If you find you will not be able to attend the Oregon Symphony concert on Feb. 3, please return your tickets for another employee to use. They can be returned to the information desk in the Stevens Center.
Thanks!
As part of the diversity education workshop series, the Office of Transitions and Inclusion is hosting a workshop on working with students with disabilities. The workshop will be facilitated by Rick Muthiah and will take place on Thursday, Feb. 9, from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. in Hoover 210.
If you would like to attend, you must R.S.V.P. by 5 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 6, to Joel Perez.
George Fox’s Voices of Praise Gospel Choir will make a special appearance as part of Horizon Christian High School’s presentation of Godspell this Friday through Sunday, Jan. 27-29, at the PCC-Sylvania Big Theater.
The production will feature 16 students from Horizon as they present the teachings of Jesus in John Michael Tebelak’s Broadway hit musical. This musical took the theater world by storm in 1972 and is just as pertinent today. The play features the music of Stephen Schwartz, of Wicked fame.
Shows are Friday and Saturday at 7 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. Tickets are on sale now for $10 at this link.
Questions? Contact Shelley Yonemura at syonemura@georgefox.edu.
Mail Services has a few “mystery†packages. If you recognize the following names, please e-mail Sherrie Frost (sfrost@georgefox.edu) or Linda Sartwell (lsartwel@georgefox.edu).
Mail Services will be returning these packages to the sender next Monday if we do not identify the recipient. Your help is appreciated.
Thanks,
– Mail Services
Mail Services is an unofficial drop site for all Oregon ballots. Arrangements have been made with the Yamhill County Elections Office for us to offer this service.
We accept any Oregon ballot (any county), and there is no postage necessary. The deadline for this drop-off site is 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 31. All out-of-state ballots must be mailed with postage.
Thanks!
– University Mail Services
HR just received tickets to the Renovation and Remodeling Show coming up this weekend – Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Jan. 27-29 – at Portland Memorial Coliseum.
This event features hundreds of exhibits with home improvement experts available to show attendees what is new for building, remodeling, decorating and landscaping homes. Employees can pick up two tickets each ($8 value) at the Information Services desk in Stevens Center. Portland employees can request tickets by e-mailing Barbi Doran.
Tickets are now available for the university’s winter musical production, She Loves Me. The play opens Thursday, Feb. 2, and runs Thursday through Sunday, Feb. 2-5, and again Thursday through Sunday, Feb. 9-12, in Wood-Mar Auditorium. All shows begin at 7:30 p.m. with the exception of the two Sunday (Feb. 5 and 12) performances, scheduled as 2 p.m. matinees.
Tickets are available at the box office between 10 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. and can be claimed by dropping by or calling 503-554-3844. Tickets are also available online at theatre.georgefox.edu. Employees get one complimentary ticket for any performance, and Thursday nights are free student nights. The box office is now located at the information desk on the first floor of the Stevens Center.
Synopsis
Directed by Rhett Luedtke with the assistance of  Maggie Daane (musical director) and Richard Elliott (conductor), She Loves Me tells the story of Georg Nowack, whose life as head clerk in Maraczek’s Parfumerie is relatively peaceful until Amalia Balash is hired. While Georg and Amalia clash at work, each of them finds solace writing love letters to their anonymous romantic pen pals in the evening. When Georg discovers that his pen pal is none other than Amalia, he faces
a crisis of heart. Will his love for his pen pal prevail? Or will his disgust of his co-worker triumph?
She Loves Me is based on the book by Joe Masterhoff. The music was written by Jerry Bock (music) and Sheldon Harnick (lyrics), the duo who co-wrote Fiddler on the Roof.
We are in need of six actors (of high-school looking age) for a 25-minute short student film.
The synopsis: Push the bully holds cruel dominion over the school, earning his respect through fear and deprecation. When new kid John Williams enters the school and challenges his sovereignty, Push must fight to retain not only his power, but also his very identity.
The six roles we are searching for are:
We also need some giggling high school girls who have crushes on Williams the new kid, and also someone to play a very short role of a maid/mother, and possibly a damsel in distress.
This is a non-paying gig, but we will provide meals during long shoot days, a DVD of the film will be provided when its done, and also great seats at the premiere.
We are planning on shooting the weekends of Feb. 10-12, 17-19 and 24-26. Auditions are this Thursday and Friday, Jan. 26-27, at the Portland Center near Tigard at 7 p.m.
Questions? Contact Carissa Hoffman at choffman09@georgefox.edu.
If you are a benefits-eligible employee and there is any possibility that you will use tuition remission during the 2012-13 academic year (fall, spring and/or summer semesters), whether for yourself, a spouse, and/or dependent(s), a Tuition Remission Request Form for each person needs to be submitted no later than Wednesday, Feb. 1.
Please go to the Employee Benefits, Forms and Resources page for the link to instructions for completing the Tuition Remission Request Form(s) and to the forms themselves. Please note: This year there is a separate form for the adult degree program and the elementary education degree-completion program. Please be sure to read this information before you begin completing a Tuition Remission Request Form.
Questions? Contact Peggy Kilburg at pkilburg@georgefox.edu.
Join us tonight (Monday) as Terry Steele (Sociology) speaks on the characteristics of the Millennial generation and its possible influences on the church. Terry will speak from 7 to 8 p.m. in Hoover 105.
If you have questions, please contact Caitlin Corning, director of the Liberal Arts and Critical Issues program, at ccorning@georgefox.edu or ext. 2673.
Save the date! The George Fox University Department of Biology and Chemistry invites you to join us for our second annual Dalton Lecture Series event, “God of Antimatter,” featuring Dr. Gerald Gabrielse, Harvard’s Leverett Professor of Physics, at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 20.
Dr. Gabrielse has won Harvard’s Levenson Prize for exceptional teaching and the Ledlie Prize for exceptional research. He is currently the chair of the Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics of the American Physical Society.
Dr. Gabrielse will address questions such as “What role does faith have in a scientist’s life?†and “Is there more to our world than science can say?â€
The presentation will be held in Wood-Mar Auditorium and will be free of charge. A reception and George Fox student research poster session will follow. Please contact Jane Sweet at jsweet@georgegox.edu if you have any questions.
The Office of Financial Affairs is updating its process for employee expense reimbursements. As you know, employee expense reimbursements have always been by check, but starting Feb. 6 employees will now have the option of receiving reimbursements via direct deposit or by paper check.
The new guidelines are as follows:
Effective Feb. 6
Effective March 1
If you want your reimbursements to be set up as direct deposit you’ll need to download, complete and submit the authorization form to the financial affairs office. The form can be found on the FAO’s Common Forms webpage.
If you have any questions, please contact Andy Dunn at adunn@georgefox.edu or ext. 2162.
At 8 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 3, George Fox will host the Oregon Symphony in Bauman Auditorium for its 25th appearance in Newberg. The concert is free to George Fox employees – a gift from George Fox board member Ken Austin and his wife, Joan, founders of A-dec.
The Austins have provided the university with a limited number of tickets for its employees. These tickets are separate from those to be issued by the Newberg Area Chamber of Commerce to the general public. George Fox employees (halftime and over) may pick up their tickets – limit two per employee – on a first-come, first-served basis starting Monday, Jan. 23, at 9 a.m. at the first-floor Information Center in the Stevens Center.
Phone reservations will not be taken except for employees at the Portland and Salem centers.
On Friday, Jan. 27, beginning at 9 a.m., any remaining tickets (again, a limit of two per person) will be available – also on a first-come, first-served basis – to those who sign up on a waiting list. If you find you will not be able to attend the concert, please return your tickets for another employee to use.
For more information, contact Vangie Pattison at ext. 2121 or epattison@georgefox.edu.
Greetings from Human Resources!
Your W-2 (tax document) will go out in campus mail by Tuesday, Jan. 31.
Since these are also being transmitted to the IRS, please make sure that your home address is correct in PeopleSoft. Please go to mygfu.georgefox.edu. Log in and click “Self-Service” in the menu at the left. Choose “Campus Personal Information” and then “Addresses” to update your home address if necessary.
Questions? Contact Melodee Powers at mpowers@georgefox.edu.
Thank you!
Don’t forget the all-employee meeting scheduled for this afternoon (Thursday) from 3:30 to 5 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.” It is the bottom link in that section.
In addition, a chat room has been set up, and a video recording of the meeting will be available for viewing in the days following the meeting at itunesu.georgefox.edu.
Mail Services experienced a problem with our tracking system and was unable to input all of the packages from the holiday weekend. We are processing them as quickly as possible. We appreciate your patience as we work diligently to get your packages ready for you. If you receive an e-mail today from “Mail Tracker†with the subject line, “GFU Mail Services Package Notification,” you have a package in Mail Services.
If you stopped by on Tuesday and we could not locate your package, please print off the e-mail notification with the package number, bring it to our customer service window, and we will be able to deliver your package to you. We apologize that we were unable to look up packages or search through all the incoming packages to locate your individual package when you were at the window yesterday.
Again, we thank you for your patience with us as we progress through the large number of packages.
The university’s School of Business will host a free presentation, “The Spirit of Servant Leadership,†featuring guest Larry Spears, from 7:30 to 9:30 a.m. Friday, Jan. 27, at the Portland Center.
Spears, president and CEO of the Larry C. Spears Center for Servant-Leadership of Indianapolis and a servant-leadership scholar at Gonzaga University, will speak on the theme of the spirit of servant leadership – a practice adopted by some of the world’s top corporations over the past five decades.
In fact, in recent years, more than a dozen Fortune 500 “Best Companies to Work For†have actively practiced servant leadership, including Starbucks, Southwest Air, Men’s Wearhouse and Synovus Financial. Spears will speak on the personal and organizational elements of servant leadership that have stood the test of time, such as listening, foresight, awareness and building community.
Interested parties should R.S.V.P. to this link by Friday, Jan. 20. Coffee and tea will be served at the event. Questions? Contact Darla Norgren at ext. 6176 or dnorgren@georgefox.edu.
If you would like to nominate a colleague for the first Employee of the Month award for 2012, please send an e-mail to Peggy Kilburg (pkilburg@georgefox.edu) by noon on Tuesday, Jan. 17, 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 this Thursday, Jan. 19.
Request from Marketing Communications: If you see a George Fox advertisement online, please do not click it. Each click on an ad costs the university money, in some cases as much as $15 per click.
In most cases, an online ad that is viewed – but not clicked on – does not cost the university any money. Help us be good stewards of our limited advertising dollars.
Thank you,
Marketing Communications
Reminder: Regalia rental requests are due eight weeks prior to commencement. In the case of this spring, no later than March 5. There is a link to the form on the Bruin Bookstore’s main website (gfubookstore.com). The link is located at the bottom of each web page.
Questions? Contact John Stewart at jstewart@georgefox.edu.
