Daily News | Arvind V. Phatak, award-winning professor emeritus of management at Temple, lecturer, and author, dies at 85
In a tribute, Ronald Anderson, dean of Temple’s Fox School of Business and the School of Sport, Tourism and Hospitality Management, called Dr. Phatak an “icon in the Fox community.”
His walls were covered with awards, and he told The Inquirer in 1988 after winning Temple’s Great Teacher Award that working with students was more rewarding than collecting a fatter paycheck in the corporate world. “You couldn’t give me enough money to leave what I am doing in the classroom,” he said.
Born July 8, 1936, in Baroda, India, known now as Vadodara, Dr. Phatak earned a bachelor’s degree and master’s degree in botany from the University of Baroda. He arrived in the United States in 1960 and earned a master’s degree in business at Temple in 1963 and a doctorate in management at the University of California at Los Angeles in 1966.
He became a U.S. citizen in 1971, sponsored many others for their citizenship, and told his daughter he preferred the United States to all the other places he lived or visited because “everything is here.” He followed politics, doted on his bichon dogs, and penned an unpublished autobiography calledHe meditated twice a day, was committed to nutrition and physical fitness, followed UCLA men’s basketball and had season tickets for Temple men’s basketball after he moved to Montgomery County.
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