
Civic and Cultural
Boards Served
- President, Haywood County Arts Council
- President, Voices in the Laurel Youth Choir
- Director & President, Haywood 2000
- Director, Haywood Regional Medical Center Foundation
- Director, Appalachian Music & Dance Preservation Society
- Director, Folkmoot USA
- Director, Western North Carolina Tomorrow
- Director, Haywood Arts Repertory Theatre (HART)
- Director, Friends of Mountain History
- Director, Advantage West, North Carolina
- Director, North Carolina Progress Board
- Director, Daniel Boone Council of Boy Scouts of America
- Member, Haywood Heritage Council
- Member, Appalachian Trail Conservancy
Membership
Other Civic Activities & Accomplishments
- Director of the Smoky Mountain Folk Festival for over 30 years
- Producer of the Summer Street Dances on Main Street, Waynesville
- Coordinator of the Haywood County Visioning Process as Haywood 2000 board member
- Campaign Chair, HRMC Fitness Center, raising over $3 Million
- Member and Paul Harris Fellow, Waynesville Rotary
- Scout Master, Troop 321, Waynesville
- Blue Ridge National Heritage Area participant and contributor
Professional
- Architect, AIA
- Other businesses include farming, property management
Accomplishments
- Architect for HRMC Fitness Center, Haywood Arts Repertory Theatre, Maggie Valley Country Club and Carolina Conveying Corporate Headquarters in the East Haywood Industrial Park
- Designed the Composer in Residence building at the Brevard Music Center and The Nags Head Woods Nature Center for the North Carolina Nature Conservancy at the Outer Banks
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Waynesville's HART Theatre, Joe Sam Queen, Architect

Haywood Regional Medical Center Fitness Center, Joe Sam Queen, Campaign Chairman & Architect

Carolina Conveying Corporate Headquarters located near Beaverdam Industrial Park, Joe Sam Queen, Architect
Education
- Tuscola High School, Class of 1968
- North Carolina State University, Architecture, 1972
- North Carolina State University, Master in Architecture, 1974
Accomplishments
- President of the Student Body; co-captain of the wrestling team, Tuscola High School
- President, Design Council, NCSU School of Design
- Member, NCSU Student Senate
- Teaching Fellow , North Carolina State University
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