You are welcome to arrive on campus anytime! Feel free to explore Newberg or campus with friends!

• 1:00 p.m. Check-In Begins 

• 5:00 p.m Reunion Dinner and Class Photo 

• 9:00 a.m. Coffee and Continental Breakfast 

• 10:30 a.m. Commencement Festivities  

  • Meet in Wheeler 109

Known as "Close Beside Chehalem's Mountain” because of the first four words of first verse, the alma mater was the result of a school competition mentioned in the November 1904 school newspaper, The Crescent.

In January of 1905 the lyrics of J. Ray Pemberton and Cecil J. Hoskins were selected and Professor Clifford White Kantner put them to music.

George Fox University is reviving its alma mater (school song). Composed in 1904, the alma mater was sung after games through at least the 1960s and likely disappeared with the elimination of the football program in 1969.

But now it’s back in a new form. The sped-up “fight song” version is arranged by Todd Zimbelman, former director of athletic bands at University of Oregon. Two text changes were to the original second verse: “Bruins” replaces “comrades” and “George Fox” replaces “P.C.” (an abbreviation of the then-Pacific College name).