In Memoriam

7/21/09 Remembering George  Nagle, Ph.D., ABPP  Chattanooga psychologist George Nagle died on May  18, 2009 at the age of 78.  George worked in the Veteran's Administration  outpatient clinic and taught at the University of Tennessee as an adjunct  professor.  Regardless of setting or audience, he always mentioned his  love of his wife,Margaret; pride in his children; and the priviledge of being  a psychologist.  He was a charter member of the Chattanooga Area  Psychological Association  (CAPA).   George was  particularly passionate  about promoting sound ethical decision making within the practice of  psychology.  He  helped establish  CAPA’s ethics committee in 1975, which he subsequently chaired for  many years.  From 1983 through 1992, he  served on the ethics committee of the Tennessee Psychological Association in  various capacities, including committee chair.  Throughout the 1990s, he served as a member of the standing  hearing panel for ethics committee appeals of the American Psychological  Association.  In recognition of contributions to psychology benefitting  practitioners, students, and consumers, he was named Psychologist of the Year in  the area of distinguished service by the Tennessee Psychological Association  in 1997.  For many of  us to whom he was a mentor and role model, George’s good natured (and  sometimes irreverent) sense of humor exemplified the value of playfulness  in helping to maintain balance within our busy professional lives.  In  accepting TPA’s Psychologist of the Year award, George wrote, “The way to  someone’s heart is, I feel, not through the stomach, but rather through the  ego; thank you for touching my heart.”  George will be missed by a great  many of us, whose lives and hearts he touched.  Patrick Lavin, Ph.D.,  ABPP,  Nicky Ozbek, Ph.D.