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May 28             Beth LaForce, Steve Sherwood
May 29             Kandie Comfort, Mike Magill
May 30             Becky Addleman, Stephen Bearden, Amy Dee, Roger Newell
June 1              Carrie Bohl
June 3              Paula Hampton
June 4              Nadine Kincaid
June 5              Hannah Dorr, Tyler Rhys Robertson
June 6              Joyce Staats, Alan Thurston
June 8              Jeannine Graham
June 9              Mark Terry
June 10            Tim Goodfellow
June 11            Ty Sohlman
June 12            Aaron Dort
June 13            Robby Larson
June 14            Loren Wenz
June 15            Gary Tandy
June 16            Charles Choi, Craig Taylor
June 17            Neil Ninteman
June 18            Sherri Moore
June 19            Kristi Bronkey, Carla Hagen, Mark McMinn
June 20            Janet Herron
June 21            Sarah Baldwin, Jamie Johnson, Susanna Steeg
June 22            Daniel Sweeney
June 24            Terri Crawford, Patty Vanier

Next Tuesday, May 28, we will celebrate Brenda Burg’s 13 years of service to George Fox. Come and join us from 3 to 4 p.m. in the Hoover lobby, where we will wish our colleague well as she transitions to new adventures outside the university.

All university offices in Newberg and at regional sites will be closed on Monday, May 27, to observe the Memorial Day holiday. Libraries in Newberg and the Portland Center also will be closed.

An all-employee meeting is scheduled for Thursday, May 30, from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in Hoover 105. Among the items on the agenda is an update on enrollment.

For those at the university’s regional sites, the meeting will be available at a stream site that you can access from MyGFU. Simply log into MyGFU and click the “Community Meeting Link” located under “Staff Resources/Faculty Resources.”

Also, please note: The June 27 all-employee meeting has been canceled because of scheduling conflicts. The next meeting will be announced at a later date.

Most people are in their chosen careers not just for the short run; they want to finish well.

But what does that mean? According to Portland certified coach Cal Habig, studies of hundreds of leaders have identified six characteristics of leaders who finish well, as well as six barriers to finishing well. Habig will share these insights as the featured speaker Tuesday, May 28, at the monthly Newberg meeting of the Christian Chamber of Commerce of the Northwest.

The meeting is from 7:30 to 9 a.m. in the Cap & Gown Room (please note change in usual location).

In his coaching work, Habig helps leaders of ministries and other values-based organizations take their organizations to places of great success while working to keep the leader in a life of balance. After having served as a minister for 30 years, Habig moved into online education in 2008 and professional coaching in 2009.

For more information, visit cccnw.net or call 503-928-8354.

Something new has been added to Google+ Hangouts. If you’re a regular user of Google+ and Hangouts, you’ll want to know how these new changes affect you. IT has put together a short guide to get you started so you can make the necessary updates and continue to use the Hangouts feature with as little inconvenience as possible.

One of the new features is that Hangouts and Chat are now synced across devices, and you can switch from one device to another within the same Hangout and/or Chat. Check out our guide at this link.

The deadline for ballots at the university drop site is today (Tuesday) at 4:30 p.m. Mail Services is an unofficial drop site for all Oregon ballots. Arrangements have been made with the Yamhill County Elections Office for us to offer this service.

We accept any Oregon ballot (any county), and no postage is necessary. All out-of-state ballots must be mailed with postage.

Thanks,
Mail Services

Save the date! On Tuesday, May 28, from 3 to 4 p.m. in the Hoover lobby we will celebrate Brenda Burg’s 13 years of service to George Fox University! Come wish your colleague well as she transitions to new adventures outside the university.

Don’t forget to join us for the groundbreaking ceremony for the new Stoffer Family Stadium this afternoon (Monday) at 4 p.m.

The stadium will serve as future home of the university’s revived football program – set to kick off in 2014 after a 45-year hiatus – and the track and field team. It will be built on campus where the current track facility is located.

The groundbreaking ceremony will include a ceremonial groundbreaking, a time to honor the donors who helped make the project possible, and details on how the stadium will impact not only the university’s football and track and field programs, but athletics for the entire George Fox community.

To date, more than $5.3 million of the $7.2 million project has been raised. Crews began work on the complex – which will include the synthetic-turf Lemmons Family Field, grandstand facilities and the Duke Athletic Center (home to a training facility, a locker room, offices and classrooms) – this spring, with construction due to be completed in time for football’s kickoff in September of 2014.

To R.S.V.P. for the groundbreaking ceremony, e-mail Jan Lefebvre at jlefebvre@georgefox.edu.

Be sure to check out the Bon Appetit website at this link to find our weekly lunch menus for both the Bruin Den and Villa Cafe. For those with smartphones, they’re also available with your igfu app.

And back by popular demand, we will be featuring an outdoor barbecue each week at both cafes, so be sure to look for them!

Earlier this week there was an e-nnouncement explaining how to create a PO using your 2013-14 budget but, just to make sure there is no misunderstanding, I want to clarify a couple of important pieces of information about using your FY14 budget.

• No receiving can be done until after July 1 for any PO using 2013-14 budget
• No invoices can be dated before July 1 for any PO using 2013-14 budget

Failure to comply will cause charges to be applied to this year’s budget. If you have any questions, please contact Andy Dunn at adunn@georgefox.edu.

Planning Serve Day is a significant and extremely rewarding commitment on the part of our entire university community. We need your help to make Serve Day 2013 a great success.

Serve Day will take place on Wednesday, Sept. 11, and it is our collective efforts that make this BIG day possible. Consider what your role will be for Serve Day this year!

Please respond to the following A.S.A.P.

We are in need of 20 committee members. If you are interested in being a part of the Serve Day Committee, please fill out the Serve Day 2013 Committee Interest Survey. This will involve a few summer meetings, some outside committee work, and assisting on campus during Serve Day.

All employees: Please fill out the following survey: Serve Day 2013 All Employee Survey

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. They will send a master list to us so that we know how to plan for the size and makeup of each team.

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 email us at serveday@georgefox.edu.

His peace to you,

Rachel Elmer & Beth Muthiah
Serve Day Coordinators

Our new students and their families are arriving on Thursday and Friday, May 16-17, to attend Genesis. Please help to warmly welcome them by giving up your parking places in the Stevens, Hoover and Wood-Mar parking lots on both days. Parking is available in the Bauman lot, on the campus side of Meridian Street, Sherman and North streets, and the Pennington lot.

Please also tell your summer work-study students to not park in those lots for those two days.

Thank you,
Undergraduate Admissions Office

FoxTALE will be unavailable from 6 to 8 a.m. (Pacific Time) on Tuesday, May 28, for scheduled maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience. If you have questions, please contact the IT Service Desk.

Valley Repertory Theatre, Newberg’s own professional theatre company, is proud to announce its production of My Name is Asher Lev by Aaron Posner, a breathtaking adaptation of the renowned novel by Chaim Potok, opening May 24.

Of special interest to the George Fox community, the work of local artists with university ties will be on display at each performance, and artists will lead conversations directly following each of the Friday shows. This is made possible through a grant from the Celebration Foundation.

• Karisa Keasey (George Fox art student) – May 24
• Mark Terry (George Fox art professor) – May 31
• Tim Timmerman – (George Fox art professor) – June 7

For details about the production, check out Valley Repertory Theatre’s website at valleyrep.org.

Please join Bon Appetit today (Wednesday) for our first outdoor barbecue of the year at the Villa Cafe. Included will be hand-formed hamburger patties, grilled onions, bacon, assorted cheeses and your favorite toppings along with potato salad, chips, baked beans and a dessert for just $6.25. We’ll be serving in the Villa Cafe courtyard between 11:30 a.m. and 1 p.m.

The Department of Art & Design is pleased to present “Revealing Containment,” a show of thrown ceramic work created by Joscelyn Silberbach during her year as Artist in Residence at George Fox.

Joscelyn, a recent studio art graduate of Linfield College, spent the last year working on traditional functional ware, concentrating her final season on the bottle. This show is a culmination of Josie’s study. Please join us Friday, May 17, at 5 p.m. in the Minthorne Gallery for the opening.

Reminder: Hanging basket planting help is needed today (Wednesday) beginning at 9 a.m. and lasting approximately four hours. You are welcome to join in the class at any time.

We will meet at the Plant Services Building, 1101 Villa Road. Please contact Plant Services at 503-554-2010 if you have questions.

Just a reminder for you to join your Staff Development Committee in the Ron Gregory (EHS) Atrium today (Tuesday) between 3 and 4 p.m. for ice cream sundaes. Non-dairy and sugar-free options will be available.

– Staff Development Committee

The university community is invited to a groundbreaking ceremony for the new Stoffer Family Stadium this Monday, May 20, at 4 p.m.

The stadium will serve as future home of the university’s revived football program – set to kick off in 2014 after a 45-year hiatus – and the track and field team. It will be built on campus where the current track facility is located.

The groundbreaking ceremony will include a ceremonial groundbreaking, a time to honor the donors who helped make the project possible, and details on how the stadium will impact not only the university’s football and track and field programs, but athletics for the entire George Fox community.

To date, more than $5.3 million of the $7.2 million project has been raised. Crews began work on the complex – which will include the synthetic-turf Lemmons Family Field, grandstand facilities and the Duke Athletic Center (home to a training facility, a locker room, offices and classrooms) – this spring, with construction due to be completed in time for football’s kickoff in September of 2014.

To R.S.V.P. for the groundbreaking ceremony, e-mail Jan Lefebvre at jlefebvre@georgefox.edu.