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The university’s marketing communications office welcomes Brenn Borror as a web designer. A current student, Brenn will be a senior marketing major at George Fox in the fall. Since February of 2014, he has worked as a digital marketing and graphic design intern in the university’s sports marketing department. He was also the creative director for The Student Collective student journal publication during the 2015-16 academic year, and in 2014-15 he served as the publication’s head photographer. Brenn has also worked as a freelance digital media producer for the past two years. He lives in Tigard and attends Mountain Park Church in Lake Oswego.

The College of Education welcomes Holli Paskewich as a program coordinator for the Doctor of Education program and other support services within the college. Since the fall of 2014 she has worked as the marketing coordinator for Custom Decorators of Portland. Before that, she spent eight and a half years as the owner of Sparkle Your Life, working a​s a​ professional organiz​er​ ​and ​natural cleaning expert out of her homes in Newberg and Tigard​. Holli studied communications at both Portland Community College and Oregon State University. She lives in Newberg with Chris, her husband of 23 years, and the couple has three children: Josh (21), Mikayla (14) and Mikenzie (13). The family attends Newberg Christian Fellowship,​ where Holli and Chris lead the middle school youth group​.

Alumnus Ryan Forbes has joined the undergraduate admissions office as an admissions counselor. Ryan is a 2009 graduate of the university, from which he earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration. He spent the last year assisting his wife Emily, also a George Fox graduate, with her nutrition and cooking coaching business, loveandplants.com. Previously, for three years, he was a guest services manager with The Allison Inn and Spa in Newberg. He also spent a year in Europe (2010-11) as a resort attendant in Garmisch, Germany, allowing him to travel to more than 25 countries. He and Emily live one block from campus in Newberg and attend Grace Chapel in Wilsonville.

Trevor Daimler joins the university’s plant services department as an HVAC technician. For the past two years he’s worked as an HVAC installer for Advantage Heating and Cooling of Salem, Ore., and before that worked for a year as the owner and operator of Rock River HVAC of Madras, Ore. Previously, from 2010 to 2013, he was an operations manager with Advantage Heating and Cooling. Trevor lives in Newberg with wife Tara and their children Vanessa, Aiden and Patton. They attend Timberline Baptist Church in Sherwood.

Jared Roth (Business) left the university in early June to dedicate more time to serving as co-lead pastor of Evergreen Christian Center and working with two business clients.

Brianna Provoast (Physical Therapy) left the university last month to pursue a career as an esthetician.

Elise Porter (Registrar) left George Fox in June to return to graduate school.

Lauri Smith (Art and Design) left the university as a faculty member.

Larry Weber (Education) has announced his retirement from the university.

Josh Sweeden (Seminary) and Nell Becker Sweeden (Seminary) will leave George Fox in mid-August for new positions with the Church of the Nazarene.

Dan van der Water (Plant Services) has a new title: safety specialist.

Gary Tandy (English) and Laura Simmons (Seminary) collaborated on a paper, “Books, Theology, Cats, and Hens: The Correspondence and Friendship of C.S. Lewis and Dorothy L. Sayers.” Gary presented the paper at the C.S. Lewis and Friends Conference at Taylor University June 2-5.

Ed Higgins (English) published a flash fiction, piece, “Kansas Return,” in the June 10, 2016, issue of Danse Macabre, an online literary magazine. He also published his poem “Seascape” in the online magazine Plum Tree Tavern (May 4, 2016), and his article “Quaker Trek: Friends in Contemporary American Science Fiction” appeared in the April 2016 issue of Quaker Higher Education, a publication of the Friends Association for Higher Education. Ed also published three of his Japanese short-form poems – “Tonight’s Half-Moon,” “agonized youth’s rapture” and “spilled wine glass” – in the Spring 2016 issue of The Bamboo Hut Journal of English Language Tanshi. Finally, Ed’s poem “Jalapenos” is part of an installation titled “EAT Literature + Photography” showing through December at Centre College’s Norton Center For The Arts. The installation pairs works by 13 different poets with interpretative photography by noted Kentucky photographer Sarah Jane Sanders. The full photographs and poems exhibit is on display in the Norton Center’s Grand Foyer.

The third central volume among the six in the John, Jesus, and History Project, coedited by Paul Anderson (Christian studies), Felix Just, S.J., and Tom Thatcher, was released this month. Published by the Society of Biblical Literature, John, Jesus, and History, Volume 3: Glimpses of Jesus through the Johannine Lens demonstrates more than two dozen ways in which John contributes to an enhanced understanding of Jesus and his ministry. According to SBL, since it began in 2002, the John, Jesus, and History Project has assessed critically the modern disparaging of John’s historicity and has found this bias wanting.

July 12              Chris Pulver
July 14              Rebecca Yazzie
July 15              Jonathan Gemeroy, Catherine Hillenbrand
July 16              Megan Fisher
July 17              Kasondra Silva
July 21              Gordon Aarness, Jeff Houck, Daniel Kang
July 22              Carl Anderson
July 23              Randy Dalzell, Mark Stone, Clyde Thomas
July 25              Muh Bi Lin
July 26              Bob Dexter, Rand Michael
July 27              Randy Woodley
July 29              David Hansen
July 30              Dale Isaak, Ron Mock, Thomas Peng, Liz Simmons
July 31              Lindsay Knox, Gary Spivey
Aug. 1               Jason Brumitt, Rob Westervelt
Aug. 3               Nancy Thurston
Aug. 5               Michelle Shelton, Linda Warberg
Aug. 6               Elizabeth Anderson
Aug. 8               Jill Sikkema

The university community is invited to honor the memory of “Grandpa Roy,” a man who faithfully delivered flowers and friendship to four decades of George Fox students and employees. A memorial service for Roy Hiebert is scheduled for 2:30 p.m. on Friday, July 15, in Bauman Auditorium.

A reception will follow in Bauman’s lobby. Come join us in remembering “Grandpa Roy”!

The university will play host to a series of NBC Camps for basketball, volleyball and soccer this month. Camps will run July 10-14 and July 17-21.

NBC Camps emphasize the importance of goal setting, gratitude, positive attitude, integrity, forgiveness, leadership, and a strong personal faith. Camps are founded on Christian principles including a belief in Jesus Christ. Campers from all faiths attend.

Registration for camps and more information are available at nbccamps.com.

If you’ve ever wanted to be in a parade (and get a free George Fox T-shirt), this is your opportunity.

George Fox has been asked to provide the grand marshal for this summer’s Newberg Old Fashioned Festival Parade. It’s the start of our 125th year, and we want to recognize the people who have helped us get this far… our employees and students. This is your invitation to be one of the grand marshals for the parade.

Here are the details:

Newberg Old Fashioned Festival Grand Festival Parade
Saturday, July 30
9-11 a.m.
Meet at Newberg’s Rennie Field (Blaine and 6th)

We’re assembling a group of employees, students, parents and alumni to walk and hand out candy. It’ll probably take less than 20 minutes of walking. Some spots will be available for riding and waving. We’ll also have the Bruin bus, Professor Ed Higgins’ 1934 Ford flatbed truck, the Bruin bear (“Pennington”) and the Victory Bell.

If you want a free T-shirt please sign up online by today (Monday, July 11). Follow this link for more info and to sign up for the T-shirt. You can pick up your T-shirt at 9 a.m. on parade day at the staging area.

As George Fox University employees increasingly use Google Apps for conducting university business, it is important that the data being stored there is secure and stored in compliance with applicable laws and regulations.

Institutional Technology is implementing new processes that will help users identify documents that could potentially expose restricted data. There are a few key details of this process that are important to know:

• This process is governed by the Cloud Data Privacy and Data Loss Prevention Policy. This policy is intended to ensure the privacy of individual’s files and set guidelines for protecting restricted data.
• Beginning Aug. 1, users will start receiving notices of files that potentially expose restricted information to unauthorized users.
• In rare cases where restricted data is shared in a manner that violates privacy laws or regulations, public or domain-wide sharing may be revoked automatically. In other cases, the user will be given notice to ensure that the data is being shared in an appropriate fashion.

Please direct questions or comments about this to the IT Service Desk at servicedesk@georgefox.edu or ext. 2569.

The university community is invited to honor the memory of “Grandpa Roy,” a man who faithfully delivered flowers and friendship to four decades of George Fox students and employees. A memorial service for Roy Hiebert is scheduled for 2:30 p.m. on Friday, July 15, in Bauman Auditorium.

A reception will follow in Bauman’s lobby. Come join us in remembering “Grandpa Roy”!

Eleven staff and administrator positions are currently open. Listed in order of recency, they are:

• Applications Analyst, Institutional Technology
• Student Account Specialist, Temporary, Portland Center
• Financial Aid Specialist/Processor
• Media Specialist, Academic Computing
• Events Coordinator, William Penn Honors Program
• Enrollment Specialist, Registrar
• Program Director, Theologia (GFU Summer Theology Institute)
• Video Producer, Marketing Communications
• Technical Director, Department of English and Theatre
• Records Specialist, Registrar
• Associate Director of Annual Giving

The link to each of these position announcements can be found at jobs.georgefox.edu. If you know of someone you believe might provide a good fit for any of these jobs, please refer the person to the website for information about the job and instructions about applying.

Geoffrey Moore, an author, speaker and advisor who has written a million-selling book and advises high-tech enterprises that include Microsoft, Intel and Salesforce, will speak on the university’s Newberg campus this morning (Friday). The public is invited to attend, and admission is free.

Moore’s life’s work has focused on the market dynamics surrounding disruptive innovations. In addition to writing three books (Crossing the Chasm, The Gorilla Game and Inside the Tornado), Moore’s most recent endeavor, Escape Velocity, addresses the challenge large enterprises face when they seek to add a new line of business to their established portfolio.

Join us from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. in Lemmons 8. Questions? Contact Adina McConaughey at amcconaughey@georgefox.edu.

Please be courteous to our final group of Genesis guests as they visit campus today (Friday) by avoiding parking in the Hoover or Stevens parking lots. If you have any questions, please contact Kelly Friesen in the undergraduate admissions office at kfriesen@georgefox.edu or ext. 2248.

The vehicle registration portal on MyGFU is now open and ready for you to register your vehicles for this upcoming academic year. Here are the instructions, and if you have questions, please email Nadine Kincaid at nkincaid@georgefox.edu.

Students: How to register your vehicle

Have this information ready BEFORE beginning the process:

1. Your ID number and housing designation (off-campus, or name of residence you are assigned to)

• Vehicle VIN number (found on vehicle registration or bottom left corner of front windshield behind steering wheel)
• Your driver’s license number and state
• Vehicle’s make, model, year, color and state
• Vehicle’s license plate and state (put temporary trip permit number in license plate slot if waiting for license plates)
• Registered owner’s name and address if somebody else owns the car

2. Log on to MyGFU
3. Click on “GFU Resources” on the right side of the page
4. Click on “Vehicle Registration” link at the bottom
5. Click on “Purchase Permit”
6. Enter ID number and last name
7. Agree to terms and conditions by checking “Agree” box
8. Select the permit your housing status allows
9. Enter driver’s information as requested
10. Enter the mailing address where you want the permit to be mailed to. If it is close to the beginning of school, enter your PO box if you are living on campus, or your off-campus residence from where you will be commuting.
11. Enter the vehicle information
12. Enter the registered owner’s information if you aren’t the owner
13. Review the order and use the back button to make any needed corrections
14. Read the parking regulations and click on the “Agree” button
15. Click on the “Place Order” box
16. Log out
17. A confirmation email will be sent to the email you indicated
18. Print out the temporary permit from the link that you will receive
19. Place the temporary permit on your dashboard until your permit arrives at the mailing address you indicated
20. Permits can take up to two weeks to arrive, so order by Aug. 1 to make sure you have it before school starts
21. Commuters can register up to two vehicles, and are only charged for one. Register the vehicles one right after the other; otherwise you will need to go to the security office to register the second one

Tutors are needed for an open “Study Table” that will operate from 7 to 10 p.m., Monday through Thursday evenings, during the 2016-17 academic year.

Though open to everyone, a high proportion of attendees will likely be student-athletes whose coaches require attendance. Generalist tutors are needed to help mostly first-year students – and some returning students – with learning, study, success strategies and general tutoring.

Tutors will need to take initiative to provide assistance, support and encouragement to students. Applicants can be from any major. See the position description for more information and application instructions.

George Fox employees and students are invited to attend the Global Leadership Summit sponsored by the Willow Creek Association on Aug. 11-12. WCA’s annual world-class leadership event will be broadcast from the Willow Creek campus to participating churches around the globe.

A special discounted rate of $89 is available for all college and university faculty and students. Please contact Newberg Christian Church (503-538-3104; newbergcc.org) for more information. The church is located at 2315 Villa Road.

George Fox employees and students are invited to attend the Global Leadership Summit sponsored by the Willow Creek Association on Aug. 11-12. WCA’s annual world-class leadership event will be broadcast from the Willow Creek campus to participating churches around the globe.

A special discounted rate of $89 is available for all college and university faculty and students. Please contact Newberg Christian Church (503-538-3104; newbergcc.org) for more information. The church is located at 2315 Villa Road.

Tutors are needed for an open “study table” that will operate from 7 to 10 p.m., Monday through Thursday evenings, during the 2016-17 academic year.

Though open to everyone, a high proportion of attendees will likely be student-athletes whose coaches require attendance. Generalist tutors are needed to help mostly first-year students – and some returning students – with learning, study, success strategies and general tutoring.

Tutors will need to take initiative to provide assistance, support and encouragement to students. Applicants can be from any major. See the position description for more information and application instructions.

The university community is invited to honor the memory of “Grandpa Roy,” a man who faithfully delivered flowers and friendship to four decades of George Fox students and employees. A memorial service for Roy Hiebert is scheduled for 2:30 p.m. on Friday, July 15, in Bauman Auditorium.

A reception will follow in Bauman’s lobby. Come join us in remembering “Grandpa Roy”!

Please be courteous to our final group of Genesis guests as they visit campus this Friday, July 8, by avoiding parking in the Hoover or Stevens parking lots. If you have any questions, please contact Kelly Friesen in the undergraduate admissions office at kfriesen@georgefox.edu or ext. 2248.

Fiscal-year-end 2015/2016 is quickly approaching, and the finance department would appreciate your help in ensuring a smooth and timely year-end close. Please review and note the following deadlines for accounts payable requests:

1. Submission of the following FY2015/2016 requests must be received by the finance department on or before July 8, 2016:

• Check Requests
• Invoices
• Expense Reimbursement Requests
• Petty Cash Logs for expenses through June 30, 2016, only

2. All Cash Advance Requests for FY2015/2016 expenses must be received by the finance department on or before June 13, 2016.

Please refer to the “Fiscal Year-End Deadlines & Procedures” page on the finance department website for additional details.

Please contact Jennifer Klapp (jklapp@georgefox.edu or ext. 2170) with any year-end accounts payable questions.

Thank you!
The Finance Team