Legacy League

Programming for 2024-2025

Legacy League Luncheons

We are excited to announce the luncheon schedule for the 2024-2025 academic year.

For the 2024-2025 school year we will gather four times during the school year on the George Fox campus to enjoy conversation, a shared meal, and presentations from leadership of the university. 

We are looking forward to gathering as a group again as we enjoy a special lunch together. We encourage you to extend an invitation to friends in the area who may be interested in reconnecting with the university or enjoying fellowship with the Legacy League community. Luncheon tickets are $15/person this year.

Register below for specific dates.

Please invite your friends to participate! We look forward to these engaging programs and shared lunch conversations.

Supporting students at George Fox through the Legacy League Scholarship continues to be a high priority for the Legacy League. If you would like to give directly to the Legacy League Scholarship, you can do so here. Choose "A Scholarship" from the first drop down menu, then select "Legacy League Scholarship" as your designation.

You can also write a check payable to George Fox University and include "Legacy League Scholarship" in the memo line. Our mailing address is 414 N. Meridian St #6256, Newberg, OR, 97132.

History

The organization began as the brainchild of two Newberg women, Amanda Woodward and Evangeline Martin, who, in 1910, canvassed the Newberg countryside with a horse and buggy to raise $30,000 to erect the three-story Old Main, opened in 1911. The building was later named “Wood-Mar Hall” in their honor.

Woodward and Martin gathered 225 initial members for the Pacific College Women’s Auxiliary. The name was changed to the George Fox College Women’s Auxiliary in 1949, to the George Fox College Auxiliary in 1977 – when men were welcome to join as regular members after years of being allowed only as honorary members – and to the George Fox University Auxiliary in 1996 with the school’s change in name following the acquisition of Western Evangelical Seminary.

More recently, in the fall of 2018, the name “Legacy League” was adopted to “appreciate our heritage,” according to Ruth Baker, executive committee member and wife of George Fox President Robin Baker.

When founded, hundreds of volunteers raised funds to supply students in Kanyon Hall (later named Minthorn Hall) with basic dormitory room essentials of kerosene lamps, pillows, blankets and dresser scarves, and the dorm’s kitchen with equipment and even tea towels.

Over the years, the auxiliary provided a new refurnished alumni lounge in Minthorn Hall; funded shelving and cabinets for the Quaker Room in the newly opened Shambaugh Library; funded the project to improve the campus quad with its first Victorian light fixtures; raised money to provide the campus with two lighted reader boards; and, in more recent years, provided presidential china for special events and furnishings for the Edwards-Holman Science Center atrium.

Since 2000, the organization’s emphasis has been on providing student scholarships, currently with an endowment of over $130,000, and two or three scholarships of approximately $3000 awarded each year.