The Daily Bruin

This week Student Financial Services sent out important updates and alerts through the “SFS News,” our communication tool to students and families. Did you know that you do not need to be a student to subscribe?

If you have not signed up yet, please don’t delay. Go now to this link to both sign up and view previously sent SFS alerts and reminders. Click on the icon “Get Email Updates” to enroll and scroll down to “View Archived Newsletters” to see past and our most recent versions. It’s important!

Starting Wednesday, Aug. 1, various parking lots will be closed in order to perform seal coating. Plant Services will be putting up barricades with signs. As we get a schedule for each lot we will post an e-nnouncement.

The lot being closed on Aug. 1 is Winters. Please stay back from these areas in order to protect your car.

Areas scheduled for seal coating are:

• Stevens Center/E. Sherman St./River Street House
• Carey Dorm and Hobson Trail
• Wheeler Service Road
• Weesner House
• Wheeler Lollypop
• Winters
• Woodward
• Woolman
• Plant Services
• Winters Pavement
• VAC Parking Lot – sidewalk & paving

Questions? Contact Debby O’Kelley at dokelley@georgefox.edu.

The academic affairs office has an abundance of five-tab and eight-tab notebook dividers available on a first-come, first-served basis. We also have sheet protectors (clear, non-glare), used hanging folders (8.5″ X 11″) and used manila file folders available.

Please contact Karlyn Fleming at kfleming@georgefox.edu or ext. 2141 if interested. We will gladly send these to your campus box.

Thank you!

Don’t forget the all-employee meeting scheduled for this afternoon (Wednesday), beginning at 3:30 p.m. in VAC 117 (please note new location). At the meeting, the VP’s will share information regarding the recent restructuring.

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.” It is the bottom link in that section. The link will take you to all the information relating to community meetings and include a live-stream link (the password changes each meeting) and a chat room link.

Videos from previously recorded meetings will be added to this page in the days following. Please bookmark the page for quick access each month.

I wanted to thank all of you for working with me during this interim time with room reservations. It has been fun to work with you throughout the past few weeks. However, we have hired a new site coordinator, and she will be handling room reservations from now on. Her name is Emily Maynard, and you can contact her by e-mail (emaynard@georgefox.edu) or phone (ext. 6164)

Emily will be handling any room reservations, but I will still be handling the technology request. Please remember to get all room reservations and technology requests in by 1 p.m. the prior business day that it is needed.

Again, thank you for working with me.

Josiah Philipsen

Faculty: Please go to our store website (gfubookstore.com) and check to make sure your textbooks are listed correctly for each of your courses. This is what students use to purchase books. Please help me catch any mistakes before it’s too late to fix them. Any missing courses means I don’t have an order from you and need those A.S.A.P.

E-mail me at sgidding@georgefox.edu with any questions or changes. Thanks for your help.

– Sandy Gidding

The Wheeler Sports Center will be closed on Saturday, July 21, beginning at 2 p.m.

Thank you for your understanding.

Steve Grant (sgrant@georgefox.edu)

If you are moving at all – even if it’s just across the room – we need to have a relocation form filled out in advance. These are located on the Plant Services Web page.

Thank you,
Plant Services

If you didn’t get a chance to attend Tamara Cissna’s farewell reception last week, you still have the opportunity to wish her well. A “memory book” has been created for her. If you are interested in writing a note of farewell or encouragement in the book, it will be available to sign at the front desk in the marketing communications office in the River Street House through Friday, July 20.

Next week, if you are interested in having the book circulated in your department, contact Janelle Olivarez (jolivarez@georgefox.edu) to arrange for pick-up. The book will eventually be shipped to Tamara in Indiana, where she will work as the associate vice president of marketing communication at Earlham College.

Leftover polo-style shirts from previous golf tournaments are up for grabs on a first-come, first-served basis. Take as many as you like until they are gone. Various sizes and colors available, all with the GFU Golf logo.

Come to Pennington House between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Questions? Call Mary Monahan at ext. 2134.

Peter DePaoli of Reclaiming Victory Ministries in Tigard will speak at the Tuesday, July 24, monthly Newberg meeting of the Christian Chamber of Commerce of the Northwest. The meeting is from 7:30 to 9 a.m. in the Villa Academic Complex.

DePaoli is the executive director and co-founder, with his wife, Toni, of the Tigard-based Reclaiming Victory Ministries. DePaoli received his master’s degree in pastoral counseling from Western Seminary in Portland and began this ministry with the intention to focus primarily on the needs of pastors, Christian ministry leaders and their families.

In the 14 years since its inception, RVM has broadened its scope to minister to the congregations of these pastors. He and his wife emphasize the use of Scripture to minister to the emotional and spiritual needs of individuals in distress. The DePaolis also lead Rushing Wind Fellowship, a Tigard church.

Coffee, tea and pastries will be available at the meeting, which is free for Chamber members who R.S.V.P. at cccnw.net. A $5 donation is suggested from non-members and guests who R.S.V.P. For full information, go to the Chamber’s website, listed above, or call 503-928-8354.

We are in need of 20 more team leaders for Serve Day. Your help would be greatly appreciated. Please contact Meredith Dougherty if you are willing to serve as a team leader (mdougherty@georgefox.edu).

Thank you! If you haven’t signed up for Serve Day at all, you still can at this link.

Don’t forget to drop by Tamara Cissna’s farewell reception this afternoon (Friday) from 3 to 4:30 p.m. in the Pennington House courtyard.

Tamara has managed the George Fox creative services team for nine years and is moving to Indiana to become associate vice president of marketing and communication at Earlham College.

Please help us welcome our Summer Visit Day prospective students and guests this Friday, July 13, by parking somewhere other than the Stevens and Hoover parking lots. This will allow them to park close to the event’s check-in location.

Thank you!
The Undergraduate Admissions Office

President Baker recently returned from a trip to China, where he met with parents, students and higher education partners. When you get a chance, be sure to check out his reflections on the trip by visiting his blog site.

His entries include thoughts on the meaning of a “moral education,” what it was like visiting with a current student and her family, and the story of an interesting incident in a Chinese department store.

The marketing communications office will be processing a business card order soon. Please place your order directly with B&B Print Source by Friday, July 13. If you haven’t already created an account, you will need to do so before submitting your order.

If you have questions, contact Danette Newkirk at dnewkirk@georgefox.edu.

Friday, July 20, will be the financial affairs office’s cutoff date for entering fiscal year 2012 revenue and/or expenses. Please submit appropriate paperwork as soon as possible for any revenues earned or expenses incurred prior to the end of FY2012 (June 30, 2012).

Please remember that these revenues and/or expenses must be included as fiscal year 2012 entries and may not be deferred to fiscal year 2013.

Thank you so much your cooperation as we wrap up FY2012 and prepare for our yearly audit. If you have any questions, please contact the financial affairs office at ext. 2160.

The all-employee meeting scheduled for this month has been moved from July 12 to Wednesday, July 25, beginning at 3:30 p.m. in VAC 117 (please note new location). At the meeting, the VP’s will share information regarding the recent restructuring.

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.” It is the bottom link in that section. The link will take you to all the information relating to community meetings and include a live-stream link (the password changes each meeting) and a chat room link.

Videos from previously recorded meetings will be added to this page in the days following. Please bookmark the page for quick access each month.

We always appreciate receiving the previous month’s time sheets and time-off reports early in the new month, but we are especially anxious to receive June’s each year. If you haven’t already, please send us your June time-off report or time sheet by this Thursday, July 12, so we can enter vacation and sick leave used in June. This will enable the folks in Financial Affairs to report fiscal year-end balances, which will help them finish their work of closing the books on 2011-12.

If you have any time-off reports or time sheets from earlier in 2011-12 that you have not yet submitted, please turn those in as well. If a supervisor’s absence will cause a delay, please send HR a copy and submit the original after it has both yours and your supervisor’s signatures.

Thank you very much.
– HR

For your entertainment pleasure, Bob Gilmore will be playing the piano in the Bruin Den during lunch time on Tuesday, July 10. Please be sure to come by and enjoy some great music as well as our Bruin barbecue for lunch.

We’re told Bob may take requests, so be thinking of songs you might like him to play.