The Bruin Den will be open from 7:30 to 10 a.m. on Serve Day (Wednesday). Stop by and get coffee, pastries, or a grab-and-go before heading off-campus. Another option is to purchase a bag for $6 to go through the sack lunch lines on the quad.
The Bruin Bites and Bridge Cafe will be closed tomorrow (Wednesday). All cafes resume regular hours of operation on Thursday, Sept. 12.
Questions? Contact Lisa Miles at lmiles@georgefox.edu.
Join us for pick-up soccer on most Friday nights of the year! We gather at the Austin Sports Complex. Contact Cameron Lax at clax16@georgefox.edu for details on when we are playing.
The Hadlock Student Center will only be open from 5 to 11 p.m. on Serve Day (Wednesday).
Questions? Email Rob Simpson at simpsonr@georgefox.edu.
The Academic Resource Center will be closed for Serve Day (Wednesday). However, if you would like to schedule a writing or academic coaching appointment for another day this week, you can visit this webpage, email the_arc@georgefox.edu, or stop by the ARC to make an appointment in person.
Questions? Contact Julia James at jjames@georgefox.edu.
Commuters: Did you know that there is a student leadership team that wants to get to know you and support you during your time at George Fox? The Commuter Assistant team is excited to help you have a great commuter experience.Â
Check out this webpage to learn a little about them. If you want a Commuter Assistant to reach out to you, please email commuterlife@georgegfox.edu.
The university has hired Gary Bering as a strategic finance business partner. He brings more than 15 years of accounting and financial operations experience. Most recently, he worked the past two and a half years as a controller at Alpenrose Dairy, Inc. in Portland, where he managed all accounting, finance, fixed asset, banking and human resources functions for five legal entities. Before that, he worked for seven years as the controller at Harley-Davidson of Portland, managing all accounting, finance, IT, human resources and inventory functions for two Harley-Davison dealerships and the Triumph North America AMA Road Racing Team. Gary also worked as a controller for Loen Nursery in Sherwood (2005-10) and as an accounting manager for Longview Fibre Company in Longview, Washington (2003-05). He earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Washington in 1991. He lives in Sherwood with his wife, Beth, and children Jacob and Caitlyn. The family attends St. Francis in Sherwood.
Kelsey Brown joins the university to serve as a career and academic planning coach in the IDEA Center. She has worked the past four years at Sheridan High School in Sheridan, Oregon, where she was a school counselor. Before that, she gained school counseling internship experience at Glencoe High School in Hillsboro (2014-15), Parkrose Middle School in Portland (2014) and Gilbert Heights Elementary School in Portland (2013). Kelsey also brings teaching experience, having taught at the junior high and high school levels at Portland Christian High School (2012-14) and junior high students at Asunción Christian Academy in Asunción, Paraguay (2011-12). Kelsey earned a master’s degree in school counseling from Lewis & Clark Graduate School in 2015 and holds a bachelor’s degree in biology education from Northwest Nazarene University (2011). She lives in Newberg with her husband Jonny and two children, Ollie (2) and Audrey (6 months), and attends Colossae in Sherwood.
Jodi Gill joins the university this fall as an international student affairs administrator. For the past three years, she has served as CEO of GIDE USA, a consulting business she founded that consults U.S. K-12 schools on international program development and creates partnerships between U.S. and foreign schools and churches. Her work with international students began in 2004, when she began a two-year commitment to direct an international high school program at a Christian school in Portland. She followed that by founding an international program at Horizon Christian School in Tualatin in 2007, for which she directed marketing until 2015. At its peak, the program included 26 study program students and 60 cultural experience program students from eight different countries. For the past six years, Jodi has done extensive traveling to China, India, South Korea, Japan and Taiwan in an effort to build MOU school-to-school partnerships with international students and families. A graduate of George Fox, from which she earned a bachelor’s degree in management and organizational leadership in 1997, Jodi lives in Canby with her husband Mike and daughters Taylor, Hannah and Sara, who will transfer to George Fox this year. The family attends Canby Foursquare Church.
Jenny Headley has made the transition from adjunct professor to visiting professor in the university’s School of Social Work. She has worked on an adjunct basis the past four years, teaching courses in both the Master of Social Work program and at the undergraduate level. Also, for the past year, she has worked as a part-time school social worker at Four Corners Elementary School in Salem, Oregon. Previously, in 2017-18, Jenny served as the MSW intern supervisor at Hillside Inn in Newberg. Her experience in the field includes work at different levels of care within the mental health system. She was the clinical team lead (2013-14) and was a primary therapist (2010-13) for the Eating Disorder Partial Hospital Program at Providence St. Vincent Medical Center in Portland. Additionally, she worked as a social worker at the Child and Adolescent Inpatient Psychiatry Program at Legacy Emanuel Hospital, and as an outpatient therapist with Morrison Child and Family Services. Jenny is a licensed clinical social worker in the state of Oregon. She earned a master’s degree in social work from New York University in New York in 2005 and a bachelor’s degree in social work from Azusa Pacific University in 2001. She lives in Newberg with her husband, Paul, and their children Simon (5) and Emma (3), and their dog, Panda. She attends North Valley Friends Church in Newberg.
Jay Jamieson joins the university to serve as medical director for George Fox’s physician assistant program, set to launch in 2021. The move to George Fox is a return to work for Jay, who retired in 2017 after 34 years in practice. He had most recently worked as a physician at WVP Medical Group clinics in the region from 2011 to 2017. Prior to that, he was a physician and owner of Keizer Family Physicians, P.C., for 24 years. He also gained medical experience abroad, serving as a medical missionary with Youth with a Mission in the Philippines (1985-87). As a family medicine physician, he was trained to perform the full scope of care, from childbirth to geriatrics, and in outpatient and inpatient settings. In addition, Jay has a long history of working with PA students and those in practice. He earned his medical degree from the Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago in 1980 and holds a bachelor’s degree in biology from Willamette University (1975). Jay lives in Salem with his wife of 43 years, Kelly, a retired elementary school teacher. The couple has five grown children – David, Daniel, Joseph, Holly and Erin – and seven grandchildren. Jay and Kelly attend Salem Alliance Church.
The university welcomes Kathi Norman to serve as director of clinical education and as an assistant professor of medical science for the newly created physician assistant program. For the past five years she has worked as a coach and educator at Positive Psychology Health & Well-Being, a Portland-based business she also owns. She has also worked, since 2012, as an emergency department physician assistant at Northwest Acute Care Specialists in Portland. Previously, she was a physician assistant in urgent care at the Multnomah Family Care Center in Portland (2014-17) and a physician assistant in family practice and urgent care at Doctors Family Clinic and Immediate Care in Tigard (2012-14). All told, Kathi has more than 18 years of experience in the physician assistant profession. She holds a doctor of medical science degree from the University of Lynchburg in Lynchburg, Virginia (2019), and earned a master of applied positive psychology degree from the University of Pennsylvania (2017), a master of science in biomedical science from the University of Toledo (2000) and a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Ohio University (1997). Kathi lives in Beaverton and has three grown children and four grandchildren. She attends Sunset Presbyterian Church in Portland.
Athletics has hired Brandon Rupp as director of game management and as a full-time baseball assistant coach. A 2006 alumnus of the university, he has worked the past two years as an assistant baseball coach at Lewis & Clark College in Portland while also running his own business, the Yard Baseball Academy, for which he has served as lead instructor since he launched the venture in 2008. He also gained coaching experience as an assistant baseball coach at George Fox from 2006 to 2012. Brandon played baseball for the Bruins from 2004 to 2006 and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in business administration. He lives in Tigard with his wife Kristine, and they attend Westside: A Jesus Church in Beaverton.
The university has hired Jacob Salsbury as a visiting lecturer of cinematic arts. He has worked the past two years at Huntington University in Huntington, Indiana, where he was a teacher assistant in Intro to Animation and Intro to 3D courses this spring and, for the past two years, a 3D printing team leader at the university. Concurrently, he was a student club leader on campus and worship leader for a student led chapel. He has won recognition for his work, including an Emmy nomination in the Lower Great Lakes Chapter for his short-form PSA for Habitat for Humanity and a Kinema Commonwealth Award. Jacob earned a bachelor’s degree in digital media arts and animation from Huntington University in the spring of this year and received instruction in animation and illustration at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design in the summers of 2014 and 2015. He lives in Madison, Wisconsin, with his family and fiancée, Emily, and attends Blackhawk Church.
The Latinx Heritage Club (LHC) would like to welcome all students to the club’s first meeting of the semester! The meeting will be held tonight (Tuesday) from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at the Intercultural Resource Center (IRC).
Come and connect with other students, meet the leadership team, and meet other Latinx staff and faculty on campus. Snacks will be provided.
Questions? Please contact LHC at gfulhc@gmail.com.
The second installment of the Midweek Escapes outdoor series is heading to the Willamette River this Thursday afternoon, Sept. 12. This will be an opportunity to explore the river as part of a contemplative experience.
We will meet at the Hadlock Student Center at 3:45 p.m., head to the river to explore the natural beauty of the Willamette, and return to campus by 7 p.m.
The cost is $3 for paddle board or kayak rental through the HSC. Chapel credit is available. Sign up through IMLeagues.com.
Registration is also open for the third Midweek Escapes outdoor series to the Trappist Abbey on Thursday, Sept. 19. Limited spots are available, so sign up soon.
Questions? Contact Keith Schneider at kschneid@georgefox.edu.
This Thursday, Sept. 12, we will be having our first Intergenerational Game Night of the semester. Come take a break from homework and join fellow George Fox students and our neighbors at Friendsview for a night of fun and games!
The games include ping pong tournaments and various board games. We will meet in the Bauman Auditorium lobby at 6:15 p.m. to walk over to Friendsview together.Â
Questions? Contact Rosemary Michael at rmichaeltrumbull17@georgefox.edu.
Mark David Hall (Politics) is in Louisville, Kentucky, this week to participate in a debate at the University of Louisville. On Wednesday, Sept. 11, Mark will debate the topic “Did America Have a Christian Founding?†with Andrew Seidel, representing the Freedom From Religion Foundation. Scheduled to take place in the Edstrom Library’s Chao Auditorium, the event will be videotaped and air on C-SPAN’s Book Channel at a date to be determined. In addition, Mark was recently appointed to the Oregon Advisory Committee of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission. The commission’s committees advise the national organization about the state of civil rights in their respective states, lifting up important issues that committee members encounter in their own communities.
Guadalupe Garcia McCall’s (English) 2018 book, All the Stars Denied, was selected as a finalist in the Writers’ League of Texas Book Awards in the Middle Grade/ Young Adult Fiction category. In the book, a companion novel to her acclaimed Shame the Stars, Guadalupe tackles the first mass deportation event that swept up hundreds of thousands of Mexican American citizens during the Great Depression, told through the perspective of a 15-year-old girl.
Ed Higgins (English Emeritus) published a poem, “Over Lattes,†in Coffee Poems: Reflections of Life with Coffee, in World Enough Writers, an online publication that publishes a diverse variety of themed poetry anthologies and selected individual collections.
Homecoming nominations open this week! Write in who you would like to nominate as the Class of 2020 homecoming queen and king, and the court for every class year.
Fill out the form here. Nominations end on Thursday, Sept. 12, and the official ballot will go out the next day.
Questions? Contact Student Activities at activities@georgefox.edu.
The Color Run is this Friday, Sept. 13, from 6 to 8 p.m. Gather in the amphitheater for a run around our beautiful campus that’s filled with joy, chaos and free shirts. It’s an event you won’t want to miss!
Questions? Contact Student Activities at activities@georgefox.edu.
The Campus Public Safety Office has been receiving many calls from neighbors about all the student cars stashed in the neighborhoods surrounding the school. Please help us by being considerate of the neighbors when you park.
Parking in the neighborhoods is off limits. You must park only where your permit allows or your car will be ticketed.
If you are unsure of where your permit allows you to park, please stop by the Campus Public Safety office so that we can assist you. You can also look at the parking brochure.Â
Questions? Call Campus Public Safety at 503-554-2090 or email Elrike Shaw at eshaw@georgefox.edu.
Please remember to stop by the IT office in the library to exchange your ID card. This is necessary due to pending door lock changes.
If you go out during a class break in the evening, you will need the new card to get back into the building. If you are new this school year, you do not have to exchange your card.
The IT office hours are:
If you have questions, contact pdxtech@georgefox.edu.
If you joined the National Society of Leadership and Success, here are some important dates for this semester.
Orientation is Saturday, Sept. 14, from 10 a.m. to noon in Hoover 105. If you aren’t able to attend that one, we have a make-up orientation on Monday, Sept. 16, from 6 to 8 p.m. in Hoover 105. Both orientations will be the same; you only need to attend one.
If you have any questions, reach out to Kristi Welker, chapter advisor, at nsls@georgefox.edu.
All are invited as the William Penn Honors Program hosts Ray Barfield to lecture on “Seeking God in the Ruins: A Pediatric Oncologist’s Story of Finding Beauty and Hope Amidst Suffering and Death.” The lecture will be held in Canyon Commons 101 at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 26.
Barfield will share how it’s not so much the absence of suffering, but rather our response to it, that fosters wholeness.
Barfield is a pediatric oncologist and palliative care physician. He lost his Christian faith after witnessing the suffering of children with cancer. Although he later returned to Christianity, his doubts transformed his perspective on human flourishing.
Questions? Contact Nancy Schifferdecker at nschifferdecker@georgefox.edu.
The Bruin Store will be closed on Wednesday, Sept. 11, for Serve Day. We will be open again on Thursday, Sept. 12, with our usual business hours.
Questions? Contact Paige Jacobs at pjacobs@georgefox.edu.
Homecoming nominations open this week! Write in who you would like to nominate as the Class of 2020 homecoming queen and king, and the court for every class year.
Fill out the form here. Nominations end on Thursday, Sept. 12, and the official ballot will go out the next day.Â
Questions? Contact Student Activities at activities@georgefox.edu.
Join the health and human performance department on Wednesday, Sept. 18, for a special guest presentation by Leonard Kaminsky.
Kaminsky will present on the benefits of physical fitness, specifically the role fitness plays in one’s health and longevity. The presentation will start at 3 p.m. in Hoover 105.
Questions? Contact Mary Imboden at mimboden@georgefox.edu.
You’re invited to a career exploration event on Thursday, Sept. 19, from 6:30 to 8 p.m. in Canyon Commons! Sixteen professionals from a wide variety of fields will share their stories and give you tips they wish they knew as college students.
No preparation is needed, and this event is for all majors and all four classes. The professionals attending work in marketing, video game design, public policy, international relief, animation and government, to name a few, and represent businesses like the Portland Trail Blazers, Boeing, Providence Health, and SpaceX.
Go to Handshake.com to sign up and to see the full list of companies and career fields that will be represented. Signing up is required and space is limited.
Questions? Contact Colleen Sump at csump@georgefox.edu or Kaitlyn Ragan at kragan@georgefox.edu.
