Just a reminder that the university community is invited to a farewell reception in honor of Reid Kisling (Registrar) from 3 to 4:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 17, in the Stevens Center’s Duke Atrium. Reid has accepted the position of senior pastor at Grace Baptist Church in Newberg and will be leaving the university Dec. 31 after five years of service.
The Fitness Center (weight room) will be open noon to 1 p.m. during the Christmas break, during regular work days only.
More than 200 students will receive undergraduate and graduate diplomas at the university’s midyear commencement ceremony this Saturday, Dec. 18, 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.
David Le Shana, president emeritus of George Fox, will deliver the commencement address. Le Shana also has served as director of public relations, college pastor, evangelist and chaplain at Taylor University.
More specifics on the ceremony are available at commencement.georgefox.edu.
Mail Services will be open the following days during the Christmas break:
Service window hours will be 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Please join us in Klages between 4:30 and 7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 16, as we host our annual Christmas banquet. Dickens carolers, great food, eggnog, yummy desserts and guest carvers will make this a wonderful event as we celebrate the end of finals and the birth of Jesus.
Free to meal-plan students and only $8.25 to everyone else. We look forward to seeing everyone Thursday night!
– Denny Lawrence,
Bon Appetit
Student supervisors, please be sure to collect your student employees’ time sheets before they leave for winter break. Please submit these time sheets to Human Resources right away. If they will be working over the winter break, turn them in when they are done for the month. While we would like the time sheets as early as possible, ALL December time sheets must be turned in to Human Resources by Tuesday, Jan. 4, by noon.
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, 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.
New Students? If you have hired students for December, please hand-deliver their paperwork right away. We need to set up students in the system before the time sheets arrive.
If you have hired students to start in January, please submit their paperwork as soon as possible.
Thanks very much.
– HR
Be sure to turn in your requests for library course reserves no later than Wednesday, Jan. 5, if you wish to have them processed before school starts. The form can be found online.
Requests are processed in the order that they are received and can take up to five days to complete. The beginning of the semester gets a little backed up, and we would appreciate your help by getting your requests submitted as soon as possible. If you have any questions, feel free to call the library circulation desk at ext. 2410 or e-mail mlrcreserves@gmail.com.
The Center for Peace and Justice and the political science department will provide 15 free copies of the new book The Poor Will Be Glad: Joining the Revolution to Lift the World out of Poverty, by Peter Greer, to the first 15 students who sign up. These students will participate in a talk-back session with the author when he comes to campus on Jan. 20.
The 15 participants will need to commit to reading the book before Jan. 19 and participate in the talk-back session with author Greer, president of Hope International. We still have 12 copies remaining.
E-mail peaceandjustice@georgefox.edu or stop by the Center for Peace and Justice to pick up your copy.
Stock up on Bruin items for the new year and come to the Bruin Bookstore’s Christmas sale! Save up to 20 percent on all imprinted items (except diploma frames). Sale ends Dec. 23.
Don’t forget to join us today (Monday) in the MLRC multipurpose room for the annual Wassail Party for wassail, coffee and cookies. It’s the library’s treat to you!
The Fitness Center will be closed from 5 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 17, until Monday, Jan. 10. Ask Santa for a one-month membership to a health club to jump start your New Year’s resolution! The track is available also.
Have a wonderful Christmas.
Please note the schedule change for meal times in Klages and hours for the Bruin Den and Villa Cafe in the coming weeks:
Monday, Dec. 13
Klages – Open at 8 a.m.
Bruin Den – 9 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Villa – Closed
Tuesday-Thursday, Dec. 14-16
Klages and Bruin Den – Regular hours of operation
Villa – 8 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Friday, Dec. 17
Klages:
Bruin Den – 7:30 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Villa – 8 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Saturday, Dec. 18
Klages (Cap and Gown)
Breakfast – 8-9 a.m. (last board meal)
Sunday, Jan. 9
Klages – 5-7 p.m. (first board meal)
Monday, Jan. 10
Resume all regular hours all locations
An all-employee meeting is scheduled from 3:30 to 5 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 16, in Hoover 105.
For those at the university’s regional sites, the meeting will be available for viewing at stream.georgefox.edu/live/commmtg.sdp. 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.
Poinsettias will be sold for $5 after this weekend’s Christmas Concert. You may pay and reserve your poinsettias at any of the performances, but they will not be available for pick-up until after Sunday’s performance.
If you cannot make it on Sunday, they will be available for pick-up on Monday in the music office.
George Fox is again participating in the annual MLK Day of Service in Portland! This is a great opportunity for us to represent the university in the city.
Please register at this link. The event is scheduled from 6:45 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 17. We’ll be leaving from the Duke Atrium in the Stevens Center. There is no cost to you, as we’ll provide breakfast, lunch and transportation.
Check out last year’s event on YouTube. See who you can find from Fox! Only 125 volunteers can sign up from George Fox, so register early.
Questions? Contact Shelley Yonemura, director of Multicultural Student Programs, at syonemura@georgefox.edu.
Interested in honing your artistic skills? Register now for ARTS 245 (4431), watercolor painting taught by Gary Buhler. Class meets Mondays and Wednesdays from 6:30 to 9 p.m. during spring semester.
Please send an e-mail to Peggy Kilburg (HR) by Monday, Dec. 13, if you would like to nominate a support staff member or administrator for December Employee of the Month. Your e-mail should include the person’s name, job title, a concise but specific summary of this person’s contribution(s) to the university, its students, and/or its employees in the past 30 days or so, and any other information that you believe makes this person deserving of this award.
The President’s Executive Leadership Team will then select someone for this honor from the nominations submitted. The winner will be announced at the community meeting next Thursday, Dec. 16, and will receive a $100 gift card to The Allison.
George Fox is expecting 12 new international students to start spring semester. We are looking for about six or seven families who would be willing to have two international students stay in their homes the nights of Jan. 4-8.
Families are asked to provide breakfast and dinner. Lunch will be provided on campus. We also ask families to provide transportation to George Fox between 8–8:30 a.m. and pick up students at approximately 5 p.m. Host families will receive a stipend to help defray some of the costs.
We hope you will consider being a host family. Being a host family can be a very rewarding experience. If you are interested, please contact Dianna McIntyre at dmcintyre@georgefox.edu or ext. 2649, or Alex Pia at apia@georgefox.edu or ext. 2643. If you know of others who might be interested, please let us know so we may contact them.
Security is doing the last lost and found tables of the semester on Monday, Dec. 13, so if you have any items that have been hanging around your office/workplace, please bring them to the security office before Monday.
All items not reunited with their owners will be donated to charitable causes Monday afternoon, so be sure to stop by before then to claim your items.
– Thanks
Security Services
The yearbook staff wants your fun photos. We would love to see what you captured at sporting events, club activities, or any other main event from this year for the 2010-2011 yearbook. Send pictures as an attachment in an e-mail to Hannah Wilcox at hwilcox06@georgefox.edu. Send pictures of your friends; they will thank you for it!
