The BlueZone Store will be open on Saturday, May 3, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. for commencement. We will also have a table at the Wheeler Sports Center with diploma frames and graduate gifts.
Hope to see you there!
Mark your calendars! The Center for Peace and Justice and LiNK (Liberty In North Korea) are hosting an event this Thursday, April 24, at 7 p.m. in Hoover 105.
We are honored to have LiNK representatives on our campus. They travel to communities across the country and provide a personal look into the challenges the North Korean people face, as well as changes happening inside the country.
Right now, 24 million people in North Korea face the most repressive regime in the world, where people are denied their most basic human rights. This statistic is staggering, but each one of us can do something to bring justice and freedom to the Korean people.
LiNK offers practical ways to support the Korean people as they overcome one of the greatest challenges facing humanity today. Come Thursday night and listen to how we can stand and support the people of North Korea.
Let me know if you have any questions!
Annie Stewart (estewart11@georgefox.edu)
All university employees are invited to celebrate with us as we honor retiring Gary Kilburg with a reception on Monday, May 5, in the Villa Academic Complex’s Room 117. The event will run from 4 to 6 p.m.
Throughout Gary’s career, he has modeled professionalism, kindness, and the love of Christ to his colleagues and students. He has served the university family for 22 years, taking on leadership roles and forming foundational work in the area of mentoring for the College of Education. His teaching has regularly set the standard for young professors, modeling for each one of us what it means to be an effective educator. His students often remark on the care Gary’s teaching demonstrates.
Gary earned the Graduate Faculty Member of the Year award in 2006-2007. He has mentored teachers and administrators in both public and private schools. His door is always open and both students and faculty often find themselves slipping into his office for a bit of calm, thoughtful advice. He will be missed more than he can possibly know.
Please join us in celebrating Gary’s work with us and wishing him well in retirement.
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.
While directing the MAT team in Redmond, Shary worked on internationalizing teacher education. She is part of a writing team and has several publications to her credit. She traveled with students to Vienna, Austria, to work in schools and at a refugee center.
Shary is all about teaching. She has been instrumental in teaching and supporting the 110-plus George Fox-trained teachers who are serving in Central Oregon schools. Her laughter, wisdom and kindness will be missed.
Please join us in celebrating the work of Shary and wishing her well in her retirement.
The university theatre honor society, Alpha Psi Omega, invites you to a special presentation, Third and Oak: The Laundromat, a one-act play by Marsha Norman and directed by Cambria Herrera. Performances will be Wednesday and Thursday, April 23-24, at 10:45 p.m. each night at the Newberg Coin Laundromat at 1100 N. Springbrook Road.
Admission and a bottle of Classic Coke are $5. Shuttle rides will be provided on Wednesday! Simply arrive at Wood-Mar Auditorium at 10:30 p.m. Space is limited; please arrive on time or drive yourself.
Reserve your seat: Send an email with your name and desired performance night to laundromatgfu@gmail.com. You can buy tickets at the door, in Wood-Mar on the 23rd or on location, but space is limited.
Join us today (Tuesday) for a LinkedIn meetup session in the IDEA Center from 5 to 6 p.m.!
LinkedIn is currently the most powerful networking tool, with 94 percent of recruiters reporting they use it for finding talent. Join the IDEA Center’s session to learn how to create and leverage LinkedIn this summer.
Questions? Please stop by the IDEA Center in the Stevens Center, call 503-554-2330, or email careers@georgefox.edu.
Employees, please be sure to tell your students about this opportunity.
Please join us for a special chapel tomorrow (Wednesday) beginning at 10:10 a.m. in Bauman Auditorium (please note earlier start time). Classes have been adjusted so that everyone can attend. Chapel will go until 11 a.m.
At this worship service, we will announce the Teacher of the Year and the Researcher of the Year recipients and celebrate our seniors! A senior class slideshow will be shown, and each senior will receive a small gift from spiritual life. But most importantly, faculty will be there and will surround all the seniors and pray for them!
See you there!
– Sarah Baldwin
Collection week has been extended through 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.
Don’t forget to join us as we say farewell to longtime faculty member Clella Jaffe at a retirement reception from 3:30 to 5 p.m. tomorrow (Wednesday) in the Stevens Center lobby (Duke Atrium). Refreshments will be served.
Clella has worked at the university for 19 years. During that span, she’s served as a professor of communication arts; as chair of the Department of Communication Arts (2004-present); as director of forensics (eight years); and as a leader or co-leader of 10 Juniors Abroad trips. She also did a six-week May Term teaching exchange in Wuhan, China.
Be sure to swing by and wish Clella well!
The Yamhill County Voters’ Pamphlets are available in the hallway of Mail Services located in the North Street Annex. The pamphlet includes the candidates running for various offices in Yamhill County.
Stop by and pick up your copy. They are free.
Two retirement parties will be held to honor Dianna McIntyre. Please join us in celebrating her faithful and dedicated years of service to our community.
All university employees are invited to celebrate today (Monday) in the Stevens Center (Duke) Atrium from 3 to 5 p.m. All George Fox students (past and present) are invited to celebrate on Tuesday, April 22, in the International Center/Cultural House from 3 to 4 p.m. (sharing time will begin at 3:20 p.m.).
Please join us in wishing Dianna well as she retires from the university!
The Office of Academic Affairs invites you to a chief diversity officer candidate public presentation tomorrow (Tuesday) at 4:15 p.m. in Hoover 105.
Joining us will be Alexander Granados, who most recently served as vice president of academic affairs at The Master’s College.
Please contact Jennifer Kepler (jkepler@georgefox.edu) if you have any questions.
The hours of operation for Klages will change over the Easter weekend as follows:
Wishing everyone a blessed Easter holiday from all of us at Bon Appetit!
The university community is invited to attend the athletic training and health and human performance seniors present their senior research projects between 11:40 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 22, in Duke 205 (new athletic building).
Questions? Contact Patty Findley at pfindley@georgefox.edu.
Over the next two weeks, four candidates for the university pastor position will be on campus for interviews. Each candidate will be making a public presentation. The George Fox community is welcome to attend these public events.
Tuesday, April 22, 3 to 3:50 p.m.
Rusty St. Cyr
Greenroom
Thursday, April 24, 1 to 1:50 p.m.
Jesse Richards
Duke Center Room 205 (new athletic complex)
Monday, April 28, 10 to 10:50 a.m.
Kent McDonald
EHS 102
Wednesday, April 30, 2 to 2:50 p.m.
Jamie Noling-Auth
Duke Center Room 205 (new athletic complex)
Each presentation will be 20 minutes in length. At the conclusion of each presentation, there will be a 30-minute question and answer time.
If you have any questions, please contact Jere Witherspoon at jwitherspoon@georgefox.edu.
Two retirement parties will be held to honor Dianna McIntyre. Please join us in celebrating her faithful and dedicated years of service to our community.
All university employees are invited to celebrate on Monday, April 21, in the Stevens Center (Duke) Atrium from 3 to 5 p.m. (please note, this is a different time than the previous Daily Bruin announcement listed).
All George Fox students (past and present) are invited to celebrate on Tuesday, April 22, in the International Center/Cultural House from 3 to 4 p.m. (sharing time will begin at 3:20 p.m.).
Please join us in wishing Dianna well as she retires from the university!
Please plan now for the institution-wide stationery order taken at the end of August. The collective order helps keep costs low – the higher the volume, the lower the cost. Consequently, it is most economical to overestimate needs and store a small surplus.
I will be accepting orders from now through Monday, Aug. 18, when orders are due.
For order instructions, go to the marketing communications website. Continue to purchase all non-departmental stationery (including “second-sheet letterheadâ€) through the university’s print services.
Please contact me if you have any questions.
Thank you,
Danette Newkirk (dnewkirk@georgefox.edu)
The Office of Academic Affairs invites you to a chief diversity officer candidate public presentation Tuesday, April 22, at 4:15 p.m. in Hoover 105.
Joining us will be Alexander Granados, who most recently served as vice president of academic affairs at The Master’s College.
Please contact Jennifer Kepler (jkepler@georgefox.edu) if you have any questions.
We are still in need of volunteers to join us as Erin Johnson’s SWRK 393 Macropractice class canvasses the Newberg and Dundee neighborhoods to hang door hangers to raise awareness for the need for a new pool facility. We’ll be out on the streets from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. tomorrow (Saturday).
If you want to volunteer, please register at this link. If you want to know more about the cause, visit the website and “like” the Facebook page.
Come join us in the Cap and Gown Room at 9 p.m. tonight (Thursday) for the “Colored White Panel†during Shalom.
The panel will focus on informing white students about white privilege, white guilt (how to move away from this mind-set), and white ethnic identity development. Panelists Jeannot Djanga, Carly Ewing, Hope Kenyon, Drew Miller and Jonathan Morell will share from their experience and answer your questions.
This event also counts as a chapel elective if you are still in need of credit.
Questions about the panel/white privilege? Contact Aby Cordova at acordova10@georgefox.edu. Questions about Shalom? Contact Grayce Beebe at gbeebe10@georgefox.edu.
