The Daily Bruin

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.

As our new international students are settling into their classes and establishing relationships, we would like to connect them with an American family who would serve as a friend and a point of contact outside of campus. Our past students have highly valued this opportunity to know an American family as a friend. Would you consider serving as a Fox Friendship Family?

The minimum requirements are to provide your telephone number to your students, host the students in your home for at least two meals during the school year, be available for regular contact with your students, and commit to pray for your students. If you would like to continue your relationship with the students who stayed with you during orientation, please let us know by calling or e-mailing Alex Pia (apia@georgefox.edu; ext. 2643) or Dianna McIntyre (dmcintyr@georgefox.edu; 2649) as soon as possible.

For those of you who choose to be a Fox Friendship Family, we would like to invite you as our guest for a dessert for families and students on Monday, Oct. 8, from 7 to 8 p.m. in the Cap and Gown Room. You will not need to bring anything. Please save the date.

All university women are invited to a Ladies Movie Night next week!

Join us for the movie Blue Like Jazz at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 9, in EHS 102. Dessert will be provided!

Learn how you can help partner with Bon Appetit and support the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and their quest to find a cure for cancer!

Volunteer Opportunity Informational Meeting
Tuesday, Oct. 2
4:30 – 6:30 p.m. in the Bruin Den (ongoing conversation about volunteer opportunity – come when you can)
Free cookies & hot cocoa from Bon Appétit
Speakers: Stephanie Fagerstrom, volunteer coordinator, “Light the Night Walk” and George Fox alumna, and Amelia Pitts, campaign manager, “Light The Night Walk”

Event support is needed for the “Light the Night Walk” on Saturday, Oct. 27, at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland. Volunteer opportunities include set-up, event support and clean-up. There are four-hour shifts starting at 9 a.m. and going until 9 p.m. Come help when you can! They need 100 volunteers on the day of the event to ensure it is a success!

The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s “Light The Night Walk” funds lifesaving research and support for people battling cancer. Friends, families and coworkers form fundraising teams and millions of consumers help by donating at retail outlets. These efforts culminate in inspirational, memorable evening walks in more than 200 communities each fall across North America.

Please come see us on Oct. 2 and join us on Oct. 27 to help save a life.

Questions? Contact Denny Lawrence at dlawrenc@georgefox.edu.

If you have not already completed the paperwork for students you have hired or rehired this fall, please do so just as soon as you can and send it to HR. For all student employees, this includes an offer letter. For students who have not worked (for GFU) before, a W-4 and I-9 are also needed, and a direct deposit form is encouraged (but not required).

Even though a student submits a time sheet, he or she cannot be set up in the payroll system and be paid without these documents. Please take a few minutes to be sure this paperwork has been submitted for all of your student employees today if possible and no later than Monday, Oct. 1.

As always, we very much appreciate your efforts with and on behalf of our students.

– HR

Don’t forget the all-employee meeting scheduled for this afternoon (Thursday) at 3:30 p.m. in Hoover 105.

For those at the university’s regional sites, the meeting will be available at a stream site that you can access from MyGFU. Simply log into MyGFU and click the “Community Meeting Link” located under “Staff Resources/Faculty Resources.” The link will take you to all the information relating to community meetings and include a live-stream link (the password changes each meeting) and a chat room link.

Videos from previously recorded meetings will be added to this page in the days following. Please bookmark the page for quick access each month.

Bruin Directories are officially being made available to faculty and staff this year! The project is underway and in an effort to make the deliveries as timely as possible, the order form is available now! You can access it at this link.

Please fill it out soon so we can get a rough estimate on how many to order. Thanks for your support!

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

Don’t forget this afternoon’s retirement celebration for Larry Osborn, who is leaving us after 22 years of service to the university. Larry has been the mechanic and metal fabricator for the university and the previous property manager for Tilikum.

We will gather from 3 to 4 p.m. in the Cap and Gown Room. Questions? Contact Debby O’Kelley at dokelley@georgefox.edu.