11 Facts About Riley Gardner

Dr Riley W Gardner was an American psychologist who published works on individual differences and cognition.

Riley Gardner's father was at various times a store keeper, an insurance agent, postmaster and the co-op grain elevator manager, as well as school board president and church elder.

Riley Gardner's mother was the piano teacher and church organist for the community.

In Ree Heights Riley lived very close to his uncle Charles Whiting Gardner, a banker and South Dakota state Senator married to Mary Ruth Butler Gardner, and his cousins Chuck and Barbara.

Riley Gardner was the second born of three children, after his sister Katherine who was four years his elder, and before his brother Wayne.

Riley Gardner graduated first in his high school class from Ree Heights High School in Ree Heights, South Dakota.

Riley Gardner married Ruth Janssen on August 27,1950, in Yankton, South Dakota.

Riley Gardner spent most of his professional career as a research psychologist at the Menninger Foundation in Topeka, Kansas.

Riley Gardner had two major grants from the National Institutes of Health and invitations to teach in seminars and at universities around the US and abroad, and he published numerous papers on individual differences and cognition.

Riley Gardner was part of this well known group that included George Klein, Philip Holzman, and Robert Holt.

Riley Gardner died on October 23,2007, and is interred Topeka, Kansas.