Doris J. Bickle Retires
Doris J. Bickle Retires
Doris J. Bickle of the Smeal College of Business Administration retired effective January 1 after 35 years of service to Penn State.
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 Doris accepted a position with the Center for Research (later know as the Division of Research). While there, Doris 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, last publication being December 1993.
Since that time, she worked as an assistant coordinator of research funds in the Smeal College of Business Administration. In this position, she assisted faculty members with the preparation their budgets, and processed their proposals through the Office of Sponsored Programs to ensure they met all the guidelines and deadlines set up by sponsors.
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