good company. Some of the local vendors include Honest Chocolate, Scarf it Up, and authors Dirk Barram, Jim Foster and Erin Macy. A percentage of sales are going toward the Patrick Kibler Fund and the Women’s and Children’s Shelter in Newberg.

Hope to see you there!

Due to floor repairs in the hallway, University Mail Services will be closing the service window at 3 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 26. We will reopen on Wednesday morning at 8 a.m.

Print Services will close from 3 to 4:30 p.m. Tuesday only. For printing needs during that time, please call ext. 2550. For darkroom access, please contact your professor.

We apologize for any inconvenience. Thank you for your patience during this time.

– Mail Services

The university community is invited to a retirement reception in honor of Lon Fendall who, among other duties, has directed the Center for Global Studies and the Center for Peace and Justice, served as the dean of undergraduate programs, and served as an associate professor of history and political science.

Please join us for dessert and an opportunity to thank Lon personally for his good work at George Fox. The reception will take place at 3 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 28, in the Duke Atrium (Stevens Center).