With just four days left in the semester, please look around your offices and send any “found” items over to the security office as quickly as possible so that students will have time to reconnect with their lost items before they leave for Christmas break.
Thanks!
– Security Services
The Swaziland Summer Serve teams from 2012 and 2013 will be conducting a fundraiser in the Bruin Den Tuesday through Thursday of this week. Timbali Crafts is a ministry/business in Swaziland allowing local women to sell handmade crafts and handbags.
We will be selling many of their free-trade items in order to continue supporting the locals and their ministry. Visit us between 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.
Questions? Contact Andrew Harding (aharding09@georgefox.edu)
More than 250 students will receive undergraduate and graduate diplomas at the university’s midyear commencement ceremony on Saturday, Dec. 15, in the Wheeler Sports Center. Seating begins at 1 p.m., and the ceremony will start at 2 p.m.
Tickets are not required; however, seating is limited to 10 guests per graduate. At 1:45 p.m., a live broadcast of the ceremony will be available to watch at this link.
Dr. William M. Schniedewind, a professor of biblical studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, and a 1984 alumnus of George Fox, will serve as commencement speaker. He holds the Kershaw Chair of Ancient Eastern Mediterranean Studies at UCLA and is chair of the school’s Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures.
The financial affairs office will process the last check run of the year on Friday, Dec. 21. In order to ensure your expense reimbursement and/or check request is processed, we must receive your paperwork no later than 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 18. If your paperwork arrives after the 18th, it will be processed after the New Year.
Questions? Contact Andy Dunn at adunn@georgefox.edu.
Join the Christmas celebration at the library’s annual wassail party today (Monday) between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. Take a break and join us in the MLRC multi-purpose room for snacks, wassail and coffee. It’s our treat to you!
Questions? Contact Sue Richie (srichie@georgefox.edu).
Please join your colleagues for the final all-employee lunch of the semester on Tuesday, Dec. 11, in the Cap and Gown Room. It will run from 11:30 a.m. to 1:15 p.m.
Merry Christmas!
Monday, Dec. 10, is “Dead Day.” Breakfast in Klages will start at 8 a.m., and the Bruin Den will have reduced hours, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. The Villa Cafe will be closed.
Come show support for the 12 outstanding performers of the fall 2012 Musical Theater Performance class as students showcase various scenes they have worked on throughout the semester!
Accompanied by the talented James Pick, duets and group scenes will be featured from musicals such as Fiddler on the Roof, Newsies, The Little Mermaid, West Side Story, Spamalot, Little Women, Sweeney Todd and more. Admission is free!
When: Thursday, Dec. 13
Time: 5:30-6:30 p.m. (doors open at 5:20 p.m.)
Where: Wood-Mar Auditorium
Who: Olivia Anderson, Micah Bevis, Susan Carlson, Jeannot Djanga, Brooke Flood, Michelle Gonzalez-Ramos, Nicole Greene, Jennifer Lippert, Amberly Orr, Caroline Smith, Cydney Thompson, Jessica Woehler
For those who missed the presentation entitled “The State of Diversity at George Fox University” made during Cultural Celebration Week, the video recording has been uploaded to the Multicultural Programs folder in George Fox’s iTunes U.
If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact Joel Perez at ext. 2305.
Wheeler Sports Center will be closed from Friday, Dec. 14, at 5 p.m. through Monday, Jan. 14, at 6 a.m.
If there are campus groups (noon hoops players, racquetball players, etc.) who wish to make pre-arrangements for access, they are welcome to do so.
Questions? Contact Patty Findley at pfindley@georgefox.edu.
Would you like to copy content from an old FoxTALE course site to an empty spring site? Learn the details at a 30-minute webinar on Thursday, Dec. 13, from 3 to 3:30 p.m. Please R.S.V.P. at this link and we’ll send login details the day before the webinar.
Can’t attend the webinar? See the Quick Guide or three-and-a-half-minute Video Guide.
If you have any questions, please contact the Service Desk.
Don’t miss the final “Table Talk” of the semester today (Thursday) in the Cap and Gown Room at noon. Join students Nick Largusa, Austin O’Neal, Kat Hylton, Sara Bartolome, Amber Nelson and Garret Loverde as they discuss their experiences of being biracial. Bring your lunch! Sponsored by Inclusion and Student Leadership Programs.
Congratulations to this year’s winning teams from the recent Liberal Arts and Critical Issues competition. Following is a rundown of winners, by category:
Thanks, too, to all who helped judge the LACI exhibits this year!
Don’t forget to swing by the EHS Atrium today (Thursday) at 3 p.m. to see the engineering department’s ninth annual “Wobble-Off” competition.
Come and enjoy this demonstration of freshman engineering students’ first projects – an exciting variety of oscillating steam/air-operated engines. The event highlights the students’ first-year studies in engineering design, solid modeling and machining, and showcases the creative and impressive results of their design-build projects.
The students’ engines will compete in a variety of categories, including maximum speed, minimum vibration, maximum coast, cost efficiency and creativity/craftsmanship.
Questions? Contact Neal Ninteman at nninteman@georgefox.edu.
All three performances of this weekend’s Christmas Concert are nearly sold out, so if you picked up employee comp tickets for Sunday afternoon’s performance and will no longer be able to use them, please return them to the Box Office in the Pennington House as soon as possible.
We currently have a wait list for tickets. You can notify us that you plan to return them by calling 503-554-3844 or by informing us via e-mail at boxoffice@georgefox.edu.
Thank you.
The courier service will change for the Salem campus during the holiday season. We will be servicing Salem only on Mondays, Dec. 10 and Dec. 17, and Jan. 7 and Jan. 14. We will continue the Portland run as normal – all dates Monday through Friday when the Newberg campus is open.
Questions? Call ext. 2555.
Don’t miss the university theatre’s 10-minute play festival, Ten! Ten! Ten!, this week.
The first five plays will be featured tonight (Wednesday) at 10:10 p.m. The remaining four plays will be featured Thursday, Dec. 6, at 10:10 p.m. Cost is $1 admission at the door in Wood-Mar Auditorium.
Questions? Contact Kathy Harris at kharris@georgefox.edu.
It’s time to think about someone to nominate for December’s Employee of the Month. Is there someone you consider a gift to have as a colleague, whether in your department or another department? If someone comes to mind, please consider submitting a nomination via e-mail to Peggy Kilburg by Friday, Dec. 21, with a summary of this person’s recent contributions and any other information that makes this person deserving of this award.
The President’s Executive Leadership Team will select a recipient from among the nominees, and as is our custom, the winner will be honored with a citation and a $100 gift card to The Allison at our next community meeting. We will honor both December’s and January’s Employees of the Month at our next community meeting, currently scheduled for Thursday, Jan. 17.
Congratulations again to Tim Goodfellow on being named November Employee of the Month.
The university’s music department invites you to join us as we celebrate the season with our annual Christmas Concert this Friday through Sunday, Dec. 7-9, in Bauman Auditorium.
Performances are scheduled at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday nights and at 2:30 p.m. on Sunday. Pre-concert music begins approximately 30 minutes prior to each performance.
The concert will feature the university’s Concert Choir, Men’s and Women’s Chorale, Chamber Singers, and Symphonic Band and Strings. We will also feature a guest, the Newberg High School Choir, as part of the celebration. For more information or to buy tickets, click here.
The state of Oregon is giving student employees a raise in 2013! The minimum wage is going up 15 cents per hour to $8.95, and this will be reflected on the Feb. 15 student payroll.
Have a wonderful holiday season!
– HR
