The Daily Bruin

Just a reminder: FoxTALE will be unavailable from 6 to 8 a.m. (Pacific Time) on Tuesday, June 7, for scheduled maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience.

We have having our Science Camp again this year (June 27-30) for students entering grades 3-5. Forensics focus! Do you have a child who would like to attend? We had a blast last time.

E-mail me and/or check out the website. Registration date is passed, but I still have space!

– Teresa Arnold (tarnold@georgefox.edu)

All of Wheeler will be closed from 8 a.m. Wednesday, June 8, through Thursday, June 9, due to toxic chemicals being used on the floor. This includes the Fitness Center and the gymnasium. The facility will reopen at 6 a.m. on Friday, June 10.

Print Services will be closed today (Thursday) and Friday, June 2-3, due to remodeling. Have emergency printing? Call ext. 2550.

If you know of someone whose recent contributions make him or her worthy of being named June Employee of the Month, please take a few minutes to send an e-mail to Peggy Kilburg citing the person’s contributions (past 30 days or so) and any other relevant information about the person.

The deadline for nominations is Monday, June 20. The President’s Executive Leadership Team will select the recipient, and the winner will receive a certificate and a $100 gift card at our next community meeting (date has not yet been set).

Please take a few minutes to honor a colleague with your nomination if someone comes to mind as deserving of this honor. Receiving this honor would be a nice ending to the fiscal year for a deserving person.

No Oregon taxes were withheld on our May 31 payroll on the earnings of about 80 percent of our employees. HR and IT are working with Oracle/PeopleSoft to determine the cause of this problem, but it is not yet known. We do know that Oregon provided updated tax tables to employers and vendors of payroll systems in early May, so we believe it may be related to these new tables.

HR will send an e-mail to employees once more is understood, but in the meantime employees are encouraged to check their pay statements to see if Oregon taxes were withheld. If there was no Oregon withholding, it is advisable to check your April 30 pay statement to see how much was withheld to determine how much greater your net pay is than it would be if Oregon taxes had been withheld correctly.

The current plan is to double up on Oregon withholding on the June 30 pay day for those affected. This means the amount “extra” employees received on May 31 will be offset by their pay being “short” the same amount on June 30. Bottom line: We recommend that you set aside/don’t spend any extra you received this month to ensure that your monthly income in June will be what it normally would be had this issue not arisen.

You can access your pay statement online through mygfu.georgefox.edu. Just click on Self Service, then Payroll and Compensation, then View Paycheck. This will display a list of all pay checks since October 2010, and you can click on the check date for each of the statements you wish to view and compare.

Please join us for George Fox’s University’s annual golf tournament benefiting student scholarships and the Bruin Athletic Association. The event is scheduled at The Reserve Vineyards and Golf Club in Aloha on Thursday, July 14. The cost is $200 per player.

Registration includes greens fees, a golf cart, a $50 gift certificate to the Nike Mobile Golf Shop, a boxed lunch, dinner, a gift package, and a drawing entry. (Tickets for guests joining us for the awards dinner only are available for $25 each.)

George Fox employees are able to play for FREE when they fill a foursome with three additional players.

Contact Evangeline Pattison at epattison@georgefox.edu or ext. 2121 for more information or to register your foursome. Visit golf.georgefox.edu for tournament details.

Space is limited and spots will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis.

Don’t forget to join us today (Wednesday) in celebrating Sheri Philips and all she has meant to George Fox over the past 14 years. We are hosting a farewell reception from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in the Duke Atrium of the Stevens Center.

Sheri is leaving George Fox to pursue her dream of running a business that develops, coaches and mentors women on their personal, professional and spiritual journeys.

Students for Serve Day Committee Needed
•       Who? Responsible, Creative, and Hard-working Students
•       When?
o       3 meetings throughout the summer (please check with your supervisor that you would be allowed to volunteer your time in this way as it may interfere with your work schedule)
o       Extra hours volunteers the week prior to Serve Day
o       Serving all day on campus on Serve Day helping with set-up and clean-up of celebration
•       Where? On Campus
•       Why? Serve Day is a fun and important way for us to be able to share our love for the Lord and our love for others.
If you are interested in serving in this way or have any questions about the committee and responsibilities, please contact me as soon as possible at serveday@georgefox.edu.

Wheeler Access Clarification: As a reminder, Wheeler Sports Center’s upstairs will be unaffected by the downstairs floor refinishing taking place between May 31 through June 17. The Fitness Center (weight room) will be open regular hours (6-8 a.m., 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., 4-8 p.m.), and the gym will be open from 8 a.m. until 6 p.m.

If you need to change clothes, you will need to enter the locker rooms through the back doors on the canyon side, change your clothes, go back outside, walk around the BUILDING and enter the gym from the doors on the Fulton Street side of the gym OR THE FITNESS CENTER FROM THE MAIN UPSTAIRS DOORS. The racquetball courts will be closed May 31 through June 17 (three weeks).

Questions? E-mail Patty Findley at pfindley@georgefox.edu.

Wheeler Access Clarification: Wheeler Sports Center’s upstairs will be unaffected by the downstairs floor refinishing. The Fitness Center (weight room) will be open regular hours (6-8 a.m., 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., 4-8 p.m.), and the gym will be open from 8 a.m. until 6 p.m. Plant Services will be refinishing the wood floors of the Wheeler lobby downstairs from May 31 through June 17.

If you need to change clothes, you will need to enter the locker rooms through the back doors on the canyon side, change your clothes, go back outside, walk around the gym and enter the gym from the doors on the Fulton Street side of the gym. The racquetball courts will be closed May 31 through June 17 (three weeks).

Questions? E-mail Patty Findley at pfindley@georgefox.edu.

Student supervisors: Payday is Wednesday, June 15. So please submit your students’ May time sheets to HR right away — by Friday, June 3, by 3 p.m.

Please be sure the student’s name, ID number and cost center number is legible on each one. Also, don’t forget to total them, sign them and be sure the students did as well. Please do not send students to HR to sign their time sheets. We will notify them if a signature is needed.

Federal Work Study regulations require that students delivering their own time sheets must have them placed, by you, in a sealed envelope.

Thanks very much.

– HR

Sign and Submit your May Timesheet to your Supervisor!

Don’t forget to turn in your May timesheets to your supervisor at the end of your last shift of the month.  Be sure your name is typed or printed legibly at the top, it is complete and accurate, and you have signed it.  Payday is on Wednesday, June 15h.  Thank you!

– Human Resources

All university offices in Newberg and at regional sites will be closed on Monday, May 30, to observe the Memorial Day holiday. Libraries in Newberg and at the Portland and Salem centers also will be closed.

Plant Services will be refinishing the wood floors of the Wheeler lobby downstairs from May 31 through June 17. The hours Wheeler will be open on weekdays only are 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. It will not be open weekends.

Please enter through the back doors on Fulton Street or directly into the locker rooms. The front doors will be open, but access through the lower lobby will not be permitted.

Thank you for your cooperation throughout this operation. Questions? Contact Debby O’Kelley at dokelley@georgefox.edu.

– Plant Services

Newberg employees, if you have not filled out the Serve Day employee survey, please fill it out now. We need more team leaders, drivers and response from you. Please fill out the short survey by clicking on this link. Thank you for your help!

Questions? E-mail serveday@georgefox.edu.

Andy Campbell joined the university this month as an online facilitator based at the Portland Center. For the past eight years he has worked extensively in ministry, serving most recently as executive director of small groups at Fairfax Community Church in Fairfax, Va. He also worked as campus minister for the Coalition of Christian Outreach in Fairfax (2008-09), as a metro Philadelphia area director (2007-08) and as a campus minister (2004-07) for the same Coalition organization in Philadelphia. He is currently enrolled in the doctor of ministry in global missional leadership program at George Fox Evangelical Seminary and holds a master’s degree in practical theology from Regent University (2004). Andy lives in Beaverton with his wife April and their two daughters, Sydney (7) and Rylee (5).

Dick Van Noord joined Plant Services this month as an HVAC Technician III. For the past two years, he’s owned and operated his own HVAC contracting business. In the four years prior to that, he was a field technical consultant for Lennox Industries of Dallas, Texas. He also worked for eight years as an HVAC technician at Oregon Health & Science University. Richard earned a bachelor’s degree in political science from Calvin College in Michigan. He lives in Newberg with wife Debby and two daughters, Gabrielle and Susan, who are sophomores at George Fox. The family attends Newberg Fellowship.

Lecia Retter joined enrollment services as an enrollment counselor at the Villa Academic Complex. She arrives from Chehalem Youth and Family Services, for whom she was a development and gifts manager for the past year and a grant writer in 2009. She also served as volunteer coordinator for Love INC. of Newberg in 2009. Previously, she was a children’s ministries pastor at Newberg Friends Church from 2005 to 2008. Lecia earned a bachelor’s degree in human services, religion and philosophy from Friends University in 1985. She also holds a master’s degree in family life education and consultation from Kansas State University. Lecia lives in Newberg with husband Jeff and daughters Paige and Claire. The family attends GodSong Community Church in Newberg, where the Retters serve as pastors of prayer.

Sheri Philips (University Relations) is leaving the university in June to pursue her dream of running a business that develops, coaches and mentors women on their personal, professional and spiritual journeys. She has worked at George Fox for 14 years, filling such roles as director of alumni and parent relations, executive director of alumni, parent and church relations, interim executive director of advancement, and, in her most recent position, executive director of university relations. A farewell for Sheri is scheduled from 3:30 to 5 p.m. on Wednesday, June 1, in the Duke Atrium of the Stevens Center.

Margaret Fuller’s (Religious Studies) last day was Friday, May 13. She left the university to pursue graduate studies in counseling and marriage and family therapy full time at George Fox.

The integration of the marketing and advancement offices is resulting in a change of job titles and responsibilities for three individuals. Shari Scales is now the vice president for principal gifts; Fred Gregory has been tasked as the vice president of university engagement and will lead the university relations team; and Rob Westervelt will serve as the executive vice president for a new division called the Department for Advancement and Integrated Marketing (AIM), which will combine advancement, university relations and marketing into one division.

The reconfiguration will integrate the departments to allow for more collaboration and teamwork in developing fundraising campaigns, increasing the donor base and, ultimately, generating more gifts to the university. Admissions marketing will continue to be a focus of this department, as well.

Keith Schneider, formerly an area coordinator, will assume the role of director of housing, a position held previously by Tim Goodfellow.

Steve Petzold (Engineering) was named support staff member of the year and Sarah Thomas Baldwin (Spiritual Life) was administrator of the year.

Cathi Comish (Boise Center Admissions) was named employee of the month for May.

The U.S. Army Historical Foundation has recognized Kerry Irish’s (History) article, “Dwight Eisenhower and Douglas MacArthur in the Philippines: There Must Be a Day of Reckoning,” as the winner of the 2010 Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Award in the category of Academic Journals and Magazines. Kerry will attend the foundation’s annual meeting on June 12 and will take advantage of the trip to Washington D.C. to do some research in the National Archives.

Ed Higgins (English) published his poem “Waning Winter” in the spring 2011 issue of The Greensilk Journal, a literary ezine. He also published two poems, “12 Word Poem” and “Ohmygod! Eve said,” in the April issue of the online literary magazine Clockwise Cat.

Gary Tandy (English) had an article, “C. S. Lewis and Popular Culture: Echoes of Perelandra in LOST,” published in the March/April edition of The Bulletin of The New York C. S. Lewis Society.

Doug Campbell’s (Visual Arts) poem, “To Return,” appears in the current issue of Windhover: A Journal or Christian Literature. He also will have a haiku published on the HSA “Haiku Wall” exhibited in the historic Liberty Theatre Gallery at the Quarterly National Haiku Society of America Meeting in Bend on June 3-5. Also, three of his poems – “The Journey,” “Balancing Act” and “Things” – and an acrylic painting, “I Pledge Allegiance to the Fish,” were part of the Search For Peace Art Festival at St. Pius X Parrish in Portland. Doug also had five linocuts – “Lot and his Daughters,” “Baptism,” “Cain,” “Rievaulx Cloister” and “Pearl of Great Price” – included in the 13th Annual Judeo-Christian Juried Online International Art Exhibition, Upstream People Gallery.

The inaugural issue of the Journal of Early American History has just appeared. Paul Otto (History) is a member of the editorial board and regularly serves as a manuscript reviewer for the publication.

Please join us in celebrating Sheri Philips and all she has meant to George Fox over the past 14 years. Sheri’s contributions to the success of George Fox University have been invaluable and will be missed greatly!

We are hosting a farewell reception from 3:30 to 5 p.m. Wednesday, June 1, in the Duke Atrium of the Stevens Center. Sheri is leaving George Fox to pursue her dream of running a business that develops, coaches and mentors women on their personal, professional and spiritual journeys.