We will be doing a “sweep” of the men’s locker room during the month of May. If you want to keep your locker and its contents, please let us know. You may e-mail Patty Findley or call ext. 2910 with your locker number and we won’t remove the lock and dispense your gear to those less fortunate.
Tilikum Center for Retreats and Outdoor Ministries invites mothers and daughters to take time out and retreat together in a relaxing, country setting May 7-9.
Highlights include teaching and relationship-building sessions, singing and worship, campfire time, a hayride, crafts, and challenge course activities, along with plenty of time to simply be together, mother and daughter. It’s a wonderful opportunity to walk upon common ground while celebrating your differences and exploring God’s design for your lives.
Learn more at tilikum.georgefox.edu.
A continuing education opportunity for church leaders, the Leadership Institute for Group Discernment, will be hosted on the university’s Newberg campus May 17-20.
The institute is a three-and-a-half-day experience empowering church leaders in facilitating group discernment. It will integrate theological, spiritual and practical organizational processes, helping church leaders from different traditions understand and implement discernment-oriented leadership within their own settings, with the ultimate goal of leading to consensus and unity within the church.
For-credit options are available through George Fox University and George Fox Evangelical Seminary; all are welcome. For more information, contact Jan Wood, director of Good News Associates, via the Good News Associates website.
It’s time for the university’s annual ice cream social. Take a break, visit with your colleagues, and have some ice cream between 2:30 and 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 5, in the Ron Gregory (EHS) Atrium. Student employees are invited to attend the event, sponsored by the Staff Development Committee.
All students, please empty your campus mailboxes by noon tomorrow. (Friday, April 30th.) Recycle bins are placed in the Post Office lobbies for your convenience. Your help is greatly appreciated.
Have a great summer! Your friendly staff from Mail Services.
Learn to make those gorgeous hanging baskets that grace the university’s quad area. You can learn how these beauties are assembled and help us in the process by joining us for a class on Wednesday, May 12, in the Plant Services Building at 1101 Villa Road. The session begins at 9 a.m. and will last approximately four hours.
You are welcome to join in the class at any time.
Thank you,
Plant Services
The Fitness Center hours for the summer are as follows: 6-8 a.m., 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. and 4-8 p.m.
The university will host two commencement ceremonies on the Newberg campus Saturday, May 1. The traditional undergraduate ceremony will take place in Miller Gymnasium/Wheeler Sports Center at 2 p.m., with audience seating at 1 p.m. Tickets are required for the traditional undergraduate ceremony.
The graduate, seminary and School of Professional Studies ceremony will take place in the same Wheeler Sports Center location at 7 p.m., with audience seating at 6 p.m.
In addition, the baccalaureate service is scheduled for 9:30 a.m. Saturday in Bauman Auditorium. Baccalaureate is an undergraduate worship service providing graduating seniors, their families, faculty, administrators, staff and other guests the opportunity to worship.
More information on this weekend’s events are available on the commencement website.
Please join the Office of Academic Affairs on Wednesday, April 28, as we say farewell and happy “second” retirement to Ken Armstrong (School of Business).
Delicious refreshments (and perhaps a “roast” or two) will be served from 3 to 4:30 p.m. in the Hoover lobby (just outside the School of Business offices). If you cannot attend Ken’s reception and want to add to the farewell wishes, please send a note to Karlyn Fleming (kfleming@georgefox.edu) by noon on Wednesday.
Donate your used textbooks to Word Made Flesh to support its people and ministries. Just drop off your textbooks at the Spiritual Life House. Sarah Baldwin will mail them in and the money will go to WMF.
Click this link for more information.
Dwayne Hood joined Plant Services as a plumber in April. For the past five years, he’s worked as a journeyman plumber for Roto Rooter. Before that, he was a warehouseman for Albertson’s for 12 years. He lives in Portland with his wife Molly and three children: Barry, Amantha and Calvin. The family attends Holy Redeemer Church in Portland.
Sue Mills returned to the university in April to work as an administrative assistant in the Murdock Learning Resource Center. She worked at George Fox previously in 2006-07, when she was an administrative assistant in the communication arts and writing/literature departments. For the past two years, she was an administrative and educational assistant for the Newberg School District. Sue earned a bachelor’s degree in liberal studies from San Francisco State University in 1993 and did post-graduate work in human resources administration at San Jose State University. She lives in Newberg with husband Jim and son Matt. They attend Newberg Christian Church.
The following faculty members have left the university to pursue other opportunities or to retire: Ken Armstrong (School of Business), Marley Brown (School of Business), Steve Cathers (School of Education), Richard Engnell (Communication Arts), Ron Mitchell (Nursing), Ron Stansell (Religious Studies) and Ellen Wirtz (Nursing).
This is a survey is to collect information on how an advisor, professor, or coach has demonstrated care and help while you have been at George Fox. Please take a few minutes to fill out the 10 question survey. Thank you!
 http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/F8TDJLM
 Thank you in advance for taking the time to fill out the survey.
 Dana Oswald
Assistant Professor of Education
William Penn University
Oskaloosa, IA 52577
Dana Oswald of William Penn University is studying mentoring at Friends universities and its impact on retention. She would appreciate you taking the time to fill out a simple 10-question survey. Click on this link to take the survey.
Student supervisors: Pay day is Friday, May 14. So, please submit your students’ April time sheets to HR right away – by Monday, May 3, at 3 p.m.. HR apologizes for the short time frame. The time is needed for the extra processing for the last payroll of the school year, so meeting this deadline is crucial.
If your student has school-year hours that are continuing through the first two days of May, please include these hours on his or her April time sheet.
Please be sure the student’s name, ID number and cost center number is legible on each one. Also, don’t forget to sign them and be sure the students did as well. (Please make sure the student has signed their time sheet. If they don’t get it signed, a copy will be mailed for them to sign and return.) Please do not send students to HR to sign their time sheets.
Federal Work Study regulations require that students delivering their own time sheets must have them placed, by you, in a sealed envelope. If you happen to still have any paperwork to submit on a newly hired student who worked in April, please hand-deliver it right away – no later than Friday, April 30. We need to set up students in the system before the time sheets arrive.
Thanks very much.
HR
Don’t forget to turn in your April timesheets to your supervisor at the end of your last shift of the school year. 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 Friday, May 14th. Thank you!
Paychecks will be mailed to the most recent address that Mail Services has on file. If you are working on campus this summer and have a Summer campus box, your check will go there instead.
– Human Resources
Notifications of Financial Aid for next year have gone out to many students. Are you still waiting to receive yours?   This could be due to documents the Student Financial Services office still is in need of to calculate your award. Please check online at www.mygfu.georgefox.edu within your to do list. Check to see if tax forms and a verification worksheet will be required from you and your family. If so, verification will need to be complete before your financial aid is calculated and available for you to view. Also while online, pay close attention to any other documents listed such as signature requirements or other items as requested by FAFSA. If you have any questions, please contact your financial aid counselor.
Join me in congratulating our top three spiritual life credit winners:
 1st place: Stephen Kenyon with 39 spiritual life credits 2nd place: Tied for second- Danielle Perry and Lisa Loperfido with 36 spiritual life credits
 We are so thankful for their investment in the spiritual life program at GFU!Each of them will be recieving a gift from the Office of Spiritaul Life.
As we are approaching the end of the school year, we’d like to please ask everyone who has dishes, glasses, silverware, bowls, etc in their rooms to return them before checking out after finals.Â
 In order to simplify things we are placing large plastic boxes outside the dishroom doors for you to bring any dishware items belong back with us. Also, if you know if any large quantities in any of the dorm kitchens, please let us know and we’ll come and get them.
 Thanks for all your help…we’re missing a lot of stuff so it’ll be nice to have everything back just in time for everyone to be leaving!
The university announced recipients of its annual undergraduate faculty achievement awards last week. Rhett Luedtke (Performing Arts) won the award for undergraduate teaching and Paul Otto (History) was selected for the undergraduate research and scholarship award. The graduate faculty achievement awards will be announced later this week.
Members of the Academic Resource Center (ARC) staff made two presentations at the Pacific Northwest Writing Centers Association Conference at Western Oregon University on April 10. Rick Muthiah, Gary Tandy and Jana Tan presented “Crossing the Cultural Chasm: International Students at the Writing Center.†Gary also made a presentation to writing center directors entitled “Writing Center Administration: Creating a Student Ownership Culture.†Also attending the conference were ARC consultants Hannah Adderly, Amy Wery and Eric Butler.
Douglas Campbell (Visual Arts) had his acrylic painting “I Pledge Allegiance to the Fish†accepted into Expressions West 2010, a juried exhibit sponsored by the Coos Art Museum. The exhibit runs through July 3. In addition, two of his poems, “Erosion†and “Angel’s Rest,†are included in Nature’s Gift, an anthology published in March by Vanilla Heart Press.
For most of 18 days, Nadine Kincaid (Security Services) was a volunteer Olympic driver for members of the International Olympic Committee during the Winter Games. It marked the second time she volunteered for the Winter Olympics.
Kelly Chang and Chris Koch (Psychology) joined Joel Perez (Student Life) in presenting “The Role of Openness and General Education in Developing Critical Thinking about Diversity†at the Christians on Diversity in the Academy’s annual conference hosted by Azusa Pacific University on March 25.
Rick Muthiah coauthored with Robert Bringle and Julie Hatcher “The role of service-learning on the retention of first-year students to the second year,†published in the Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning. Bringle and Hatcher work at the Center for Service and Learning at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI).
Tom Head’s (International Studies) article, “Economic Peacemaking,†was published in the Spring 2010 issue of Sacred Journey: The Journal of Fellowship in Prayer.
Ed Higgins (English) published the poem “Memory at Near Zero†in the April issue of Dark Sky Magazine.
Teresa Arnold (Biology) and Dave Johnstone (Student Life) were selected the university’s employees of the month for April.
April 27Â Â Â Pat Vandehey
May 1Â Â Â Â Â Â Patrick Allen
May 2Â Â Â Â Â Â Elaine Smith
May 3Â Â Â Â Â Â Angela Doty, Michael Everest
May 5Â Â Â Â Â Â Robert Bonner
May 6Â Â Â Â Â Â Greg Smith
May 7Â Â Â Â Â Â Betty Cordill
May 8Â Â Â Â Â Â Molly Hickok, Brent Wilson, Deb Worden
May 10Â Â Â Â Jim Jackson, Amy Lorenz, Christopher Meade
May 12Â Â Â Â Marla Sweningson
May 14Â Â Â Â Kathi Becker, Don Powers
May 15Â Â Â Â Dirk Barram
May 16Â Â Â Â Jim Fleming, Audrey Williamson
May 17Â Â Â Â Paul Anderson
May 18Â Â Â Â Paul Otto, Cynthia Weston
May 20Â Â Â Â Dan Predoehl
May 21Â Â Â Â Brooke McGillivray
May 22Â Â Â Â Cliff Berger
May 23Â Â Â Â Chuck Conniry
May 24Â Â Â Â Brenda Morton
