Don’t forget to join us for chapel Wednesday (March 2), when Stephen Newby, director of university ministries and center for worship at Seattle Pacific, joins us. The morning also will feature gospel choirs from George Fox and SPU.
The month of March is Women’s History Month. Celebrate with us as we raise awareness, give appreciation and encouragement. In honor of the occasion, there is a pink “awareness tree” in the quad.
Attention all artists! We are in need of a T-shirt design for this year’s James Bond-themed Mr. Bruin pageant. The winner of the best T-shirt design will receive a $5 giftcard to their favorite coffee shop.
Please e-mail your designs to Shannon Donohue (sdonohue09@georgefox.edu) by Monday, March 7. Good luck!
The university’s International Justice Mission chapter invites the community to its next meeting at 7:50 p.m. Wednesday, March 2, in the Le Shana lobby. The group deals in large part with the issue of sex-trafficking on both a global and local scale, and what steps we can do to combat it.
Two major focuses of the chapter are prayer and how we can get involved in the community. Please come see how you can get involved as well.
Questions? Contact Stephen Kenyon at skenyon09@georgefox.edu.
Would you please take a few minutes to submit your February time sheet (support staff) or time-off report (administrators) to your supervisor right away? As always, please be sure it is complete (including your ID number), 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.)
Click this link for staff time sheets and download this page for administrator time-off reports.
A tip to help you remember to do this each month: Set a recurring appointment on your Outlook or Google calendar for the first business day of each month with a brief notation: “Turn in time sheet.” That gives you one less thing to have to remember.
A word about the late campus opening of Feb. 24: If you were scheduled to work, record the hours that you would have worked had the campus opened as usual. This includes temporary employees and student employees. If you were not able to get to campus by 10 a.m. or at all, you should use vacation for the time you missed after 10 a.m.
If you were on vacation or took a sick day on Feb. 24, you should record the full day off as vacation or sick leave.
For more information about campus closure policy, visit the university’s website.
The LibQUAL+® Lite Library Survey is now available online. Please take a moment to fill out the George Fox libraries’ survey about the quality of our service. Click this link to access the survey. To learn more about it, visit this page on the library site.
The survey is available any time of the day or night through Friday, March 18, and you can enter to win prizes!
All Newberg staff are invited to join the Staff Development Committee and special guests Tuesday, March 1, from 9 to 10:30 a.m. in VAC 117 for a time of worship, praise and refreshments. Please join us!
Don’t forget to join us for chapel Wednesday (March 2), when Stephen Newby, director of university ministries and center for worship at Seattle Pacific, joins us. The morning also will feature gospel choirs from George Fox and SPU.
Staff and students: The lost and found cupboards are stuffed to the brim with “found” items! Please come to the security house to look for your lost items before Thursday, March 10, as all remaining items will be donated to the May Serve garage sale (March 12) on that date.
Mark McMinn (PsyD) will present a faculty lecture, “Toward a Healthy View of Food,” at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 1, in Hoover 105.
Mark’s presentation will encourage a new conversation about food – one that emphasizes health and celebration. According to Mark, “Today’s positive psychology movement, the material nature of Christianity, and contemporary social movements emphasizing local, just, sustainable food production all converge to make conversations about food replete with hope.”
Please join us.
Bauman Auditorium will be the venue for a free performance by the Portland Youth Philharmonic, led by Conductor David Hattner, at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 28.
The concert program includes Brahms’ Tragic Overture, Tchaikovsky’s Variations on a Rococo Theme and Stravinsky’s Petrushka. Spotlighted will be cellist Jinn Shin, a concerto competition winner.
No tickets are required. It is a free preview of PYP’s annual Winter Concert to be held in the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall on March 5 at 7:30 p.m.
Come to chapel this Wednesday (March 2) to hear from Stephen Newby, Seattle Pacific University’s director of university ministries and center for worship. Newby is a worship leader, songwriter and composer well known for his role with Promise Keepers.
George Fox’s gospel choir, along with the SPU gospel choir, will join together in leading our campus into worship during the chapel hour (10:40 to 11:30 a.m.) You won’t want to miss it!
FoxTALE will be unavailable from 6 to 7 a.m. (Pacific Time) on Tuesday, March 1, for scheduled maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience.
Employees who were scheduled to work should record the hours on their time-off reports and time sheets that they would have worked had the campus opened as usual. This includes temporary employees and student employees. If you were not able to get to campus by 10 a.m. or at all, you should use vacation for the time you missed after 10 a.m.
If you were on vacation or took a sick day on Feb. 24, you should record the full day off as vacation or sick leave. For more information about campus closure policy, visit this page on the university’s website.
Due to the weather situation, there have been a number of changes to the Bruin sports schedules for the rest of the weekend. Here is the schedule as of 10:45 a.m. Thursday morning:
Thursday, Feb. 24, 7 p.m. – Women’s basketball vs. Puget Sound, Wheeler Sports Center/Miller Gym (NWC Tournament)
Friday, Feb. 25, noon – Women’s tennis vs. Pacific Lutheran, Tualatin Hills Tennis Center, Beaverton, Ore.
Saturday, Feb. 26, 10:30 a.m. – Men’s and women’s track and field in Frank Haskins Quad Duel, Colcord Field
Saturday, Feb. 26, 7 p.m. – Women’s basketball vs. TBA (tentative)
Friday’s women’s tennis match was originally scheduled for 3:30 at the GFU campus courts but has been moved. The women’s tennis team was also supposed to host Linfield on Saturday, but the Linfield series has been swapped; the Bruins will go to Linfield this Saturday (since they have indoor courts), and the Wildcats will now come to George Fox on March 26.
If the women’s basketball team wins its Thursday game in the NWC Tournament, the location of Saturday’s championship game will be determined by the other semifinal game, Whitman at Lewis & Clark. If Whitman wins, George Fox will host on Saturday; if Lewis & Clark wins, the Saturday game will be in Portland.
George Fox’s baseball games this weekend (three games against various opponents at the University of Portland) and the softball games at PLU and UPS are still pending.
For updates on each sport and additional information, contact the sports information office at ext. 2926 or visit the Bruins’ website regularly at gfubruins.com.
To see the May Term 2011 class offerings go to class.georgefox.edu. For “Term†select “Summer 2011â€; for “Class Level†select “Traditional Undergraduateâ€; for “Discipline†you can either choose one or leave the default of “All.â€
May Term classes have a section code of “MAY.†Our eight-week summer online classes are also available via the same navigation and have a section code of “ONL.†Registration for both is open now and must be completed by April 15.
This Saturday we will be welcoming more than 350 visitors on campus as they attend this year’s Kaleo conference. In addition to our regular students, we also will be serving our guests lunch in our main dining room.
In order to help minimize entrance lines, we’d like to ask all our George Fox students to enter through the dishroom doors, with overflow seating available in the Cap and Gown rooms.
Thanks for your help in welcoming our guests by sharing the dining room.
Do you anticipate receiving a five-, 10-, 15-, 20-, 25-, 30-, or 35-year service award this spring? If so, please check to be sure your name is included in one of the lists below.
Awards will be presented on Monday, May 2, to employees, half time and above. If your name is not included in one of these lists but you believe you should receive an award, or if your name is on the list and you don’t think you should receive an award this year, contact Peggy Kilburg (HR) by e-mail and include any information you think may be helpful. (If you are a rehire, your previous benefits-eligible experience at George Fox counts toward your service award.)
Your help is most appreciated to ensure that the right employees are honored at this event. Only service at half time or above is used in determining your years of service.
Five-Year: Rebecca Addleman, Vetta Berokoff, Robert Bredemeier, Tatiana Cevallos, Kelly Chang, Michelle Cox, Gloria Doherty, Jeannine Graham, Carla Hagen, Esther King, David Manock, Lisa McMinn, Mark McMinn, Devorah Overbay, Jim Steele, Jeff Vargason, Gina Worley, Lindsay Peterson, Dinah Steig, Brenda Graf, Melodee Powers, Joel Perez, Sherri Moore-Harrison, Gordon Aarness, Jan Amerson, Erin Macy, Paul Jenness, Mary Jo McCloskey, Melissa Gilbert, Dee Small, Jen Overstreet, Greg Allen, Kathy Weiss, Judy Deale, Lisa Burton, Joanne Wiitala, Lindsey Wallgren, Janelle Olivarez, Jerry Young
10-Year: Ed Gierok, Michael Everest, Mark Hall, Eloise Hockett, Sue O’Donnell, Laura Simmons, Brent Weaver, Kent Yinger, Andrea MacLeod, Mike Goins, Nate McIntyre, Trini Marquez, Alex Rolfe, Debbie Cash, Amber Russell, John Libemday, Paul Corbett-Furgal, Arden Butler
15-Year: Dennis Littlefield, Caitlin Corning, Beth Molzahn Daniel Sweeney, Jere Witherspoon, John Heitz, Mark Pothoff, Alan Kluge, Kathi Becker, Gary Buhler, Kathleen Jones, Kathy Grant
20-Year: Larry Osborn, Doug Campbell, Alex Pia, Byron Shenk, Bob Buckler, Rodger Bufford, Howard Macy, Linda Sartwell, Brooke McGillivray, Jeff VandenHoek, Fred Smith
25-Year: Dirk Barram, Jan Lefebvre
30-Year: Dave Adrian
35-Year: Craig Taylor
Thursday, Feb. 24, 7 p.m. – Women’s basketball vs. Puget Sound, Wheeler Sports Center/Miller Gym (NWC Tournament)
Friday, Feb. 25, 3:30 p.m. – Women’s tennis vs. Pacific Lutheran, GFU campus courts
Saturday, Feb. 26, 10 a.m. – Women’s tennis vs. Linfield, GFU campus courts
Saturday, Feb. 26, 10:30 a.m. – Men’s and women’s track and field in Frank Haskins Quad Duel, Colcord Field
Saturday, Feb. 26, 7 p.m. – Women’s basketball vs. TBA (tentative)
In case of inclement weather, the women’s tennis matches will probably be moved to the Tualatin Hills Tennis Center.
If the women’s basketball team wins its Thursday game in the NWC Tournament, the location of Saturday’s championship game will be determined by the other semifinal game, Whitman at Lewis & Clark. If Whitman wins, George Fox will host on Saturday; if Lewis & Clark wins, the Saturday game will be in Portland.
For updates on each sport and additional information, contact the sports information office at ext. 2926 or visit the Bruins’ website at gfubruins.com.
Student supervisors, please submit your students’ February time sheets to HR by Thursday, March 3, by 3 p.m. Please do not send them through the campus mail.
Please be sure the student’s name, ID number and cost center number is legible on each one. Total them. Sign them and be sure the students did as well. (If the student is not available to sign it this week, please send it without the signature, and HR will contact the student.) Please do not send students to HR to sign their time sheets.
Federal Work Study regulations require that students delivering their own time sheets must have them in a sealed envelope.
Thanks very much.
HR
