Partings
Penn State Intercom......May
9, 2002
Ginsberg's teaching
career spanned 35 years
After 35 years of teaching, Robert Ginsberg, professor of philosophy and comparative literature at Penn State Delaware County, has announced his retirement.
One of the original seven faculty members hired when Penn State Delaware County opened in 1967, Ginsberg taught 68 different courses at the campus during his tenure.
In 1977, Ginsberg developed the first course in comparative literature at the campus. He has introduced thematic courses on war, religion and love.
Ginsberg also has taught classics, humanities, human development, and science, technology and society.
Additionally, Ginsberg has supervised independent studies in comparative literature for advanced students.
He received his bachelor of arts and a master of arts from the University of Chicago, and his doctoral degree from the University of Pennsylvania.
Eyerly bids farewell
after 39 years of service
Raymond W. Eyerly, assistant to the director of the Environmental Resources Research Institute, is retiring after 39 years of service to the University.
Eyerly began his career in 1963 as assistant to the director of the newly founded Institute for Research on Land and Water Resources. In 1986, the Institute for Research on Land and Water Resources merged with the Center for Air Environment Studies to become the current Environmental Resources Research Institute, and Eyerly has served as its assistant to the director until the present. Eyerly also has held the position of senior research assistant in environmental resources.
Eyerly managed all pre-award and post-award functions of the institute. With the growth of the institute, his responsibilities grew from managing annual research expenditures of approximately $200,000 in 1963 to last fiscal year's annual research expenditures of close to $11 million.
Eyerly is a member of several professional societies and also serves on various committees designed to improve the University's research grant network.
His recent research has focused primarily on ways to improve the administration of sponsored research programs and he is an expert in software systems modeling for budgeting and management information.
Eyerly earned a bachelor of science degree and a master of science degree in agricultural economics and doctoral degree in business administration from Penn State.
Associate registrar
retires after 40 years 
Gary Hile, associate registrar, has retired April 30 after 40 years of service at Penn State.
Hile came to the University in 1962 as a statistical clerk in the records office, where he was responsible for the University enrollment report and scholastic action reports.
In 1972, he became assistant records officer and was promoted to director of records in the Office of the University Registrar in 1979. Hile became director of academic records in 1987, and, in 1997, assumed the role of associate registrar.
Hile was active in many University committees, including the Faculty Senate Committee on Undergraduate Education, and was the team leader of the eLion development team and the entrance to major/location re-engineering project.
He completed his undergraduate degree work at Penn State in production management in 1968. He also received a master of education degree in counselor education from the University in 1977 after completion of his active duty in the U.S. Army.
Assistant to financial officer
announces retirement
Edna Shuey, assistant to the financial officer in the Eberly College of Science, retired Dec. 31 after 35 years of service to the University.
Shuey started out at Penn State in 1966 as a secretary in the Department of Computer Science, which then was still part of the College of Science. She moved on to become secretary to the associate dean for commonwealth campuses and continuing education. Finally, she assumed the duties of assistant to the financial officer in the Eberly College of Science, which she has performed for the past 18 years.
Shuey said she plans to stay busy in retirement. She listed walking every day, crocheting, reading, traveling and spending time with family at the top of her to-do list.
Associate professor
retires after 33 years
Susan Richman, associate
professor emerita of mathematics and computer science at Penn State Harrisburg,
recently retired after 33 years of service to the University. 
Richman was appointed assistant professor of mathematics in 1968. In 1977, she became head of the mathematical sciences and, later, computer science programs, a position she held for almost 20 years.
Richman served twice as chair of Penn State Harrisburg's Faculty Council. She was a member of the University Faculty Senate for 15 years, including several terms on the Senate Council and two terms as chair of Committee on Committees and Rules. She also served on the University's Special Committee on Faculty Salaries and the CES Reorganization Steering Committee.
Richman completed her academic administrative career as senior associate dean for Academic Affairs, serving in that role for three years before returning to a faculty position in the School of Science, Engineering and Technology.
She is continuing her service into retirement, including chairing the Penn State Harrisburg Faculty and Staff Development Campaign and co-chairing the Capital College Diversity Committee.
Richman received her bachelor's degree in mathematics from University of California at Berkeley and earned her doctoral degree in mathematics at the University of Aberdeen in Aberdeen, Scotland, where she was a lecturer from 1963 to 1968.
Staff assistant retires
after 35 years' service
Linda K. Brown, recreational sports staff assistant, retired April 30 from the Department of Recreational Sports after 35 years at the University.
She began her service to Penn State in 1965 with the Department of Plant Pathology, moved to Agricultural Education in 1972 and has been with Recreational Sports since 1979. She also has assisted with the Commonwealth Campus Athletic Conference office for the last four years.
Her responsibilities have included providing administrative support to the Intramural Sports Office; managing a student staff; processing IBIS forms; upholding athletic policies and procedures; maintaining and monitoring several budgets; and assisting the athletic conference office with design of event programs.
Brown plans to spend her retirement tending her garden, traveling, knitting and spending time with her eight grandchildren.
Several announce
retirement from University
Michael A. Auman,
supervisor, trades II in Office of Physical Plant, from April 16, 1967,
to Jan. 16.
Joseph Dancho,
janitorial worker in Office of Physical Plant, from Oct. 11, 1976, to
Jan. 1.
Betty L. Dubbs, staff assistant V in Division of Outreach and Cooperative Extension, Nov. 18, 1985, to Feb. 1.
Frank J. Kurylo, maintenance worker, utility at Penn State Great Valley, from Sept. 2, 1986, to Jan. 17.
John R. Lippert, assistant professor of computer science at Penn State Schuylkill, from Sept. 1, 1966, to Jan. 1.
Arthur J. Marsicano, professor of engineering at Penn State Schuylkill, from Sept. 1, 1965, to Jan. 1.
Margaret S. McCardle, staff assistant V in The Smeal College of Business Administration, from Sept. 15, 1986, to Jan. 1.
Nancy A. Parsons, food service worker in Housing and Food Services, from March 9, 1982, to Feb. 1.
Emeritus
The following individuals have earned emeritus rank from the University for their longstanding and productive years of service:
Jean-Marc Bollag, professor emeritus of soil microbiology in College of Agricultural Sciences, from Sept. 1, 1967, to March 31.
Alphonso F. Lingis, professor emeritus of philosophy in College of the Liberal Arts, from June 15, 1966, to Dec. 31.
Terry J. Peavler, professor emeritus of Spanish in College of the Liberal Arts, from Sept. 1, 1971, to Jan. 1.
Richard F. Unz, professor of emeritus of environmental microbiology in College of Engineering, from Sept. 1, 1966, to Jan. 1.
Judith R. Vicary, professor emerita of biobehavioral health in College of Health and Human Development, from Aug. 14, 1984, to Jan. 1.
Brent G. Wilson, professor emeritus of art education in College of Arts and Architecture, from June 1, 1974, to Jan. 1.