The Daily Bruin

Financial affairs would like to remind all departments that it is George Fox University’s policy to deposit all monies within one week of receipt in the departments. In order to do so, financial affairs needs to receive all cash/checks within that week, and they will be deposited in the bank within 24 hours. This policy also applies to payments received for future events.

If you have questions, please contact Jan Amerson at ext. 2164. Thank you!

Ambex, the Germany study abroad program, will be in the Bruin Den on Wednesday, Feb. 26, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. to give information about their program.

If you can’t stop by, or have further interest in their programs, join them that evening (Wednesday) from 6 to 7 p.m. in Hoover 102.

Questions? Contact Lynn Scott at lscott@georgefox.edu.

Now is the time to submit your request for business cards. Marketing communications will be processing a business card order soon. Place your order directly with B&B Print Source by Tuesday, March 4.

Questions? Contact Danette Newkirk at dnewkirk@georgefox.edu.

Spring break is coming up! Join a Spring Serve Trip and travel to Neah Bay, Wash.; Flying H Youth Ranch; Ghormley Meadows Christian Camp; Seattle; San Francisco; and the Yakima Indian Reservation. These trips go during the break. The cost is only $25 for the entire week, which includes food and transportation! The deadline to sign up for the trips has been extended to Wednesday, Feb. 26.

Applications can be found on the SpiL website on this page. We are also still seeking employee leaders.

If you have any questions or would like more information, contact Kyle Webster at kwebster12@georgefox.edu or Erika Lopez at elopez12@georgefox.edu.

This Friday, Feb. 21, we’ll be selling homemade chicken tamales in the Bruin Den for $2 each! This is hosted by students in the ENPR 300 class and is supporting your student entrepreneurs at George Fox.

Tamales will be available for purchase during lunchtime, from 11:45 a.m. to 2 p.m. We have a limited supply, so get them before they’re gone!

The university community is invited to Kayin Griffith’s thank you and congratulations party! We’ll gather from 1 to 3 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 27, in the International Center/Cultural House.

Kayin, assistant director of SpIL programs, has accepted an exciting new opportunity as the director of advocacy and development for the organization Word Made Flesh. Join us as we celebrate her and bless her new endeavors!

The university’s International Club has 15 tickets for the Blazers game on Monday, March 3, against the Los Angeles Lakers. Tickets are $40 apiece, which includes transportation that evening.

Please contact Louis Liu (lliu11@georgefox.edu) for more information.

We’ve updated our Schedule of Development Events by adding a few more FoxTALE webinars providing tips and best practices on using the FoxTALE Gradebook. Check out the schedule at this link to sign up for one that works with your schedule.

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Are you in a serious relationship or engaged? SpIL is sponsoring a premarital class put on by Living Wholehearted! Classes start tonight (Tuesday), so sign up ASAP.

We will be talking about family-of-origin, marital expectations, intimacy (sexual, emotional, spiritual), finances and more. Only $20 for the four-week class!

Sign up at this link.

Dates and times:
Tuesday, Feb. 18 – 7:30 to 9 p.m.
Tuesday, Feb. 25 – 7:30 to 9 p.m.
Tuesday, March 4 – 7:30 to 9 p.m.
Tuesday, March 11 – 7:30 to 9 p.m.

For more information, email spirituallife@georgefox.edu.

Join the SpIL family next year as an intern. We have 13 open positions and would love to see if you are a great fit.

The application and detailed information about each internship can be found at GeorgeFox.edu/SpILApps. The deadline has been extended to Monday, Feb. 24, by 5 p.m. Begin your application today!

For more information, please contact the SpIL office at spirituallife@georgefox.edu.

Join us tonight (Tuesday) for the annual “Sex Talk” at 9 p.m. Women will be meeting in Cap & Gown. Men will be meeting in Lemmons 8.

See you there!

Sadie Hawkins tickets have sold out. We are sorry for the limited number of tickets, but the Portland Spirit had a strict maximum capacity that we needed to follow.

Questions? Please contact ASC for more information.

Come support the women’s lacrosse team as the Bruins host their first official game in program history next Tuesday, Feb. 25, at the Austin Sports Complex. The game starts at 6 p.m. against Alma College of Michigan.

If you have questions, please contact Shanna Coulston at scoulston11@georgefox.edu.

Join us at Camp Tillikum for the Polar Bear Swim this Friday, Feb. 21, at 8 p.m.

Everyone who participates in the swim will get a free sweatshirt!

Are you interested in missions as a career or are you looking to invest yourself in a summer or year-long internship? Attend one of Roger Newell’s classes this Friday, Feb. 19, either at 11:40 a.m. (Hoover 208) or 1:40 p.m. (Stevens 101) to hear Steve Vinton, director of Village Schools, as he tells his story of building schools in Tanzania.

Steve will be sharing the story of his mission to recruit teachers for the schools he builds in Tanzania in a partnership model with the villages as well as what can be accomplished to help educate children who otherwise would not have the opportunity to go to school.

Hope to see you there!

Questions? Contact Rachel Arias at rarias10@georgefox.edu.

Are you interested in being a part of ASC Central Committee next year? Go to asc.georgefox.edu to apply or visit the ASC offices for more information.

Ty Dye, head of the company Unlock Limits Coaching Groups, will share on “Equipping 101 – What Every Leader Needs To Know” at this month’s Newberg meeting of the Christian Chamber of Commerce of the Northwest. The meeting is from 7:30 to 9 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 25, in the Villa Academic Complex.

Dye is a certified teacher, speaker and teacher with the John Maxwell Team and was recently part of an international group that trained 24,000 leaders in Guatemala. Dye spent more than 20 years in sales and sales management, developing teams in multiple companies and industries. He is passionate about helping others develop in their leadership skills and unleashing their God-given strengths.

For more information, go to the Chamber’s website at cccnw.net or call 503-928-8354.

What does the future hold for higher education? This week, President Robin Baker addresses the question in his blog. Feel free to read the piece here.

The advancement office welcomes Pam Clem this month to serve in the newly created position of director of foundations, corporate giving and grants. Pam has worked the past two and a half years at Marylhurst University in three capacities – as interim director of advancement (November 2013 to January 2014), director of advancement communications and grants (January to November 2013), and manager of foundation, corporate and government relations (July 2011 to January 2013). Previously, she spent four and a half years at Westminster College in Salt Lake City as director of advancement communications (2008-11) and assistant director of corporate and foundation relations (2006-08). In all, Pam has more than 20 years of advancement experience, having worked at Harbor-UCLA Research and Education Institute in the early 2000s and at the University of Southern California for nine years (1985-94), where she began her career in advancement in 1989. Pam earned a master’s degree in public relations from USC in 1992, holds an MBA from Pace University’s Lubin School of Business, and earned a bachelor’s degree in Russian area studies from Marymount College, Tarrytown, New York (now Fordham University). She lives in Dundee with her husband, Ron, and their wirehaired dachshund, Bravo. They are new congregants of St. Peter Catholic Church in Newberg.

The biology and chemistry department welcomes Lori Scharton as an administrative assistant this month. For the past five years, she worked as director of operations for the Partnership to End Poverty in Redmond, Ore., where she did bookkeeping, office management and event coordination. Previously, from 1989 to 2005, Lori was a speech/language specialist for the Perris School District in Perris, Calif. She earned both a master’s degree (1989) and a bachelor’s degree (1987) in communication disorders from the University of Redlands. Lori is a recent transplant to Newberg, where she resides with her husband Ken. Her son Daniel is in his junior year at George Fox, majoring in studio arts. Her daughter Kara continues to reside in Redmond.

John Shaw joins the university this month as director of enterprise software in IT. He has spent the past two and a half years as a business analyst and business systems manager for JELD-WEN, the building products manufacturer headquartered in Klamath Falls, Ore. While there, John served in the project manager role for multiple global software toolset upgrades. He earned bachelor’s degrees in both information systems and business management from Corban University in 2011. John, his wife Whitney and daughter Avery have recently relocated from Klamath Falls to Newberg.

Ed Higgins’ (English) poem “Anniversary” appeared in the February 2014 issue of The Red River Review, a quarterly Texas-based literary magazine. Also, his short poem “Poetry as Jello” appeared in the February 2014 edition of Confettifall, an online e-zine that specializes in publishing stories and poems of 140 characters or fewer.