This is a reminder that on Wednesday, March 4, Chris Guyer, clarinet, will present a senior recital at 7:30 p.m. in Bauman Auditorium. He will be accompanied by Barbara Stewart on piano and the George Fox Symphonic Band. Admission is free.
We have a few extra tickets for the etiquette dinner scheduled from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 4, in the Cap and Gown Room. Come to Career Services Tuesday, March 3, and get them before they are gone. The event is designed to help students get ahead in the job market by giving them valuable interview experience through the venue of a formal dinner.
Professors: Encourage your student to attend this valuable etiquette seminar. Business formal attire. Cost is $8 (meal plan students) or $12 (non-meal plan students).
If you are a sophomore attending the Juniors Abroad informational meeting, we have a way for you to attend both.
Questions? Contact Angie Leder at aleder06@georgefox.edu.Â
Attention employees eligible for life insurance: Tuesday, March 3, is your last chance to hear about the new voluntary life insurance benefit offered at group rates with guaranteed issue. Please come to VAC 117 at 11:30 a.m. or to the Executive Dining Room in the Student Union Building at 1:30 p.m. Snacks will be provided.
If you have not already done so, please submit your February time sheet (support staff) or time-off report (administrators) this week. Please be sure it is complete, accurate and signed by both you and your supervisor before sending it to HR at Box 6108. If your supervisor is not available to sign it, please send a copy to HR and keep the original until it has been signed.
We have added spaces to include your Cost Center and Employee ID numbers since that information is needed to access your record in PeopleSoft, so please take an extra moment to provide that information.
The Time-Off Report Form and the February Time Sheet Form are available on the HR site.
How would you like to live in a country with an inflation rate of 231 billion percent? This year’s Peacemaking Forum speaker, Victor Nakah, lives and works in Zimbabwe, where an uncontrolled rate of inflation is only one of the problems that have to be faced on a daily basis. Nakah is a college president and pastor and will be speaking at a number of the forum events Monday and Tuesday, March 9-10.
Monday, March 9
10:40-11:30 a.m.
“The Greatest Commandment,” Victor Nakah
Chapel, Bauman Auditorium
12:45- 3:45 p.m.
“The Imprint of Colonialism in Zimbabwe,” Victor Nakah
Portland Center, American Church History class
1:40-2:30 p.m.
“Beyond Our Differences,” DVD and discussion led by Kendra Irons (Religious Studies)
Hoover 206, World Religions class
3-4 p.m.
“Building Peace on a Full Stomach,” Deborah Scott, Mennonite Central Committee
Stevens 101
6-7 p.m.
Informal meal With Victor Nakah, $5, Bruin Den Annex
R.S.V.P. to Center for Peace and Justice, ext. 2685
7:30-9 p.m.
The Woolman Lecture: “Jesus, the Ancestor of Peace,” Victor Nakah
Calder Lecture Hall, Lemmons 8; reception following
Tuesday, March 10
2:45-4 p.m.
“Possibilities for Peacemaking in Zimbabwe,” Victor Nakah
Stevens 109, International Conflict and Peace class
On Wednesday, March 4, from 6 to 8:30 p.m., the Portland Center will sponsor a free resource event, Re-Boot, for people experiencing economic distress due to changes in our economy. Cosponsored by the Graduate Department of Counseling’s Individual & Family Matters Counseling Center and the Trauma Response Institute, it will take place in the Portland South building.
The event will host individuals and organizations offering information on a variety of topics, including where to turn for housing assistance, maximizing shopping dollars, job searching on the Internet, managing pet care on a tight budget, and helping children understand changes in the family’s living situation.
Room 155 in the Portland South building will serve as the main information area. In a separate classroom, people will get a chance to view a variety of dollar-stretching video clips from the numerous consumer advice segments aired by local television stations. Five-minute neck and hand massages, as well as yoga exercises parents can teach their children, also will be offered.
The Portland South building will be open at 5:30 p.m. for participating organizations to set up their information tables. We’ll also set aside the back portion of the lobby for childcare. We’re inviting all members of the George Fox community to participate according to your interest and availability.
If you have an idea for a table, are willing to help out with childcare, or would like to help usher guests from one arena to another, please contact Amy McClung, our volunteer coordinator, at ext. 6060. For more information, you may also contact Anna Berardi at ext. 6144.
George Fox received the lone first-round bye in the NCAA Division III Women’s Basketball National Tournament and will open the tournament with a home game Saturday, March 7, against the winner of a first-round game between Chapman University and Occidental College.
Saturday’s game in the Wheeler Sports Center’s Miller Gym begins at 7 p.m. Tickets are $6 for adults and $3 for students, children and seniors 55 and older. Advance tickets will go on sale in the George Fox athletics office on Wednesday and must be purchased in person. Tickets also will be available at the door. Regular season passes are not valid for the NCAA playoffs.
Campus station KFOX Radio will webcast the game, and LiveStats and live video streaming also will be available.
George Fox, ranked No. 2 in the USA Today/ESPN/Women’s Basketball Coaches Association poll and No. 3 in the D3hoops.com poll, is one of two remaining undefeated teams in D-III women’s basketball. The Bruins will be making their third straight appearance in the national tournament, fourth in five years, and sixth in 10 seasons of NCAA eligibility. They have a 7-5 record in NCAA postseason play, reaching the “Sweet 16†in 2000, 2005, and 2008, and the “Elite 8†in 2005.
The Bruins earned the Northwest Conference’s automatic bid to the playoffs by winning the conference tournament with victories over Whitman College and the University of Puget Sound.
The university’s theatre department invites the community to its spring production, The Triumph of Love, March 5-7 and March 12-15 in Wood-Mar Auditorium. Performances take place at 7:30 p.m. March 5-7 and 12-14 and at 2 p.m. on March 15.
The play, directed by Rhett Luedtke (Performing Arts), is an 18th-century romantic comedy filled with all the confusions and complexities of love. Princess Leonide’s world turns upside down when she falls in love with a young man who can rightfully usurp her kingdom. Unfortunately, her love interest is being tutored by an over-rational philosopher who hates love and has taught the young man to hate women. So Leonide and her maid, Corine, dress up as men, invade the philosopher’s estate and try to prove to the men that love conquers all.
Employees receive one complimentary ticket, available for pick-up at the University Store. Students are welcome to see the show free of charge on Thursday, March 5, and Thursday, March 12, and may pick up those tickets at the University Store. The cost is $10 for general admission, $8 for seniors and alumni, and $6 for students and children under 12. To purchase tickets or find out more, visit theatre.georgefox.edu.
The Department of Religious Studies invites you to SpringFest ’09. Drop by the second floor of the Hoover Academic Building between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. Thursday March 5, for free food, free books and fun. There will be egg-dyeing, conversations with professors, and an atmosphere of fun. So take a break from your hectic schedule and join us.
– Religious Studies Department
In an effort to help impact current students and retain them for next academic year, we are launching a simple and focused retention project. We are looking for 200 faculty/staff to serve as a “retention coach” for six students each for the next eight weeks.
A communication plan with suggested “talking points” has been developed and will be provided to each “coach.” If you are interested in helping, please let Sarah King (Enrollment Services) know immediately. We’d like the first contact to happen this week.
Thanks,
Dale Seipp, VP for Enrollment
The Department of Performing Arts continues the busy recital season this week with exciting performances from our students. All events will be held in Bauman Auditorium.
On Wednesday, March 4, Chris Guyer, clarinet, will present a senior recital at 7:30 p.m.
On Friday, March 6, from 12:40 to 1:30 p.m., the second Students in Recital of the semester is scheduled. Then, at 7:30 p.m. that evening, pianists Kenneth Willson, Barbara Stewart, Dan Miller, Becca Couch, Bethany Taft, Joseph Forster, James Pick, Cameron DeWhitt, Allen Cassell, Andrew Payne, and Beth Sellers will present a “Multi-Piano Extravaganza.”
Finally, at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 7, (please note the time change), Emily Yarnold, soprano, and Ashley Salisbury, mezzo-soprano, will present their junior recital.
Please join us in supporting our students. Admission is free.
Appointment times are still available with Shane Roghaar, our TIAA-CREF representative, who will be available for one-hour meetings between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. March 10 (Portland Center), March 11 (Newberg) and March 12 (Newberg). You may make an appointment with him to discuss your investments using the online reservation system. See the invitation posted on the HR/Benefits Web page.
Employees in other locations, or those who are not available at this time, may call Shane to arrange a telephone consultation at 503-452-6981.
George Fox undergraduate and graduate students are eligible to apply for student research funding through the Richter Scholarship program. The second round of scholarship applications are due by 4 p.m. Tuesday, March 31. The program provides stipends and supply funds for research in collaboration with a faculty member.
Please turn in applications to Carol Jaquith (Psychology) at Box 6127, or deliver to Hoover 110. For details, visit the university’s Richter Scholarship page.
Ushers are needed for the Oregon Symphony concert scheduled in Bauman Auditorium at 8 p.m. Friday, March 20. Ushers also are needed for the Worcester Cathedral Choir event scheduled for Monday, April 6. Please contact Danya Ochsner (University Relations) at ext. 2121 if you can help.
Ticket and event information on both concerts will be forthcoming in e-nnouncements.
Friday, Feb. 27, marked the advent of employees no longer receiving printed direct deposit statements. Instead, employees will be able to view (and print) their pay statements through PeopleSoft by following these simple steps:
Please note: If you have difficulty getting the self-service system to function correctly, please contact the IT service desk at ext. 2569.
This new process helps the university be a good steward of both financial and natural resources by reducing paper and envelope usage. It also will save significant time for staff in both HR and Mail Services.
Employees who are not on direct deposit will continue to receive their paychecks with statements attached through the mail. However, all employees (except student employees) are strongly encouraged to sign up for direct deposit.
The Spring Faculty Lecture, “Channeling the Inklings: A Dialogue About Writing Group Success,” will be presented by Ed Higgins, Polly Peterson, Melanie Springer Mock (Writing/Literature), and Kendra Weddle Irons (Religious Studies) from 7:30 to 9 p.m. Tuesday, March 3, in Hoover 105.
The presenters will examine the use of writing groups for teaching and scholarship and discuss their group’s parallel to the Inklings, a famous English writing group that included C.S. Lewis & J.R.R. Tolkien.
Friday, Feb. 27, marks the advent of employees no longer receiving printed direct deposit statements. Instead, employees will be able to view (and print) their pay statements through PeopleSoft by following these simple steps:
Please note: If you have difficulty getting the self-service system to function correctly, please contact the IT service desk at ext. 2569.
This new process helps the university be a good steward of both financial and natural resources by reducing paper and envelope usage. It also will save significant time for staff in both HR and Mail Services.
Employees who are not on direct deposit will continue to receive their paychecks with statements attached through the mail. However, all employees (except student employees) are strongly encouraged to sign up for direct deposit.
Attention student employee supervisors: February student time sheets must be in HR no later than Tuesday, March 3, so please have them hand-delivered to HR as soon as you get them. If you are not on the Newberg campus, please fax your student time sheets to 503-554-2186 and then send the originals to HR in campus mail.
Also, please check to be sure all of your students have submitted their time sheets to you and follow up with any that have not. And, as always, we appreciate you checking for the following:
Reminder: If a student delivers his or her own time sheet to HR, it must be in a sealed envelope to comply with Federal Work Study regulations.
Thanks very much.
– Human Resources
Chapel will take on a different format on Wednesday, March 4. Spiritual Life is hosting its annual Faculty Journeys chapel at various locations on campus. This is an opportunity to hear from a faculty member of your choice about their personal spiritual journey. Chapel credit is available and worship singing will take place at each venue. Below are the faculty members and venues where they will be sharing:
Kathy Heininge, Stevens 209
Dwight Kimberly, Lemmons 8
Ron Mitchell, EHS 102
Sue O’Donnell, Hoover 105
Byron Shenk, Stevens 207
Join us at 10:40 a.m. Wednesday at any of these locations.
All employees are invited to attend the Grandma Zula’s Legacy film presentation from 3:30 to 5 p.m. Monday, March 2, in Stevens 101. Please R.S.V.P. to Joel Perez (Student Life) at jperez@georgefox.edu if you plan to attend.
