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Sidney Tafflinger (IDEA Center) and Ryan Dougherty (Admissions) were named Support Staff and Administrator of the Year, respectively, at the all-community meeting last Friday.

Aug. 19              Jim Foster
Aug. 20              Dee Small, Mandee Wilmot
Aug. 21              Joshua Sauerwein, Creagh Schoen
Aug. 24              Jane Sweet
Aug. 26              Elizabeth Hamilton
Aug. 27              Karlyn Fleming, Marlee Zakrevsky
Aug. 28              John Natzke
Aug. 29              Shaundrea Hirengen, Lois Mulkey, Chengping Zhang
Aug. 31              Sondra Creason

We are looking for athletes with varsity-level experience interested in playing women’s JV basketball during the 2014-15 season (Oct. 15, 2014 – Jan. 28, 2015).

Please attend the preseason JV meeting on Wednesday, Aug. 27, from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. in Wheeler 208 or contact Michael Meek at mmeek@georgefox.edu.

A number of employee box numbers were changed this summer due to relocation of offices and reorganization of departments/schools. Please make sure you have the following on each piece of campus mail to avoid delays or misrouting of your mail/packages.

• Recipient’s name (box numbers are available in PeopleSoft for all employees and students)
• Recipient’s box number
• For CONFIDENTIAL letters, sender’s name is requested as well

Thank you for your in help in making sure campus mail is addressed correctly.

Welcome Weekend is this week! With all the new students and their families, we’re expecting more than 2,000 guests on campus Thursday, Aug. 21, and Friday, Aug. 22. Here are a few important details for employees.

Welcoming our Guests: While this may seem obvious, please greet and welcome our guests, ask if they need help, walk them to the Information Tent on the quad if they have a question you can’t answer, and help us make this a special time for our new students and their families.

Schedule: The complete schedule for Welcome Weekend can be found at welcome.georgefox.edu. There are three schedules: traditional students, transfer students, and families and guests.

Parking: On Thursday and Friday, we need employees to park in one of three locations off-campus if at all possible:

• Gravel parking lot on Meridian Street (just past Fulton Street next to the railroad tracks) and walk to campus
• Newberg Friends Church (307 S. College St.) and walk to campus or carpool with colleagues to the gravel parking lot on Meridian Street
• Northside Community Church (1800 Hoskins St.) and walk to campus or carpool with colleagues to the gravel parking lot on Meridian Street

Meals: Employees who signed up to be volunteers will receive one complimentary meal ticket to be used at lunch or dinner. Other employees desiring to eat on campus can pay as they enter the meal lines.

Attire & Name Tags: If you have a George Fox polo or dress shirt please wear it on Thursday and Friday, as well as your name tag.

Questions? Please call the Welcome Weekend office at ext. 2329.

Thank you for being an integral part of welcoming our new students and their families to the George Fox family!

– Mark Pothoff, Dean of Community Life

Welcome back to all of our staff! The Staff Development Committee has been working hard this summer to plan some awesome staff luncheons for this upcoming academic year, and we’d like you to mark these dates on your calendar. All lunches are scheduled from noon to 1 p.m.

Our first lunch will be a tailgate party on Monday, Sept. 15, behind the football stadium (in the event of inclement weather it will be in the Cap and Gown Room).

Later in the semester, our Christmas lunch will be on Monday, Dec. 8, and we are returning to the islands for another fun luau on Monday, Jan. 26. Our last staff lunch of the academic year will be on Monday, April 13.

We hope to have another fun barbecue event during the summer for everybody that works all summer, so stay tuned!

Questions? Contact Nadine Kincaid at nkincaid@georgefox.edu.

There are just a few days left of the faculty art show, “What One Sees When One Looks,” in the Minthorne Gallery. Please take a few minutes to see recent work created by the George Fox University art and design faculty.

The Minthorne Gallery is in the southeast corner of the Hoover building and is open during regular business hours this Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. The show will come down on Friday.

Remember there is a Welcome Weekend informational meeting for the George Fox community today (Tuesday) at 12:30 p.m. in Hoover 105. We will be going over the details of check-in and Welcome Weekend for our new students coming on Thursday!

Questions? Email Stephanie St. Cyr at sstcyr@georgefox.edu.

It’s only a little over two weeks until our 16th annual Serve Day! On Wednesday, Sept. 3, we will send out more than 1,800 employees and students to serve more than 100 sites in Newberg and the surrounding area.

Employees will receive their Serve Day assignments in the next week and a half via email and on the Serve Day website.

On Serve Day, George Fox Newberg offices are closed and no day classes are in session. For the George Fox community, Serve Day begins at 7:30 a.m. with breakfast on the quad. Breakfast is followed by a brief program that includes worship and final instructions for the day.

At 8:30 a.m., team leaders and site hosts meet up with their group and head to the service site. Serve Day concludes with an evening celebration and dinner at 4 p.m. Evening classes starting at 5:30 p.m. or later will still be in session.

Returning students: Mail Services will be open on Saturday, Aug. 23, from noon to 3 p.m. Come get your packages and avoid the long lines on Monday, the first day of classes. Please spread the word to all of your friends!

Also, we will open at 7:30 on Monday morning (Aug. 25) to help the early birds who don’t want to wait in long lines.

If you have questions, please email Linda Sartwell at lsartwel@georgefox.edu.

We are serving 102 sites at Serve Day this year (most ever!), but we are in need of more employees to volunteer to be drivers. If you are able to drive and did not indicate that on the Serve Day survey, please email telizarde@georgefox.edu.

Thank you.

We have two trucks loaded with furniture arriving at 8 a.m. today (Monday, Aug. 18) and tomorrow (Tuesday). If anyone is available to help unload from 8 to 10 a.m. on these mornings, that would be appreciated. We’ll start at Coffin on Monday and finish at Pennington. Tuesday we’ll be primarily at Coffin.

If you have any questions, please contact housing@georgefox.edu.

Thanks!

Starting today (Monday, Aug. 18), the new chart of account numbers will be required on all mail and print requests. Mail and print jobs will be delayed pending the receipt of a valid number. Mail will be returned to the department if correct numbers are not used.

Thanks for your assistance.
Questions? Contact Sherrie Frost at ext. 2556.

Up to three male roommates needed for off-campus apartment. The apartment is not far from Grocery Outlet.

Price varies depending on occupancy, however the total cost is $750 a month for a three-bedroom apartment plus electric, Internet and cable. One single room and one double room available.

Contact Will at 971-645-1401 or email whiscox09@georgefox.edu.

All temporary time cards, payroll check requests and any overload or adjunct contracts and coaching agreements need to be turned in to human resources on the 18th of each month by the end of the day in order for them to be processed with that month’s payroll.

All staff time sheets and admin time-off reports need to be turned in to human resources by the end of the first week of each month. Both the employee and supervisor signatures are required. If your supervisor is unable to sign before the due date, please send your time sheet/time-off report to HR with a note in place of the signature that a signed copy will follow.

Thank you,
HR

Bruin fans! Only about three weeks remain until our first football game in more than 40 years! Kickoff will be in Stoffer Family Stadium at 1:30 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 6, against Arizona Christian.

Because this long-awaited game is highly anticipated, we expect a sellout crowd and long lines. For that reason, we ask that if you plan to purchase tickets to please do so immediately. Employees receive a general admission pass but need to purchase additional tickets for other family members. We also encourage you to show up early.

Please also note that all vehicles must be moved from the Bauman and Minthorn/Mail Room parking lots on Friday evenings before our Saturday home games.

You can purchase tickets and find all the game-day information (parking, tailgate info, etc.) on this page. See you at the game!

Faculty, please submit requests for fall semester course reserves as soon as possible. Materials are processed in the order received and can take up to five days to complete.

Please fill out and submit the form located here. If you have any questions, please contact Patty Vanier at ext. 2425 or pvanier@georgefox.edu.

We officially went live with a new chart of accounts on July 1 for the 2014-15 fiscal year. Please visit the financial affairs website for updated information about the change.

Our next training session is today (Friday) from 2 to 4 p.m. in Stevens 109. Dates and locations for additional training sessions are posted on the financial affairs website under “Scheduled Training.”

If you have any questions or are having any trouble with the new format, we will help you. Please call Cris Banton at ext. 2167.

Staff and students: In the case of a large-scale emergency on campus that prevented everybody from going home, do you have emergency supplies on hand to last one to three days? These items will help everybody to better make it through an emergency like a large earthquake, etc., and we are asking everybody to please keep these items on hand in your dorm room, apartment, house or office:

• Flashlight and batteries
• Space blanket
• Gallon of water
• Trail mix/granola bars/nuts/dried fruit
• Rain poncho
• Two- to three-day supply of necessary medication
• Roll of TP
• Kleenex/sanitary supplies
• Book, needlepoint, knitting, Sudoku/puzzle book, magazines, etc. to occupy time if residence hall/apartment/office closed due to damage
• Hand sanitizer
• Notepad/pencil

Most of these items will fit in one- to two-gallon-sized Ziploc bags and can be kept in a desk drawer or closet. Security has also been posting other items to add to an emergency kit on our Facebook page and will add to that list in the weeks to come. The above items would help during a “shelter in place” emergency should there be no electricity, heat, or running water on campus.

While our hope is that these will never be needed, having them on hand will make living through a large emergency much easier.

Questions? Please contact security at 503-554-2090.

All employees, half time and above: Don’t forget to attend the all-community meeting scheduled from 8 to 11:30 a.m. tomorrow (Friday), in the Klages Dining Room on the Newberg campus. Breakfast will be served beginning at 8 a.m., with the program to follow from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m.

The meeting will include a time of worship and devotions, updates from President Robin Baker and the VP team, employee service awards, and recognition of the support staff and administrator of the year. The event will be followed by a short dedication ceremony in front of the Pennington dorm at 11:30 a.m.

See you there!