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Interested in learning a stringed instrument? Or playing in a small ensemble? Beginning and intermediate string classes are offered fall and spring semesters for 1 credit, meeting Mondays and Wednesdays at noon.

These classes will be set up as chamber groups focusing on technique, while learning classical and fiddle music. Register for MUSI 285 A (beginning), or MUSI 285 B (intermediate).

Email Rebekah Hanson with any questions at rhanson@georgefox.edu.

We are pleased to announce that George Fox University has chosen to partner with Follett Higher Education Group in operating our bookstore. This transition to operation by Follett will be completed by July. There will be more information to share on this transition in the coming weeks/months.

Please contact Matt Hammar at mhammar@georgefox.edu with any questions.

We are pleased to announce the coffee house and catering vendor contract for the Portland Center has been awarded to Simmer Down Catering. Their contract is effective Friday, May 1, with exclusive rights to Portland Center catering. The coffee house will be closed Friday, May 1, and reopen on Tuesday, May 5, as the Simmer Down Cafe.

Owners are Jamison and Janon (head chef) Bourgeois and Janon’s sister, Pastry Chef Jennifer Davis, who will manage the cafe. Janon and Jennifer are graduates of Oregon Culinary Institute. Their pricing is comparable to current pricing, with some new menu items.

You’re welcome to start contacting them now for catering events going forward from May 1 and beyond.

Contact information:
Email: events@SimmerDownCatering.com
Phone: 503-726-9754
Website address: simmerdowncatering.com
Facebook: facebook.com/SimmerDownCatering

Thank you for your patience as we transition vendors.

Questions? Contact Darla Norgren at dnorgren@georgefox.edu.

A huge box of lost and found items was just turned in to the lost and found from Wood-Mar Auditorium. If you have lost something either while performing in a play or attending something in Wood-Mar, please stop by the security office before the end of the week to check for your lost items.

All unclaimed items will be donated to charitable causes next week.

The Office of Spiritual & Intercultural Life warmly welcomes you to our baccalaureate service, the opening event of graduation weekend. It is scheduled for tomorrow (Friday) from 7 to 8 p.m. in Bauman Auditorium and will be a commissioning service for our graduating seniors and their families, remembering all of our graduates’ special accomplishments from their time here at George Fox.

All are welcome to attend, and Spanish and Mandarin Chinese translation will be available for those who wish to enjoy the service in those respective languages. It is a non-ticketed event; simply come and enjoy! Attire is business casual.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the Office of Spiritual & Intercultural Life at spirituallife@georgefox.edu or 503-554-2320.

Students, staff, faculty, families and community members are welcome to join the community garden this summer. We will have weekly work days and potlucks, and you will soon begin bringing home fresh produce.

To learn about upcoming work days and how to get involved, email Cherice Bock at cbock@georgefox.edu, and/or join our Facebook page.

The community garden moved to a new location! There is a lot of work to be done this season to get the new space up and running, and we are looking for interns to help out this summer. Internships will run May through August. (If you are going on Juniors Abroad, that can be negotiated.) All interns should be in Newberg most of the summer and commit to coming to weekly garden work days.

Continuing students will receive a stipend of $400. A committed intern could request to take up to two of the following positions.

• Planting & Harvesting Intern: Create and facilitate a planting schedule. Organize individual gardeners to pay specific attention to one crop or area of the garden. Work with garden coordinator to make a plan for what will happen at the garden each week. Approximately 3-4 hours/week.

• Community Engagement & Social Media Intern: Communicate the opportunity to participate in the garden with George Fox and Newberg community. Work with planting and harvesting intern and garden coordinator to publicize garden activities and plans. Network with other community gardens in Newberg. Solicit donations from local garden retailers and to the food bank. Approximately 3-4 hours/week.

• Writing Intern: Attend weekly garden work days and write weekly reflections and/or updates for the community garden blog.

• Artist Intern: Attend weekly garden work days and help beautify the new garden. This might include decorative markers for each crop, garden art of your choice, helping design an herb spiral, or other ideas you have. It could also include paintings, sketches, or photos/videos of the garden to post on social media in collaboration with the writing intern.

Interested applicants should send an email with a concise description of any relevant experience, why they are interested in the job, and summer availability to Cherice Bock (cbock@georgefox.edu) by Saturday, May 2. Applicants should also have one professor or employer send a reference letter.

Finance department petty cash is available daily between 9 a.m. and noon. Please make your requests and plan to pick up your cash between those hours.

Thank you,
– Kim Forbes (kforbes@georgefox.edu)

If you get class papers returned to your mailbox after you leave for the summer:

• Returning students: Your class papers will stay in your campus box until you return in the fall.
• Graduating seniors: Mail services will hold your class papers for three months for you to pick them up. After that time, the papers will be shredded.

Class papers will be available for pick-up the second week of May.

There will be no delivery of student mail or class papers after noon on Friday, May 1.

This allows time for mail services to convert mailboxes from spring semester to summertime use. Mail delivery to campus mailboxes that have been requested to remain open will begin on Monday, May 4. Forwarding of U.S. Mail for all other students will also begin next week.

The campus will be a beehive of construction as soon as school finishes, and as many parking lots and curbs as possible will be re-striped/painted this summer. Therefore, we need as few cars as possible being left on campus.

If you are leading a Juniors Abroad or Summer Serve trip, or are away on a business trip, we’d prefer that you be dropped off on campus, and your car isn’t left here. Should that not be possible, your keys must be left with security and we will tell you where to park, depending on weekly construction activity.

Please also relay this information to your Juniors Abroad/Summer Serve trip attendees. Also, George Fox is not responsible for anything that might happen to your car when it is left here. Thank you in advance for your cooperation so plant services can work unhindered this summer!

Questions or an out-of-box situation? Call us at 503-554-2090.

The Fitness Center will be closed on Saturday, May 2, and Sunday, May 3, and reopen for summer hours on Monday, May 4.

As you are cleaning out your dorms and offices this week, it would be greatly appreciated if you would bring back to Bon Appetit any dishware you may have taken out of the building with you during the course of the school year or that got left in offices, conference rooms, etc.

We have some bus tubs set up on a cart just outside the dish room for your convenience in returning dishes. Thank you!

– Bon Appetit

The community garden moved to a new location! There is a lot of work to be done this season to get the new space up and running, and we are looking for interns to help out this summer. Internships will run May through August. (If you are going on Juniors Abroad, that can be negotiated.) All interns should be in Newberg most of the summer and commit to coming to weekly garden work days.

Continuing students will receive a stipend of $400. A committed intern could request to take up to two of the following positions.

• Planting & Harvesting Intern: Create and facilitate a planting schedule. Organize individual gardeners to pay specific attention to one crop or area of the garden. Work with garden coordinator to make a plan for what will happen at the garden each week. Approximately 3-4 hours/week.

• Community Engagement & Social Media Intern: Communicate the opportunity to participate in the garden with George Fox and Newberg community. Work with planting and harvesting intern and garden coordinator to publicize garden activities and plans. Network with other community gardens in Newberg. Solicit donations from local garden retailers and to the food bank. Approximately 3-4 hours/week.

• Writing Intern: Attend weekly garden work days and write weekly reflections and/or updates for the community garden blog.

• Artist Intern: Attend weekly garden work days and help beautify the new garden. This might include decorative markers for each crop, garden art of your choice, helping design an herb spiral, or other ideas you have. It could also include paintings, sketches, or photos/videos of the garden to post on social media in collaboration with the writing intern.

Interested applicants should send an email with a concise description of any relevant experience, why they are interested in the job, and summer availability to Cherice Bock (cbock@georgefox.edu) by Saturday, May 2. Applicants should also have one professor or employer send a reference letter.

It’s commencement week at George Fox! The majority of graduate programs, including those at George Fox Evangelical Seminary, will host commencement ceremonies on Friday and Saturday, May 1-2, at various locations. Details on when and where they will take place are available at this link.

One commencement ceremony for traditional undergraduates and Department of Professional Studies graduates will be held on Saturday, May 2, at 2:30 p.m. in Stoffer Family Stadium. For more information, visit this page.

Ken Beebe, a 1982 George Fox University graduate (BA, sociology) who has spent the past 21 years serving as executive director of Twin Rocks Friends Camp and Conference Center, will be Saturday’s commencement speaker.

Students, staff, faculty, families and community members are welcome to join the community garden this summer. We will have weekly work days and potlucks, and you will soon begin bringing home fresh produce.

To learn about upcoming work days and how to get involved, email Cherice Bock at cbock@georgefox.edu, and/or join our Facebook page.

The community garden moved to a new location! There is a lot of work to be done this season to get the new space up and running, and we are looking for interns to help out this summer. Internships will run May through August. (If you are going on Juniors Abroad, that can be negotiated.) All interns should be in Newberg most of the summer and commit to coming to weekly garden work days.

Continuing students will receive a stipend of $400. A committed intern could request to take up to two of the following positions.

• Planting & Harvesting Intern: Create and facilitate a planting schedule. Organize individual gardeners to pay specific attention to one crop or area of the garden. Work with garden coordinator to make a plan for what will happen at the garden each week. Approximately 3-4 hours/week.

• Community Engagement & Social Media Intern: Communicate the opportunity to participate in the garden with George Fox and Newberg community. Work with planting and harvesting intern and garden coordinator to publicize garden activities and plans. Network with other community gardens in Newberg. Solicit donations from local garden retailers and to the food bank. Approximately 3-4 hours/week.

• Writing Intern: Attend weekly garden work days and write weekly reflections and/or updates for the community garden blog.

• Artist Intern: Attend weekly garden work days and help beautify the new garden. This might include decorative markers for each crop, garden art of your choice, helping design an herb spiral, or other ideas you have. It could also include paintings, sketches, or photos/videos of the garden to post on social media in collaboration with the writing intern.

Interested applicants should send an email with a concise description of any relevant experience, why they are interested in the job, and summer availability to Cherice Bock (cbock@georgefox.edu) by Saturday, May 2. Applicants should also have one professor or employer send a reference letter.

International Student Services will be hosting a garage sale this summer to raise money for an international student emergency fund. If you can donate to this cause, please bring your old or new items to the International Student Services office at 1110 E. Meridian St., any time between 8:30 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday.

Questions? Contact Joanna Cox at jcox@georgefox.edu.

A huge box of lost and found items was just turned in to the lost and found from Wood-Mar Auditorium. If you have lost something either while performing in a play or attending something in Wood-Mar, please stop by the security office before the end of the week to check for your lost items.

All unclaimed items will be donated to charitable causes next week.

The Office of Spiritual & Intercultural Life warmly welcomes you to our baccalaureate service, the opening event of graduation weekend. It is scheduled for this Friday, May 1, from 7 to 8 p.m. in Bauman Auditorium and will be a commissioning service for our graduating seniors and their families, remembering all of our graduates’ special accomplishments from their time here at George Fox.

All are welcome to attend, and Spanish and Mandarin Chinese translation will be available for those who wish to enjoy the service in those respective languages. It is a non-ticketed event; simply come and enjoy! Attire is business casual.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the Office of Spiritual & Intercultural Life at spirituallife@georgefox.edu or 503-554-2320.