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.
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 as we celebrate and show off our year of hard work. Each night will feature different films and have a “People’s Choice” award. Saturday’s show will include a short awards ceremony. The filmmakers are going to dress up to celebrate our special event, and we invite you to join us.
Questions? Contact filmfestival@georgefox.edu.
Thursday, April 3 – Men’s tennis vs. Whittier, campus courts, 3 p.m.
Friday, April 4 – Men’s tennis vs. Willamette, campus courts, 1 p.m.
Saturday, April 5 – Baseball vs. Whitworth (2), Morse Field, noon
Men’s tennis vs. Green River CC (exhibition), campus courts, 1 p.m.
Women’s tennis vs. Green River CC (exhibition), campus courts, 1 p.m.
Sunday, April 6 – Softball vs. Willamette (2), Morse Field, noon
Baseball vs. Whitworth (2), Morse Field, noon
Women’s tennis vs. Pacific, campus courts, 2 p.m.
Monday, April 7 – Track & field in Northwest Conference Multi-Events, Colcord Field, 10 a.m.
Tuesday, April 8 – Track & field in Northwest Conference Multi-Events, Colcord Field, 10 a.m.
For more information, contact the university’s sports information office at ext. 2926.
The university will introduce its Apple-only Computers Across the Curriculum program with an “Apple on Campus” event from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Friday, April 4, in the Klages Dining Room.
Learn how technology is shaping and being shaped by higher education. Also, enter to win an iPod Touch by swiping your ID card between 10:30 and 10:45 a.m. (you must be present at the drawing to win). Featured speakers from Apple and George Fox will be on hand, and light refreshments will be provided. More information is available at it.georgefox.edu/appleshow.
A memorial service for George Fox University alumnus Ben Hawkins will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday, April 3, in Bauman Auditorium on the George Fox campus.
Hawkins died Sunday, March 30, in a car accident near Newberg. He attended George Fox from 2000 through 2004. He was an honor-roll student, a music major, and a member of the chapel band and jazz ensemble. Many in the community also knew him from Chapters Books and Coffee, where he worked until recently. Chapters is collecting messages for the Hawkins family at their site.
Friends may also post memories online at www.benhawkinsmemories.com.
Contributions to the Ben Hawkins Memorial Fund, may be sent to Attrell’s Newberg Funeral Chapel, 207 Villa Rd. Newberg, OR 97132.
University employees are invited to Breakfast for Champions from 7:30 to 10 a.m. Friday, April 4, in Portland Center’s Room 155. The event will feature a panel speaking about corporate responsibility and a keynote address from President Robin Baker. The event, sponsored by the group Partners for Diversity, is free.
Contact Burel Ford (Multicultural Services) at ext. 2318 or at bford@georgefox.edu for more information.
Our deepest sympathy goes out to the friends and family of alumnus Ben Hawkins, who died last night in a car accident near Newberg.
Ben attended George Fox from 2000 through 2004. He was an honor-roll student, a music major, and a member of the chapel band and jazz ensemble. Some of you may know him from Chapters coffee shop, where he worked until recently.
He was from Central Point, Ore., and his parents are Barry and Julie Tevis.
Ben’s wife, Rachel (Bunch) Hawkins (2004 graduate), has been released from the hospital.
Please also keep Nicholas (2003 grad) and Lindsay Chapman (2006 grad) in your prayers. They were also involved in the accident.
Ushers are needed for the Oregon Symphony performance on Friday, April 11. Ushers need to arrive at Bauman Auditorium by 6:45 p.m. Doors open to the public at 7 p.m. If interested, please contact Danya Ochsner (University Relations) at ext. 2121 or by e-mail at dochsner@georgefox.edu.
The university will host the Oregon Symphony for its 21st appearance in Newberg at 8 p.m. Friday, April 11, in Bauman Auditorium. The concert is free to George Fox employees — a gift from George Fox board member Ken Austin and his wife, Joan, founders of A-dec.
The Austins have provided the university with a limited number of tickets for its employees. These tickets are separate from those to be issued by the Newberg Area Chamber of Commerce to the general public.
George Fox employees (half time and over) may pick up their tickets — limit two per employee — on a first-come first-served basis starting at 9 a.m. Thursday, April 3, at the first-floor Information Center in Stevens Center. Phone reservations will not be taken except for employees at the Portland and Salem centers.
On Wednesday, April 9, beginning at 9 a.m., any remaining tickets (again, a limit of two per person) will be available — also on a first-come first-served basis — to those who sign up on a waiting list. If you find that you are not able to attend the concert, please return your tickets for another employee to use.
