The Daily Bruin

The support staff conference is next week, on Tuesday, Oct. 23. Our keynote speaker, Christopher Meade, director of the MBA programs, will speak on the topic “Anchor Deep.”

This nautical-themed conference will stop at two “ports of call” of your choice. Support staff are already pre-registered for the conference, but please complete a registration form at this link – Staff Fall Conference Registration – if you haven’t done so already. The selections for choosing your port of call are on this form, as well as indication for any dietary restrictions.

The conference will take place from 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Family Life Church in Newberg. The church is located at 502 St. Paul Highway.

Questions? Contact Dixie Downey at ddowney@georgefox.edu.

The university’s theatre season kicks off next Thursday, Oct. 25, with a fall comedy, The Servant of Two Masters by Carlo Goldoni. The show runs for two weekends, Oct. 25-27 and Nov. 1-3 at 7:30 p.m. and Oct. 28 and Nov. 4 at 2 p.m. All shows are scheduled in Wood-Mar Auditorium.

Tickets can be purchased online at theatre.georgefox.edu or by calling 503-554-3844.

All George Fox students may receive a complimentary ticket for Thursday evening performances. All faculty and staff are entitled to one complimentary ticket for any show of the run.

Please note: The university box office is now located in the Pennington House on the GFU campus. Box office hours are from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Online tickets can be purchased at any time.

Play Description: This celebrated comic masterpiece, written in 1743 in the great Italian tradition of Commedia Dell’Arte, tells the story of Truffaldino, a young, simpleminded and occasionally clever servant who finds himself in over his head when he impulsively agrees to manage two masters at the same time without either of them knowing about it. The play also features two pairs of swooning lovers, two angry fathers, and a host of additional simpleminded servants.

Long-term care insurance information meetings are scheduled Tuesday through Friday this week.

• The first meeting is at the Portland Center on Tuesday (Oct. 16) at 9 a.m. in Room 281.
• On Wednesday (Oct. 17), there will be two meetings on the Newberg campus, one at 10:30 a.m. in VAC 180 and the other at 2 p.m. in the Executive Dining Room.
• Webinars and two more Newberg campus meetings are scheduled throughout the week as well. Please click here for the details.

These meetings provide a great opportunity to learn more about long-term care insurance. If you decide it is a good approach to protect your financial future, during this special enrollment you can sign up with streamlined underwriting (few or no health questions to answer, depending on your age).

Questions? Contact Lisa Burton at lburton@georgefox.edu.

Please send an e-mail to Peggy Kilburg by Wednesday, Oct. 17, if you would like to nominate a colleague for October Employee of the Month with a summary of this person’s contributions and/or outstanding performance in the past 30 days or so.

The winner will be announced and presented with a $100 gift card to The Allison at our community meeting on Thursday, Oct. 25.

This year Bon Appetit has joined with the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society as a corporate sponsor to help raise funds for cancer research.  LLS is the world’s largest voluntary health organization dedicated to funding patient support services, advocacy and promising cancer research.

Between October 15-26, you can buy as many  lunches or dinners as you want in Klages Dining Room for just $5 cash each time you purchase with all proceeds going to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society to support their very worthy efforts.

This is a great chance for commuter students, staff and faculty to have a great meal and help support a great cause.

If anyone would like to make a personal contribution, please click on the following link:

http://pages.lightthenight.org/oswim/portlndL12/bonappetitgeorgefox

The Wheeler Sports Center is CLOSED Saturday & Sunday (Oct. 13-14) and will open Monday, Oct. 15 at 6 a.m.

The Newberg campus will be closed Friday, Oct. 12, for the mid-semester holiday. All offices, the BlueZone Store, Mail Services, and the library will be closed.

All are invited to “Seminary Fair Plus” on the Newberg campus on Tuesday, Oct. 23, in the atrium of the Hoover Academic Building. The event is designed for those interested in pursuing religious or professional higher education.

The fair will run from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Representatives from a variety of seminaries as well as George Fox graduate programs will be available to connect with prospective students who desire to be equipped for ministry or professional education.

For more information or a list of seminaries attending, contact the career services office at 503-554-2330.

Through a digitization project of the George Fox University/Northwest Yearly Meeting archives, The Crescent, George Fox University’s student newspaper, is now available online from 1891 to 1931. Papers can be accessed at this link.

Digitization efforts are ongoing and will result in additional issues being made available online. For further information, contact Zoie Clark, archivist, at ext. 2415, or Rob Bohall, reference librarian, at ext. 2416. The GFU/NWYM Archives is located in the Murdock Learning Resource Center.

The staff conference is coming Tuesday, Oct. 23, with our keynote speaker, Christopher Meade, director of the MBA programs, speaking on the topic “Anchor Deep.”

In addition, this nautical-themed conference will stop at two “ports of call” of your choice. You are already pre-registered for the conference, but please click on this link – Staff Fall Conference Registration – for more information and to help us make this event even more fabulous! The conference will take place from 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at Family Life Church in Newberg.

Questions? Contact Becky Jensen at rjensen@georgefox.edu.

All university women are invited to a Ladies Movie Night tonight (Tuesday)!

Join us for the movie Blue Like Jazz at 6:30 p.m. in EHS 102. Dessert will be provided!

There will be no outgoing U.S. Mail today (Monday) due to the Columbus Day holiday. Most of the other carriers such as UPS and FedEx will be operating as normal. Campus mail will also be sorted throughout the day.

The courier run to Portland and Salem campuses will continue as scheduled on Monday.

Questions? Contact Mail Services ext. 2555.

Are you interested in attending a professional health program after George Fox? Are you pre-medicine, pre-dentistry, pre-veterinary, pre-physical therapy, pre-optometry, pre-pharmacy, etc.? Get informed on what it takes to get into a professional health program by attending a pre-professional information meeting at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 17, in EHS 125.

The topics covered at the meeting will include admission requirements, the application process, and resources available to you at GFU. This meeting is an annual event, so you may not need to attend if you have done so before. New interested students should plan on it!

If you have any questions, please contact Jane Sweet at jsweet@georgefox.edu or John Schmitt at jschmitt@georgefox.edu. If you are not able to attend, but consider yourself a pre-professional health student, please contact Jane so that you are added to the pre-professional health student contact group.

Faculty members, please tell students you think may be interested about this opportunity.

There’s still a chance for you to order Bruin Directories for yourself or your department! Fill out the order form at this link by Friday to make sure your get your copies! The cost is $5 per copy.

Questions? Contact Margaret Vogt at asccommunicationsdirector@georgefox.edu.

The marketing communications office will be processing a business card order soon. Place your order directly with B&B Print Source by Wednesday, Oct. 10. If you have not done so already, you will need to create a new “Individual Account” on the form before you can submit your order.

Contact Danette Newkirk (dnewkirk@georgefox.edu) in marketing communications if you have any questions.

Although you can’t get free flu shots at our Health and Counseling Center (because it is not a contracted Regence or Kaiser provider), Kaiser members can go to Kaiser to get yours free, and Pioneer members can go to practically any pharmacy/grocery in town for a free flu shot.

You just need to ask first if they are a contracted provider for Regence BCBS and show your insurance card. If the answer is yes, your flu shot is free (except for that little bit of “ouch”).

George Fox employees are invited to join alumni and parents at Oregon Ballet Theatre’s 7:30 p.m. performance of The Nutcracker on Saturday, Dec. 15, in the Keller Auditorium. Our tickets are $58 each (40 percent off the retail price of $102.70). All seats are in the first rows and middle three sections of the first balcony.

Contact Mary Monahan at 503-554-2134 or mmonahan@georgefox.edu to get your tickets. Last day to purchase tickets is Oct. 10.

It’s time to think of a colleague who would be deserving of the Employee of the Month award for October. If someone comes to mind, please send an e-mail to Peggy Kilburg by Wednesday, Oct. 17, with a summary of this person’s recent contributions and any other information that makes this individual deserving of this award.

The President’s Executive Leadership Team will select the recipient from the nominations submitted, and the winner will be honored with a citation and a $100 gift card to The Allison at our community meeting on Oct. 25.

Congratulations again to Carol Jaquith for being named September Employee of the Month.

Flu shots are available at the Health & Counseling Center. The cost for the vaccine is $15 for students and employees.

Due to recent Regence billing changes, we are no longer able to offer flu shots free of charge. Please call the health center at 503-554-2340 to schedule an appointment.

George Fox participates in the Tuition Exchange program, through which employees may apply for their dependents to receive tuition benefits at another private educational institution. Detailed information about this program is available on a PDF available on the GFU website.

If you are interested in this for your eligible dependent, please read the information on the web page carefully and send the required applicant information to Karlyn Fleming at kfleming@georgefox.edu.

Please note that this is not the same as Tuition Remission (tuition benefits at George Fox). If you have questions about Tuition Remission, please contact the human resources office.