Come to our last pizza chat of the year!
Whatever your field may be, your skills are needed in public services and non-profit. Make a difference! Come to Career Services Friday, April 11 from noon to 1:00 p.m. and find out how.Â
Free pizza, pop, and helpful information will be served up for you by Career Services.
Please RSVP to cwise@georgefox.edu. Â
Have you checked on your chapel credits recently? Do you have the right number of credits applied to your chapel record?
After today, April 7, there are 4 more opportunities for adding to your chapel record.
If you are involved in an approved Bible Study/Small Group, the credits will be applied during the last week of the semester (April 21 through 25). Please make sure your Small Group leader knows how to submit your names so that you can receive the proper credit.
Credits have already been applied for the Spring Serve trips.
If you have any questions about the Spiritual Formation program at GFU, please check out the Student Handbook.
If you have any other questions, please contact Jere Witherspoon in the Student Life Office.
Astronomy without a telescope? The continents as one? Come to an”Intellectual Feast” at 4 p.m. Tuesday, April 8, in Hoover 250 to learn about faith as a virtue in scientific research. Presented by Phil Smith, professor of philosophy.
Tuesday, April 8th 2008
Hoover 105
7pm-10pm
Come for the entertainment and refreshments and stay for the politics and the candidates. This is a great opportunity to meet local politicians who are dedicated to serving Yamhill County. ALSO there will be a Voter Registration Booth so please come and sign up to vote in this Fall’s Elections.
Sponsored by George Fox College Republicans and Yamhill County Republicans.
For more information contact Shannon Gildea – sgildea04@georgefox.edu
Want to be on the Supreme Court?
You have until the evening of Tuesday, April 8 to turn in your petition for a class representative position. There are two reps elected for each class, so get your friends to run with you!
Pick up a petition on the application wall in the SUB. It only takes a few minutes to complete.
Contact Heather Eslinger at heslinger04@georgefox.edu for more information.
The annual Fox Film Festival is scheduled for 5 p.m. Friday, April 11, at the Cameo Theater in downtown Newberg, and at 6 p.m. Saturday, April 12, in Bauman Auditorium. The cost is $4 for Friday’s showing and free on Saturday.
Please join the cinema and media communication department to celebrate a year of hard work. The films to be shown each night are:
Friday, April 11
Plight Before Christmas
The Lowly Landscaper
Wayne
Sunday Drivers
Here with Myself
God’s Call
Week on the Street
Saturday, April 12
Choices trailer
Goldie’s Last Days
Cafeteria
Lowly Landscaper
Cherry Coke
The Haunting of Quincy Walters
Loneliness
Ferdalangur
Awards will be handed out throughout the evening of April 12.
Questions? Contact filmfestival@georgefox.edu.
If you have not verified your summer address with Mail Services, please click on this link and fill out a summer forwarding address card.
Thanks!
Linda Sartwell
Come join faculty, students, and staff in celebrating the contributions of Tom Johnson (Religious Studies), who has served for the last 11 years at George Fox as university president, seminary dean, and professor of biblical theology.
A reception for Tom is scheduled from 2 to 3:15 p.m. Wednesday, April 16, in the atrium of the Stevens Center. Tom and wife Michele will be moving to Whidbey Island in their retirement; their presence among us will be greatly missed. Come join us for sharing, music, refreshments, and fellowship.
George Fox’s International Justice Mission chapter is holding a fundraiser from Tuesday, April 8 through Thursday, April 10 outside the Bon during lunch.Â
Support IJM by buying a beaded bracelet and picking up more information about IJM and how you can support them.Â
For more information check out www.ijm.org or e-mail Joanna Cox at jcox05@georgefox.edu.
The university’s International Justice Mission chapter is hosting a fund-raiser April 8-10, in the Student Union Building during lunch (11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.). Support IJM by buying a beaded bracelet and picking up more information about IJM and how you can support the organization. For more information, visit ijm.org or e-mail Joanna Cox at jcox05@georgefox.edu.
The university will host a Chamber Concert, featuring performances by many of our chamber ensembles including the Flute Ensemble, Handbell Ringers, Trumpet Quartet, Clarinet Quartet, Keyboard Ensemble, Early Music Ensemble, and Women’s Chorale, at 7:30 p.m. Monday, April 7, in Bauman Auditorium. There is no admission charge, and doors open at 7 p.m.
The following evening, April 8, the Chehalem Symphony Orchestra will perform a free concert at 7:30 p.m. in Bauman Auditorium. The symphony consists of George Fox University students, faculty, and residents of the greater Portland area. Pieces performed will include Capriccio Espagnol Op. 34 by Nicholas Rimsky-Korsakov and Symphony No. 3 in C Major by Jean Sibelius.
The Jazz Dessert, originally scheduled for April 15, has been canceled.
Congratulations to the following prize-winning students for the health survey drawing:
Jonetta Blum
Jacob Lowen
Brad Higgins
Pamela Duhrkoop
The Disability Services Office is trying to identify students who are fluent in ASL who might be willing to serve as a resource when we have deaf or hard of hearing students on campus. There may be opportunities (paid and volunteer) to put your signing ability to use.Â
If you can sign, please e-mail your name and contact number to Jere Witherspoon at jwithers@georgefox.edu.
Bruin Preview –Thursday, April 10 & Friday, April 11
• Avoid the crowds in the Bon by eating before 5:30 p.m. or after 6 p.m. on Thursday.
• Avoid parking in the Steven’s Center lot, so that visitors will have space.
Welcome prospective students as they visit our campus!
Please come support our May Serve trip to Thailand by donating money to us while we wash your car! We will wash from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, April 5, at the Newberg Tire Factory.
A Portland musical theatre series, Staged!, will honor the life work of George Fox alumna Tera Bloodgood Ewert (’97) by adding one performance to its successful run of the musical Les Miserables.
The performance, scheduled for 7 p.m. Monday, April 14, at the World Trade Center Theatre in Portland, will benefit the Gulu Rehabilitation Center for Children of War in Uganda, West Africa — an outreach sponsored by World Vision, a charity Tera worked with before her death two years ago this spring. She had devoted her life to helping women and children around the world.
The show also has ties to Newberg and George Fox, with several alums and community members involved in the theatre company. Tickets for the show range from $21 to $25 and can be purchased at brownpapertickets.com. For more information, visit stagedpdx.org.
Today, Thursday,  April 3, is the LAST DAY to verify your summer address.Â
Please stop by the tables in the Bruin Den between 11:00 – 3:00 p.m. (Otherwise, you have to stop at Mail Services to do this.)
You are invited to attend the final Mu Kappa event of the year.
Mu Kappa will host a potluck on Sunday, April 13 at 6:00 pm in the Commuter Lounge on Sheridan Street.
The main dish, beverages, plates and utensils will be provided.
You are welcome to bring a dessert or some other kind of side-dish to share.
Please RSVP by Friday, April 11 to Mark Kelley – kelleym07@georgefox.edu
The university community is welcome to As it is in Heaven, the theatre department’s final play of the 2007-08 season.
Performances are scheduled April 10-12 and April 17-19 at 7:30 p.m. in Wood-Mar Auditorium. There is also one matinee performance, at 2 p.m. Sunday, April 13.
Synopsis: An 1830s Shaker community in Pleasant Hill, Ky., is set in its ordered ways until a newcomer, Fanny, see angels in the meadow. Soon all the young women are receiving spiritual “gifts” of songs, drawings, ideas, and giggles and completely upsetting the community. Are these gifts an honest resurgence of the original shaker celebration, or something manufactured by Fanny?
Employees receive one complimentary ticket, available for pick-up at the University Store. Students are welcome to see the show free of charge at the two Thursday performances 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.
Actual Discussion overheard in ASC Offices:
Ben Gowan: Hey, Matt Hollen, you’re the new Chaplain!
Matt Hollen: Yea!
Ben: What are you going to do now?
Matt: Make more chaplains!
Ben: Awesome!… Who’s the lucky lady?
Matt: Not baby chaplains! Chaplains to help with all the ministries…
Applications for Men’s Chaplain, Women’s Chaplain, Worship Chaplain, Prayer Chaplain and Retreats Chaplain available in the SUB. Â
Applications are due Friday, April 11.
