The Daily Bruin

Remember to attend the Orientation session for all summer student employees Monday at 9 in Hoover 105. It’s a required event, even if you attended last year.

Baccalaureate is this Saturday, May 1 at 9:30 a.m. This is your last opportunity to worship together as a class.  You should line up for Baccalaureate at 8:30 a.m. in the Ross Center Room 208 with your GOWN ON, but NO CAP.  Doors will open for parents at 8:30 a.m. in Bauman.   The faculty speaker is Dr. Corey Beals and the senior speakers are Jon Ciraulo and Shereen Sherman.  

Baccalaureate is one hour and then you are dismissed to move to your departmental receptions.

We will be doing a “sweep” of the men’s locker room during the month of May. If you want to keep your locker and its contents, please let us know. You may e-mail Patty Findley or call ext. 2910 with your locker number and we won’t remove the lock and dispense your gear to those less fortunate.

Tilikum Center for Retreats and Outdoor Ministries invites mothers and daughters to take time out and retreat together in a relaxing, country setting May 7-9.

Highlights include teaching and relationship-building sessions, singing and worship, campfire time, a hayride, crafts, and challenge course activities, along with plenty of time to simply be together, mother and daughter. It’s a wonderful opportunity to walk upon common ground while celebrating your differences and exploring God’s design for your lives.

Learn more at tilikum.georgefox.edu.

A continuing education opportunity for church leaders, the Leadership Institute for Group Discernment, will be hosted on the university’s Newberg campus May 17-20.

The institute is a three-and-a-half-day experience empowering church leaders in facilitating group discernment. It will integrate theological, spiritual and practical organizational processes, helping church leaders from different traditions understand and implement discernment-oriented leadership within their own settings, with the ultimate goal of leading to consensus and unity within the church.

For-credit options are available through George Fox University and George Fox Evangelical Seminary; all are welcome. For more information, contact Jan Wood, director of Good News Associates, via the Good News Associates website.

All students, please empty your campus mailboxes by noon tomorrow. (Friday, April 30th.) Recycle bins are placed in the Post Office lobbies for your convenience.  Your help is greatly appreciated.

Have a great summer!  Your friendly staff from Mail Services.

Learn to make those gorgeous hanging baskets that grace the university’s quad area. You can learn how these beauties are assembled and help us in the process by joining us for a class on Wednesday, May 12, in the Plant Services Building at 1101 Villa Road. The session begins at 9 a.m. and will last approximately four hours.

You are welcome to join in the class at any time.

Thank you,
Plant Services

The Fitness Center hours for the summer are as follows: 6-8 a.m., 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. and 4-8 p.m.

The university will host two commencement ceremonies on the Newberg campus Saturday, May 1. The traditional undergraduate ceremony will take place in Miller Gymnasium/Wheeler Sports Center at 2 p.m., with audience seating at 1 p.m. Tickets are required for the traditional undergraduate ceremony.

The graduate, seminary and School of Professional Studies ceremony will take place in the same Wheeler Sports Center location at 7 p.m., with audience seating at 6 p.m.

In addition, the baccalaureate service is scheduled for 9:30 a.m. Saturday in Bauman Auditorium. Baccalaureate is an undergraduate worship service providing graduating seniors, their families, faculty, administrators, staff and other guests the opportunity to worship.

More information on this weekend’s events are available on the commencement website.

Donate your used textbooks to Word Made Flesh to support its people and ministries. Just drop off your textbooks at the Spiritual Life House. Sarah Baldwin will mail them in and the money will go to WMF.

Click this link for more information.

This is a survey is to collect information on how an advisor, professor, or coach has demonstrated care and help while you have been at George Fox. Please take a few minutes to fill out the 10 question survey.  Thank you!

 http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/F8TDJLM

 Thank you in advance for taking the time to fill out the survey.

 Dana Oswald

Assistant Professor of Education

William Penn University

Oskaloosa, IA 52577

Don’t forget to turn in your April timesheets to your supervisor at the end of your last shift of the school year.  Be sure your name is typed or printed legibly at the top, it is complete and accurate, and you have signed it.  Payday is on Friday, May 14th.  Thank you!

Paychecks will be mailed to the most recent address that Mail Services has on file.  If you are working on campus this summer and have a Summer campus box, your check will go there instead.

– Human Resources

Notifications of Financial Aid for next year have gone out to many students.  Are you still waiting to receive yours?    This could be due to documents the Student Financial Services office still is in need of to calculate your award.  Please check online at www.mygfu.georgefox.edu within your to do list.  Check to see if tax forms and a verification worksheet will be required from you and your family.  If so, verification will need to be complete before your financial aid is calculated and available for you to view.  Also while online, pay close attention to any other documents listed such as signature requirements or other items as requested by  FAFSA.  If you have any questions, please contact your financial aid counselor.

Join me in congratulating our top three spiritual life credit winners:

 1st place: Stephen Kenyon with 39 spiritual life credits 2nd place: Tied for second- Danielle Perry and Lisa Loperfido with 36 spiritual life credits

 We are so thankful for their investment in the spiritual life program at GFU!Each of them will be recieving a gift from the Office of Spiritaul Life.

As we are approaching the end of the school year, we’d like to please ask everyone who has dishes, glasses, silverware, bowls, etc in their rooms to return them before checking out after finals. 

 In order to simplify things we are placing large plastic boxes outside the dishroom doors for you to bring any dishware items belong back with us.  Also, if you know if any large quantities in any of the dorm kitchens, please let us know and we’ll come and get them.

 Thanks for all your help…we’re missing a lot of stuff so it’ll be nice to have everything back just in time for everyone to be leaving!

There will be no student mail delivery after 2 p.m. on Friday, April 30. Mail delivery will resume on Monday, May 3, either to your open campus mailbox or forwarded to the address you provided to Mail Services.

Student Mailboxes will be closed on the last day of finals – – – unless you have made arrangements to have it open all or part of the summer via the yellow summer address card or an email.  If you still need to make a request for your mailbox to remain open for all or part of the summer, please email lsartwel@georgefox.edu.

Mail for the closed mailboxes will be forwarded to the address you provided on the yellow summer address card or to the last known address we have.

If you have questions, please email  lsartwel@georgefox.edu .

University Mail Services

Returning students:  Keep your mailbox key all summer Graduating or Withdrawing students:  Return your mailbox key by Friday, April 30th to avoid a $15.00 key fine.

Key Return envelopes located in all Post Office lobbies as well at Mail Services. Return via Campus Mail or drop the key off at Mail Services.

Auditions for next year’s Concert Choir are happening this week. Those interested in auditioning can call Debbie Hawblitzel (Performing Arts) at ext. 2620 or e-mail her at dhawblit@georgefox.edu to set a time to audition in the Ross Center.

The audition material is posted on the music website.

Faculty, please notify those students who might be interested in this opportunity.

Textbook buyback is scheduled at the Bruin Bookstore Wednesday through Friday, April 28-30, between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. outside the store in the SUB.