The Daily Bruin

Attention all Communication/Journalism Majors: Please join Lambda Pi Eta as they host the annual Communication Awards Dessert. Open to all Comm/Journalism Majors and minors. Mark it on your calendars now: Tuesday, April 22, at 6:30 p.m. in  Minthorn 200.

Admission is free, and there will be games, prizes and dessert. The purpose of the Communication Awards Dessert is to recognize students’ hard work and induct Lambda Pi Eta members.

Questions? Please contact Bre Munsell at bmunsell10@georgefox.edu. Also contact Bre if you are interested in helping out with this event or if you are interested in being a part of Lambda Pi Eta as an officer.

This Thursday, April 17, Shalom will host a “Colored White” panel. Students Jeannot Djanga, Hope Kenyon, Drew Miller, Carly Ewing and Area Coordinator Jonathan Morell will be answering questions about white privilege, white guilt, and how to develop positive white identities.

If you have questions that you would like to discuss during the panel, email Inclusion and Student Leadership Programs at islp@georgefox.edu by Wednesday at midnight.

We will begin at 9 p.m. in the Cap and Gown Room. Chapel Elective Credit is available for this event.

Two retirement parties will be held to honor Dianna McIntyre. Please join us in celebrating her faithful and dedicated years of service to our community.

All university employees are invited to celebrate on Monday, April 21, in the Stevens Center (Duke) Atrium from 3 to 5 p.m. (please note, this is a different time than the previous Daily Bruin announcement listed).

All George Fox students (past and present) are invited to celebrate on Tuesday, April 22, in the International Center/Cultural House from 3 to 4 p.m. (sharing time will begin at 3:20 p.m.).

Throughout her career, Dianna has brought to her work professionalism, joyfulness and a love for Christ and people. Her interactions with our faculty, staff and students are always marked by thoroughness, balanced with sensitivity and warmth. She has a gift for engaging students and helping them to grow and develop in the gifts and abilities God has given them.

Dianna has served as the adviser for the International Student Club and has also mentored a number of our student leaders, modeling a life of living for Christ and doing one’s best. Hugs, laughs and prayer are all common experiences for students meeting with Dianna, allowing students to leave her office with a genuine sense of being affirmed and truly known.

Please join us in wishing Dianna well as she retires from the university!

We are in high need of volunteers. Erin Johnson’s SWRK 393 class is organizing an event for canvassing the Newberg and Dundee neighborhoods to raise awareness for the need for a new pool facility. Join us from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, April 19.

Why should you participate?

1. Snacks
2. Free T-shirt
3. Because you care about building communities

If you want to volunteer, please register at this link. If you want to know more about the cause, visit the website and “like” the Facebook page.

An all-campus celebration will be happening during the 10:40 a.m. chapel on Wednesday, April 23, as we celebrate graduating seniors. The Office of Spiritual Life would like to invite you to Bauman Auditorium to be a part of celebrating the graduating seniors in your department.

Join Linda Samek and Sarah Baldwin to pray over any of your students who are graduating, commissioning them toward their next steps. If you would like to be a part of this, we encourage you to personally invite the seniors in your department to come to this time of commissioning.

Please email Sarah at sbaldwin@georgefox.edu with any questions.

The university’s offices, libraries and BlueZone Store will be closed this Friday, April 18, to observe Good Friday.

Following are Easter weekend hours for the Wheeler Sports Center:

• Friday, April 18 (Good Friday): Closed
• Saturday, April 19: Open 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
• Sunday, April 20 (Easter): Closed

You are cordially invited to attend graphic design Senior Thesis presentations Wednesday, April 16, beginning at 6 p.m. in Hoover 105. The seniors will share their portfolios and be available for questions regarding their work.

Are you a missionary kid, third-culture kid, or would be interested in hearing about this group’s interesting and diverse experiences? If so, come to the Mu Kappa Club’s end-of-the-year party in the Sutton Cafe on Wednesday, April 16! This will go from 8 to 10 p.m.; please feel free to drop in and out whenever you can. There will be ice cream sundaes as well as other yummy desserts!

If you have any questions, feel free to contact:
Carrie Gradin, cgradin12@georgefox.edu
Jamie Whisler, jwhisler12@georgefox.edu
Bree Thomas, bthomas13@georgefox.edu

Fellow seniors: As our final semester winds down, I’m sure we are all busy with final projects and graduation plans. On that note, I am desperately in need of about 15 extra graduation tickets and hope some of you will be able to help me out!

There are baked goods, a coffee, or even a small amount of monetary compensation per ticket up for grabs!

Please e-mail me, Alyssa Asdell, at aasdell11@gmail.com if you have extra tickets for the 2:30 p.m. ceremony. Thank you!

Join us this Saturday, April 19, from 1 to 3 p.m. for our final community garden work day. We will be doing some planting for the summer and enjoying community together! You can receive chapel elective credit for this event. We will be discussing “Jesus in the Ground” and connections of gardening and this holy weekend of Christ’s resurrection. Hope to see you at the community garden behind Coffin!

Questions? Please contact Crystal Colella at ccolella10@georgefox.edu.

The university welcomes Lisa Mariea Fithian, DNP, MSN, RN, as director of the School of Nursing. She brings more than 30 years of experience in the nursing profession. Most recently, Lisa served as a Clackamas County Health Centers’ nursing supervisor (2012-14), where she assisted in opening a new primary care clinic at Sunnyside Health & Wellness Center in Clackamas. Previously, she managed CareOregon’s CareSupport Department (2009-12) and worked for four years as a night shift charge RN and neonatal resuscitation RN at Kaiser Sunnyside Hospital in Clackamas. She taught in and chaired the nursing department at Clackamas Community College in Oregon City (1994-2004) and was a professor of nursing at Clark College in Vancouver, Wash. (2005-06). Lisa held positions as a nurse manager, chief nurse executive, staff RN and nursing faculty in Ohio, Utah and California during the 1980s and early 1990s. She holds a Master of Science in Nursing in nursing administration from the University of California, San Francisco (1994), a Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) from Case Western Reserve University (1982), and a bachelor’s degree in biology from John Carroll University (1979). Lisa has four adult children ranging in age from 20 to 29. East Hill Foursquare Church in Gresham has been the church home of Lisa and her family since 1994. She will be on campus part time until July 1, when she will assume the full-time director role from Darcy Mize, who is serving as interim director through June.

Andrew Fleming joins the university this month as a computer support specialist in the IT department. Andrew has spent the past two years doing computer and video freelance work, and has also been the computer support technician at Camp Tilikum. While a student at the university between 2009 and 2012, he worked part time during the academic year and full time during the summers as a service desk support employee in IT. He is the son of Jim and Karlyn Fleming and lives in Newberg. He enjoys photography, video production and wood working in his free time. Andrew attends West Salem Foursquare Church, where he volunteers as a youth group leader and supports a variety of church ministries.

Brian Gardner (Development) left the university in late March to serve as vice president for university advancement at Indiana Wesleyan University in Marion, Ind. Reporting to the CEO of residential education, Brian will oversee the university advancement division, work closely with President David Wright (a George Fox alumnus), and serve on the President’s Executive Council.

An article that Deb Drecnik Worden (Business) coauthored with Diane Schooley-Pettis, professor of finance at Boise State University, was recently published in the Financial Services Review (Vol. 22), the journal of the Academy of Financial Services. The article, titled “Accumulating and Spending Retirement Assets: A Behaviorial Finance Explanation,” stems from their research, which examines which individuals choose to participate in pension plans or set aside additional retirement funds in IRAs. A recent report from The Investment Company Institute reported that 33 percent of Americans have neither an IRA nor an employer retirement plan.

Gary Buhler (Art) is the featured artist in the current issue of Triggerfish Critical Review (#12), an online journal. In addition, his watercolor, “Morrison Steel,” was accepted into the Emerald Spring Juried Show in Springfield, Ore., a national exhibition that will be on display in the Emerald Art Center for the month of May starting May 3.

Ed Higgins (English) published his poem “Escaped Poems” in the April 2014 issue of Contemporary Haibun Online. The piece also includes commentary/analysis from one of the editors, Ray Rasmussen, who is highly regarded in haiku/haibun circles. Included also are links to some of his other pieces and the republication of two of Ed’s haibun pieces from other journals. In addition, Ed’s poem “Wasps” appeared in the Spring 2014 issue of the Irish literary/arts journal The Linnet’s Wings.

Paul Anderson (Christian Studies) has been appointed Professor Extraordinary of Religion at the North-West University of Potchefstroom, South Africa, as a means of bringing credibility to the university and helping faculty and students conduct and publish their research from afar. Paul will also be a Fulbright Specialist Visiting Professor at the Radboud University of Nijmegen in Netherlands this May. Finally, as founding coeditor of the Johannine Monograph Series (Wipf & Stock), Paul recently wrote the foreword to Volume 1 in the series, A Commentary on John, by Rudolf Bultmann, arguably the most significant New Testament book in the 20th century.

John Knox (Christian Studies) published an article, “Future Emphasis of the Church in the Pacific Northwest,” this month in Christ and Cascadia, an online journal sponsored by the Fuller Institute of Theology and Northwest Culture.

April 15             Terrie Boehr, Mike Campadore
April 17             Eilene Newman
April 18             Judy Deale
April 19             Rebecca Williams
April 22             Laura Fisk, Jeff VandenHoek
April 23             Terrance Steele
April 25             Terri Beecroft, Mark Ocker, Valerie Sherwood, Richard Silver
April 26             Dana Ferrin, Emma Glennen
April 27             Pat Vandehey

Find ways to give back to your community! We have spiritual life- and community-based volunteer opportunities available on our website. If you are looking to positively impact your community and gain valuable experience, check out the possibilities at this link or on Facebook at facebook.com/CommunityBridge2013.

The social work MACRO class is organizing a diaper-packaging party to support impoverished families in Yamhill County. You are free to join us from 6 to 8 p.m. Monday, April 21, in the Cap and Gown Room.

Working on behalf of the organization Healthy Families, we are creating a night you can come and watch a movie, eat pizza and package diapers for the families living in our county who cannot afford them! How fun and heartwarming is that?

So please come and bring friends. Let’s come together for food, conversation and for the families who need help.

Questions? Contact Micah Schuler at micah.e.schuler@gmail.com.

This week the Academic Resource Center’s schedule is full; we have no availability. If you need an appointment, consider coming to the ARC when you have time for a consultation. Possibly a consultant’s schedule will have cleared, and he or she can meet with you.

If you have an appointment but no longer need it or cannot meet during your scheduled time, please cancel your appointment to make the time available for others.

Questions? Write the_arc@georgefox.edu.

Come join us in the Cap and Gown Room at 9 p.m. this Thursday, April 17, for the “Colored White Panel” during Shalom.

The panel will focus on informing white students about white privilege, white guilt (how to move away from this mind-set), and white ethnic identity development.

If you have questions that you would like to discuss during the panel, email Inclusion and Student Leadership Programs at islp@georgefox.edu by Wednesday at midnight. We will review the questions and choose some to ask during the panel.

Questions? Contact Aby Cordova at acordova10@georgefox.edu.

Spring formal tickets go on sale today (Tuesday)! Tickets will be $5 for pre-sale and $7 at the door. You can buy them outside of the ASC offices starting at 11:30 a.m.

For more information and/or questions, contact Sarah MacKenzie at smackenzie11@georgefox.edu.

You are invited to join us as we say farewell to longtime faculty member Clella Jaffe at a reception from 3:30 to 5 p.m. Wednesday, April 23, in the Stevens Center lobby (Duke Atrium). Refreshments will be served.

Clella has worked at the university for 19 years. During that span, she’s served as a professor of communication arts; as chair of the Department of Communication Arts (2004-present); as director of forensics (eight years); and as a leader or co-leader of 10 Juniors Abroad trips. She also did a six-week May Term teaching exchange in Wuhan, China.

Clella also served on the William Penn Honors Committee, as a faculty rep, on Faculty Council and on the Personnel Committee. She’s also been involved in policy and procedures, student appeals, the advising task force, and numerous search committees.

She said her plans are to travel, garden and maintain friendships.