The Daily Bruin

Wheeler Gymnasium and the lower lobby are closed through Sunday, June 19, due to refinishing of the floors. Please do not enter. The weight room upstairs will still remain open.

It’s not too late to sign up for the last two Tilikum summer family retreats.

On July 8-10, Tilikum will host single moms for the Single Moms Family Camp. Jan Cammack, a single mom herself, will speak on “The Lord as Our Shepherd.” This is a special retreat designed to give single moms a chance to get together with other moms in a relaxed camp setting. Summer staff counselors will be on hand for the weekend to lead special activities for the kids. Challenge course activities will be available, and a hayride and campfire with s’mores is an evening highlight.

For fathers and daughters, a Father/Daughter Weekend is scheduled Aug. 5-7. Brad Lau, father of three daughters, will speak, and activities include a fishing derby, a challenge course (with the big zipline, little zipline and climbing wall), swimming, a waterslide, canoeing and archery.

To learn more or to register, visit this site.

June 9         Mark Terry
June 10       Tim Goodfellow
June 12       Aaron Dort
June 13       Robby Larson
June 14       Michelle Cox, Loren Wenz
June 15       Esther King, Gary Tandy
June 16       Charles Choi, Craig Taylor
June 17       Neal Ninteman
June 18       Sherri Moore-Harrison
June 19       Kristi Bronkey, Carla Hagen, Mark McMinn
June 20       Janet Herron, Christine McNeal
June 21       Sarah Baldwin, Jamie Johnson, Shari Scales
June 22       Daniel Sweeney
June 24       Terri Crawford
June 25       Mike Rader, Karen Wedeking
June 26       Lisa McMinn, Rachel Powell
June 27       Sean McKay
June 28       Michael Meek, Dan Schutter
June 29       Mary Peterson
June 30       John Heitz
July 2         Kathy Grant
July 6         Lisa Burton
July 7         Bob Buckler
July 8         Jesse Dillow, Sue Mills, Linda Samek, Jane Scott
July 9         Eloise Hockett, Kenn Willson
July 10       Lois Hutchinson, Beth Molzahn

The Villa Cafe will be closed this Friday, June 10. We’ll see you again on Monday.

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.