The Daily Bruin

Correction….Easter Egg Extravanganza is meeting Wednesday at 5pm in the BRUIN’S DEN…rain or shine, we will still have the hunt, so if you desire to win a wii and other great prizes you may want to bring some shoes that can get wet from this Portland rain!  There will also be desserts and Easter Egg dyeing inside!

Easter Egg Hunt- Wed. March 3, 5pm in the Bruins Den

 Blazer Game- Wed. April 14th (tickets on sale April 12th for $5 each!)

 Mr. Bruin Pageant- Fri. April 16th, Bauman Auditorium at 7:30pm (Tickets $2 going to Haiti)

 Spring Formal- Sun. April 25th, Montgomery Park 8pm

 For more info contact scadd07@georgefox.edu

Come participate in a Discover SCUBA Diving program FOR FREE where you will learn a bit about diving and then try it out in the Chehalem Public Pool. This program does not qualify you to dive in open waters, but is intended to let you discover whether you want to pursue a certification. And best of all, you get to breathe underwater and play with toy torpedoes for an hour.

Only 16 spaces available! RSVP immediately to csavage06@georgefox.edu to reserve a space.

April 16
9:00pm (Right after Mr. Bruin)
At the Chehalem Public Pool
FREE

Debbie Melton, the director of admissions for Oregon Health and Science University’s MD program, will visit George Fox at 6 p.m. Tuesday, April 6, in Hoover 103. She will speak about the OHSU School of Medicine and its admissions process.

The session will include an opportunity for questions and answers following her talk. If you are interested in attending medical school at OHSU, this is a wonderful opportunity. Joining Debbie will be Lori Toner and Ebony Lawrence, also from OHSU.

After almost 13 years, Tory Cole (Human Resources) is leaving the university to pursue her dream of becoming a nurse. A farewell reception for her is scheduled from 2 to 4 p.m. Thursday, April 1, in the Duke Atrium in the Stevens Center.

Rhett Luedtke (Performing Arts) was one of just eight faculty members chosen nationally to receive a National Directing Fellow Award from the John F. Kennedy Center. In April he will travel to Washington, D.C., for the National Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival, where he will work in master classes in directing with directors from around the country.

Carole Spencer (Seminary) presented “Mysticism in the Quaker Tradition” at William Penn University in Oskaloosa, Iowa, on March 22. She was the university’s first distinguished guest lecturer for the Beane Endowment lecture series, sponsored by the Ercil and Maxine Beane Endowment.

Ginny Birky (School of Education) presented at the National Council of Professors of Educational Leadership conference in Phoenix on March 12. The title of her presentation was “Models of Successful High School Reform: Implications for Practitioners in Secondary Education and Professors of Educational Leadership.”

Melanie Mock’s (English) essay, “On Sons, At Four,” was published recently in the anthology A Cup of Comfort for Mothers. She also was the plenary speaker at the spring 2010 meeting of the Pacific Northwest Mennonite Historical Society, at which she presented “Writing against ‘The Old Lie’: Mennonite Objectors and the Great War.”

Paul Anderson (Religious Studies) has been appointed the New Testament editor of the Biblical Interpretation Series, a monograph series featuring cutting-edge interdisciplinary approaches to biblical studies, published by E.J. Brill of Leiden, Netherlands. Paul also delivered four lectures on “The Beast, the Antichrist, and 666” at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Portland in February and March, and he represented Evangelical Friends at the National Council of Churches of Christ Faith and Order meetings in New York March 18-20, discussing the nature and mission of the church.

Jean Oehm Borgman was married March 20 to Bryan Miller. They are both students in the seminary and members of Sunset Presbyterian Church in Beaverton.

March 29    Vetta Berokoff, Kathi Newton
March 30    Debora Herb-Sepich
March 31    Melodee Powers
April 2        Nathan Forbes, Anne Sjogren
April 3        Steve Delamarter, Dale Journey
April 5        Jared Kamimae-Lanning, John Newberry, Vicki Tschan
April 6        Jean Oehm Miller (formerly Borgman)
April 7        Janis Tyhurst
April 8        Jerrie Lyda, Jim Worthington
April 9        Carrie McNeal
April 10      Cheri Hampton
April 11      Janelle Freitag, Sandi Gregory

Attention Seniors!

April 13th & 14th

Join us for Dinner for Eight (sponsored by Bruin Heritage Society)

 16 students will have the opportunity to enjoy a free home-cooked meal at the residence of a George Fox alumni. This provides a great chance to learn from that alumni and explore career goals and dreams.

Dinner will be served at 6:30pm with transportation provided.

Sign up for April 13th or 14th NOW by contacting bruinheritage@georgefox.edu to request a registration form.

 

Graduating seniors, we need a mailing address to which we can send your 2009-2010 yearbook when it arrives next fall.  Please fill out this form to get your copy – http://bit.ly/bMoL5K.

 Questions? Contact Rob Leslie at rleslie06@georgefox.edu or stop by the ASC offices in the SUB.

Loren Wenz would like to invite those in the university with singing experience to join a mass choir for a singing of Vivaldi’s Gloria at the final concert of the spring semester, at 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 23, in Bauman Auditorium.

Those interested will need to attend practices between 3:30 and 4:30 p.m. on the following dates: April 5-6, 12-13, and 19-20. Practices will take place in Ross 208.

For more information, contact Debbie Hawblitzel at dhawblit@georgefox.edu.

Join us in Hoover 105 on Wednesday, March 31, for a showing of the movie Papers from 6 to 8 p.m. Following the movie, a panel discussion will take place and feature the producer of Papers, an immigration attorney, and a community activist.

Papers is the story of undocumented youth and the challenges they face as they turn 18 without legal status. The event, hosted by the office of transitions and inclusion, is being held in commemoration of Cesar Chavez and his dream of human rights in education.

About 65,000 undocumented students graduate every year from high school without “papers,” and the door to their future slams shut.

Don’t fool around at the First Avenue Career Fair coming up on Wednesday, April 7! Prepare for the fair by attending this Thursday’s Pizza Chat from noon to 1 p.m. in Stevens 220. You’ll obtain strategies for working a career fair to your advantage. Sign up in advance at careers@georgefox.edu.

Faculty, please advise your students of this opportunity.

Please join the women of George Fox for pizza and a movie Tuesday, March 30, in Hoover 105. Dinner will be served at 5:30 p.m., and the movie Lars and the Real Girl begins at 6:30 p.m. See you there!

After 32 years of service to the university, communication arts professor Richard Engnell is retiring this spring. To honor his contributions, a legacy book is being created. Colleagues and former students of Richard are invited to send thoughts, wishes, stories and memories of him to Valerie Rogers (vrogers@georgefox.edu) so they may be included in the book.

Submissions are due by Friday, April 2. A retirement reception for Richard is scheduled later in the month (details to be announced).

Student supervisors, please submit your students’ March time sheets to HR right away – by Monday, April 5, by 3 p.m. Since there is a holiday on Friday, April 2, payroll processing time will be short, so meeting this deadline is crucial.

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. (If the student is not available to sign it this week, please send it without the signature, and HR will contact the student.) 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 March, please hand-deliver it right away – no later than Wednesday, March 31. We need to set up students in the system before the time sheets arrive.

Thanks very much.
HR

Be sure to verify that any changes you requested to your medical insurance, your cash-in-lieu of insurance and/or your dental insurance are reflected in the deductions portion of your March 31 pay statement. For flexible spending, the March 31 deduction is the last one of the current plan year so you won’t see a change in your flex spending deduction until April 30.

Amy Dee and Ken Badley (School of Education) will present “Authorizing Our Students” at a Faculty Teaching Forum from 12:40 to 2 p.m. Wednesday, March 31, in Cap and Gown A.

The session will explore ways to give students voice and choice in the courses we teach while remaining true to course objectives.

To reserve a lunch, e-mail Jere Witherspoon (jwithers@georgefox.edu) by 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 30. Everyone is welcome to attend the session, whether bringing a lunch or reserving a lunch.

All faculty — full time, part time, and adjunct — are invited to attend Faculty Teaching Forums (FTFs). The schedule of upcoming sessions is available online. Video podcasts of FTFs will be available on iTunesU.

It’s not an April Fool’s joke. After almost 13 years, Tory Cole is really leaving us to pursue her dream of becoming a nurse. A farewell reception for her is scheduled from 2 to 4 p.m. Thursday, April 1, in the Duke Atrium in the Stevens Center.

On May 1, Tory will graduate with her bachelor’s degree in nursing from George Fox and has decided to resign now to allow for plenty of time to study during the month of April. Please join us as we say goodbye to a wonderful colleague and congratulate her on this impressive accomplishment.

The next two fiscal years’ holiday schedules have been finalized and approved and are now available for employees to view at:

georgefox.edu/offices/hr/2009-10_2011-12%20Holidays%20Final.pdf