Please remember to fill out an “Employee Relocation Form” if you are moving. This will help us coordinate all of the upcoming moves. This is located on our Plant Services webpage.
Thank you,
Plant Services
All are invited to the Tilikum Trail Run and Family Fun Day at Camp Tilikum on Thursday, July 4. All fees and donations go to a camp scholarship fund that enables underprivileged youth to attend summer camp.
The day includes a 5K run and one-mile walk/run for all ages. The course includes gravel, trails and crossing a bridge and runs along the new path encircling the lake at Tilikum and throughout the grounds. Jogging strollers are welcomed. Camp Tilikum is a non-pet facility; please leave your pets at home.
Pre-register by Friday, June 14, and you’ll receive a T-shirt with a goody bag. Pre-registration is $35 (adult) and $15 (youth age 6-17). Ages 5 and under are free with one paid adult. The fee after June 14 goes up $10 per person.
Race-day registration opens at 9 a.m. Races begin at 10 a.m., with the awards and raffle ceremony to follow. Awards will be given to the first-place finishers in each age category (Men, Women and Youth Boy/Girl).
Please feel free to bring your family picnic and stay for a while afterwards. We will have canoeing and swimming open and available to all guests. You can also visit the barnyard animals, the century-old schoolhouse and tree house. Those not wanting to participate in the race but would like to come as a spectator are warmly welcomed!
If interested in volunteering, please contact Michelle Bradshaw, guest services director, at 503-538-2763, ext. 101, or michelle@camptilikum.org. Donations can be sent directly to Tilikum, 15321 N.E. North Valley Road, Newberg, OR 97132.
Print Services has a lot of extra specialty paper, and we want to get rid of it at a fraction of the cost. The paper would be perfect for personal or department use. Sorry, no substituting or mismatching reams or packages.
It is on a first-come, first-serve basis. So, come on in and see what we have. Because when it is gone … it’s gone! Sorry, no credit card transactions; cash or check only.
Questions? Contact Richard Silver at rsilver@georgefox.edu.
There is a power outage planned for Wednesday, May 29, between 8 a.m. and noon for the Edwards-Holman Science Center, Hoover and Wood-Mar. Alternative power will be supplied from Lemmons for critical equipment. Fire alarm and life safety equipment will not be operating, so please DO NOT enter these buildings during this time.
Thank you,
Plant Services
Due to the Memorial Day holiday this Monday, our mail service courier will make his last trip to the Salem campus on Tuesday, May 28.
Questions? Contact Mail Services at ext. 2555.
Next Tuesday, May 28, we will celebrate Brenda Burg’s 13 years of service to George Fox. Come and join us from 3 to 4 p.m. in the Hoover lobby, where we will wish our colleague well as she transitions to new adventures outside the university.
All university offices in Newberg and at regional sites will be closed on Monday, May 27, to observe the Memorial Day holiday. Libraries in Newberg and the Portland Center also will be closed.
An all-employee meeting is scheduled for Thursday, May 30, from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in Hoover 105. Among the items on the agenda is an update on enrollment.
For those at the university’s regional sites, the meeting will be available at a stream site that you can access from MyGFU. Simply log into MyGFU and click the “Community Meeting Link†located under “Staff Resources/Faculty Resources.â€
Also, please note: The June 27 all-employee meeting has been canceled because of scheduling conflicts. The next meeting will be announced at a later date.
Most people are in their chosen careers not just for the short run; they want to finish well.
But what does that mean? According to Portland certified coach Cal Habig, studies of hundreds of leaders have identified six characteristics of leaders who finish well, as well as six barriers to finishing well. Habig will share these insights as the featured speaker Tuesday, May 28, at the monthly Newberg meeting of the Christian Chamber of Commerce of the Northwest.
The meeting is from 7:30 to 9 a.m. in the Cap & Gown Room (please note change in usual location).
In his coaching work, Habig helps leaders of ministries and other values-based organizations take their organizations to places of great success while working to keep the leader in a life of balance. After having served as a minister for 30 years, Habig moved into online education in 2008 and professional coaching in 2009.
For more information, visit cccnw.net or call 503-928-8354.
Something new has been added to Google+ Hangouts. If you’re a regular user of Google+ and Hangouts, you’ll want to know how these new changes affect you. IT has put together a short guide to get you started so you can make the necessary updates and continue to use the Hangouts feature with as little inconvenience as possible.
One of the new features is that Hangouts and Chat are now synced across devices, and you can switch from one device to another within the same Hangout and/or Chat. Check out our guide at this link.
The deadline for ballots at the university drop site is today (Tuesday) at 4:30 p.m. Mail Services is an unofficial drop site for all Oregon ballots. Arrangements have been made with the Yamhill County Elections Office for us to offer this service.
We accept any Oregon ballot (any county), and no postage is necessary. All out-of-state ballots must be mailed with postage.
Thanks,
Mail Services
Save the date! On Tuesday, May 28, from 3 to 4 p.m. in the Hoover lobby we will celebrate Brenda Burg’s 13 years of service to George Fox University! Come wish your colleague well as she transitions to new adventures outside the university.
Don’t forget to join us for the groundbreaking ceremony for the new Stoffer Family Stadium this afternoon (Monday) at 4 p.m.
The stadium will serve as future home of the university’s revived football program – set to kick off in 2014 after a 45-year hiatus – and the track and field team. It will be built on campus where the current track facility is located.
The groundbreaking ceremony will include a ceremonial groundbreaking, a time to honor the donors who helped make the project possible, and details on how the stadium will impact not only the university’s football and track and field programs, but athletics for the entire George Fox community.
To date, more than $5.3 million of the $7.2 million project has been raised. Crews began work on the complex – which will include the synthetic-turf Lemmons Family Field, grandstand facilities and the Duke Athletic Center (home to a training facility, a locker room, offices and classrooms) – this spring, with construction due to be completed in time for football’s kickoff in September of 2014.
To R.S.V.P. for the groundbreaking ceremony, e-mail Jan Lefebvre at jlefebvre@georgefox.edu.
Be sure to check out the Bon Appetit website at this link to find our weekly lunch menus for both the Bruin Den and Villa Cafe. For those with smartphones, they’re also available with your igfu app.
And back by popular demand, we will be featuring an outdoor barbecue each week at both cafes, so be sure to look for them!
Earlier this week there was an e-nnouncement explaining how to create a PO using your 2013-14 budget but, just to make sure there is no misunderstanding, I want to clarify a couple of important pieces of information about using your FY14 budget.
Failure to comply will cause charges to be applied to this year’s budget. If you have any questions, please contact Andy Dunn at adunn@georgefox.edu.
Planning Serve Day is a significant and extremely rewarding commitment on the part of our entire university community. We need your help to make Serve Day 2013 a great success.
Serve Day will take place on Wednesday, Sept. 11, and it is our collective efforts that make this BIG day possible. Consider what your role will be for Serve Day this year!
Please respond to the following A.S.A.P.
We are in need of 20 committee members. If you are interested in being a part of the Serve Day Committee, please fill out the Serve Day 2013 Committee Interest Survey. This will involve a few summer meetings, some outside committee work, and assisting on campus during Serve Day.
All employees: Please fill out the following survey: Serve Day 2013 All Employee Survey
This survey includes any special requests regarding sites, or physical limitations as well as transportation and team leader information. This is an essential piece to making Serve Day a success and will only take a moment of your time. If you have any requests, now is the time to make them.
Remember! Participation in Serve Day is required for all Newberg employees. Requests to be excused from Serve Day must be submitted to the vice president or provost over your area. They will send a master list to us so that we know how to plan for the size and makeup of each team.
Thanks so much for your continued support for Serve Day as an expression of Christ’s love to our community. We look forward with great anticipation to what God will do in and through all of us!
If you have any questions, feel free to email us at serveday@georgefox.edu.
His peace to you,
Rachel Elmer & Beth Muthiah
Serve Day Coordinators
Our new students and their families are arriving on Thursday and Friday, May 16-17, to attend Genesis. Please help to warmly welcome them by giving up your parking places in the Stevens, Hoover and Wood-Mar parking lots on both days. Parking is available in the Bauman lot, on the campus side of Meridian Street, Sherman and North streets, and the Pennington lot.
Please also tell your summer work-study students to not park in those lots for those two days.
Thank you,
Undergraduate Admissions Office
FoxTALE will be unavailable from 6 to 8 a.m. (Pacific Time) on Tuesday, May 28, for scheduled maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience. If you have questions, please contact the IT Service Desk.
Valley Repertory Theatre, Newberg’s own professional theatre company, is proud to announce its production of My Name is Asher Lev by Aaron Posner, a breathtaking adaptation of the renowned novel by Chaim Potok, opening May 24.
Of special interest to the George Fox community, the work of local artists with university ties will be on display at each performance, and artists will lead conversations directly following each of the Friday shows. This is made possible through a grant from the Celebration Foundation.
For details about the production, check out Valley Repertory Theatre’s website at valleyrep.org.
Please join Bon Appetit today (Wednesday) for our first outdoor barbecue of the year at the Villa Cafe. Included will be hand-formed hamburger patties, grilled onions, bacon, assorted cheeses and your favorite toppings along with potato salad, chips, baked beans and a dessert for just $6.25. We’ll be serving in the Villa Cafe courtyard between 11:30 a.m. and 1 p.m.
