Marjorie Lightfoot ( – 2014) taught in the Department of English at ASU 40 years. She specialized in 20th-century British and American literature. She wrote poetry from her early 20s when she became fascinated with modern poetry.
Beth C. Lessard joined the ASU faculty in 1969, served as chair of the then Dance Department from 1977–1994, and retired in 1999. She is active with A Ludwig Dance Theater, the Daniel Nagrin Theater, Film and Dance Foundation, and the Animal Defense League of Arizona. She received the 2012 Governor's Arts Award for Arts in Education and recently served two terms on the Emeritus College Council.
Mary Laner taught in then Sociology Department at ASU for 26 years. Her primary courses were Courtship and Marriage and Family Violence. Her publications include more than 40 articles in scholarly journals and several encyclopedia entries. Since her 2002 retirement, she has given talks to various groups including the New Frontiers in Learning program at Mesa Community College.
Gary Krahenbuhl completed his bachelor's and master's degrees at Northern Illinois University, where he was a student athlete. He earned his doctorate from the University of Northern Colorado. He joined the faculty of the Department of Physical Education (later called Kinesiology) in 1973. He was promoted through the ranks and served in a variety of faculty and administrative roles, including dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, before his retirement in 2003.
Paul Knauth, Emeritus Professor of geology, received his doctorate from California Institute of Technology in 1973. An expert on Precambrian geology, he is also an outdoorsman, amateur astronomer and opera buff, in no particular order.
Gary Kleeman retired from ASU with Emeritus Professor status in 2008. In addition to several administrative responsibilities, he taught at both the Tempe and Polytechnic campuses, including in the graduate program in educational leadership and policy studies. His degrees are from San Jose State University and Oregon State University. He currently serves the Emeritus College as director of the Academy for Continued Learning.
Peter Killeen retired in 2009 as Emeritus Professor of psychology. He received his doctorate from Harvard University and joined the ASU faculty in 1968, where he served as chair of the Department of Psychology from 1979 to 1983. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the American Psychological Society. Killeen’s field of interest is behavioral neuroscience.
Del Kehl, Emeritus Professor of English, gave a presentation at the 7th Annual Emeritus College Symposium on his research of C.S. Lewis and Nathaniel Hawthorne. His new book is entitled “Jack Lewis and His American Cousin: A Study in Instructive Affinities.”
Elaine M. Katzman retired from ASU in 1992 and continues her post-retirement career as a psychiatric nurse-practitioner and a writer. She has taken three creative writing courses at the Emeritus College and has since contributed excerpts from her self-published memoir, “Living Life My Way,” to Emeritus Voices in issues #2 and #3.
Leslie Kane, Emeritus Professor of comparative literature, received her doctorate from New York University. She taught undergraduate and graduate courses in American and European drama at Westfield State University for 28 years, as well as classes at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and at Barrett, The Honors College at ASU.