The Daily Bruin

Don’t forget the all-employee meeting scheduled for this afternoon (Thursday) from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in Hoover 105. The session will include progress reports from our innovation team chairs.

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 “All-Employee Meeting Info” link located under “Staff Resources/Faculty Resources.” It is the bottom link in that section.

In addition, a chat room has been set up, and a video recording of the meeting will be available for viewing in the days following the meeting at itunesu.georgefox.edu.

The university’s offices and libraries will be closed on Friday, April 6, to observe Good Friday. The Newberg library will be closed Friday and Sunday but will be open between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. on Saturday. The Portland Center library will be closed Friday through Sunday.

The 14th annual Fox Film Festival is next weekend! Come out to the historic Newberg Cameo Theatre at 4:30 p.m. on Friday, April 13, to watch student films on the big screen! Tickets are $4 per person (or $6 for two) and available at the door.

The following day, April 14, come to Bauman Auditorium at 6 p.m. for the award ceremony (hosted by Robby Larson and Valerie Rogers) or stop by half an hour earlier to see the film-makers make appearances in their red-carpet attire. Saturday’s event will include short videos interspersed between each presentation to award winners.

Longer films will be shown on Friday, while shorter ones will be shown on Saturday. Questions? Contact Carissa Hoffman at choffman09@georgefox.edu.

Support staff, please join us for our final Staff Development Committee-sponsored luncheon of the 2011-12 academic year. It will be at noon on Monday, April 16, in the Cap & Gown Room. Come enjoy a chicken nacho lunch while being entertained by the University Players!

Cost is $3 per person. Contact Jan Lefebvre (jlefebvre@georgefox.edu) if you have questions.

Sign up today for Run for Romania! Run for Romania will be held at 9 a.m. on Sunday, April 22, at the Newberg campus track. It is a 5K walk that will benefit the June Serve team’s trip to Romania and Moldova this summer.

In this year’s June Serve, a group of George Fox students and faculty that will partner with the organization Word Made Flesh, which seeks to serve Jesus amongst the poorest of the poor in Romania and Moldova.

Registration is $30 for adults and $15 for children (12 and under). To register, go to this link.

Newberg is hosting a Relay for Life on Friday and Saturday, June 22-23, and you are invited to be part of a George Fox team!

The event is scheduled at Joan Austin Elementary and the Austin Sports Complex. Relay for Life is a community-wide overnight walking event to support the American Cancer Society. This year’s theme is “Give Cancer the Boot!” Join fellow members of the George Fox community as we walk to honor cancer survivors, remember people we have lost, and also raise funds and awareness to help save lives!

For more information and to join the team, e-mail Vangie Pattison at epattison@georgefox.edu.

Celebrate. Remember. Fight Back.

We are still in need of many willing servants to serve as ushers at both the undergraduate and graduate/professional studies commencement ceremonies on Saturday, April 28. Take tickets, hand out programs, direct graduates’ family and friends to their seats, and help make graduation a special event for all involved. All employees who participate as ushers will be paid $25 per ceremony through payroll.

There are three opportunities for involvement:

• Graduate/Professional Studies Ceremony
  Time commitment: 8:30-11:30 a.m. on Saturday, April 28
  Location: Wheeler Gymnasium

• Traditional Undergraduate Ceremony
  Time commitment: 1:30-5 p.m. on Saturday, April 28
  Location: Wheeler Gymnasium

• Time commitment: 1:30-3:30 p.m. on Saturday, April 28
  Location: Bauman Auditorium

See that special student graduate … Be a part of an exciting event … Volunteer in a much-needed area of service … Be an usher at the Spring 2012 commencement!

Please let Lynn Scott know A.S.A.P. if this is something you would like to be a part of. Thank you for considering being involved in this memorable event.

– Lynn Scott (lscott@georgefox.edu or ext. 2140)

As we prepare to celebrate the upcoming Easter holiday, please note the following changes to meal times in Klages Dining Room:

• Thursday Dinner: 4:30-6:30 p.m.
• Friday Breakfast: 9-10 a.m.
• Friday Lunch: 11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m.
• Friday Dinner: 4:30-5:30 p.m.
• Saturday Brunch: 11 a.m. – 1 p.m.
• Saturday Dinner: 4:30-5:30 p.m.
• Sunday Brunch: 11 a.m. – 1 p.m.
• Sunday Dinner: 4:30-5:30 p.m.

Also, please note that the Bruin Den and Villa Cafe will shut down at 2 p.m. on Thursday and be closed on Good Friday.

Faculty: Please submit your textbook requests for fall 2012 as soon as possible. Orders are needed this week for us to have enough time to process them before buyback begins.

Without your orders, students will not get the highest value for their books. To date, we’ve received only one-third of expected requests.

Questions? Contact Sandy Gidding at sgidding@georgefox.edu.

The university’s engineering department will present its annual Engineering Expo on Friday, April 20, between 3 and 6 p.m. in the EHS Atrium on the Newberg campus.

The expo will include project displays, a robotics competition and lab demonstrations. Also featured will be projects from the program’s Senior Design and Servant Engineering teams for companies and community organizations such as Daimler, CUI, VibeTech, NASA, 219 Technologies, Providence, Engineering World Health, 5-Rock Ranch, Medical Teams International, Oregon Commission for the Blind, Mennonite Central Committee, Aprovecho, and the Newberg Rotary.

In addition, high school design projects will be featured. Refreshments will be provided. All are welcome!

For more information, please contact Kristin Bontrager at kbontrager@georgefox.edu or 503-554-2780.

The campus may be closed for Good Friday, but the Bruin Store will be open! Join us for our Great Friday Sale on April 6! All merchandise in the store is 20 percent off the lowest marked price.

You don’t want to miss this sale!

A free-admission “‘Beat the Recession’ Business Expo” is scheduled from 5 to 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 24, in the Villa Academic Complex.

Sponsored by the Christian Chamber of Commerce of the Northwest, the event will feature dozens of exhibitors in an event designed “to promote businesses, services and nonprofit outreaches that are working hard to thrive in the local economy,” according to Dundee businesswoman Vida Ice, event organizer.

According to Ice, the expo is the first of its kind in Yamhill County. Attendees will have the opportunity to network and to learn more about local businesses and the Christian Chamber. The business expo will begin about nine hours after the April Newberg meeting takes place at the same location with featured speaker, Portland-area author and pastor Bill Perkins.

Businesses or organizations that would like to participate as exhibitors should contact Ice at vida@vidaice.com or 503-750-9062. Cost to exhibit is $20 for Christian Chamber members, $30 for non-members.

For general information about the Christian Chamber of Commerce of the Northwest, call Executive Director James Autry at 503-928-8354 or visit cccnw.net.

Join the university’s gospel choir, the Voices of Praise, for our first interactive worship concert at 7:30 p.m. Monday, April 9, at Newberg Christian Church. Special guests will include the GFU Dance Company, Pam Lau and Olivia Pothoff, Joe Djanga and more!

Admission is free for all (but donations are greatly appreciated). Bring your friends and family to join our community in a night of worship and praise. The church is located at 2315 Villa Road.

Questions? E-mail us at voicesofpraisegfu@gmail.com.

Richard Zeller, one of America’s foremost baritones, will join with music professor and Bösendorfer Educational Artist Kenn Willson to perform at the university’s Bösendorfer Concert Series at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 12, in Bauman Auditorium.

Zeller, a 1983 George Fox graduate, is known for his sonorous dramatic voice, a compelling stage presence and musicianship. His opera engagements have included 12 seasons at the Metropolitan Opera and dates at opera houses around the world.

Willson, a tenured professor of music at the university, has traveled to Vienna, Austria, and to the Piano Academy in Recanati, Italy, to perform. He is also known throughout the region for his “Encounters with Beethoven” performances.

Tickets for the recital are $10 for adults, $8 for seniors and alumni, and $5 for students and children under 12. Tickets may be purchased at music.georgefox.edu or by calling the school’s box office at 503-554-3844.

Zeller will sing a selection of pieces that include works by Johannes Brahms (Botshaft, Wie Melodien Zieht es Mir), Richard Strauss (Allerseelen, Morgen), Robert MacGimsey (Land of Degradation, Sweet Little Jesus Boy), and Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II (Some Enchanted Evening).

Willson will perform the Beethoven pieces German Dance #1, Sonata Op. #31 #3 and Sonata Op. 27 #2, ‘Moonlight.’ He will perform on the university’s Bösendorfer Imperial Grand Piano, often called the “Rolls Royce of Pianos,” he said.

For more information, call ext. 2620.

George Fox theatre’s spring show opens next week! Come see the premiere of The Broken, a play written by director Rhett Luedtke and various GFU students.

The process of creating and writing The Broken began in October with a group of nine students under Rhett’s direction. They started with the image of a fortified, barbed-wire fence in a foreign country with a middle-aged Bible translator standing on one side of the fence with a machete in his hand and, on the other side, a native of the country also wielding a machete.

Based on some true stories of missions work in Papua New Guinea, the show has come full circle after more than 400 hours of work and will culminate in a world premiere that includes 30-plus students as actors, designers, consultants, stage managers and tech crew members under Rhett’s direction.

Play Synopsis: The Broken follows the intersecting stories of four individuals in Papua New Guinea as they navigate the sometimes conflicting beliefs and ideals of the Western and native cultures in the country.

Come for a time of thought-provoking theatre and explore questions of modern ideology in third-world culture.

Show Dates: The show runs April 12-14 and April 19-21 at 7:30 p.m. and April 22 at 2 p.m. in Wood-Mar Auditorium. Tickets can be purchased online at theatre.georgefox.edu or by calling 503-554-3844. University employees each get one complimentary ticket for the performance of their choice, and George Fox students each get one complimentary ticket for either of the Thursday night performances. Comp tickets can be picked up at the box office.

Note: The box office is now located on the first floor of the Stevens Center at the information desk. Box office hours are Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Online tickets can be purchased at any time.

How would you like to simultaneously contribute to the arts and see an exciting new show for free? My name is Susan Carlson, and Jenn Lippert and I are the house managers for the upcoming main-stage play The Broken. We still need ushers. There are lots of openings left; sign up for any day(s) you like. No experience is necessary, and you will get free admission.

If you would like to join or if you have any questions, please contact me at scarlson10@georgefox.edu. Let me know what day(s) you want to do. Here are the performance dates and times. You will need to show up about an hour before showtime (we’ll give you an exact time later).

• Thursday, April 12, 7:30 p.m.
• Friday April 13, 7:30 p.m.
• Saturday, April 14, 7:30 p.m.
• Thursday, April 19, 7:30 p.m.
• Friday, April 20, 7:30 p.m.
• Saturday, April 21, 7:30 p.m.
• Sunday, April 22, 2 p.m.

April is here already, so it is time to think about nominating a colleague for April’s Employee of the Month award for 2012. If you know of someone whose recent contributions make him or her worthy of this honor, please take a few minutes to send an e-mail to Peggy Kilburg that includes a specific summary of the person’s contributions (past 30 days or so) and any other information that you believe makes this person deserving of this award.

The winner will be recognized and awarded a $100 gift card to The Allison at our community meeting on April 24. (March’s winner will be recognized at our April 5 community meeting.)

Saturday, March 31, noon – Softball vs. Pacific, DH (Morse Field)
Sunday, April 1, noon – Softball vs. Pacific, DH (Morse Field)

For more information, call the sports information office at ext. 2926 or visit the George Fox sports website at gfubruins.com.

All Newberg, Portland, Boise, Salem and Redmond offices will be closed tomorrow (Friday, March 30), for the spring break holiday. All libraries and bookstores will be closed as well.

How would you like to simultaneously contribute to the arts and see an exciting new show for free? My name is Susan Carlson, and Jenn Lippert and I are the house managers for the upcoming main-stage play The Broken. We need ushers. No experience is necessary, and you will get free admission.

If you would like to join or if you have any questions, please contact me at scarlson10@georgefox.edu. Let me know what day(s) you want to do. Here are the performance dates and times. You will need to show up about an hour before showtime (we’ll give you an exact time later).

• Thursday, April 12, 7:30 p.m.
• Friday April 13, 7:30 p.m.
• Saturday, April 14, 7:30 p.m.
• Thursday, April 19, 7:30 p.m.
• Friday, April 20, 7:30 p.m.
• Saturday, April 21, 7:30 p.m.
• Sunday, April 22, 2 p.m.