Catherine (Cathy) Jane Hicks, a longtime staff member of the Graduate Division of the School of Arts and Sciences, died December 10, 2018, after a short illness. She was 68.

Mrs. Hicks joined Penn in 1972, working as a records clerk in the Council of Graduate Faculties, which later became the Graduate Division of the School of Arts and Sciences. Mrs. Hicks was later promoted to degree assistant, with the responsibility of accepting dissertation manuscripts prior to publication for PhD candidates in nine PhD-granting schools at the University. Mrs. Hicks retired from the University of Pennsylvania in 2013 after 40 years of service.

Mrs. Hicks is survived by her husband, Edward; children, Robert, Stacey and Natalie Chamberlain; six grandchildren; mother, Catherine Hawkins; and twin brother, Richard Hawkins.

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