On Serve Day (Sept. 8), we will be making laundry soap for Love INC. to distribute to the community. If you have empty liquid laundry soap containers or empty milk containers, please drop them off at the Office of Spiritual Life (Sheridan Street House).
Thank you,
Serve Day Committee
Just a final reminder that an orientation overview meeting is scheduled at 9 a.m. in Hoover 105 on Thursday, Aug. 12. All employees who will be working with new students are encouraged to attend.
Due to the large size of the incoming class, the schedule has been changed this year. We would love for everyone involved to be informed of these changes.
Be sure to turn in your requests for library course reserves no later than Wednesday, Aug. 25, 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.
Dear Friends,
We have a student in the seminary who has some special needs, and I was wondering if any of you might have some ideas about how to help.
Alec Sandu is a Master of Arts in Ministry Leadership student and he began in the fall of 2009. He and his family are from Zimbabwe. His wife and three children (13- and 4-year-old boy, 9-year-old girl) have adjusted well to life in America.
Alec is a pastor in the village of Siadini and a sustenance farmer. He has been pastoring for 14 years and is seeking a graduate education in order to teach and train pastors and laity. His association (First Christ Church – Churches of Christ) hosts two training conferences per year – one for pastors and the other for their congregations. He is returning to Zimbabwe on Aug. 17 for this conference. Unless we find housing for his family, they will return with him as well.
Their host family has paid for their expenses up to this point, but are no longer able to provide for Alec and his family, They are in desperate need of a place to live. If you can help in any way, please let us know. Gil George is managing the search for housing (ggeorge07@georgefox.edu). We are trying to find some part-time employment for Alec also.
Your prayers and ideas are greatly appreciated.
In Christ,
MaryKate Morse (Seminary)
This is a reminder that the fall 2010 George Fox University Employee Community Meeting is scheduled from 8 to 11 a.m. on Friday, Aug. 20. Attendance is required.
Breakfast will be served in Klages Dining Room from 8 to 8:35 a.m. The meeting will follow in Bauman Auditorium, starting with worship at 8:45 a.m. led by Bill Jolliff.
For those at the university’s regional sites, the meeting will be available for viewing at stream.georgefox.edu/live/commmtg.sdp. In addition, a chat room has been set up to allow for interaction. A video recording of the event will be available in the days following the meeting at itunesu.georgefox.edu.
Salem Sealcoating will be crack sealing on lots around the Newberg campus on Wednesday, Aug. 11, through Sunday, Aug. 15. They will post the lots they are working on, so please heed their signs. The black tar or yellow paint is not easy to get off your car. Also, take care to not walk through fresh tar and into your building.
Plant Services is seeking volunteers to help move in new furniture into Sutton Hall this Thursday and Friday, Aug. 12-13. If interested, please show up anytime during the morning. Any amount of time will be valuable.
Please contact Clyde Thomas (Plant Services) at cthomas@georgefox.edu if you are available to help.
All employees who will be working with new students are invited to attend an overview of the orientation schedule before the festivities begin. Join us for this overview at 9 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 12, in Hoover 105.
Due to the large size of the incoming class, the schedule has been changed this year. We would love for everyone involved to be informed of these changes. Hope to see you there!
Greetings from your Staff Development Committee!
Please take a moment and visit the new Staff Development Committee website to learn about upcoming events and benefits available to you as a staff member at George Fox. The website is: georgefox.edu/sdc.
Please send an e-mail to Peggy Kilburg (HR) by this Friday, Aug. 13, if you would like to nominate a support staff member or administrator for August 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 (what was done, who was impacted, etc.), and any other information that you believe makes this person deserving of this award.
Please submit your nomination by Friday, Aug. 13. The President’s Executive Leadership Team will then select the Employee of the Month from the nominations submitted. The winners of both the July and August Employee of the Month awards will be announced at the all-employee meeting on Aug. 20, and each will receive a $100 gift card to The Allison.
First-generation college alumni students are needed for a doctoral research project. (Participants do not need to be George Fox alumni.) Each participant will receive a $10 gift certificate to Starbucks for a 55-minute interview.
If you are interested in this project, please e-mail Joel Perez at jperez@georgefox.edu or phone him at ext. 2305.
Thank you.
Career Services has moved! We are now located on the first floor of the Stevens Center. We will host an open house later this fall. Watch for details.
In order to get ready for the new school year, the Bruin Den will be closed Aug. 7-22. We will reopen on Monday, Aug. 23, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. See you then.
Two questions concerning early America – “Did America have a Christian founding?†and “Did the founders want separation of church and state?†– will be addressed at a summer symposium hosted on the Newberg campus on Friday, Aug. 13.
Daniel L. Dreisbach, a professor in the Department of Law, Justice and Society at American University who studied philosophy as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, will present a lecture, “Thomas Jefferson and the ‘Wall of Separation’ Between Church and State,†from 6 to 7 p.m. in Hoover 105. There is no charge to attend.
Prior to the lecture, a barbecue and book-signing session are scheduled from 4:30 to 6 p.m. in the quad. The cost for the barbecue is $13 per person. Joining Dreisbach at the book signing will be Mark David Hall (Herbert Hoover Distinguished Professor of Political Science), a frequent collaborator with Dreisbach. The two coauthored The Sacred Rights of Conscience and teamed with Jeffry H. Morrison to write The Forgotten Founders on Religion and Public Life and The Founders on God and Government. Copies of the books will be available for sale at the signing session.
Registration details and more information are available at veritasschool.net. Seating is limited, so those interested in attending are encouraged to register as soon as possible. The lecture is co-sponsored by the university’s political science department and Veritas School of Newberg.
George Fox is expecting a big group of new international students this fall (approximately 60). We are looking for about 30 families who would be willing to have two international students stay in their homes the nights of Aug. 18-26.
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 and 8:30 a.m. and pick students up 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. If interested, please contact Dianna McIntyre (dmcintyre@georgefox.edu or ext. 2649) or Alex Pia (apia@georgefox.edu or ext. 2643). If you know of others who might be interested, please let us know so we may contact them.
Thank you for your willingness to consider this opportunity.
IT is offering a webinar on the FoxTALE-MyGFU integration. Join the webinar session from any computer on Monday, Aug. 9, between 10 and 10:30 a.m. Pacific Time. Space is still available, so sign up on this RSVP form.
This integration allows faculty to activate course sites. Students will automatically be enrolled. For fall 2010, faculty have the option of using the new system or continuing with the usual process. The new system will be fully implemented in the spring of 2011.
Before Aug. 9, visit the iVocalize support website and go through the four sections available on the Getting Started page. Be sure to run the system requirements test available on this page. The login information for the training session will be sent to you via e-mail prior to the event.
If you need assistance, contact the Service Desk at servicedesk@georgefox.edu or call ext. 2569.
Registration is still open for the university’s fourth Motorcycle Rally, scheduled Saturday, Aug. 14. The event features both a long (185-215 miles) and short (110-115 miles) ride, with the former traveling through the coast range and the latter winding through the hills and valleys of Yamhill County.
The event also features a motorcycle show and barbecue dinner on the Newberg campus that evening. For schedule and price details, visit the event website or contact Alumni Relations at ext. 2131. The registration deadline is Monday, Aug. 9.
All employees who will be working with new students are invited to attend an overview of the orientation schedule before the festivities begin. Join us for this overview at 9 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 12, in Hoover 105.
Due to the large size of the incoming class, the schedule has been changed this year. We would love for everyone involved to be informed of these changes. Hope to see you there!
We have an excess of office supplies (and binders) from our recent remodel and want to offer them up to the university’s students, staff and faculty. Please stop by the registrar’s office on the first floor of the Stevens Center and see if there’s anything you can use. Stop by anytime Wednesday through Friday of this week.
As we begin the 2010-11 academic year, it is time once again to gather as a community.
Please mark your calendars:
The fall 2010 George Fox University Employee Community Meeting is scheduled from 8 to 11 a.m. on Friday, Aug. 20. Attendance is required.
Breakfast will be served in Klages Dining Room from 8 to 8:35 a.m. The meeting will follow in Bauman Auditorium, starting with worship at 8:45 a.m. led by Bill Jolliff.
For those at the university’s regional sites, the meeting will be available for viewing at stream.georgefox.edu/live/commmtg.sdp. In addition, a chat room has been set up to allow for interaction. A video recording of the event will be available in the days following the meeting at itunesu.georgefox.edu.
