Obituary for Dr. Wayne H. Holtzman

"Wayne was a towering figure in psychology on the UT campus and the world stage. He was all about building community and bringing psychologists together so that they could support one another's work. My first encounter with him was in the mid 1970's when he gathered psychologists from all over the UT campus (e.g., Departments of Psychology, Educational Psychology, Special Education, Sociology, and Human Ecology) and invited them for a boat cruise on Lake Austin. As you can imagine, this required a large boat. Wayne considered the investment well worth it. He continued to make investments in facilitating the work of his psychology colleagues during subsequent years while he was the President of the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health. Wayne's interest in building community extended to the world stage. He had extensive and long term relationships with psychologists in Mexico and hosted them in his home in Lakeway. He was also very active in the International Congress of Psychology. I remember being with him at an ICP conference in Beijing in 2004 and being impressed with how respectfully he was treated by a delegation of Chinese scientists who insisted on having him visit laboratories and meed other Chinese dignitaries. He and Jo Jo were always very welcoming and generous to me and my wife, Deborah Stote. Wayne's commitment to building community among psychologists will endure through the lives he touched and the endowments that he helped establish to support faculty and graduate students at the University of Texas."

"Wayne was a wonderful man, scholar, and colleague to many of us. He assisted us greatly with funding efforts for The Austin Project in the late 90's through the Hogg Foundation. Wayne was kind and thoughtful when my late psychologist husband Clarke passed away almost 10 years age, who valued both him personally and professionally as a colleague in the UT psychology department.
We will miss him from our lives and treasure all that it did in the field of psychology and administration ,
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"Wayne Holtzman was one of the most competent men I have ever known. He influenced the lives of many people in a positive way during his lifetime. He will be missed."

"Thank you Dr. Holtzman and the Hogg Foundation for your commitment to culturally competent workforce development for mental health treatment and research."