Don’t forget: You and your family are invited to join the Robin Baker family at the president’s annual Christmas Open House this Sunday, Dec. 4. Drop by the Edwards House (402 S. College St.) anytime between 5 and 7 p.m.
We will serve light appetizers and holiday sweets as we celebrate the Christmas season together!
Questions? Contact Missy Terry at ext. 2101 or terrym@georgefox.edu.
We always appreciate receiving time sheets and time-off reports in a timely fashion, but we are especially anxious to receive these as early in December as possible. This will ensure having plenty of time for processing and data entry in spite of extra vacation and holiday time off.
Would you please take a few minutes to submit your November time sheet (support staff) or time-off report (administrators) to your supervisor right away? As always, please be sure it is complete, accurate and signed by both you and your supervisor before sending it to HR at Box 6108. (If your supervisor is not available to sign it, please send a copy to HR and keep the original until it has been signed.) Go to this HR link for these documents.
A tip to help you remember to do this each month: Set a recurring appointment on your calendar for the first business day of each month with a brief notation, “Turn in Timesheet.†That gives you one less thing to have to remember, allowing you to save your brain space for other important stuff.
Thank you,
– HR
Student supervisors: Pay day for student employees is Thursday, Dec. 15. For us to meet this deadline we need your students’ November time sheets by Monday, Dec. 5, by 3 p.m. If you are on the Newberg campus, please hand-deliver the time sheets. If you send them with a student, make sure you place them in a sealed envelope. Any time sheets received after this deadline may not get paid on the 15th.
Please be sure the student’s name, ID number and cost center number is legible on each one. Also, don’t forget to sign them and be sure the students did as well. Please do not send students to HR to sign their time sheets.
Thanks so much for helping us get our students paid in a timely manner!
– HR
Don’t forget the all-employee meeting scheduled for this afternoon (Thursday) from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in Hoover 105. Also please note that the Thursday, Dec. 15, meeting has been canceled.
For those at the university’s regional sites, the meeting will be available at this stream site. A chat room has also 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 engineering program will host its annual engine competition on Thursday, Dec. 8, when freshmen students showcase the projects they’ve built at the eighth annual “Wobble-Off†at 3:30 p.m. in the Ron Gregory Atrium in EHS.
The demonstration will feature a variety of oscillating steam/air-operated engines. The event is the culmination of the students’ first-year studies in engineering design, solid modeling and machining.
The engines will compete in a variety of categories, including maximum speed, minimum vibration, maximum coast, cost efficiency and creativity/craftsmanship. All are welcome.
Questions? Contact Kristin Bontrager at kbontrager@georgefox.edu.
The International Club is hosting a fundraiser to support women trapped in Kolkata’s sex trade. Freeset is a fair trade business offering employment to these women. They make quality jute bags and organic cotton T-shirts, but their real business is freedom!
We are working with Freeset to support the women and to raise funds for our club. The Indian bags we are selling are eco-friendly and would make great gifts for Christmas. The price of these bags will range from $8 to $15. We encourage you to come and check out the bags before they are all sold out!
Drop by our table in the Bruin Den between 10:30 a.m. and noon and from 4:30 to 7 p.m. through Friday, Dec. 2.
Contact Kaleb Olsen (olsenk10@georgefox.edu) if you have questions.
Come down to the Foxhole, grab a cup of coffee, and get to know students from different cultures at an international coffee house event on Wednesday, Dec. 7, from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m.
We have games, food, music and more. Questions? Contact Kaleb Olsen at olsenk10@georgefox.edu.
University administrators, faculty and staff:
Please take just a few minutes to help our Energy Systems class by taking this short survey. The results will help us determine the carbon footprint that George Fox leaves on the environment every year.
The survey is available at this link.
Thanks,
Kristin Bontrager (kbontrager@georgefox.edu)
Students from an Intro to Video class need some actors for their short film, entitled Oil & Wine. It is a parable of the Good Samaritan.
The following characters are needed for a shoot this weekend:
We will be filming this weekend and would need all actors’ schedules to be open and flexible; some characters will be needed longer than others. Food will be provided.
For more information or if you are interested in any of the parts, please e-mail Onjalai Flake at oflake11@georgefox.edu or call 503-935-3812.
Thank you to all who contributed to a successful Operation Christmas Child campaign! The George Fox and Newberg Friends communities packed 1,274 shoe boxes, including around 900 boxes at the campus packing party on Sunday, Nov. 20.
Thank you again! Please pray for the children who will soon receive the boxes.
– Jessi Fink (jfink09@georgefox.edu)
The university theatre program’s Alpha Psi Omega program will present a New Playwrights Festival this weekend!
Come to Wood-Mar Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 3, to enjoy new plays written, directed and performed by George Fox students. Donations will be gratefully accepted at the door to help send students to the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival in Fort Collins, Colo., in February.
Thanks for your support of our theatre students! Questions? Contact Hannah Irish at hannahelizabeth89@gmail.com.
Just a reminder: If you haven’t already done so, please make your nominations for the Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges.
The time has come once again to begin the process of selecting our undergraduate “Who’s Who†nominees for the 2011-12 academic year. You may or may not have contact with our undergraduate population. For those of you who do not have contact with our undergraduate population, please disregard the rest of this message.
For those of you who do have contact with our undergraduate population, you have the opportunity to make nominations by selecting 20 students who you feel are worthy of recognition from the students who qualify for selection. These students are eligible for nomination and expect to graduate either midyear or in the spring (December 2011 or April 2012).
Please click on this link for more instructions and to make your nomination(s). Choose no more than 20 students and mark your selection(s) no later than Wednesday, Nov. 30.
Contact Jere Witherspoon via e-mail or at ext. 2316 if you have any questions.
Applications for spending a semester off campus (studying abroad) for next school year, fall 2012 and spring 2013, are due the first Friday of spring semester – Jan 13, 2012. Interested students should attend an informational meeting scheduled for Thursday, Dec. 8, from 8 to 9 p.m. in Hoover 103.
The meeting will discuss the different semester programs available to students as well as application procedures and timeline. Questions regarding finances and credits will be answered. There will be ample time for Q&A with Clint Baldwin and Melanie Newell following the meeting. Three students recently returning from studying abroad will share about their experiences in South Africa, Rwanda and Australia.
Faculty are advised to inform their students about this meeting.
Questions? Contact Melanie Newell at mnewell@georgefox.edu.
The last Peace and Justice Symposium of the semester is this Thursday, Dec. 1, from 7:15 to 9 p.m. in the Quaker Heritage Room on the second floor of the MLRC. It will feature Bill Apel (professor emeritus, Linfield College) and Craig Goodworth (George Fox adjunct writing instructor and artist practitioner in residence).
This is a great time to hear two professors talk on a more personal level – outside the classroom – about how peace and justice have been currents forming the trajectories of their personal as well as academic lives.
About our speakers:
Apel is a professor emeritus at Linfield College, having spent many years on the school’s religious studies faculty as well as the college chaplain. His presentation on Thursday night is titled after his most recent book, Signs of Peace: A life of Blessings. For more information on Bill, go to this link.
Goodworth is George Fox’s artist practitioner in residence for the semester. His most recent art exhibition was in the Minthorne Gallery in September and was titled “Jelen and Other Drawings.” He is also an adjunct writing instructor. For more information on Craig, including his “peace testimony,” please visit this link.
We hope to see you there. We’ll have snacks at 7:15 p.m. and the program begins at 7:30 p.m.
Questions? Contact Melanie Newell at mnewell@georgefox.edu.
Please remember that each department is responsible for their own Christmas trees this holiday season. If campus departments would like trees, they need to purchase, install and decorate their own.
Offices need to file a permit with Plant Services if they use a live tree and will be expected to cooperate with Plant Services on the removal of the live trees prior to the holiday time off. Permits are located at this link on the Plant Services website and must be submitted by Friday, Dec. 2.
Questions? Contact Debby O’Kelley at dokelley@georgefox.edu or ext. 2011.
Join us for a special showcase of poetry by 88 students and staff at George Fox. We are having a one-time day opening today (Tuesday) of the “I Am Poem” project from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the Foxhole. Or you can stop by during Foxhole hours between Nov. 28 and Dec. 9.
The “I Am Poem” project shows that everyone has culture and that each of us can learn something about another if we are intentional.
Questions? Contact Shelley Yonemura at ext. 2318 or syonemura@georgefox.edu.
Family and Consumer Sciences is again presenting two holiday luncheon options. These are meals created and served by students in the Quantity Food Production and Management class.
These three-course meals feature salad, entrée and dessert, with hot beverages included. Meals will be served on two days:
Seating is from noon to 12:30 p.m. in Lemmons 5. The cost is $8 payable at the door (cash or check). Gluten-free, dairy-free, take out, and vegetarian options are available.
By reservation only. Please contact Helen Morse at ext. 2640 or hmorse@georgefox.edu.
Urban Services is collecting items for our winter clothes drive this week. We take groups of students into Portland and Salem each week to serve food to the homeless and build relationships with our friends on the streets. Our goal is to share the love of Christ, and part of that is to show care for the very real physical needs of our friends.
We have set up a collection bin outside the ASC offices through Friday, Dec. 2. Some of the things we are hoping to collect are:
Thank you so much for your participation!
Feel free to contact Mary Owen (mowen10@georgefox.edu) or Heather Mabry (hmabry07@georgefox.edu) for more information.
God bless,
Mary Owen and Heather Mabry
Don’t forget next week’s “Let’s Learn Together” session on Tuesday, Dec. 6, from noon to 1 p.m. at various locations (click on link below for list of venues). Piper Parks (IT) will be sharing about PowerPoint. For those on other campuses, the event will be available to watch on a stream site (to be provided).
Click on this link to reserve your spot for the session. We look forward to seeing you there! Please e-mail Rachel Powell (rpowell@georgefox.edu) if you have questions.
Have you seen my ring? I recently lost a silver ring that has a heart on the top and the words “Friends are family we choose for ourselves” engraved on the inside. If you find it, please call me at 253-332-1963.
Thank you!
– Hannah Irish
