Baraboo : A Selected History. This item is unavailable.Baraboo : A Selected History

Donald R Atkinson has contributed to Baraboo as an author.Donald R. Atkinson is Professor of Education in the combined Counseling, Clinical, and School Psychology program at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in 1970. Professor Atkinson is a Fellow in the American Psychological Society and Divisions 17 and 45 of the American Psychological Association. He is a co-author of Counseling American Minorities: A Cross-Cultural Perspective (now in its 5th edition), Counseling Non-Ethnic American Minorities, and Counseling Diverse Populations (now in its 2nd edition), and author or co-author of

Don Atkinson worked as an assistant bee keeper, equestrian trail guide, sailor, high school teacher, and junior high school counselor before completing a PhD at the University of Wisconsin. After two years as a staff psychologist at Moorhead State College, he accepted a position as professor at the University of California, where he remained until his retirement in 2002. He passed away on January 11, 2008 at home after a long and courageous battle with pancreatic cancer. Although he was the author of numerous psychology texts and journal articles, Baraboo was his only nonfiction book written for a general audience. He spent the end of his life in Santa Barbara, California, with his wife, Carol, and their two cats, Scooter and Merlyn.