The Daily Bruin

Know of students looking for an awesome summer job? Tell them to check out these great local companies looking for George Fox students to join their team for a paying summer internship!

• Climax – Newberg (any major)
• Autodesk – Lake Oswego  (engineering/design)
• Legacy Research – Portland (biology, chemistry, nursing)
• Puppet Labs – (computer science)

More information is available by stopping by the IDEA Center in the Stevens Center, calling 503-554-2330, or emailing careers@georgefox.edu.

Come join the spiritual life and student life departments in commissioning Sarah Baldwin and Clint Baldwin in their future endeavors! We will host a farewell reception for them from 1 to 3 p.m. Wednesday, April 30, in the Stevens Center’s Duke Atrium.

Sarah served George Fox as the dean of spiritual life and university pastor, and Clint has served as the director of the Center for Peace and Justice. Sarah has accepted the position of vice president of student development at Asbury University.

Let’s celebrate this new step in their journey as well as thank them for the time they have spent in developing our campus community!

Remember to attend the farewell reception for Melanie Hulbert (Sociology), Michael MacLeod (International Studies), Robert Melendy (Engineering), Michael Bevis (English Language Institute) and Jane Scott (Library) today (Monday) from 10:30 a.m. to noon in the Stevens Center lobby (Duke Atrium).

Please join us to wish them all well!

Please join us as we celebrate Carrie Bohl’s service to the university at a reception this Friday, May 2, from 2 to 3:30 p.m. at the advancement office at Coyote Place (700 Deborah Road).

Carrie has served at George Fox for 16 years. She is leaving to focus full time on her home-based business. We appreciate her work in both student services and university advancement. She will be greatly missed!

Plan to enjoy some refreshments as we honor Carrie.

Want to be a part of the spring 2014 undergraduate commencement ceremony in Miller Gymnasium? Come help out as an usher!

We are in need of people for both ceremonies on Saturday, May 3. The morning ceremony starts at 10 a.m., and the afternoon ceremony starts at 2:30 p.m. Duties include passing out programs, guiding people to their seats and assisting guests.

Please e-mail Jennifer Kepler (jkepler@georgefox.edu) if interested.

If your department has student workers or volunteers returning to campus before Saturday, Aug. 23, who need access to their fall housing, please contact housing@georgefox.edu. As part of this we need each student’s name, ID number and approximate move-in date by Friday, July 25 ,in order to prepare housing for these individuals. Requests received after this time may not be considered.

If you have questions regarding this, please contact the Office of Student Life at 503-554-2310 or housing@georgefox.edu.

Students: Step up and lead! Job applications for The Crescent, Student Collective, KFOX and the Marketing Team are now available online. More job openings are being added daily!

Apply at this link.

Faculty, please let your students know about these opportunities.

Don’t forget to swing by the Engineering Expo today (Friday). The event will begin with Senior Design project presentations, scheduled from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. in EHS 102, 119 and 125, and the Expo will commence at 3:30 p.m. in the EHS Atrium (Ron Gregory Atrium).

The Expo will feature project displays from the program’s industry-sponsored Senior Design and Servant Engineering teams for companies and organizations, including NASA, Oregon Commission for the Blind, Aprovecho Research Center, InStove, 5-Rock Ranch, City of Newberg, Heshima, Astronics, Yamhill County, CUI, Climax, ODFW, Siemens, Greater Yamhill Watershed Council, Cascade Steel and 3D Systems.

Refreshments are provided. All are welcome! For more information, please contact Kristin Bontrager at kbontrager@georgefox.edu or 503-554-2780.

All are invited to Shary Wortman’s retirement celebration from 4 to 7 p.m. on Monday, April 28, at the Redmond Center located at Ridgeview High School in Redmond, Ore.

Shary has served the community of Central Oregon through teaching, administration, and most recently, through her work as a teacher educator at George Fox. She joined the MAT team in 2005 and worked to give us a strong foundation in the Redmond area. Her work is marked by warm, personal touches that allow each student and faculty member to be truly known.

Please join us in celebrating the work of Shary and wishing her well in her retirement.

Starting Monday, May 5, the parking lot for the Pennington residence hall and the east end of the Bauman lot, near the grandstands, are going to be barricaded off and will need to be free of all vehicles. There will be construction taking place over the summer, and vehicles may not be left there.

Please help us keep these areas free of vehicle parking so the workers and equipment can move freely and safely during the summer. We will notify you of when the lots will be available for use in the future. If your vehicle is left, it will be towed at your expense.

If you are leaving for the summer and need to leave a vehicle, contact security at 503-554-2090 and we will inform you of the options you have.

Thank you,
– Security Services

Want to be a part of the spring 2014 undergraduate commencement ceremony in Miller Gymnasium? Come help out as an usher!

We are in need of people for both ceremonies on Saturday, May 3. The morning ceremony starts at 10 a.m., and the afternoon ceremony starts at 2:30 p.m. Duties include passing out programs, guiding people to their seats and assisting guests.

Please e-mail Jennifer Kepler (jkepler@georgefox.edu) if interested.

The music department will be selling the beautiful spring flowers used to decorate the stage at tonight’s Spring Concert in Bauman Auditorium.

Flowers go on sale after the concert in the lobby and cost $2 per potted plant. Begonias and heliotrope are a few of the types of flowers up for sale.

The concert begins at 7:30 p.m. Employees and students are entitled to one complimentary ticket, available for pick-up at the Box Office in the Pennington House.

On Monday, April 28, the Villa Café and Bruin Bites will be closed. The Bruin Den hours will be 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. All cafes will be back to regular hours on Tuesday.

Six staff and administrator positions are currently open. Listed in order of recency, they are:

• Financial Aid Loan Specialist/Processor
• Systems Engineer
• Director of Alumni and Parent Relations
• Executive Assistant to Vice President and Dean of Seminary
• Assistant Director of Sports Marketing
• Director of Annual Giving

The link to each of these position announcements can be found at jobs.georgefox.edu. If you know of someone you believe might provide a good fit for any of these jobs, please refer the person to the website for information about the job and instructions about applying.

The Department of Music invites you to its annual Spring Concert at 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 25, in Bauman Auditorium. The concert features the Chehalem Symphony Orchestra, George Fox Symphonic Band, as well as the university’s Concert Choir, Women’s Chorale and Master Chorus performing Mass of the Children with the Chehalem Symphony Orchestra.

Students and employees are entitled to one complimentary ticket to the performance. Additional tickets are available to purchase online, at music.georgefox.edu, or at the Box Office in the Pennington House.

Good news! Beginning with the graduating classes of spring 2014, George Fox student email addresses will continue indefinitely. If your department provides information to graduating students about their transition out of George Fox, please be sure any information that you provide regarding their email accounts is up-to-date with this new information.

Below is the information graduates are receiving:

• You can use and access all of your current mail and Google docs.
• You’ll continue to access your email by going to mail.georgefox.edu and using your existing username and password.
• If you are already forwarding your George Fox email, your forwarding will remain intact.
• You can forward your George Fox email address to another email address in the settings of your George Fox Gmail account.

Please contact the Service Desk at servicedesk@georgefox.edu or 503-554-2569 if you have questions about your account.

What better way to end the school year than with free food and sports? Read on for details!

Today (Thursday), FCA is sponsoring a barbecue at the baseball game at 4 p.m. All students with a student ID will get a free grilled hot dog and peanuts. All other fans can purchase a hot dog for $2. Bring a blanket to sit on and be ready to cheer your Bruins to victory! Follow the George Fox Athletics Facebook page to stay up-to-date on the rain plan, if necessary.

Tomorrow (Friday), join us in the gym at 1:30 p.m. as we celebrate nearly 100 incoming freshmen athletes during George Fox’s Commitment Day. Grab a cupcake and give our newest Bruins a rowdy welcome!

Questions? Contact Sarah Reid at sreid@georgefox.edu.

Believe it or not, it is now time to start thinking about our 16th annual Serve Day. We want to get information from our community prior to the summer schedules that take many of you away from campus.

Please take a few minutes to click the link below and fill out this form. It is very important to do so for our planning over the summer. Serve Day will take place on Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2014.

Make sure you plan accordingly for another great day of service to our community.

Thank you,
Brad Lau

Employee Serve Day Survey

Tonight (Thursday) is the final performance of Alpha Psi Omega’s Third and Oak: The Laundromat, a one-act play by Marsha Norman and directed by Cambria Herrera. The performance is at 10:45 p.m. at the Newberg Coin Laundromat at 1100 N. Springbrook Road.

Tickets are available at the door for $5.

Only two more days! Collection week has been extended through this Friday, April 25, for those who have items to donate toward our Summer Serve garage sale.

If you have items you’d like to donate to a good cause, drop them off at the Spiritual Life House between 2 and 5 p.m. through Friday of this week. All donations will be sold at the Summer Serve garage sale on Saturday, April 26, and will help fund the teams going to Romania/Moldova, Kenya and Argentina.

If you have any questions, feel free to email the spiritual life office at spirituallife@georgefox.edu or Rachel Arias at rarias10@georgefox.edu.