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Penn State Intercom......February 22 , 2001

Bickle served 35
years with University

Doris J. Bickle, assistant coordinator of research funds in The Smeal College of Business Administration, retired Jan. 1 after 35 years of service.

She started with the University on April 18, 1966, as an inventory control clerk in the Department of Housing and Food Service. She stayed in that position until June 1967 when she accepted a position with the Center for Research (later know as the Division of Research). While there, Bickle was a staff assistant working with the production and publication of the Pennsylvania Business Survey, a collection and analysis of data on the Pennsylvania economy and its metropolitan areas, up until it was discontinued in December 1993.

Since that time, she worked as assistant coordinator of research funds in The Smeal College of Business Administration. In this position, she assisted faculty members with the preparation of their budgets and processed their proposals through the Office of Sponsored Programs.

Architecture professor
retires after 26 years

After teaching for 26 years at the University, Arthur K. Anderson Jr., professor of architecture, retired at the end of the fall 2000 semester.

Anderson earned a bachelor of architecture degree from the University in 1956 and a master of fine arts degree in architecture from Princeton in 1958. He has been a visiting lecturer at universities in South Africa, Mexico, China and Italy. He was a recipient of the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching at the University and has been named a Danforth Associate at both Miami University of Ohio and Penn State.

Anderson plans to continue his professional practice of architecture, write on architectural theory and travel. He also plans to continue public service work with the Citizen's Advisory Committees of the State College Area School District.

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