The Daily Bruin

I can’t thank everyone enough for all of the cards, flowers, support and prayers during the past several weeks since my son’s death. I can feel all of you holding me up during this difficult time.

A celebration of life service will be held at 6 p.m. Sunday, June 27, at the Northside Community Church, located at the corner of Crestview Drive and Hoskins Street. Contributions can be made to a memorial fund at Attrell’s Funeral Home to help defray costs. A private graveside service will be held for family and friends at 3 p.m. at the Yamhill Pike cemetery on Sunday, June 27.

– Debby O’Kelley,
Plant Services

Please drop by the Bruin Bookstore’s Genesis sidewalk sale June 17-19 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Selected Bruin merchandise is 20 to 75 percent off.

Please send an e-mail to Peggy Kilburg (HR) if you would like to nominate a support staff member or administrator for June Employee of the Month. Your e-mail should include the person’s name, job title, a concise but specific summary of this person’s contribution(s) to the university, its students, and/or its employees in the past 30 days or so (what was done, who was impacted, etc.), and any other information that you believe makes this person deserving of this award.

Please submit your nomination by Friday, June 18. The President’s Executive Leadership Team will then select the Employee of the Month from the nominations submitted. The winner of both the May and June Employee of the Month awards will be announced at the all-employee meeting on Wednesday, June 23, and each will receive a $100 gift card to The Allison.

Please join us for the university’s annual golf tournament at The Reserve Vineyards and Golf Club in Aloha, Ore., Thursday, July 15. The event will benefit student scholarships and the Bruin Athletic Association.

This year, we’re offering an employees-only special: Register between now and June 30 and get a special registration price of $150. This deal is not available through online registration. To register at this price, please contact Ronecca Dockter at ext. 2116 or rdockter@georgefox.edu, or drop by the University Fund Office, 211 N. Center.

Registration includes greens fees, a golf cart, a $50 gift certificate to the Nike Mobile Golf Shop, a boxed lunch, dinner and a gift package. Additional information is available at golf.georgefox.edu.

The university will host the seventh annual Symposium on Native North American Theology and Mission in the Hoover Academic Building on the Newberg campus June 10-12. Events will be held throughout the day, and evening sessions are free and open to the public. The event is sponsored by the North American Instititute for Indigenous Theological Studies.

For more event or schedule details, contact Randy Woodley at rwoodley@georgefox.edu.

The employee of the month award is being continued through the summer months, so we are soliciting nominations for the June award. As always, your nomination should include the person’s name, job title, a concise but specific summary of this person’s recent contributions (past 30 days or so) to the university, its students, and/or its employees (what was done, who was impacted, etc.), and any other information that you believe makes this person deserving of this award.

Please submit your nomination by Friday, June 18, via e-mail to Peggy Kilburg. The President’s Executive Leadership Team will then select the recipient from the nominations submitted. Both the May and June winners will be announced at the community meeting on Wednesday, June 23, and each will receive a $100 gift card to The Allison.

There is currently an opening for a 12.5-hour-per-week/nine-month science outreach coordinator, a position formerly held by Amy Ocker. The job is currently being advertised only to employees. Please e-mail Peggy Kilburg (HR) to obtain a copy of the job description and transfer request if you are interested in applying. A completed transfer request, cover letter and resume must be submitted to HR no later than Tuesday, June 15, at 5 p.m. to be considered for this position.

The Bruin Bookstore, textbook annex and its online store will close to conduct the annual year-end inventory process starting at noon on Monday, June 28. To guarantee project accuracy, we are not able to conduct any business during this closure. Phone calls, voice mail messages and e-mails will not be responded to until this procedure is completed. There also will not be any money on hand to make change. Please plan ahead to get all your Bruin necessities before June 28. We truly appreciate your understanding and cooperation.

The bookstore will reopen starting at 8:30 a.m. on Tuesday, July 6, after the July 4 holiday weekend. Thank you for supporting your Bruin Bookstore!

FoxTALE will be unavailable from 6 to 7 a.m. (Pacific Time) on Tuesday, June 8, for scheduled maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience.

– IT

If you have not already done so, please submit your May time sheet (support staff) or time-off report (administrators) this week. (Staff, do not write any hours for the Memorial Day holiday, May 31, unless you worked that day.)

As always, please be sure it is complete, accurate and signed by both you and your supervisor before sending it to HR at Box 6108. If your supervisor is not available to sign it, please send a copy to HR and keep the original until it has been signed.

Here is the URL address to the HR page that contains the links to these documents:

georgefox.edu/offices/hr/forms.html

Three e-mail conversion training sessions are scheduled on June 1-2. The sessions are designed to help you:

• Set up features in the web-based client
• Use the web-based mail and calendar
• Set up the mail account in Outlook or Apple Mail

Sessions are scheduled Tuesday, June 1, in Portland Center’s PDS 210 (10 to 11:30 a.m.) and online from 1 to 2:30 p.m. On Wednesday, June 2, a session is scheduled in Stevens 207on the Newberg campus from 2 to 3:30 p.m.

Sign up at the e-mail conversion training schedule page. If you have a laptop, bring it to this training so that you can set up your e-mail during the session.

Questions? Contact the e-mail conversion team at servicedesk@georgefox.edu or ext. 2569.

Three e-mail conversion training sessions are scheduled on June 1-2. The sessions are designed to help you:

• Set up features in the web-based client
• Use the web-based mail and calendar
• Set up the mail account in Outlook or Apple Mail

Sessions are scheduled Tuesday, June 1, in Portland Center’s PDS 210 (10 to 11:30 a.m.) and online from 1 to 2:30 p.m. On Wednesday, June 2, a session is scheduled in Stevens 207 on the Newberg campus from 2 to 3:30 p.m.

Sign up at the e-mail conversion training schedule page. If you have a laptop, bring it to this training so that you can set up your e-mail during the session.

Questions? Contact the e-mail conversion team at servicedesk@georgefox.edu or ext. 2569.

All university offices in Newberg and at regional sites will be closed on Monday, May 31, to observe the Memorial Day holiday. Libraries in Newberg and at the Portland and Salem centers also will be closed.

The university’s e-mail conversion to Gmail is scheduled from 5 p.m. Friday, May 28, through 7 a.m. Tuesday, June 1. The conversion process may take all three days for your e-mail to be converted. After 7 p.m. (PDT) Friday, you can begin sending and receiving mail at mail.georgefox.edu. Your George Fox e-mail address will remain the same.

Go to georgefox.edu/email-conversion for detailed information.

The university is offering a summer science camp Aug. 9-13. Sessions will meet between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. each day in EHS. The topic this year is physical science. Please check out the camp website for details and a registration form. Questions? Contact Teresa Arnold at tarnold@georgefox.edu.

An all-employee meeting is scheduled from 3:40 to 5 p.m. this Thursday, May 27, in Hoover 105. The main focus of the meeting will be to provide the latest enrollment projections and present plans for accommodating a large incoming freshman class.

For those at the university’s regional sites, the meeting will be available for viewing at stream.georgefox.edu/live/commmtg.sdp. For best results, use Mozilla Firefox for your web browser, and your computer must have QuickTime Player installed. Simply copy the link into the address bar of your browser. If you have any problems, contact the Service Desk at ext. 2569.

In addition, a chat room has been set up to allow for interaction. A video recording of the meeting will be available for viewing the following day at itunesu.georgefox.edu.

Those interested in studying off-campus for a semester in the fall of 2010 or the spring of 2011 are invited to apply. For those accepted, tuition covers such study (including room/board), and even international airfare cost is credited back to George Fox accounts.

This is a great opportunity, but students must apply now. To learn more, contact Clint Baldwin (Center for Global Studies) at cbaldwin@georgefox.edu. For program possibilities, see the listing of overseas locations on the university’s website.

The ethical implications of consumer behavior will be the topic of a School of Business speaker series event Friday, June 11, at The Grand Hotel at Bridgeport, located off Interstate-5 at the Durham Exit in Tualatin.

Justine Haigh, an associate professor of marketing at George Fox, will present “Beyond corporate social responsibility: What about the consumer?” The session will run from 7 to 9 a.m. and include a continental breakfast at a cost of $20 per person. Registration information is available on the School of Business website. Attendees are asked to R.S.V.P. by Friday, June 4.

Following is Haigh’s synopsis of the event: “We seem to enjoy finger pointing, blogging, and tweeting about unruly organizations and their failure to adhere to the law, ethical standards, and/or international norms. Caught up in these debates, however, we seldom reflect on our own consumption patterns. We will explore ethical principles of global consumers, but more importantly, local Portlanders’ perspectives will be considered in an attempt to gauge our commitment to the social good.”

Are you looking for a great sports camp for you or your kids this summer? Visit gfubruins.com and click the “Sports Camps” link. The university is offering tennis, baseball, basketball and volleyball camps this summer. It’s a wonderful opportunity for skill building in a safe and nurturing atmosphere.

The university community is invited to hear Paul Anderson (Religious Studies) and Marcus Borg engage in a public dialogue on the origin and development of the Gospels this Saturday, May 22, from 2 to 5 p.m. at Reedwood Friends Church, 2901 S.E. Steele, in Portland.

This engagement is potentially historic, as the Fourth Gospel (John) has for nearly two centuries been excluded from historical Jesus studies for the first three quests for Jesus. Anderson, as founding co-chair of the John, Jesus, and History Project (SBL, now in its ninth year), is calling for a fourth quest for Jesus – one that includes John in the mix.

Borg is a biblical scholar and author. He is a fellow of the Jesus Seminar and holds a doctor of philosophy degree from Oxford University.

The lecture is free and open to the public; early seating is advised.