Daniel Kortenkamp, Ph.D.
Emeritus Professor
Dept. of Psychology
University of Wisconsin-Stevens
Point
Stevens
Point, WI 54481
dkortenk@uwsp.edu
Home Phone: (715) 344-5844
I was
born in the dining room of a farm house to kerosene light near Aurora, Iowa. My father farmed with horses. During WWII my family moved to St. Paul, Minnesota,
where my father worked at the Bomber
Modification Center
# 12, Holman Airfield. He installed escape
hatches for tail and waist gunners, windows, Plexiglas gunnery ports, and radar
domes on B-24 bombers. After the war we moved to
Oelwein, Iowa, where my father worked as an auto mechanic; his longest tenure
was at the Packard dealership. I
graduated from high school in 1955 (my memory
of “Rock Around the Clock”). I
worked as a receptionist-bookkeeper at Radio Station KOEL, a time-and-motion
study inspector at Donaldson’s Mfg. Oelwein plant (manufacturing air cleaners
and mufflers), a machine operator (“gear hobber
set-up operator”) machining helical teeth in gears at John Deere Tractor
Factory, Waterloo, Iowa; and finally as a postal worker at the Oelwein Post
Office. I quit the Post Office in 1957
and enrolled at Loras College, Dubuque, Iowa,
majoring in physics as a freshman, pre-med as a sophomore, general science and
education as a junior, and psychology as a senior (B.S. degree). During vacations I enjoyed hitchhiking around
the U.S. and in
Mexico
(over 20,000 miles border-to-border and coast-to-coast). In 1959, while hitching through Georgia,
I was picked up by rock and roll legend Little Richard – “the originator, the
emancipator, the architect of rock and roll.”
After college I attended the University
of Iowa, Iowa City, and received my M.A. in counseling
psychology. I worked several years as a
counselor and college professor, before returning to graduate school to obtain
my Ph.D. in clinical psychology from St. Louis University, St. Louis,
Missouri. I interned in the Mental Hygiene Unit of the
Veteran’s Affairs
Medical Center, Des Moines, Iowa. My dissertation involved the psychophysical
scaling of metaphorical dimensions to measure subjective states of
consciousness. Before coming to UW-Stevens
Point in 1966, I taught at the University
of St.
Francis, Fort Wayne, Indiana; where I also worked in the Counseling Center. I have also worked as a clinical psychologist
at the Veteran’s Affairs Medical Hospital
in Tomah, Wisconsin
– the largest (600+ beds) psychiatric hospital in the VA system. I
retired in 2002 from university teaching.
My teaching areas of specialization were -- Consciousness, Altered States
of Consciousness, Transpersonal Psychology, Parapsychology, and Asian
Psychology. I enjoy working on my house,
traveling, genealogy, and distance running (marathon PR: 3:17, Oktoberfest Maple Leaf Marathon,
La Crosse, WI).
Consciousness:
· Reading
List:
Psychology of Consciousness - This is a list of books,
journals, newsletters, and internet resources in various areas of
consciousness, altered states of consciousness, and transpersonal psychology. I compiled this list for my students who are
interested in the psychology of consciousness. It contains over 600 references
in over 80 areas of consciousness. It
was last revised in
May 2000. I have not taught this course
for several years. Perhaps you will
still find this reading list useful for learning about the various areas of
consciousness, and for learning the call numbers of books within these areas.
· Links:
· Center for Consciousness Studies, U. of Arizona
Association
for the Scientific Study of Consciousness
Transpersonal Psychology:
· Reading
List:
Transpersonal Psychology. Part of my "Psychology of Consciousness"
reading list (see above).
· Links:
Transpersonal
Psychology
Explore Transpersonal
Psychology
Graduate
Programs in Transpersonal Psychology
Parapsychology:
· Reading
List:
Parapsychology. Part of my "Psychology
of Consciousness" reading list; however, this reading list is up-to-date
as of Spring Semester 2002, when I retired.
· Links:
Explore Parapsychology.
Parapsychological Association.
Charles T. Tart's Homepage.
Parapsychology Sources.
Parapsychology Resources on the Internet.
Skeptics'
Dictionary.
Theories
of Personality (I also taught this course; perhaps my reading list will be helpful)
Reading
list.
Daniel Kortenkamp Family:
My wife, Janet
[BA, English, Marian
College, Indianapolis;
graduate work, St. John’s U., Collegeville, MN]
was Director of Religious Education at St.
Stephen's Parish, Stevens Point,
WI. She
retired in 2003. However, she is still
the web master for the St. Stephen
Church web site. [Janet’s
half-marathon PR: 2:45,
Pre-Boston Warm-up Half-Marathon, Stevens Point, WI] Here is a picture
of my family taken Christmas 2003.
Here is the latest picture of my kids, and
of my extended family, taken in
2006.
Our children:
David [BS,
computer science, UM-Minneapolis; PhD, computer science & engineering
(artificial intelligence (AI) & robotics), U. of
Michigan] is a Senior Scientist with the
Automation, Robotics, and Simulation Division at NASA’s
Johnson
Space
Center,
Houston. He designs and tests robots to assist
astronauts – for planetary exploration [EVA
Robotic Assistant], for assembly/inspection/maintenance of the International
Space Station [Robonaut], and for inspection of the space shuttles
while in orbit [in 1997, a robot he is working on –
Autonomous Extravehicular Robotic Camera (AERCam) – was tested on a flight of the shuttle
Columbia].
He is a leader
in NASA's Spacecraft
Autonomy project, and a member of NASA’s "tiger team" on systems
management for the crew exploration
vehicle (CEV) -- NASA's space shuttle replacement [recently named “Orion”]. David
is also developing intelligent software for
advanced life support systems (air regeneration/water recovery/food production) to
be used for future colonies on the Moon and Mars. Here is a
newspaper
article about his research.
He
has also worked at the Naval Center for
Applied Research in Artificial Intelligence, Naval Research Laboratory,
Washington,
DC.
(see his homepage for links to his work).
His private company -- Texas Robotics and Automation Center [Trac Labs] – works on government contracts, and sells
robotic arms and
Biclops
Pan/Tilt mechanisms (for robotic heads) for
autonomous mobile robots.
David is senior editor of
the book
Artificial Intelligence and Mobile Robots (MIT Press, 1998), an
associate editor for the MIT Press series
Intelligent Robotics and Autonomous Agents, and
a reviewer for
Autonomous Robots Journal and the journal
Transactions on Robots. In 1992, one of his robots won the
International Mobile Robotics Competition
(American Association for Artificial Intelligence). He was interviewed on CNN; and his robot
was picked as one of “the year’s 100 greatest achievements in science and
technology” by Popular Science (December 1992). He has been a coordinator and judge for
the annual competition most years since.
In August 2002, one of his robots named GRACE was
interviewed “live” on CNN.
David’s
book on artificial intelligence and mobile robots is cited in Michael Crichton’s
new #1 best-selling (NYTimes
December 29, 2002)
novel
Prey
– “In a
Nevada
desert, an experiment has gone horribly wrong.
A cloud of nanoparticles –
microrobots
– has escaped from the laboratory.
This cloud is self-sustaining and self-reproducing.
It is intelligent and learns from experience. For all practical purposes, it is alive.”
David has given presentations/workshops on robotics in Canada,
Mexico,
Brazil,
France,
Italy,
Scotland,
Sweden,
Denmark,
Switzerland,
Germany,
Japan, and
Australia. [David’s marathon PR: 3:20, Twin Cities
Marathon, Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN ]
Suzie
[BA, double major: business
administration and accounting, UW-Eau Claire; JD, corporate law, UW-Madison;
CPA] worked as a corporate tax attorney for
McGladery
& Pullen,
Madison,
WI. Her husband
Jerry Raflik [AA, civil engineering technician – structural drafting and
design, Chippawa
Valley
Technical College,
Eau Claire,
WI] was Head Draftsman at McFarlane Mfg.,
Sauk City,
WI. In 1999 Jerry and
Suzie founded
Skyline Steel,
a structural steel manufacturing plant at
Arlington,
WI, near
Madison.
They have provided the steel for a 12-story building in Madison, for the
new Overture Center for the Arts
in Madison, and for other buildings in Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota, Iowa,
Alaska, and for fire-fighting training structures throughout the U.S. and Asia.
Suzie does accounting, payroll,
employee benefits, multi-state trucking licenses/permits, 401K, insurance
(unemployment, health, dental, disability, life, auto, business, workers comp,
etc), pollution control permits, taxes (income, payroll, sales and use, fuel,
federal excise, heavy vehicle highway tax, etc.). Suzie and Jerry
have two children --
Kaitlyn and Michael.
[Suzie’s
marathon PR:
4:52, Twin Cities
Marathon, Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN ]
Steve [BS, double major: physics and math, UW-Eau Claire; PhD, astronomy,
U. of
Florida] did a Post-doctoral
Fellowship with Dr. George Wetherill at the Carnegie
Institution of
Washington
(part of NASA’s Astrobiology Institute).
He has been a research astronomer at the U. of
Maryland, and a researcher at the
U. of
Arizona’s
Lunar and Planetary Laboratory. He is now a Senior
Scientist at the Planetary Science Institute,
Tucson; and teaches "Planetary Science"
at the U. of Arizona, Tucson.
He researches the origins/evolution of solar systems;
studying asteroids, comets, and moons
(he refers to himself as a
“planetary scientist”).
He published
an article in
Science, May 8, 1998, which attracted a lot of attention from the
popular press, including a live interview on CNN.
You can read about his recent theory of planet formation around binary
star systems (Science,
August 10, 2001) at PhysicsWeb. His current
research involves computer simulations of a strange type of moon referred to
as a
quasi-satellite. The first real objects in this class, two
tiny bodies that are exotic distant moons of Earth, have been recently
discovered.
He has written several
children’s science books – Why
isn’t Pluto a Planet?;
The Moon;
Asteroids,
Comets, and Meteorites;
Space Probes;
The Milky Way;
NASA; The First Moon Landing;
Space Junk; Space Shuttles; Space Tourism;
Working in Space; and
Space Stations.
His wife Jane Morrison [BS, physics, Middle Tennessee State U.;
PhD, astronomy, U. of Florida] was an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute,
Johns Hopkins U., Baltimore, MD, working on the Guide Star Catalog
II used for aiming the Hubble Space Telescope. She also taught a
course in astronomy. She is now at the
Steward Observatory,
U. of
Arizona, and works with the
Spitzer Space Telescope (the latest of
NASA’s space telescopes).
Here is a
CNN article about the telescope launched August 25, 2003. She is also working
on a new infrared camera for the
Next Generation Space Telescope
(NGST) to be launched in 2011. They have three children – Oliver, Eliza,
and Eleanor.
[Steve’s marathon PR:
2:44, Boston Marathon, Boston, MA; Jane’s marathon PR: 3:43, Country Music
Marathon, Nashville, TN; Jane’s Ironman PR: 14:07:19,
Ironman Arizona, Tempe, AZ; Steve’s
Ironman PR: 11:48:07,
Ironman
Arizona, Tempe, AZ ]
Nancy [BS, communicative
disorders, UW-Stevens
Point; MA, audiology,
U. of
Northern Iowa] did her residency at the
U. of
Florida Hospitals,
Gainesville.
She
worked as an audiologist with the public school systems of several counties in
NE Iowa; for the Iowa Ear Clinic, West Des Moines, IA; was Director of Audiology at Rosewood Ear, Nose, and Throat Center, Houston,
TX; and is now a pediatric audiologist in the Cochlear Implant Program, U. of Wisconsin Hospital
Audiology Clinic.
She and her husband
Matt
Mikel
met at mile 8 while running the Houston
Marathon;
and were married at mile 8 while running it the following year. Their wedding story and picture appeared
in the Houston Chronicle. Matt has a degree in aviation maintenance
[Texas
State
Technical
College].
He is a full-time student at
UW-Madison finishing course work to become
a science teacher.
He works as a part-time mechanic on military aircraft for
Lear Siegler Services, Inc., EG&G Division, URS Corporation.
He also has his
Inspection Authorization (IA) and is certified to do annual
checks on airplanes, and return aircraft back to service that have had major
repairs or alterations.
He plans to start his own aircraft inspection and repair
business (“A.I.R.,
Inc.”) and has done some inspections in his spare time.
Nancy and Matt have three sons --
Simon/“Sam”,
Lance, and Jackson.
[Nancy’s
marathon PR: 3:31, Twin Cities Marathon, Minneapolis-St.
Paul, MN; Matt’s marathon PR: 3:45, Houston Marathon, Houston, TX; Matt’s
Ironman PR: 14:20,
Ironman
Wisconsin, Madison, WI; Nancy's Ironman PR: 14:47:09, Ironman Wisconsin, Madison,
WI ]
Peter [BM, double major: music performance and physics, UW-Madison; MM, French
horn, U. of Akron; PhD,
astrophysics, U. of
Iowa,
Iowa City]. Read his radio astronomy research on
solar wind in
Astronomy and Astrophysics, and
the journal of the
American Astronomical Society.
See Peter (on the right) at the
North Liberty Radio Astronomy Antenna, part of the
Very Long
Baseline Array (a series of ten radio antennas spread across the
United States
and its territories from the Virgin Islands to
Mauna Kea,
Hawaii).
Before
Peter
began his PhD studies in astrophysics, one of the orchestras he played in was
the American Institute for Musical Studies
Festival Orchestra,
Graz,
Austria. The orchestra traveled throughout
Europe performing in various places such as
cathedrals, castles, and outdoor amphitheaters.
In
Vienna
the orchestra played a “kickass” rendition of
Beethoven’s Egmont Overture for the U.S. Ambassador.
Peter
now plays horn for several orchestras –- Fourth Horn in the Des Moines Symphony; Second Horn in the
Quad Cities Symphony and Cedar Rapids Symphony. He has played principal horn for the La Crosse
Symphony (WI), and the Central Wisconsin Symphony.
He is also substitute horn for other
orchestras when his schedule permits – Illinois Symphony, Wisconsin Chamber
Orchestra, Madison Symphony; Dubuque Symphony, etc. He is also a founding member of the
Iowa
Horn Quartet.
Peter teaches horn at
Iowa State U., Ames; and has taught at
Simpson College,
Indianola,
IA; and Loras College, Dubuque, IA.
Peter’s
blog is “Have Horn. Will Travel.” [Peter’s
marathon PR: 3:07, Madison Marathon, Madison, WI ]
Sarah [BA Honors, psychology,
UM-Minneapolis; Ph.D., clinical neuropsychology,
U. of
Florida] worked one year after
college for
the
U.
of Minnesota Psychology Dept.
in their Psychophysiology Research Lab, collecting brain-wave and other psychophysiological data for their famous Twin and Family
Studies. After graduate school she interned at
Long Island Jewish
Medical
Center, New
Hyde Park,
New York; and was a
Post-doctoral Fellow at the Medical
College
of Wisconsin,
Wauwatosa,
for two years.
She is now a clinical neuropsychologist at
the
Marshfield Clinic,
Marshfield, WI [one of the largest medical clinics in the
U.S.
with over 774 physicians in 80 medical specialties and subspecialties in 40 regional clinics
throughout northern, central and western Wisconsin].
She has published/presented research on schizophrenia,
bipolar disorder, affective disorder, epilepsy, agnosia,
neuromagnetic
stimulation, temporal lobe lesions,
hippocampal
pathology, and temporal lobectomy.
Her husband
Kurt Clopton [BA, art,
Luther
College,
Decorah,
Iowa; MA, creative writing,
Iowa State,
Ames] is a free-lance computer
consultant and web page designer.
However, Kurt’s first love is studio art, and he works on his own art
pieces and commissioned pieces.
Sarah and Kurt have two sons – Julian, and Evan. [Sarah’s
marathon PR:
3:42, Twin Cities
Marathon, Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN ]
Betsy [BA, psychology, UM-Milwaukee] worked for Bay Area Turning Point, a
shelter for abused women and children in Houston,
TX. While in
Houston she also worked for the Change
and Assessment Team, Dept. of Psychology, U. of
Houston
(researching therapy effectiveness with prison inmates). For five years she was Co- Teacher in the
Pre-School Room at ARC
Community Services (Center
for Women and Children and Healthy Beginnings), Madison,
WI.
She
worked with children from drug and alcohol abuse homes.
She
is now a Pre-K teacher at Clubhouse for Kids, Cross Plains,
WI. [Betsy’s
marathon PR:
4:36, Marine Corp
Marathon, Washington, DC ]
Katy [BS
Honors, psychology; Certificate, environmental studies, UW-Madison] worked with
AmeriCorp (Domestic Peace Corp) in
Massachusetts.
She
taught environmental studies to elementary school students, and worked in the
Massachusetts State Forests. After
leaving Americorp, she and her friend, Tara,
hitchhiked (Katy on left) from New York City to
San Diego, staying with friends, in hostels, and in a
tent, visiting as many national parks as possible. Her undergraduate Honors Thesis research
on the development of attitudes toward the environment in students, grade school
through college, was been published (September
2001) in the Journal of
Environmental Psychology.
Katy
worked two years as a Research Assistant for the
Urban Institute (a think tank),
Washington,
DC. Her publications there included
“The well-being of children involved with the child welfare system” (in the
Series:
New Federalism: National Survey of America's Families), and
“The role of welfare and work in predicting
foster care reunification rates for children of welfare recipients” (Children
and Youth Services Review)
.
Katy is now working on her PhD in environmental
psychology at the UW-Madison.
Her research interests are judgment and decision making about environmental
issues, and quantitative modeling;
publications include “Ecocentrism and anthropocentrism: Moral reasoning
about ecological dilemmas” (Journal of Environmental
Psychology), and “Time, Uncertainty, and Individual Differences in
Decisions to Cooperate in Resource Dilemmas” (Personality and
Social Psychology Bulletin).
Katy is
engaged to Joel Santo Domingo,
the
Information Technology Coordinator for the UW-Madison
Law
School. [Katy’s
marathon PR: 3:28, Twin Cities Marathon, Minneapolis-St.
Paul, MN; Katy's Ironman PR: 14:28:45, Ironman Wisconsin, Madison, WI ]
Tony [BS, physics, education,
UW-La Crosse] taught physics and astronomy for two years at De Pere High
School,
De
Pere,
WI. He now teaches astronomy, and
planetary science at Monticello High School,
Monticello, MN; and is an
assistant cross country and track coach. He worked for several years as a driving
instructor while he was going to college.
His wife, Brenna, was an education major, and played on the UW-La Crosse
women’s club hockey team.
She teaches 5th Grade in
Otsego,
MN.
[Tony’s marathon PR: 3:28, Madison Marathon, Madison, WI ]
Yearly Newsletters: 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995, 1994, 1993, 1992, 1991, 1990.
Kortenkamp
Genealogy.
Ancestor Surname
List My immigrant ancestors (13),
and my wife's immigrant ancestors (11), came from Germany
[Prussia, Hanover,
Oldenburg, Baden, Hesse,
Hesse-Darmstadt, and Bavaria];
Luxembourg; and The Netherlands. Some settled in New York, South Carolina,
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri. However, they all eventually settled in
Dubuque County, Iowa. Please take a look
at my Ancestor Surname List. There are
189 surnames, with dates and locations.
Perhaps we have common ancestors and are cousins.
Kortenkamp
Ancestral Tree(double click on tree icon)
This Kortenkamp pedigree chart goes back to
1540 (fifteen generations). [updated May
2004]
Kortenkamp Family History (including Belm,
Braun, Burkle, Empting, Grawe,
Henry/Heinrich/Henrich, Meyer, Pasker/Pascher, Schermer,
Stoeckl, Schliekelmann,Tauke, and Tegeler
genealogies). [updated
April 2007] This history does not
include the “Appendix” with ancestral trees and maps. For ancestral trees see the “Kortenkamp Ancestral
Tree” link above.
Lang Family History (including Beck, Berg, Fabricius,Kalt, Kisch, Odenwald, Oeth, Reinfried, Rheinhard/Reinhard, Ritzert, Scheurich, Schirra, Weber, Wunderle, and
Ziegler genealogies). [updated April 2007]
This history does not include the “Appendix” with ancestral trees and
maps. For ancestral trees see the “Kortenkamp
Ancestral Tree” link above.
Memorial
Day story – A very moving story about my genealogical research which I
wrote (1997) for the Dubuque Telegraph Herald newspaper. It has been reprinted several places
including in the book by Megan Smolenyak (2000) In
search of our ancestors, companion book to the PBS series “Ancestors”.
Some Genealogy Links:
Cyndi's List of Genealogy
Sites on the Internet. More than 235,000
links categorized & cross-referenced in over 150
categories.
Linkpendium. The “Definitive Directory” for genealogy, with over 5
million links.
RootsWeb. The internet's oldest and
largest FREE genealogy site. Surname
searches; also many helpful links.
FamilySearch. This is the genealogy search
site for the Church of the Latter Day Saints of Jesus Christ
("Mormons"), with the largest genealogy collection in the world.
Ancestry.com. The largest collection of family history records on the web (over 2 billion
names); some records are free, some are subscription only.
Genealogy.com. A subscription site, but you
can do a “Family Search” and
a “Site Search”.
Also has other helpful links.
WorldGenWeb. Links to GenWeb
sites throughout the world, including the USGenWeb.
Genealogy net. This is the place to start
when doing genealogy in Germany. See
especially the FAQ.
Hessen. This is a great site for
genealogy research in Germany.
dkortenk@uwsp.edu
