The Daily Bruin

Be sure to join us for an all-employee meeting tomorrow (Thursday) from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in Bauman Auditorium!

Our theme this month is “Spring.” The menu will include strawberry streusel bars, asparagus and Parmesan puffs, and strawberry lemonade.

At the Portland Center, we will have a live video feed and also serve treats in Room 160.

Here is the agenda:

Welcome
Rob Westervelt
Recognizing Excellence,
Featuring Sheila Bartlett

Employee of the Month

Devotional
Kelly Chang

Christ in Everything
Sarah Baldwin
Gender Climate Study

“The Team to Beat”
Sarah Reid
Football Season Tickets

Be Known
Lynn Andrews
Introducing Jill Downing

Christian University of Choice
Rob Bohall
Accreditation Visit

Innovation to Improve Outcomes
Ted Allen
Update on Performance Review Process

President’s Remarks
Robin Baker
Strategic Planning

Prayer & Dismissal

Cesar Chavez Week is right around the corner, and I want to invite you to come celebrate with us! We will host various events throughout the week, including a special dinner in “the Bon” with Mexican and Filipino food!

Below is the schedule:

Tuesday, April 1
Reflection on Cesar Chavez’ Legacy and the Topic of Immigration
Location: Hoover 105
Time: 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday, April 2
Mexican Arts and Crafts and Cuisine
Location: Cultural House
Time: 9 p.m.

Thursday, April 3
Dinner Celebration at the Bon with Edna Vazquez
Location: “The Bon”
Time: 5 p.m.

Friday, April 4
“Cesar Chavez Movie”*
Location: Regal Movies on TV Stadium 16
Time: 6 p.m.
*The first 20 to express interest will have their admissions ticket paid for, courtesy of the Latino Heritage Club. To sign up, email Nancy Vazquez at nvazquez12@georgefox.edu.

Questions? Contact Nancy Arellano at narellano11@georgefox.edu.

The university’s French and cinema programs have joined forces to present the third Fox French Film Festival on concurrent Fridays, April 4 and April 11.

Opening the festival will be Astérix and Obélix Meet Cleopatra, a big-budget box-office comedy about the French comic book heroes created in the 1960s. Their adventures have sold 280 million copies to date in Europe. It shows at 7 p.m. on Friday, April 4, in Hoover 105.

Also that night in the same location, Séraphine will be featured at 9 p.m. This extraordinary French-Belgian biographical film tells the dramatic story of French paintress Séraphine de Senlis, a middle-aged housekeeper in the early 1900s. Untaught and following what she regards as religious inspiration, she finds great appreciation in the beauty found in nature.

Filmgoers will also have the chance to indulge in crêpes and other French fare during the intermission between the shows. There is no admission charge and are open to all.

Two different films, Les Choristes (The Chorus) and Des Dieux et des Hommes (Of God and Men), will be shown on April 11. Details to follow.

Questions? Contact Isabelle Corneaux at icorneaux@georgefox.edu.

The International Club is hosting a Chinese Lab this Thursday, March 20, at 6:30 p.m. in Lemmons 5! This time we will be teaching you basic Chinese dialogues that you can use in campus.

Come for snacks, friendship and fun! Contact gfu.international.club@gmail.com for more info.

This is a reminder that tickets for the Oregon Symphony’s Friday, April 4, concert on the George Fox campus are available beginning at 9 a.m. today (Tuesday) at the Box Office in the Pennington House.

George Fox employees (halftime and over) may pick up their tickets – limit two per employee – on a first-come, first-served basis. Phone reservations (503-554-3844) will not be taken except for employees at the Portland and Salem centers.

The concert is free to George Fox employees – a gift from George Fox board member Ken Austin, who cofounded A-dec with his late wife Joan. The university has been provided with a limited number of tickets for its employees. These tickets are separate from those to be issued by the Newberg Area Chamber of Commerce to the general public.

On Monday, March 31, beginning at 9 a.m., any remaining tickets (again, a limit of two per person) will be available – also on a first-come, first-served basis – to those who sign up on a waiting list. If you find you will not be able to attend the concert, please return your tickets for another employee to use.

Questions? Contact Mary Monahan at mmonahan@georgefox.edu.

Be sure to support our theatre students by attending the spring comic murder-mystery, The Game’s Afoot. Shows are scheduled in Wood-Mar Auditorium April 3-5 and April 10-13. All shows begin at 7:30 p.m. with the exception of the Sunday, April 13, performance, scheduled as a 2 p.m. matinee.

Students are welcome to attend either Thursday production for free. Employees are entitled to one complimentary ticket, available for pick-up at the Box Office in the Pennington House. Additional tickets may be purchased at theatre.georgefox.edu.

The play has some fun with the legendary character Sherlock Holmes. It tells the story of Broadway star William Gillette, who plays the leading role in the smash hit Sherlock Holmes. Gillette invites his fellow cast members to his home to celebrate the holidays. But when one of the guests is stabbed to death, the festivities in Gillette’s isolated Connecticut castle quickly turn dangerous. Luckily, Gillette has played Sherlock Holmes on the stage and knows exactly what to do to nab the killer before the next victim appears.

Marketing communications is collecting orders for name tags. For those who have regular face-to-face contact with the public and need to order a name tag, you may submit your request at this link.

Be sure to provide the name of the person for whom the name tag is needed; title or department; and the budget to be charged.

The next order will be placed on Monday, March 24. Contact Danette Newkirk (dnewkirk@georgefox.edu) if you have questions.

Are you still interested in being a Peer2Peer mentor? If you are, we have extended the deadline to midnight Sunday, March 30.

Now is the chance to have your voice heard. Go to igfu.georgefox.edu to vote for the 2014-15 Central Committee team. Voting closes on Wednesday, March 19, at 5 p.m.

Here is how you vote: Go to igfu.georgefox.edu, click on “MyGFU” – “ASC voting” – and cast your vote!

Questions? Please contact Shanna Coulston at scoulston11@georgefox.edu.

The new class ARTD415, called Professional Design Collaboration, will be offered during spring 2015. Discover the principles and practices used by multiple design disciplines. You will gain collaborative experience with regard to branding, promotion and marketing as you design a complete package for a business event. Enrollment is limited, so sign up early!

Questions? Please contact  Lauri Smith at smithl@georgefox.edu.

Announcing a.m. chapel worship team auditions for the 2014-15 academic year. The morning chapel teams are under the oversight of the university’s performing arts department.

Applications for leaders, leader apprentices and team members are located on the second floor of the Ross building outside the music department office. Please fill out an application and sign up for an audition slot posted on the department office door.

Auditions are being held March 31-April 2. For more information, email Robert Gaither at rgaither@georgefox.edu.

All are invited to an all-employee lunch today (Tuesday) in the Newberg campus’ Cap and Gown Room between 11:30  a.m. and 1:15 p.m.

The lunch schedule has been extended to accommodate those who work over the noon hour. If you are on the Newberg campus, please join your colleagues for just $3 per person.

Please complete the LibQUAL Lite Library Survey. If you have already filled out the survey, thank you! If not, we ask you to take five to seven minutes to click the link below and help us by taking the survey.

Only you can tell us how well we are serving your library needs, and you can enter to win one $50 or 10 $25 Amazon gift cards.

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Jill Downing joins the university this month as director of university events. She brings more than 15 years of experience in leading the planning and implementation of domestic and international events, ranging from corporate executive programs to nonprofit conferences. Since November, she’s served as sponsorship fulfillment coordinator for the Portland-based Drupal Association. She also worked as a travel director for the ITA Group of Des Moines, Iowa, since October of last year. In other recent assignments, Jill was a program coordinator and conference manager for Willamette Valley Development Officers (2011-13), an events manager for Portland’s Essential Health Clinic (2012-13), and the BizGrowth Summit exhibit manager for the Portland Business Journal (2011-12). Previously, one of her most memorable assignments was coordinating with the Smithsonian Institution of Washington, D.C., the arrangement of the Festival of American Folklife exhibition on the National Mall in 1996. Jill earned a bachelor’s degree in art history in 1984 from the University of Iowa. She lives in Portland and enjoys cooking, attending the weekly PSU Farmer’s Market, visiting art museums and hiking in the beautiful Oregon outdoors.

The nursing department welcomes Paul R. L’Espérance this semester as a visiting assistant professor of nursing. Paul has been a registered nurse for the past 10 years with a broad clinical background. He has worked as a staff RN, a clinical training associate at Oregon Health and Science University, and as a nurse manager both at OHSU and at Southwest Washington Medical Center in Vancouver, Wash. As a nationally certified critical care nurse, he has medical, cardiac and end-of-life clinical nursing expertise. Paul will graduate with a Master of Nursing degree in nursing education from OHSU this year. Prior to becoming a nurse, he worked as a Licensed Professional Counselor working with abused children and families at Namaste, Inc., and with the State of New Mexico. He holds a bachelor’s degree in nursing from the University of New Mexico (2004), a master’s degree in mental health counseling from Webster University in St. Louis (2000), and a bachelor’s degree in psychology from New Mexico State University (1997). Paul lives in Tigard with his wife, Erica, son Lucas (13) and daughter Jordan (6). They attend St. Anthony Catholic Church in Tigard.

Holly Kirby (Physical Therapy) left the university in late February to spend more time with family while transitioning to a new opportunity.

Kelsey Bennett (Financial Affairs) left George Fox in late February when another opportunity arose for advancement in accounting.

Justin Hudec (Undergraduate Admissions) left the university last Friday. He is joining the Knights of Columbus as his next career opportunity. He wished to thank his friends at George Fox for “an incredible decade at the university.”

The university’s board of trustees affirmed the following faculty promotions during the general board meeting March 8. New titles will take effect in the 2014-15 academic year.

For Tenure: Carol Brazo, associate professor of education; Amy Dee, associate professor of education; Roger Nam, associate professor of biblical studies; Susan O’Donnell, associate professor of psychology

Promotion from Associate Professor to Professor: Lorraine DeKruyf, professor of counseling; Ryan Halley, professor of finance; Mary Peterson, professor of clinical psychology; Winston Seegobin, professor of clinical psychology; Randy Woodley, distinguished professor of faith and culture

Promotion from Assistant Professor to Associate Professor: Sarah Gibson, associate professor of media communications; Seth Sikkema, associate professor of accounting

Jim Smart (Biology), currently on sabbatical as a visiting scientist for the Department of Pediatrics at Doernbecher Children’s Hospital at Oregon Health and Science University, collaborated on a research paper with scientists from OHSU, the Netherlands and Georgia Institute of Technology. The paper, titled “STRAD Pseudokinases Regulate Axogenesis and LKB1 Stability,” was published in the most recent edition of Neural Development, an open-access, peer-reviewed online journal.

Phil Smith (Philosophy) published the book Why Faith Is a Virtue, in which he builds on the work of Alasdair MacIntrye and Robert Adams to argue that faith contributes to human excellence. To make the argument, Phil sorts through conflicting possible “faiths” and shows how some of them are not virtues at all. Nevertheless, he argues that faith, properly understood, contributes to crucial human practices: scientific research, social reform and parenting. The book was published by Cascade Books, an imprint of Wipf and Stock Publishers of Eugene, Ore.

Ed Higgins (English) published three poems – “Thessaloniki Summer Visit,” “Icarus” and “Dido” – in the current issue of Mediterranean Poetry, a Sweden-based online journal. Ed also published one of his haikus in the Winter 2013 issue of the British quarterly Poetry Haiku Journal.

Rodger Bufford (PsyD) chaired the American Psychological Association accreditation site visit at the Florida School of Professional Psychology in Tampa, Fla., March 2-4.

Mark David Hall (Politics) published a guest opinion piece, “Oregonians Should Support Business Owners’ Religious Freedom,” in the March 8 issue of The Oregonian. It can be read on the OregonLive site.

Sarita Gallagher (Christian Studies) published an article in the Spring 2014 International Journal of Pentecostal Missiology, a peer-reviewed online journal. The title of her piece was “In the Times of Elijah and Elisha: The Universal Mission of God in the Narratives of the Sidonian Widow and Naaman the Aramean.”

Corwynn Beals (Christian Studies) taught the course “God and Nature” as part of the Creation Care Study Program’s study-abroad program in Belize March 10-14. Hosted by the Center for Environmental Leadership, the Belize curriculum offers “academically rigorous courses to consider what it means to live in right relationship with God, creation, others and ourselves,” according to the program website.

March 19             Marty Hunter
March 20             Heidi Cuddeford
March 21             Larry Mennenga
March 22             Terry Peters
March 23             Dianna McIntyre
March 24             Loren Kerns, Mary Monahan
March 25             Brian Gardner
March 26             Kirstie Richmond, Nick Willis
March 27             Yune Tran
March 28             Kathy Harris, Alene Horney, Charlie Kamilos, Jeremy Lloyd, Steve Petzold
March 29             Lynn Andrews, Vetta Berokoff, Kathi Gatlin
March 30             Debora Herb-Sepich
March 31             Melodee Powers

Do you have an interest in criminal justice? Or, faculty members, do you know of students who are interested in this topic? The social work department is offering a special topics course, Introduction to Criminal Justice (SWRK 285), in the fall 2014 semester.

This course will provide students with an introduction and overview of the system of criminal justice operated in the United States today. The course will provide an overview of the philosophy of criminal law, theories of deviance, and of the nature and extent of crime in America.

The theory, structure and operation of each of the principle components of the Criminal Justice System (i.e., police, courts and corrections) will be examined in detail.

Questions? Contact Clifford Rosenbohm at crosenbo@georgefox.edu.

Come support Button Up, a George Fox senior capstone business group. We will have a table in the Bruin Den today (Monday) from noon to 2 p.m. to place orders for personalized custom-made buttons. We are always accepting orders at buttonup2013@gmail.com.

Don’t forget to join us for the Liberal Arts and Critical Issues lecture tonight (Monday), as Kent Thornburg, the M. Lowell Edwards Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine at Oregon Health & Science University, speaks from 7 to 8 p.m. in Hoover 105. Thornburg will speak on “Capitalism and Selling Sickness in the USA.”

Questions? Contact Paul Otto at ext. 2676 or potto@georgefox.edu.

On Friday, April 4, George Fox will host the Oregon Symphony in its 27th appearance in Newberg at 8 p.m. in Bauman Auditorium. The concert is free to George Fox employees – a gift from George Fox board member Ken Austin, who cofounded A-dec with his late wife Joan.

The university has been provided with a limited number of tickets for its employees. These tickets are separate from those to be issued by the Newberg Area Chamber of Commerce to the general public.

George Fox employees (halftime and over) may pick up their tickets – limit two per employee – on a first-come, first-served basis starting tomorrow (Tuesday, March 18) at 9 a.m. at the Box Office in Pennington House. Phone reservations (503-554-3844) will not be taken except for employees at the Portland and Salem centers.

On Monday, March 31, beginning at 9 a.m., any remaining tickets (again, a limit of two per person) will be available – also on a first-come, first-served basis – to those who sign up on a waiting list. If you find you will not be able to attend the concert, please return your tickets for another employee to use.

Questions? Contact Mary Monahan at mmonahan@georgefox.edu.