Dr. Edgar Llewellyn Queener, retired clinical psychologist and founder and past chair of the Rhodes College Department of Psychology, died Friday, November 28, of Parkinson's disease. He was 84.
Dr. Queener, born in Maryville, TN in 1919, received his doctorate in psychology and theology from Yale University. He cared more about being a good person than being a scholar, according to a friend. He was known as Llew to many.
Dr. Queener, whose specialty class was the psychology of religion, retired in 1987 after 40 years of teaching; the last 38 at Rhodes.
Dr. Queener told the Commercial Appeal in 1987 that early in his life he'd had a fantasy about wearing a tweed jacket, smoking a pipe and walking into a building covered with ivy. "well,"" he said. "I've had it all - the jacket, the pipe and the ivy covered buildings and even the absentmindedness that comes to a person who has a love for what he's doing and puts all his thoughts into it. "
He loved teaching and his students idolized him, said Mr. Queener's wife, Dr. Lea Gibbs Queener, a retired speech and drama professor. "And he had great wit," she said. "He was a master punster."
One of the family's greatest pleasures was wordplay said his daughter in law and former student, Eileen Hanrahan Queener of Rogersville, TN. "He was always playing with words and had a sense of humor about everything. "
Dr. Queener also taught at the University of Tennessee from 1947 to 1949. He was a fellow of the American Psychology Association and Tennessee Psychology Association.
He was a member of Shady Grove Presbyterian Church. He also leaves a son, Edgar Llewellyn Queener Jr. of Rogersville; a stepdaughter, Sharon Harrison of Memphis, seven grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Published in The Commercial Appeal on Sunday, November 30, 2003.
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Dr. E. Llewellyn Queener, professor of psychology from 1950-87 at Rhodes College, formerly Southwestern at Memphis, died Nov. 28, 2003. He was 84.
The founder and past chair of the Rhodes Department of Psychology, Dr. Queener was born in Maryville, TN, in 1919. He held his A.B. degree from the University of Tennessee and B.D. and Ph.D. degrees from Yale University.
“Rhodes College was the domain within which Dr. Queener lived and conducted nearly all of his professional life,” said Dean of the College, Robert Llewellyn. “He was by training a social psychologist, but he was also a theologian, a philosopher and a practitioner of the humanities. In 1986 Llew — as he was known to all — received the Clarence Day Award for Outstanding Teaching. His portrait was added to the Rhodes Distinguished Faculty Portrait Series in 1999, a recognition conveyed by action of the alumni of the college. Dr. Queener retired in 1987, though for many more years his was a familiar face on campus, especially in the Burrow Library where he continued to work on his passionate interest in the psychology of religion.”
Dr. Queener leaves his wife, Dr. Lea Gibbs Queener, a retired speech and drama professor, a son, a stepdaughter, seven grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Obituary printed in the Rhodes College Magazine, Winter 2004.
Dr. Queener, born in Maryville, TN in 1919, received his doctorate in psychology and theology from Yale University. He cared more about being a good person than being a scholar, according to a friend. He was known as Llew to many.
Dr. Queener, whose specialty class was the psychology of religion, retired in 1987 after 40 years of teaching; the last 38 at Rhodes.
Dr. Queener told the Commercial Appeal in 1987 that early in his life he'd had a fantasy about wearing a tweed jacket, smoking a pipe and walking into a building covered with ivy. "well,"" he said. "I've had it all - the jacket, the pipe and the ivy covered buildings and even the absentmindedness that comes to a person who has a love for what he's doing and puts all his thoughts into it. "
He loved teaching and his students idolized him, said Mr. Queener's wife, Dr. Lea Gibbs Queener, a retired speech and drama professor. "And he had great wit," she said. "He was a master punster."
One of the family's greatest pleasures was wordplay said his daughter in law and former student, Eileen Hanrahan Queener of Rogersville, TN. "He was always playing with words and had a sense of humor about everything. "
Dr. Queener also taught at the University of Tennessee from 1947 to 1949. He was a fellow of the American Psychology Association and Tennessee Psychology Association.
He was a member of Shady Grove Presbyterian Church. He also leaves a son, Edgar Llewellyn Queener Jr. of Rogersville; a stepdaughter, Sharon Harrison of Memphis, seven grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Published in The Commercial Appeal on Sunday, November 30, 2003.
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Dr. E. Llewellyn Queener, professor of psychology from 1950-87 at Rhodes College, formerly Southwestern at Memphis, died Nov. 28, 2003. He was 84.
The founder and past chair of the Rhodes Department of Psychology, Dr. Queener was born in Maryville, TN, in 1919. He held his A.B. degree from the University of Tennessee and B.D. and Ph.D. degrees from Yale University.
“Rhodes College was the domain within which Dr. Queener lived and conducted nearly all of his professional life,” said Dean of the College, Robert Llewellyn. “He was by training a social psychologist, but he was also a theologian, a philosopher and a practitioner of the humanities. In 1986 Llew — as he was known to all — received the Clarence Day Award for Outstanding Teaching. His portrait was added to the Rhodes Distinguished Faculty Portrait Series in 1999, a recognition conveyed by action of the alumni of the college. Dr. Queener retired in 1987, though for many more years his was a familiar face on campus, especially in the Burrow Library where he continued to work on his passionate interest in the psychology of religion.”
Dr. Queener leaves his wife, Dr. Lea Gibbs Queener, a retired speech and drama professor, a son, a stepdaughter, seven grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Obituary printed in the Rhodes College Magazine, Winter 2004.
Dr. Edgar Llewellyn Queener, retired clinical psychologist and founder and past chair of the Rhodes College Department of Psychology, died Friday, November 28, of Parkinson's disease. He was 84.
Dr. Queener, born in Maryville, TN in 1919, received his doctorate in psychology and theology from Yale University. He cared more about being a good person than being a scholar, according to a friend. He was known as Llew to many.
Dr. Queener, whose specialty class was the psychology of religion, retired in 1987 after 40 years of teaching; the last 38 at Rhodes.
Dr. Queener told the Commercial Appeal in 1987 that early in his life he'd had a fantasy about wearing a tweed jacket, smoking a pipe and walking into a building covered with ivy. "well,"" he said. "I've had it all - the jacket, the pipe and the ivy covered buildings and even the absentmindedness that comes to a person who has a love for what he's doing and puts all his thoughts into it. "
He loved teaching and his students idolized him, said Mr. Queener's wife, Dr. Lea Gibbs Queener, a retired speech and drama professor. "And he had great wit," she said. "He was a master punster."
One of the family's greatest pleasures was wordplay said his daughter in law and former student, Eileen Hanrahan Queener of Rogersville, TN. "He was always playing with words and had a sense of humor about everything. "
Dr. Queener also taught at the University of Tennessee from 1947 to 1949. He was a fellow of the American Psychology Association and Tennessee Psychology Association.
He was a member of Shady Grove Presbyterian Church. He also leaves a son, Edgar Llewellyn Queener Jr. of Rogersville; a stepdaughter, Sharon Harrison of Memphis, seven grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Published in The Commercial Appeal on Sunday, November 30, 2003.
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Dr. E. Llewellyn Queener, professor of psychology from 1950-87 at Rhodes College, formerly Southwestern at Memphis, died Nov. 28, 2003. He was 84.
The founder and past chair of the Rhodes Department of Psychology, Dr. Queener was born in Maryville, TN, in 1919. He held his A.B. degree from the University of Tennessee and B.D. and Ph.D. degrees from Yale University.
“Rhodes College was the domain within which Dr. Queener lived and conducted nearly all of his professional life,” said Dean of the College, Robert Llewellyn. “He was by training a social psychologist, but he was also a theologian, a philosopher and a practitioner of the humanities. In 1986 Llew — as he was known to all — received the Clarence Day Award for Outstanding Teaching. His portrait was added to the Rhodes Distinguished Faculty Portrait Series in 1999, a recognition conveyed by action of the alumni of the college. Dr. Queener retired in 1987, though for many more years his was a familiar face on campus, especially in the Burrow Library where he continued to work on his passionate interest in the psychology of religion.”
Dr. Queener leaves his wife, Dr. Lea Gibbs Queener, a retired speech and drama professor, a son, a stepdaughter, seven grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Obituary printed in the Rhodes College Magazine, Winter 2004.
Dr. Queener, born in Maryville, TN in 1919, received his doctorate in psychology and theology from Yale University. He cared more about being a good person than being a scholar, according to a friend. He was known as Llew to many.
Dr. Queener, whose specialty class was the psychology of religion, retired in 1987 after 40 years of teaching; the last 38 at Rhodes.
Dr. Queener told the Commercial Appeal in 1987 that early in his life he'd had a fantasy about wearing a tweed jacket, smoking a pipe and walking into a building covered with ivy. "well,"" he said. "I've had it all - the jacket, the pipe and the ivy covered buildings and even the absentmindedness that comes to a person who has a love for what he's doing and puts all his thoughts into it. "
He loved teaching and his students idolized him, said Mr. Queener's wife, Dr. Lea Gibbs Queener, a retired speech and drama professor. "And he had great wit," she said. "He was a master punster."
One of the family's greatest pleasures was wordplay said his daughter in law and former student, Eileen Hanrahan Queener of Rogersville, TN. "He was always playing with words and had a sense of humor about everything. "
Dr. Queener also taught at the University of Tennessee from 1947 to 1949. He was a fellow of the American Psychology Association and Tennessee Psychology Association.
He was a member of Shady Grove Presbyterian Church. He also leaves a son, Edgar Llewellyn Queener Jr. of Rogersville; a stepdaughter, Sharon Harrison of Memphis, seven grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Published in The Commercial Appeal on Sunday, November 30, 2003.
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Dr. E. Llewellyn Queener, professor of psychology from 1950-87 at Rhodes College, formerly Southwestern at Memphis, died Nov. 28, 2003. He was 84.
The founder and past chair of the Rhodes Department of Psychology, Dr. Queener was born in Maryville, TN, in 1919. He held his A.B. degree from the University of Tennessee and B.D. and Ph.D. degrees from Yale University.
“Rhodes College was the domain within which Dr. Queener lived and conducted nearly all of his professional life,” said Dean of the College, Robert Llewellyn. “He was by training a social psychologist, but he was also a theologian, a philosopher and a practitioner of the humanities. In 1986 Llew — as he was known to all — received the Clarence Day Award for Outstanding Teaching. His portrait was added to the Rhodes Distinguished Faculty Portrait Series in 1999, a recognition conveyed by action of the alumni of the college. Dr. Queener retired in 1987, though for many more years his was a familiar face on campus, especially in the Burrow Library where he continued to work on his passionate interest in the psychology of religion.”
Dr. Queener leaves his wife, Dr. Lea Gibbs Queener, a retired speech and drama professor, a son, a stepdaughter, seven grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Obituary printed in the Rhodes College Magazine, Winter 2004.
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