The Daily Bruin

More than 3,600 high school students representing 60-plus choirs will visit the Newberg campus to compete in the Oregon School Activities Association’s 25th annual state choir championships Thursday through Saturday, May 5-7.

The event, scheduled in Bauman Auditorium, will feature schools at all classification levels. Class 3A, 2A and 1A choirs will compete on Thursday, May 5; Class 4A and 5A students will compete on Friday, May 6; and Class 6A choirs will convene on Saturday, May 7. Specific choir performance times are available on the OSAA website at osaa.org/choir.

Ticket information is available at osaa.org/tickets.

Take a break and join your colleagues for ice cream between 2:30 and 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 10, in the EHS Atrium. Student employees are also invited to attend this event, sponsored by the Staff Development Committee.

Faculty and administrative assistants: Please submit textbook requests for fall 2011 immediately, if you have not done so already. We are beginning to order books this week.

Thank you in advance for your help.

Contact Sandy Gidding at sgidding@georgefox.edu if you have questions.

Phase II will open for viewing on Wednesday, May 4, at 9 a.m., in the Macy basement. Please enter from the southwest rear entrance. Signs will be posted.

Questions? Contact Debby O’Kelley at dokelley@georgefox.edu.

If you have any extra inter-office envelopes, please route them to Mail Services.

Thank you

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 county ballot and there is no postage necessary. The deadline for this drop-off site is 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, May 17. All out-of-state ballots must be mailed with postage.

Thanks!
University Mail Servcies

Staff, faculty, May Term and summer workstudy students: Many of you have been wondering if Staff/Resident East/Resident West/Commuter parking lot restrictions still apply during May Term and the rest of the summer. During the summer, staff and faculty still need to park in the staff-only lots like Hoover, Wood-Mar, Stevens and around Minthorne and Mail Services.

The visitor rows in Hoover and Stevens need to always be kept free for the frequent visitors to campus. If there are spots available in the staff lots after the workday has begun, then students can potentially use those spots. However, there will be many times this summer when those empty spots will be needed for various groups and events happening on campus like the state choir competition this week, Genesis, Northwest Yearly Meeting, etc. We’d like to ask you to not park there when we have big events on campus.

If your summer residence is the Woolman, Winters, or Lewis apartments, please keep your cars in those parking lots and walk to your work assignments. Also, please keep watching E-nnouncements for further parking updates when various lots need to be kept empty.

If you have questions, contact Nadine Kincaid at nkincaid@georgefox.edu.

Thanks!
– Security Services

The following faculty members are retiring from the university: Jim Worthington (Education), Kathy Sims (Nursing), Melva Lloyd (Adult Degree Programs), Bob Buckler (PsyD), Dave Larson (MAT), Paul Griffith (MAT), Howard Macy (Religious Studies), Dwight Kimberly (Biology) and Ed Higgins (English). Also departing George Fox are Sylvette Norre (French), who is returning to her native Belgium, and Michael Everest (Chemistry), who has accepted a teaching position at Westmont.

Erin Macy, assistant director of international recruitment, left the university last week to tend to her 2-month-old baby, Sage.

Andrea Byerley is the new associate registrar, taking Melissa Thomas’ place following Melissa’s promotion to registrar. Andrea formerly served in the registrar’s office as enrollment counselor for the PsyD and EDFL programs.

Jennifer Macnab has been promoted to senior enrollment counselor in the registrar’s office and will lead the team of enrollment counselors serving all graduate programs.

Sean McKay is the new director of administrative computing, effective in mid-March. He replaces Jim Fleming, who left to be the CIO of Pacific University. Sean will still hold his title of chief information security officer.

Paul Anderson (Religious Studies) was quoted in the April 22 edition of the Los Angeles Times. In the article, entitled “Last Supper was not Jesus’ last supper, researcher says,” Anderson comments on Colin Humphreys’ book The Mystery of the Last Supper: “I think it’s really fascinating the way he brings in astronomy and ancient calendars and other contributions from outside the field of biblical studies … (however) scholars won’t agree with many of his presuppositions.” The article can be read here.

Ed Higgins (English) published four poems – “chicken*little’s dumbstate<of>doom,” “Mesmerizing Truth,” “Crayola Nostalgia” and “Meaning converted into scientific units” – in the Canadian online magazine ditch. The accomplishment is an honor in that the publication gives priority to Canadian authors and only occasionally features “international poets,” according to the site’s submissions guidelines page.

May 3       Angela Doty, Michael Everest
May 5       Robert Bonner
May 6       Greg Smith
May 7       Betty Cordill
May 8       Molly Hickok, Brent Wilson, Deb Worden
May 10     Jim Jackson, Amy Lorenz, Christopher Meade
May 11     Melanie Newell
May 12     Marla Sweningson
May 14     Kathi Becker, Don Powers
May 15     Dirk Barram
May 16     Audrey Williamson
May 17     Paul Anderson
May 18     Paul Otto, Cynthia Weston
May 20     Dan Predoehl
May 21     Brooke McGillivray
May 22     Cliff Berger
May 23     Chuck Conniry
May 24     Brenda Morton
May 27     Dave Larson, Sheri Philips
May 28     Beth LaForce
May 29     Kandie Comfort, Mike Magill
May 30     Rebecca Addleman, Stephen Bearden, Amy Dee, Roger Newell
June 1      Carrie Bohl
June 4      Nadine Kincaid
June 5      Tamara Cissna, Hannah Dorr
June 6      Joyce Staats, Alan Thurston

The Leadership Institute for Group Discernment is scheduled on the Newberg campus May 16-19. The registration cost of $325 has just been discounted to $100 for all George Fox employees and students. This is an excellent value for a state-of-the art seminar on consensus-oriented leadership!

Questions? Contact Paul Anderson at panderso@georgefox.edu.

The Leadership Institute for Group Discernment can be taken as a for-credit independent study (Summer Term or May Term–CHMN 485; PSTD 585) on the undergraduate or graduate levels. An organizational meeting will take place in the Bruin Den on Wednesday, May 4, at noon.

The registration cost of $325 is discounted for Fox students to $100, and two $50 student discount grants are still available.

For more information, contact Paul Anderson at 503-554-2651.

Still on campus and want to learn how to network for people who hate networking?

Learn how to build a career networking strategy around your behavior style!

This free webinar is taking place in the Career Services Office on Wednesday, May 4, from noon to 1 p.m. Also, if you will be around, mark your calendars for the last two webinars of this Spring Grad Webinar series!

May 11: Peter Weddle, Career Strategy
May 18: Martin Yate, Job Search

Just a reminder: FoxTALE will be unavailable from 6 to 8 a.m. (Pacific Time) on Tuesday, May 17, for scheduled maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Please join the gathering to honor your Newberg campus colleagues at 3 p.m. Wednesday afternoon, May 4, in Wood-Mar Auditorium for our annual employee recognition event.

The president will share year-end remarks and there will be presentations for service awards and employee of the year awards. We also will honor retirees. Immediately following, refreshments will be served in the EHS Atrium. A good time is expected to be had by all.

Ode to May Employee of the Month . . . or HR Calls for EOM nominations by May 20

Another year has slipped away
And here it is, the month of May
Most of the students are long gone,
While staff are left to carry on.
Who’s a colleague who has impressed you –
Whose work deserves a word or two?
Please nominate an Employee for May,
Send me a note – what do you say?
Deadline is the 20th, right at noon,
That’s plenty of time, not too soon.

– Peggy Kilburg

Yellow potted 6-inch mums are for sale in the Pennington House! These make a perfect gift for Mother’s Day. Cost is $5 each or two for $8. We’re also willing to make a deal on multiple plants.

Stop by and pick yours out today. For availability or questions, please call Vangie Pattison at ext 2121, or e-mail epattison@georgefox.edu.

Joel Perez will present the findings of his doctoral dissertation, “Drivers that Motivate Christian Colleges to Seek Change in the Area of Diversity,” on Tuesday, May 3, from 1 to 3:30 p.m. in Stevens 101. All are invited to attend.

Shane Roghaar, our TIAA-CREF representative, will be on the Newberg campus May 10-11. You may make an appointment with him to discuss your investments using this link on the HR/Benefits web page.

We are finalizing plans for a Pre-Retirement Planning Seminar in Newberg with one of our TIAA-CREF consultants and a representative from Social Security on Thursday, May 12. This session will be especially helpful to those of you considering retirement in the next three to five years. Save the date! We will announce a time for this seminar shortly.