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After working at the university on a temporary basis in career services since February, Corina Burke joins the institution on a full-time basis to work as an enrollment and career assistant in the student success center. Prior to her work at George Fox, Corina served as a project coordinator with Spirit Media of Happy Valley, Ore., where she managed multimedia production, website development and marketing/market research for the creative marketing agency in 2012-13. She also worked previously as an administrative assistant at New Song Community Church in 2011 and 2012. Corina earned a bachelor’s degree in cinema and media communication from George Fox in 2009. She lives in Newberg with her husband Ethan, who works at George Fox as a media production specialist. They attend New Song Community Church in Portland.

Paul Fodge, who has worked at the university part time the past eight years as both a carpenter in plant services and as a math instructor, has been hired full time to teach mathematics and do carpentry work. Prior to his employment at George Fox, Paul taught high school math in the Yamhill-Carlton School District for 33 years, from 1977 to 2010. He holds a master’s degree in mathematics from Western Oregon College of Education (1983) and a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from George Fox (1977). He lives in Newberg with his wife Becky, who is also a George Fox graduate. They have three children – Stacy, Laura and Tim. Tim is the youngest and will graduate from George Fox this December. The Fodges attend Newberg Friends Church.

The university welcomes Bree Stairs as an area coordinator this fall. She’s worked the past two years as a youth pastor at River Life Covenant Church in Sacramento, Calif. Before that, she served as a children’s, youth and college pastor at West Hills Covenant Church in Portland. Bree gained higher education work experience as a resident director at North Park University in Chicago from 2006 to 2008. She earned a bachelor’s degree in elementary education from George Fox in 2001 and holds a master’s degree in Christian formation (emphasis in youth ministry and camping) from North Park Theological Seminary (2008). Bree lives in Sutton Residence Hall.

Rebecca Valdovinos joins George Fox this fall to serve as an assistant professor for the English Language Institute. For the past two years, she has worked as a full-time faculty member with the academic program for international students at Oregon State University. Previously, she taught in the Intensive English Program for international students at South Puget Sound Community College (2008-10) and taught floral merchandising and design at Clover Park Technical College (2004-06). She also gained teaching experience as an adjunct faculty member at the University of Washington, Azusa Pacific University and Washington State University at Centralia College. Rebecca earned a master’s degree in education (emphasis on Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages) in 1994 and a bachelor’s degree in social studies from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1981. She lives in Newberg and has four adult children: Valarie (married to Nick Filer), Bobby and her twins Desiree and Dominique.

Ed Higgins (English) published five scifaiku poems in the August 2013 issue of jdp: Poetry, an online magazine dedicated to science fiction poetry.

Sept. 4              David Manock
Sept. 5              Joel Moore
Sept. 7              Tony Longstroth, Jen Macnab
Sept. 8              Mark Pothoff
Sept. 9              Tim Timmerman
Sept. 11            Jeff Duerr
Sept. 12            Kelly Chang
Sept. 15            Sarah Gibson, Ron Shaw, Lauri Smith
Sept. 16            Jan Amerson

Tickets are available to see Broadway Across America’s Chicago this Wednesday, Sept. 4, at 7:30 p.m. at the Keller Auditorium in Portland. Tickets are available at a group rate of $43 each.

Questions? Call 503-554-2134. You can register online at this link.

Please come share your prayers and good wishes to Sarah Jobson. Sarah left the university this fall and accepted the assistant director of residence life position at Northwest University in the Kirkland, Wash.

Please swing by …

Thursday, Sept. 12
3:30 to 5 p.m.
Stevens Center (Duke) Atrium

We are thankful for the influence and care Sarah provided to our students during her time with us. Come join us!

Please join Student Life as we celebrate Joel Perez for his service to our university. Joel accepted a position this fall at Seattle Pacific University as the dean of student life.

He and his family will be back on campus so that we can send him off in style.

Join us …

Friday, Sept. 13
3 to 5 p.m.
Stevens (Duke) Atrium

Security services is offering its annual C-CERT training course. We will meet every Wednesday between Sept. 18 and Oct. 6 from 2 to 5 p.m. in Lemmons 5.

In a large-scale disaster, the university needs to be prepared to be self-sufficient. This is why we are providing Campus Community Emergency Response Team training, or C-CERT.

Become part of the team and be prepared. Follow the link below for more information and get signed up now. The first class is in two weeks.

C-CERT Training

The university has just implemented a new pass-through process for Bruin Careers. Click here to go directly to the Bruin Careers site. Once there, log in with your Bruin Careers username and password. If you haven’t set up an account before, click where it says “click here to register.”

Make sure that your username and password are the same as your George Fox e-mail and password. Now, whenever you log onto MyGFU you will click directly into Bruin Careers without needing to log on.

Please e-mail careers@georgefox.edu or call 503-554-2330 if you have any questions!

Tomorrow (Wednesday, Sept. 4), the normal class schedule will be adjusted to accommodate our Honors Convocation Chapel. Please use the link included below to view the adjusted class schedule. You can also view the adjusted schedule by visiting the registrar’s office main page.

When viewing, locate the regular meeting time of your scheduled Wednesday classes in the “Regular Schedule” column on the left, and modify your schedule to attend the time listed in the “Adjusted Schedule” column on the right.

Please note classes scheduled outside the normal block periods have been assigned to an adjusted schedule block as well. You’ll be notified by your instructor of the adjusted time for your course; we’ve also included those out of block classes as well.

Adjusted Class Schedule Due to Honors Convocation Chapel

Questions can be directed to registrar@georgefox.edu.

We will be having our first Shalom on Thursday night (Sept. 5). Shalom is a weekly service where Fox students gather to worship through music and to hear how God is working in the campus community. This semester we’re exploring themes of justice, mercy, and humility based on Micah 6:8.

This week we’ll be hearing from ASC President Justin Vanier. Shalom starts at 9 p.m. in the Cap and Gown Room.

If you have any questions, please contact Grayce Beebe at gbeebe10@georgefox.edu.

The George Fox theatre department is hosting auditions for the fall show, The House of Bernarda Alba by Frederico Garcia Lorca. Below is all the pertinent information:

• Cast: 13 women
• General auditions: Wednesday, Sept. 4 (7-10 p.m.)
• First call back: Thursday, Sept 5 (7-10 p.m.)
• Second call back: Friday, Sept. 6 (7-10 p.m.)
• Location: Wood-Mar Auditorium
• General auditions: Prepare a 90-second contemporary dramatic monologue (fully rehearsed and memorized). Please keep your monologue under 90 seconds. Be prepared to work with the director one on one after you have performed your monologue.
• Call backs: Call backs will consist mainly of cold readings from the script.
• Sign-up sheet: Sign up for an audition time on the theatre call board outside the theatre office suite in the Lemmons Center.
• Questions? Contact Rhett Luedtke at rluedtke@georgefox.edu

Please turn in all August …

• Check/ACH requests
• Expense reimbursements
• Petty cash requests
• IDC’s
• Error corrections
• Credit card receipts

to the financial affairs office no later than 5 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 9. If you have any questions, please call or e-mail Kathi Becker (Financial Affairs) at ext. 2166 or kbecker@georgefox.edu.

Thank you,
The Finance Team

Security has received notification of student cars speeding on neighborhood streets and near-misses in the crosswalk leading to the Friendsview Retirement Community on Fulton Street. The speed limit is 25 mph on streets surrounding campus, and 10 mph on streets within the campus boundaries.

Please drive cautiously both on and off campus and watch out for pedestrians, especially elderly ones who walk by our campus.

Due to the Labor Day holiday, there will be no USPS, UPS or FedEx services today for mail and packages.

Our customer service window will be open for picking up packages that arrived on campus prior to today. You may drop off outgoing mail and packages but they will not be posted until Tuesday, Sept. 3.

Questions? Contact Sherrie Frost at ext. 2556 or Linda Sartwell at ext. 2560.

Thank you,
Mail Services

Some FoxTALE reminders …

• Use your new, empty Fall 2013 and Spring 2014 sites as the sites in which you will teach. You may import content from another or previous course site. See the instructions here for importing.
• Your Fall 2013 and Spring 2014 sites are unavailable (hidden) to students. When you are ready to make a site available, go to Settings > Course administration > Edit settings on the course home page. Scroll down to the “Availability” section and select “This course is available to students” from the drop-down menu. Scroll to the bottom of the page and “Save changes.”
• Remember that all students enrolled in your class in MyGFU will automatically be enrolled in your FoxTALE course site. As students add and drop your course in MyGFU, they will be added to or removed automatically from your FoxTALE site.

Contact the IT Service Desk (servicedesk@georgefox.edu) for more information or visit the FoxTALE for Faculty resource page.

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 Monday, Sept. 9.

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

Serve Day Team Leaders,

Please remember that there is an important meeting this Wednesday, Sept. 4, in from 4 to 5 p.m. in Hoover 105. We will be covering details about your serve site, information about your responsibilities, and you’ll get your t-shirt!

If you are unable to attend the meeting, please contact Rachel Elmer at serveday@georgefox.edu to set up another time to meet.

We look forward to seeing you there!

– Rachel Elmer and Beth Muthiah, Serve Day Coordinators

It’s now under two weeks until our 15th annual Serve Day! On Wednesday, Sept. 11, we will send out more than 1,600 employees and students to serve over 80 sites in Newberg and the surrounding area.

Employees have received their Serve Day assignments. If you have any questions about your assignment, let Beth Muthiah or Rachel Elmer know by e-mailing serveday@georgefox.edu.

Those students who live on campus will receive their assignments from their RA. Additional information is available in living areas.

On Wednesday, Sept. 4, the normal class schedule will be adjusted to accommodate our Honors Convocation Chapel. Please use the link included below to view the adjusted class schedule. You can also view the adjusted schedule by visiting the registrar’s office main page.

When viewing, locate the regular meeting time of your scheduled Wednesday classes in the “Regular Schedule” column on the left, and modify your schedule to attend the time listed in the “Adjusted Schedule” column on the right.

Please note classes scheduled outside the normal block periods have been assigned to an adjusted schedule block as well. You’ll be notified by your instructor of the adjusted time for your course; we’ve also included those out of block classes as well.

Adjusted Class Schedule Due to Honors Convocation Chapel

Questions can be directed to registrar@georgefox.edu.

A beginning guitar class and individual guitar lessons are being offered this fall on campus. Sign up and add some fun to your schedule!

The Beginning Guitar Class is offered for those new to the guitar who want to learn in a fun group setting. Learn to play awesome rock and roll classics and your favorite worship songs. No experience is necessary. MUSI 250-A (Tuesdays/Thursdays, 9:40-10:30 a.m).

Private Guitar Lessons are offered to bring your playing to the next level! One-on-one lessons cover beginners all the way to very experienced players. Sign up and get some new skills and techniques. Work on music that you really want to play. MUSA 105/305 GT

Lessons are taught by in-demand Portland guitarist Dave Iula. He performs with Portland’s top bands (Mel Brown, Patrick Lamb, Excellent Gentlemen) as well as many churches in Portland (Beaverton Foursquare, Southlake Church, Rolling Hills, Imago Dei Community).

E-mail Dave for more info at daveiula1@gmail.com.