Reminder to all students on the meal plan:
On Saturday, November 8 all students on the meal plan will be eating lunch in the Cap and Gown room. Klages Dinning Hall is reserved for the Family Weekend Luncheon, and only students who have pre-registered with their family can eat in the dinning hall.
Thank you,
University Relations
KFOX Radio is getting rid of all of its unwanted CDs. Only $1 apiece. The sale runs from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. (during lunches in the SUB) and from 7 to 9 p.m. (outside the SUB) on Tuesday, Nov. 11. Prizes, stickers, music and free cocoa will be provided. Don’t miss out!
Want to publicize for an event? Visit the KFOX Radio website and click on announcement requests. We will promote your event on the air.
Students in Gary Buhler’s (Visual Arts) Basic Design class are showcasing the results of a value painting assignment in the Murdock Learning Resource Center through Monday, Dec. 8. Using historically significant paintings, students created copies of these paintings demonstrating their knowledge of value distinctions. Students had to first identify the basic value patterns, then simplify them into five steps using only black, white, and light, medium and dark gray to re-create the paintings.
Also still on display are pieces from Tim Timmerman’s (Visual Arts) Sculpture class.
Interested in seeing the progress of some of our music students? Join the performing arts department for this month’s Students in Recital as a group of students present what they have been working on this year. This month’s session is scheduled from 12:40 to 1:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 14, in Bauman Auditorium.
Remember Serve Trip applications are due Friday, November 7. Applications are available in the Bruin Den near the ASC offices.
The three offered trips are:
Twin Rocks -Â A focus on discipleship while working on different projects at Twin Rocks conference center.
Seattle – Working with Urban Impact tutoring kids and working at their facilities, and with New Horizons a ministry to runaways and street prostitutes.
Portland -Â Working with rebuild Portland and Our Father’s House.
There’s still time to register for Professional Preview Day! The registration deadline has been extended until 5:00 p.m. Friday, November 7.
The majority of the professionals still have one or two spots open. The following professional eager to have students shadow them:
#3 Internal Business Consultant
#6 Vice President of Operations
#9 Credit Union Branch Manager
#11 Non-profit financial donor officer
#19 Senior Pastor
#20 Senior Pastor (Quaker)
#24 Middle/High School Choir Teacher (Vocal and piano private instructor)
Professional Preview Day is Wednesday, November 12 from 9:15 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
For registration forms or to find out more about these professions, check out “Upcoming Events” on the Career Services website.
The University Store is hosting its annual Family Weekend sale, which will include a sidewalk sale. Save 20 to 75 percent on clothing, gifts and specially marked items. Sale runs 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, Nov. 7, and from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 8. Check out the huge savings.
Congratulations to the winners of the University Store’s costume contest last Friday. First place was awarded to the Garden Gnome (Robby Larson); second place went to Darth Vader (Jason Ellenburg); and third place went to Da Man (Amber Nelson). Thank you to all who participated!
– University Store
Start your holiday shopping early and enjoy some festive snacks at the George Fox Auxiliary’s annual holiday bazaar and silent auction Friday and Saturday, Nov. 7-8. The bazaar runs from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Friday and from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday in the Ron Gregory Atrium.
The silent auction also runs Friday from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and goes from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday in the Hoover Atrium. Several new vendors are participating in the event this year.
Family Weekend is set for this Friday through Sunday, Nov. 7-9. Don’t forget to register for the different events taking place. For a schedule of events, visit the Family Weekend website. Online registration will be removed at 3 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 5.
Still don’t have your BlueZone shirt? Come to the BlueZone Theatre Event.Â
BlueZone Supports Theatre. Watch the fall musical Thoroughly Modern Millie with your friends, and wear your BlueZone shirts.
Student Night is Wednesday, November 12 at 7:30 p.m. in Wood-Mar Auditorium.  Reserve your free ticket in the bookstore.  Twenty-five shirts will be handed out prior to the show at 6:45 p.m. Â
Let’s Get Our BlueZone on!
The university community is invited to a faculty research forum presented by Melanie Hulbert (Sociology) at 10:40 a.m. Friday, Nov. 7, in Hoover 105.
Hulbert will present “The Way Forward: Women Finding Their Voice in a Culture of Confusion.” Her talk will address why women, despite so many options and possibilities today, continue to struggle to know who they are as mothers, wives, workers, and women of faith.
A question-and-answer session will follow, and simple refreshments will be served.
ARTS 201-401- Painting class needs one model from 1:20-4:00pm on the following dates:
11/20, 11/25, 12/2 & 12/4.
The same model is needed for all dates.
You will be paid minimum wage and must have employment documents (or have worked for Fox).
Please contact Cheri Hampton at champton@georgefox.edu or
Sierra Holder at SHolder06@georgefox.edu.
Thank you!
Why not kick off your Family Weekend with music? This is a reminder that two concerts will be presented this weekend at George Fox. “An Evening of Jazz,” featuring jazz artist Dominique Eade and the George Fox University Jazz Band and Faculty Jazz Trio, is scheduled at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 7, in Bauman Auditorium.
On Saturday, Nov. 8, a Fall Concert begins at 4 p.m. in Bauman Auditorium. Come listen to the Chamber Singers, Women’s Chorale, Concert Choir, Early Music Ensemble and Symphonic Band.
Both concerts are free.
Sign up for the Fall Retreat this week during lunch in the Bruin Den starting Wednesday, November 5. Â Bring $17.00 and you will get a free t-shirt!
The Fall Retreat is November 14-16.
Plan ahead: The Fitness Center will be closed from Wednesday, Nov. 26, at 5 p.m. until Monday, Dec. 1, at 6 a.m.
Friday, Nov. 7
7 p.m. – Volleyball vs. Puget Sound, Wheeler Sports Center
Saturday, Nov. 8
7 p.m. – Volleyball vs. Willamette, Wheeler Sports Center
For more information, contact the Bruin sports information office at ext. 2926, or visit gfubruins.com.
The university’s theatre department invites the community to its fall musical, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Nov. 6-9 and Nov. 12-16 in Wood-Mar Auditorium. Performances take place at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 6-8 and 12-15 and at 2 p.m. both Sundays, Nov. 9 and 16.
The play, directed by Teresa Thuman, is set in the early 1920s, when small-town girl Millie Dillmount moves to New York City. There, she encounters the jazz and glamour of the city, as well as danger and intrigue. The play was adapted from the 1967 Oscar-winning film of the same name, starring Julie Andrews and Mary Tyler Moore.
Employees receive one complimentary ticket, available for pick-up at the University Store. Students are welcome to see the show free of charge on Thursday, Nov. 6, and Wednesday, Nov. 12, and may pick up those tickets at the University Store. The cost is $10 for general admission, $8 for seniors and alumni, and $6 for students and children under 12. To purchase tickets or find out more, visit theatre.georgefox.edu.
TEN! TEN! TEN! is a series of one act plays directed by students from the Directing for Theatre class. If you are normally too busy to participate in a main stage show, this is a great opportunity for you to get involved. If you are cast, the student director will work around your schedule.
Audition Information:
DATE: Monday, Nov. 10 (general auditions)Â & Tuesday, Nov. 11 (callbacks)
TIME: Monday 7-11 p.m. & Tuesday 6:30-11 p.m.
WHERE: Wood-Mar Auditorium
WHO: Open to any students interested in acting on the stage!
Audition Format:
Please come prepared with a 90-second contemporary monologue (this is required for theatre majors, minors & scholarship students). There will also be cold readings available if needed.
If you are interested in auditioning, please sign up on the sheet posted on the door to the Theatre and Fine Arts Offices (Ross 101).
Callbacks will be posted on the Wood-Mar Auditorium door by midnight on Monday, Nov. 10.
