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.
David Kader taught in the areas of criminal procedure, torts, state constitutional law and religion and the Constitution. He obtained his Master of Laws from University College London in England, and served as associate dean of ASU’s law school from 1980–83. He also taught in the Arizona Center of Medieval and Renaissance Studies summer abroad program at Cambridge University and was a Visiting Fellow at the University of London Institute for Advanced Legal Studies.
John M. Johnson received his doctorate from the University of California, San Diego. He taught at ASU 1972–2012. In retirement, he has been an active member of the local chapter of Veterans for Peace.
Richard (Dick) Jacob earned his doctorate at the University of Utah and joined the Department of Physics faculty at ASU in 1963. He retired in 2001. He is Founding Dean of the Emeritus College and was Founding President of the University Club. He and his wife, Jackie, have four children, all ASU grads, and 14 grandchildren.