The Daily Bruin

Mark McMinn (PsyD) will present a faculty lecture, “Toward a Healthy View of Food,” at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 1, in Hoover 105.

Mark’s presentation will encourage a new conversation about food – one that emphasizes health and celebration. According to Mark, “Today’s positive psychology movement, the material nature of Christianity, and contemporary social movements emphasizing local, just, sustainable food production all converge to make conversations about food replete with hope.”

Please join us.

FoxTALE will be unavailable from 6 to 7 a.m. (Pacific Time) on Tuesday, March 1, for scheduled maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Employees who were scheduled to work should record the hours on their time-off reports and time sheets that they would have worked had the campus opened as usual. This includes temporary employees and student employees. If you were not able to get to campus by 10 a.m. or at all, you should use vacation for the time you missed after 10 a.m.

If you were on vacation or took a sick day on Feb. 24, you should record the full day off as vacation or sick leave. For more information about campus closure policy, visit this page on the university’s website.

Lisa Burton and Karen Rathkey from Human Resources will be at the Portland Center on Tuesday, March 1 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the second-floor atrium of the South building. Bring your completed open enrollment forms (they’re coming via campus mail) and all questions about benefits, Health Care Reform (we’ll do our best) and general HR topics. We look forward to seeing you.

Do you anticipate receiving a five-, 10-, 15-, 20-, 25-, 30-, or 35-year service award this spring? If so, please check to be sure your name is included in one of the lists below.

Awards will be presented on Monday, May 2, to employees, half time and above. If your name is not included in one of these lists but you believe you should receive an award, or if your name is on the list and you don’t think you should receive an award this year, contact Peggy Kilburg (HR) by e-mail and include any information you think may be helpful. (If you are a rehire, your previous benefits-eligible experience at George Fox counts toward your service award.)

Your help is most appreciated to ensure that the right employees are honored at this event. Only service at half time or above is used in determining your years of service.

• To receive a five-year award, your hire date is between Sept. 2, 2005 and Sept. 1, 2006
• To receive a 10-year award, your hire date is between Sept. 2, 2000 and Sept. 1, 2001
• To receive a 15-year award, your hire date is between Sept. 2, 1995 and Sept. 1, 1996
• To receive a 20-year award, your hire date is between Sept. 2, 1990 and Sept. 1, 1991
• To receive a 25-year award, your hire date is between Sept. 2, 1985 and Sept. 1, 1986
• To receive a 30-year award, your hire date is between Sept. 2, 1980 and Sept. 1, 1981
• To receive a 35-year award, your hire date is between Sept. 2, 1975 and Sept. 1, 1976

Five-Year: Rebecca Addleman, Vetta Berokoff, Robert Bredemeier, Tatiana Cevallos, Kelly Chang, Michelle Cox, Gloria Doherty, Jeannine Graham, Carla Hagen, Esther King, David Manock, Lisa McMinn, Mark McMinn, Devorah Overbay, Jim Steele, Jeff Vargason, Gina Worley, Lindsay Peterson, Dinah Steig, Brenda Graf, Melodee Powers, Joel Perez, Sherri Moore-Harrison, Gordon Aarness, Jan Amerson, Erin Macy, Paul Jenness, Mary Jo McCloskey, Melissa Gilbert, Dee Small, Jen Overstreet, Greg Allen, Kathy Weiss, Judy Deale, Lisa Burton, Joanne Wiitala, Lindsey Wallgren, Janelle Olivarez, Jerry Young

10-Year: Ed Gierok, Michael Everest, Mark Hall, Eloise Hockett, Sue O’Donnell, Laura Simmons, Brent Weaver, Kent Yinger, Andrea MacLeod, Mike Goins, Nate McIntyre, Trini Marquez, Alex Rolfe, Debbie Cash, Amber Russell, John Libemday, Paul Corbett-Furgal, Arden Butler

15-Year: Dennis Littlefield, Caitlin Corning, Beth Molzahn Daniel Sweeney, Jere Witherspoon, John Heitz, Mark Pothoff, Alan Kluge, Kathi Becker, Gary Buhler, Kathleen Jones, Kathy Grant

20-Year: Larry Osborn, Doug Campbell, Alex Pia, Byron Shenk, Bob Buckler, Rodger Bufford, Howard Macy, Linda Sartwell, Brooke McGillivray, Jeff VandenHoek, Fred Smith

25-Year: Dirk Barram, Jan Lefebvre

30-Year: Dave Adrian

35-Year: Craig Taylor

Student supervisors, please submit your students’ February time sheets to HR by Thursday, March 3, by 3 p.m. Please do not send them through the campus mail.

Please be sure the student’s name, ID number and cost center number is legible on each one. Total them. Sign them and be sure the students did as well. (If the student is not available to sign it this week, please send it without the signature, and HR will contact the student.) Please do not send students to HR to sign their time sheets.

Federal Work Study regulations require that students delivering their own time sheets must have them in a sealed envelope.

Thanks very much.

HR

It’s time to place your order for stationery items with the updated GFU logo. Since only the new logo items are authorized for external use as of July 1, the replacement order will be submitted this spring to accommodate those who are off contract during the summer months and to ensure all departments have supplies on hand in the fall.

Please submit your replacement stationery orders at this link no later than March 15. The fall order may not be received until late October.

Faculty: All textbook requests for May term and summer term courses are due by Tuesday, March 1. Please submit your requests online at this link.

Requests for fall 2011 will be due April 1.

The inaugural lecture of the Dalton Lecture Series, featuring Dr. Kent Thornburg, will begin tonight (Tuesday). Thornburg will present “New Science Wrestles An Old Problem: The Roots of Human Disease” at 7:30 p.m. in Wood-Mar Auditorium.

This lecture will be followed by a reception and student research poster session.

It’s playoff time! Come out to support our women as they once again take on the University of Puget Sound Loggers in the first round of the Northwest Conference Basketball Tournament. Game time is set for 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 24, in the Wheeler Sports Center.

Prices set by the NWC are:

• $6 for adults
• $3 for non-GFU/UPS students
• $3 for those 65 and older
• George Fox and UPS students will be admitted free. No passes will be accepted.

We need to rock the gym! And as always, be loud, be proud, be a Bruin!

The Staff Development Committee invites Newberg staff to gather for morning worship on Tuesday, March 1, in VAC 117 from 9 to 10:30 a.m. A time of worship, praise and fellowship (with refreshments) is planned.

Portland staff will gather on March 8.

Marketing Communications will host a staff/faculty portrait session from 2 to 4 p.m. on Thursday, March 3, in our Le Shana Hall studio. These high-quality studio portraits will be used on the university website and will be available for professional promotional use.

Please call or e-mail Danette Newkirk (ext. 2125) to let us know what time you are planning to come. You can still come without prior notice, but your university photo ID will be required for entrance at the southwest side (the side facing Coffin Residence Hall) of the building.

Help send the 2011 May Serve team to Peru! Come to a fundraising garage sale between 7:30 a.m. and 3 p.m. on Saturday, March 12, in the Lemmons parking lot on the Newberg campus. To donate items, visit the Spiritual Life office on the corner of Meridian and Sheridan streets.

For questions or large donations, contact Melissa at 360-580-4580.

We’re still looking for a few more Kaleo volunteers to help with jobs like handing out programs, greeting guests, taking tickets at lunch, ushering in the quad, etc. Are you interested in helping out? It’s very easy. And you’ll receive $10 off your registration and a free Kaleo T-shirt.

Please contact Amy Lorenz if you are interested: alorenz@georgefox.edu or 503-554-2134.

Mark your calendars! The Staff Development Committee is sponsoring two spring worship events. The Newberg campus staff will gather on Tuesday, March 1, from 9 to 10:30 a.m. in VAC 117; the Portland Center staff will gather Tuesday, March 8, from 9:30 to 10:45 a.m. in PDS 155. Please plan to join us for worship, praise, fellowship and snacks.

Questions? Contact Vicki Tschan at vtschan@georgefox.edu.

Dr. Kent Thornburg, a George Fox alumnus (’67), will present a lecture, entitled “New Science Wrestles An Old Problem: The Roots of Human Disease,” at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 22, in Wood-Mar Auditorium.

Dr. Thornburg is the director of Oregon Health & Science University’s Heart Research Center and has served on the George Fox Board of Trustees since 1983. His presentation will be followed by a reception and poster presentation featuring biology and chemistry research students. All are welcome to attend.

This inaugural Dalton Lecture Series event is sponsored by the Department of Biology and Chemistry and features eminent scientists who are Christian.

Questions? Contact Jane Sweet at jsweet@georgefox.edu.

The Tilikum Retreat Center has an old upright piano it is giving away. Help with delivery is possible depending on distance and access issues. If you are interested, please call Carl at 503-998-3906 or e-mail him at canderso@georgefox.edu.

The university community is invited to the Faculty Research Forum featuring Brent Weaver this Friday, Feb. 18, at 10:40 a.m. in Hoover 105. Dr. Weaver will speak on his research into digital media and musical performance and share his new musical work, Imaginary Scenes.

An all-employee meeting is scheduled from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 22, in Hoover 105. Following the meeting, there will be a farewell reception for Jim Fleming (IT) in the Stevens Center atrium.

For those at the university’s regional sites, the meeting will be available for viewing at stream.georgefox.edu/live/commmtg.sdp. A chat room has also 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.

A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 12, at Newberg Friends Church for Louise Clarkson. Louise passed quietly on Monday and is survived by her husband Marvin and their three children and grandchildren. Marvin retired from George Fox in 2009 after working as a groundskeeper at the university for 18 years.

Marvin and Louise attended 2nd Street with their son Chuck and grandchildren Joel, Amanda and Caleb. She will be missed.