We hope you have marked your calendar so you will be sure to join us in the Stevens Center plaza today (Wednesday) at 3 p.m. for this all-American favorite in an early celebration of Independence Day.
Mail and Print Services will be closing at 3 p.m. on Wednesday, July 3, to allow time to relocate back to the location in the North Street Annex. We will reopen at 9 a.m. Friday, July 5.
Hope you have a safe and blessed holiday.
– Mail and Print Staff
If you have not yet completed the Serve Day Employee Survey, please take a few minutes to do so now. This survey includes any special requests regarding sites or physical limitations, as well as transportation and team leader information.
This is an essential piece to making Serve Day a success and will only take a moment of your time. If you have any requests, now is the time to make them.
Remember: Participation in Serve Day is required for all Newberg employees. Requests to be excused from Serve Day must be submitted to the vice president or provost over your area.
Thanks so much for your continued support for Serve Day as an expression of Christ’s love to our community. We look forward with great anticipation to what God will do in and through all of us!
If you have any questions, feel free to e-mail us at serveday@georgefox.edu.
This is a reminder that the Wheeler Sports Center will close at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, July 3, and remain closed until Monday, July 8, at 6 a.m.
Due to the upcoming holiday, both the Bruin Den and Villa Café will be closed this Thursday and Friday, July 4-5. The Villa Café also will be closed on Wednesday, July 3.
Have a safe and happy Fourth of July, and we will see you on Monday, July 8.
HR invites you to participate in our eighth annual “Red, White and Blue Jeans Day.” In recognition of Independence Day (and George Fox holiday on July 4), you are invited to wear casual attire in patriotic colors on Wednesday, July 3.
At 3 p.m., the all-American dessert, apple pie a la mode, will be served on the Stevens Center plaza. We hope you can join us for this sweet treat and enjoy a chance to visit with coworkers. Summer student employees are also invited.
Portland employees will enjoy an Independence Day celebration during afternoon break on July 5.
This full-time position, open due to the departure of Sheila Abercrombie in early July, is open to employees only through Friday, July 5. This position is responsible for the collection, maintenance and reporting of institutional data and the preparation of reports that support decision-making and planning at the university. Please email hr@georgefox.edu to request a copy of the job description if you are interested in learning more details about the duties and qualifications of this position.
To apply: Please submit a completed transfer request, cover letter, and resume to Human Resources. The position will close on Friday, July 5, at 5 p.m. The link to the transfer request form can be found at this link.
It’s time for our eighth annual “Red, White and Blue Jeans Day.” In recognition of Independence Day (and George Fox holiday on July 4), you are invited to wear casual attire in patriotic colors on Wednesday, July 3.
At 3 p.m., the all-American dessert, apple pie a la mode, will be served on the Stevens Center plaza for Newberg employees.
Newberg employees only: We need your help to get an accurate count for attendance at this event by completing the short survey (possibly the world’s shortest!) at this link (password is “America”).
We hope you can join us for this sweet treat and enjoy a chance to visit with coworkers. Summer student employees are also invited. Portland employees are also being provided a similar afternoon break.
Please bring any cash or check deposits for June that your department may have to financial affairs by noon today (Friday, June 28).
Thank you,
Financial Affairs
Mail and Print Services will close at noon on Friday, June 28, for year-end inventory and relocation of equipment. Please have your outgoing mail items and outgoing UPS items in by 11:30 a.m. Please submit any print jobs by 11 a.m.
Reminder: We will be relocated temporarily in Lemmons 12 and 13 on Monday through Wednesday next week, July 1-3.
Thank you for your assistance in getting jobs in early so that we can service you in a timely manner during our move.
Questions? Call Sherrie Frost at ext. 2556.
Melanie Mock’s (English) essay, “Why Christians Like Me Should Listen to Critiques of Evangelical Adoption,†was published in a recent issue of The Nation. Also, her essay “Mothering, More With Less†was just published in the book Mothering Mennonite, put out by Demeter Press.
Rhett Luedtke (Theatre) is directing The Mystery of Irma Vep by Charles Ludlam at the Idaho Repertory Theatre this summer. This is his third season directing for Idaho Repertory Theatre. Previously, he directed Unnecessary Farce by Paul Slade-Smith in 2009 and As You Like It in 2010.
Ed Higgins (English) published the poem “Without Knowing It†in the Spring 2013 edition of The Merton Seasonal: A Quarterly Review, edited by Patrick F. O’Connell and published by the Merton Center of Bellarmine University. The Trappist monk Merton is renowned as an anti-war and social justice activist. Ed also published a haiku, “bruised words,†in the June 2013 issue of A Hundred Gourds, a quarterly journal featuring haiku and other Japanese-heritage short poetry forms. Finally, Ed’s two poems, “Communion” and “you feel terrible sometimes,” were published in the June 13 issue of the online e-zine Cease, Cows.
Charles Choi (Communication Arts) and his wife Elisia welcomed their first child, Joelle Yaeseul, on May 30. She was born at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Portland and weighed 9 pounds while measuring 20 inches.
June 25 Mike Rader
June 26 Rachel Powell
June 28 Michael Meek, Dan Schutter
June 29 Mary Peterson
June 30 John Heitz
July 1 Nancy Fawver
July 6 Lisa Burton
July 8 Jesse Dillow, Sue Richie, Linda Samek, Jane Scott
July 9 Eloise Hockett, Sidney Tafflinger, Kenn Willson
July 10 Lois Hutchinson, Beth Molzahn
July 19 Patti Fitzgerald
July 20 Brenda Burg
July 21 Gordon Aarness, Gregg Palmer
July 23 Randy Dalzell, Mark Stone, Clyde Thomas
July 26 Bob Dexter, Rand Michael, Carol Sherwood
July 27 Emily Maynard, Randy Woodley
July 28 Steve Outslay
July 29 David Hansen
July 30 Dale Isaak, Ron Mock, Thomas Peng
July 31 Lindsay Peterson, Gary Spivey
Aug. 1 Darcy Mize, Rob Westervelt
Aug. 2 Larry Shutts
Aug. 3 Nancy Thurston
If you have not yet completed the Serve Day Employee Survey, please take a few minutes to do so now. This survey includes any special requests regarding sites or physical limitations, as well as transportation and team leader information.
This is an essential piece to making Serve Day a success and will only take a moment of your time. If you have any requests, now is the time to make them.
Remember: Participation in Serve Day is required for all Newberg employees. Requests to be excused from Serve Day must be submitted to the vice president or provost over your area.
Thanks so much for your continued support for Serve Day as an expression of Christ’s love to our community. We look forward with great anticipation to what God will do in and through all of us!
If you have any questions, feel free to e-mail us at serveday@georgefox.edu.
Bon Appetit wants to thank everyone at the Villa for their support as we worked with the university in hosting the Old German Baptist Brethren Conference. As a thank you, we will have free coffee and cookies at the Villa Cafe from 7:30 to 10:30 a.m.
Your check or direct deposit (ACH) request must be received in our office by 5 p.m. today (Monday) to be processed on June 28. All requests received after 5 p.m. today will not be processed until the week of July 8 due to the Fourth of July holiday schedule.
If you have any questions, please contact Andy Dunn (adunn@georgefox.edu).
Our new TIAA-CREF representative, Braden Danielson, will be on the Newberg campus on Thursday, July 11. You are encouraged to make an appointment with him in Hoover 104 to ask questions, discuss your investments, or review your financial plans.
Make appointments online at this TIAA-CREF page or call 855-928-4221 (press 5). Employees in other locations may contact Braden Danielson or Yasemin Under to arrange a telephone consultation at 503-452-6981.
After years of praying and preparation, Jere Witherspoon (Student Life) is having knee replacement surgery on Monday, June 24. Before she has this procedure, we want to pray for a successful surgery and a speedy recovery. Please join us today (Friday) in the student life office from 11:30 a.m. to noon to wish Jere well and say a word of prayer.
Even if you can’t make it to this gathering, please keep her in your thoughts and prayers during this procedure and recovery.
One of our ice cream freezers died last week and 1,500 ice cream novelties thawed. We refroze them and they may not look good, but they taste great!
Please come by anytime today (Friday) and get one or fill an ice chest, as we can’t use them and we hate to throw them away.
– Bon Appetit
The financial affairs office will be closed on Friday, July 5. There will be no check or direct deposit (ACH) runs that week due to the July 4 holiday. Please submit your check requests by 5 p.m. on Monday, June 24, for payment on June 28. All check requests received on June 25 or later will not be processed until the week of July 8.
Please contact Bruce Owen (bowen@georgefox.edu), in financial affairs, if you have any questions.
