The Daily Bruin

Portland-area businessman David Andersen will speak at the Tuesday, June 26, monthly Newberg meeting of the Christian Chamber of Commerce of the Northwest. The meeting is set from 7:30 to 9 a.m. at the Villa Academic Complex.

Andersen is president of Portland-based Andersen Construction, a $300 million a year construction management, general contracting and project management business operating in six western states. He is also a member of George Fox’s Board of Trustees.

After graduating from Oregon State in 1980 with a degree in business and a minor in construction engineering management, he joined Andersen Construction, at that time a $55 million a year industrial/retail contractor. In 1989, after becoming president, he expanded the business into new markets including healthcare, high-tech and housing.

Coffee, tea and pastries will be available at the meeting, which is free for Chamber members who R.S.V.P. at cccnw.net. A $5 donation is suggested from non-members and guests who R.S.V.P.

For more information, go to above website or call 503-928-8354.

If you have an iPhone charger that was loaned to you from the IT department, please be sure to return it. We are missing one and would like it returned as soon as possible.

Thank you,
Mike Campadore (IT)

FoxTALE will be unavailable from 6 to 7 a.m. (Pacific Time) on Tuesday, June 19, for scheduled maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience. If you have questions, please contact the IT Service Desk.

Financial Affairs will be loading a temporary budget for 2012-13 and opening up the 2012-13 year in PeopleSoft on Monday, June 18. This is a temporary budget that will show the 2011-12 budget numbers; this will not be the final budget.

This is only being loaded as a place-holder to allow urgent purchase orders to be created for 2012-13 until the Adjusted 2012-13 Budget is complete. Please contact Cris Banton (ext. 2167) or Debbie Cash (ext. 2171) before entering any purchase orders over $5,000.

Thank you.

We in the Spiritual Life Office hope to see you today (Friday)! From 2 to 4 p.m., we are hosting an open house honoring Andrea MacLeod (Crenshaw) and her 11 years of service to George Fox. Join us in the Spiritual Life Office, located on the corner of Sheridan and Meridian streets.

If you have any questions, please e-mail spirituallife@georgefox.edu.

The campus community is invited to attend a recognition ceremony for IT’s Brian McLaughlin and Tim Goodfellow at 10:30 a.m. today (Thursday) in front of IT on the third floor of the Stevens Center. Refreshments will be served.

Brian and Tim will receive a Northwest Academic Computing Consortium Hugi Exemplary Practice Award for their work on the iGFU mobile portal project. The goal of the Hugi Award Program is to recognize individuals or groups whose outstanding work in technology has benefited NWACC member institutions. You can read more about the award here.

Contact Greg Smith if you have questions.

Today (Wednesday) a power outage is scheduled for the Hoover, EHS and Wood-Mar buildings from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. PGE will be replacing the main feeders on Meridian with larger cables in order to provide more power to customers along that grid.

If you have any questions, please contact Plant Services at ext. 2010.

Don’t forget the two farewell receptions scheduled for this afternoon (Wednesday). Between 2:30 and 3:30 p.m., a reception in honor of former advancement employees Jim Jackson, Nancy Almquist and Valerie Rogers is scheduled at Coyote Place (located behind Burger King).

Also this afternoon, an event for Dale Seipp, former vice president of enrollment services, is set from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in the Stevens Center (Duke) Atrium. Dale has accepted a new position as VP for enrollment and marketing at Warner Pacific College.

Please take time to wish these former colleagues well. All are invited.

Mark your calendar now! On Friday, June 15, from 2 to 4 p.m., we are hosting an open house in honor of Andrea MacLeod (Crenshaw), who is leaving us after 11 years of service to George Fox University. The open house will be in the Spiritual Life Office, located on the corner of Sheridan and Meridian streets.

If you have any questions, please e-mail spirituallife@georgefox.edu.

Beginning this Saturday, June 16, the Fitness Center will be open each Saturday this summer from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. The center is also open Monday through Friday from 6 to 8 a.m., 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., and 4 to 8 p.m.

Join the university’s Relay for Life team and help give cancer the boot! We are looking for people who are willing to sign up for an hour or two of walking on Friday and Saturday, June 22-23. We’ll be filling time slots between 6 p.m. on Friday and 3 p.m. on Saturday. The event will take place at Joan Austin Elementary School in Newberg.

Please contact Vangie Pattison (epattison@georgefox.edu or ext. 2121) if you are able to join this effort and support the American Cancer Society with your time.

Please help us welcome our Genesis guests this Thursday and Friday (June 14-15) by parking somewhere other than the Stevens and Hoover parking lots. This will allow them to park close to the event check-in location.

Thank you so much!

The Undergraduate Admissions Office

HR is continuing to diligently work over the next few weeks to prepare employment statements for support staff and annual contracts for administrators for the new fiscal year (2012-13). They will be sent to employees’ campus boxes no later than Monday, June 25, but the goal is to have them out sooner. We apologize for the delay in issuing these.

The building inspections originally scheduled for Tuesday, June 5, have been rescheduled for today (Wednesday) on the Newberg campus. Plant Services will conduct inspections of all campus buildings and houses. We will be entering residential and administrative spaces anytime between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. If you have questions or concerns, please call the office at ext. 2010.

Thank you,
Plant Services

The university community is invited to a School of Business Speaker Series event featuring Mohan Nair, chief innovation officer at Regence, from 7:30 to 9:30 a.m. on Friday, June 15, at the Portland Center. The deadline to register is this Friday, June 8.

Focusing on “seven deadly sins to avoid,” Nair will present “Strategic Business Transformation,” in which he’ll offer a way to view business transformation through the lens of personal transformation to anticipate, understand and command the waves of change in business. The event is free, and coffee and tea will be served.

To learn more about the presentation and to register, visit this page.

Matt Sargent joined the university last week to serve as an enrollment counselor for adult degree programs. For the past two and a half years, he worked as the registrar for Quest University in British Columbia, Canada. Prior to that, he was manager of student records (2008-2009) and a senior admission counselor (2006-07) at the school. He’s also worked as an admission counselor, admit weekend director and academic advisor at Stanford University (2003-06). Matt earned a bachelor’s degree in mathematical and computational science from Stanford in 2003. He lives in Tigard with his wife, Mandy, and two children: Kiel (2 and a half) and Eva (8 months).

Audrey Williamson (Marketing Communications) left the university in early May to move to her native Southern Oregon with husband Trevor, who landed a new job in the area. She is now working for Darex, a drill sharpener manufacturer, in Ashland, Ore.

Cora Templeton (Plant Services) left the university in mid-May, moving to central Oregon to be a mentor in a year-long internship program.

Angela Doty (Career Services) left the university in mid-May to take a position at Northwest Christian University in Eugene, Ore. She had worked at George Fox for three years.

Kim Rautenberg (Human Resources) left the university in early May.

Jean Oehm Miller (Seminary) left the university on May 31 to pursue her plans to start a nonprofit ministry. She had worked at the seminary for 10 years.

David Collett’s (ADP Admissions) final day at the university was June 1. He accepted a position with Teach for America and will be moving to New York City to teach fifth grade at an elementary school in Harlem. He’ll also work on earning an MEd at Fordham University for the next two years.

Jennifer Overstreet’s (ADP Admissions) final day at George Fox was June 1. Beginning June 11, she will join M+W Group, USA, which contracts with Intel. As a project administrator, she will work closely with a team of engineers under a project manager on Intel’s Hillsboro, Ore., campus.

Rita Boggs (Custodial Services) is leaving George Fox to join her husband in Fairbanks, Alaska, where he is working. Her last day was June 1.

Jenna Parisi (Registrar’s Office) is leaving George Fox on June 8. She will attend California State University-East Bay this fall as a student in the school’s Master of Social Work program.

Nine faculty members from the School of Education attended and presented one or two papers at the American Education Research Association conference in Vancouver, B.C. in April. Presenters were: Ginny Birky, Carol Brazo, Jan Carpenter, Suzanne Harrison, Terah Moore, Brenda Morton, Linda Samek, Susanna Steeg and Yune Tran. Presentation topics included literacy, common planning time at the middle school level, the effects of international experiences on teacher candidates, school-university partnerships, teacher leadership, technology in the classroom, and more.

Ed Higgins (English) had an untitled poem published in the ezine handful of stones in the online journal’s May 8 issue. In addition, Ed’s poems “The Poetry Surgeon” and “Thought Fishing” were included in an 2012 anthology, Imago Dei: Poems from Christianity & Literature, published by Abilene Christian Press. Among others included in the anthology were Jeanne Murray Walker, Wendell Berry and Scott Cairns.

June 5          Tamara Cissna, Hannah Dorr
June 6          Joyce Staats, Alan Thurston
June 8          Jeannine Graham
June 9          Mark Terry
June 10        Tim Goodfellow
June 11        Becky Weber
June 12        Aaron Dort
June 13        Robby Larson
June 14        Loren Wenz
June 15        Gary Tandy
June 16        Charles Choi, Craig Taylor
June 17        Neal 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
June 25        Mike Rader
June 27        Sean McKay
June 28        Michael Meek, Dan Schutter
June 29        Mary Peterson
June 30        John Heitz
July 1           Nancy Fawver
July 2           Kathy Grant
July 6           Lisa Burton
July 8           Jesse Dillow, Sue Ritchie, Linda Samek, Jane Scott
July 9           Eloise Hockett, Sidney Tafflinger, Kenn Willson

On Tuesday, June 5, Plant Services will conduct inspections of all campus buildings and houses. We will be entering residential and administrative spaces anytime between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. If you have questions or concerns, please call the office at ext. 2010.

Thank you

An all-employee meeting is scheduled in the Portland Center’s Room 285A on Monday, June 4, at 11 a.m. We will discuss the physical therapy accreditation status and provide end-of-year updates. This meeting will not include a live-stream link.