A Senior Thesis Exhibit, featuring the work of graduating art students, begins with an opening reception from 4 to 5:30 p.m. Thursday, April 10, in both the Minthorne and Lindgren galleries. The exhibit will remain on display in both galleries through April 26.
Attention staff: Voting for new members on the Staff Development Committee will take place between now and April 11 at 5 p.m.
Click on the link below and choose four names on the ballot. Results will be announced on Monday, April 14, at the staff lunch.
Click here to vote for four new members.
President Robin and Ruth Baker invite you to attend the annual presentation of employee awards:
Date: Wednesday, May 7
Place: Wood-Mar Auditorium
Time: 3:30-4:30 p.m.
An employee reception, featuring refreshments, will follow in the Ron Gregory Atrium in EHS from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. The event is in lieu of the annual employee appreciation dinner.Â
The theatre department will present As it is in Heaven, the final play of the 2007-08 season, on April 10-12 and April 17-19 at 7:30 p.m., and April 13 at 2 p.m. All performances take place in Wood-Mar Auditorium.
The play tells the story of an 1830s Shaker community in Pleasant Hill, Ky., that is set in its ordered ways until a newcomer, Fanny, see angels in the meadow. Soon all the young women are receiving spiritual “gifts” of songs, drawings, ideas, and giggles and completely upsetting the community. Are these gifts an honest resurgence of the original shaker celebration, or something manufactured by Fanny?
Employees receive one complimentary ticket, available for pick-up at the University Store. Students are welcome to see the show free of charge at the two Thursday performances 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.
A seminar, “Preparing to Buy Your First Home,” will be presented from 6 to 7 p.m. Monday, April 14, in EHS 102. Presented by Northwest Lending Solutions, the seminar will help clear up some of the myths about buying a house. Attendees also will have a chance to win an iPod Shuffle, and free pizza and drinks will be served.
Preregister by e-mailing your name, address, phone number, and marital status to Preston Langeliers at plangeliers05@georgefox.edu.
The Associated Student Community communications department is hiring students for next year. Students are needed to work with The Crescent, KFOX, L’Ami, the darkroom, and the Bruin Directory. Most urgently, there is a need to hire the heads of these sub-committees. All positions come with a small stipend. Applications are available in the Bruin Den. E-mail Rob Leslie at rleslie06@georgefox.edu with questions.
The Thailand May Serve team is accepting donations for a garage sale through Friday, April 11. The sale will be from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, April 12, in the Ron Gregory Atrium in EHS, with all proceeds benefiting the Thailand May Serve team.
The library staff wishes to thank the George Fox community for participating in the recent library service quality survey. Over the past few weeks, 887 students, faculty, staff, and administrators, or 22 percent of the university community, completed the survey. Many respondents also supplied written comments. Library faculty and staff will soon review the data plus all the suggestions and comments with great interest.
Congratulations to these winners whose names were randomly drawn from all who took the survey and entered their e-mail addresses.
iPod Shuffle:
Angela Leder
Annette Ann Korkeakoski-Sears
$25 Amazon gift certificate:
Andrew Miller
Daniel Brunner
Kaitlan White
Kathryn Hite
Susan Corbett-Furgal
Astronomy without a telescope? The continents as one? Come to an”Intellectual Feast” at 4 p.m. Tuesday, April 8, in Hoover 250 to learn about faith as a virtue in scientific research. Presented by Phil Smith, professor of philosophy.
The annual Fox Film Festival is scheduled for 5 p.m. Friday, April 11, at the Cameo Theater in downtown Newberg, and at 6 p.m. Saturday, April 12, in Bauman Auditorium. The cost is $4 for Friday’s showing and free on Saturday.
Please join the cinema and media communication department to celebrate a year of hard work. The films to be shown each night are:
Friday, April 11
Plight Before Christmas
The Lowly Landscaper
Wayne
Sunday Drivers
Here with Myself
God’s Call
Week on the Street
Saturday, April 12
Choices trailer
Goldie’s Last Days
Cafeteria
Lowly Landscaper
Cherry Coke
The Haunting of Quincy Walters
Loneliness
Ferdalangur
Awards will be handed out throughout the evening of April 12.
Questions? Contact filmfestival@georgefox.edu.
Come join faculty, students, and staff in celebrating the contributions of Tom Johnson (Religious Studies), who has served for the last 11 years at George Fox as university president, seminary dean, and professor of biblical theology.
A reception for Tom is scheduled from 2 to 3:15 p.m. Wednesday, April 16, in the atrium of the Stevens Center. Tom and wife Michele will be moving to Whidbey Island in their retirement; their presence among us will be greatly missed. Come join us for sharing, music, refreshments, and fellowship.
The university’s International Justice Mission chapter is hosting a fund-raiser April 8-10, in the Student Union Building during lunch (11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.). Support IJM by buying a beaded bracelet and picking up more information about IJM and how you can support the organization. For more information, visit ijm.org or e-mail Joanna Cox at jcox05@georgefox.edu.
The university will host a Chamber Concert, featuring performances by many of our chamber ensembles including the Flute Ensemble, Handbell Ringers, Trumpet Quartet, Clarinet Quartet, Keyboard Ensemble, Early Music Ensemble, and Women’s Chorale, at 7:30 p.m. Monday, April 7, in Bauman Auditorium. There is no admission charge, and doors open at 7 p.m.
The following evening, April 8, the Chehalem Symphony Orchestra will perform a free concert at 7:30 p.m. in Bauman Auditorium. The symphony consists of George Fox University students, faculty, and residents of the greater Portland area. Pieces performed will include Capriccio Espagnol Op. 34 by Nicholas Rimsky-Korsakov and Symphony No. 3 in C Major by Jean Sibelius.
The Jazz Dessert, originally scheduled for April 15, has been canceled.
You are invited to faculty sharing from 10:40 to 11:30 a.m. Friday, April 4, in Hoover 105. The topic of discussion will be “Faculty Evaluations: What and How.” Since the method and content of evaluations are in the process of being changed, the Faculty Council thought it would be good to have an opportunity to discuss some of the many variables involved in evaluations. Please join the discussion. Refreshments will be served.
The admissions office is hosting Bruin Preview for prospective students Thursday, April 10, and Friday, April 11. This is an important event for prospective students to visit our campus. Please join us in offering up your Steven’s Center parking spots to our guests on Thursday and Friday.
Parking is available for employees in the lots at Bauman Auditorium and Pennington Hall.
Thank you for your consideration; it is greatly appreciated.
– Admissions
Please come support our May Serve trip to Thailand by donating money to us while we wash your car! We will wash from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, April 5, at the Newberg Tire Factory.
A Portland musical theatre series, Staged!, will honor the life work of George Fox alumna Tera Bloodgood Ewert (’97) by adding one performance to its successful run of the musical Les Miserables.
The performance, scheduled for 7 p.m. Monday, April 14, at the World Trade Center Theatre in Portland, will benefit the Gulu Rehabilitation Center for Children of War in Uganda, West Africa — an outreach sponsored by World Vision, a charity Tera worked with before her death two years ago this spring. She had devoted her life to helping women and children around the world.
The show also has ties to Newberg and George Fox, with several alums and community members involved in the theatre company. Tickets for the show range from $21 to $25 and can be purchased at brownpapertickets.com. For more information, visit stagedpdx.org.
The last information meeting about the new Performance Review and Planning Process for support staff and administrators is at 9:30 a.m. Thursday, April 3, in VAC 117. Please attend if your schedule allows it.
In advance of attending a meeting, employees are encouraged to review the Performance Review and Planning Form at georgefox.edu/offices/hr/PRPForm03-08.doc and the Employee Self Review Form at georgefox.edu/offices/hr/EmployeeSelfReveiw.doc.
If you have not already done so, please submit your March 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. The link on the HR website for these documents is georgefox.edu/offices/hr/forms.html.
If your supervisor is not available to sign it this week, please send a copy to HR and keep the original until it has been signed.
The university community is welcome to As it is in Heaven, the theatre department’s final play of the 2007-08 season.
Performances are scheduled April 10-12 and April 17-19 at 7:30 p.m. in Wood-Mar Auditorium. There is also one matinee performance, at 2 p.m. Sunday, April 13.
Synopsis: An 1830s Shaker community in Pleasant Hill, Ky., is set in its ordered ways until a newcomer, Fanny, see angels in the meadow. Soon all the young women are receiving spiritual “gifts” of songs, drawings, ideas, and giggles and completely upsetting the community. Are these gifts an honest resurgence of the original shaker celebration, or something manufactured by Fanny?
Employees receive one complimentary ticket, available for pick-up at the University Store. Students are welcome to see the show free of charge at the two Thursday performances 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.
