Maxwell Carr Payne, professor emeritus of psychology at the Georgia Institute of Technology, died Nov. 19, 2017, at the age of 90.
Born in 1927, Payne attended Vanderbilt University for a year before serving in the Naval Reserve. He then returned to Vanderbilt and graduated in 1949. In 1951, he earned a Ph.D. in psychology from Princeton.
He became a research associate at the Training Research Laboratory of the University of Illinois. In 1954, he joined the faculty of the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he remained for 37 years. He helped the university to develop bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees in psychology.
Payne taught seven regular courses in psychology as well as special courses, and received a Distinguished Teachers Award in 1970. An active member of the faculty, he served on many institutional committees. He was president of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, the Georgia Psychological Association, and the Georgia State Board of Examiners of Psychologists.
Payne was predeceased in 2011 by his wife of 54 years, Juanita. He is survived by three children and six grandchildren.
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