Samuel Barnes

Professor Barnes was my advisor while an undergrad at U of Michigan in the mid 1970's. He was a pleasure to meet with and advised me well when I was confused about where to go for grad school. I often think of him as one of my best memories of being at Michigan. May he rest in peace. Peter Lemonias

Please accept my sincerest sympathy for the loss of your father, Samuel. I never got the pleasure of meeting him. He lead a full life and had a nice family. May this man rest in peace. His work is done here on earth. I will keep the family in my thoughts and prayers for their hearts to be comforted.

My name is Max Kaase, I was born in 1935 in Krefeld, Germany. I completed my university education in economics and the social sciences at the University of Cologne in 1964. In 1965, I was awarded grants by the German Research Council (DFG) and the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) to continue my research and decided to go on with my work in the United States at the Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. This is when I first established contact...

I met Professor Barnes in 1996 as a young doctoral student at Georgetown University, right at the beginning of my doctorate. I was assigned to him as a research assistant for the next two years and I immensely enjoyed his teaching, anecdotes, and overall discussions on Political Science topics. He was always very kind, approachable and supportive regardless of whatever was going on in the department. His scholarship has guided my own research as I became a faculty member myself later on, and...

Sam and Anne were dear friends of my parents when Sam and my father, George Grassmuck, were colleagues in the University if Michigan political science department. After Dad passed in 1999, my mother moved to Bethesda, Maryland and rekindled her friendship with them, which gave her much joy for many years. May God bless and comfort the Barnes family.

As President of Georgetown University when Sam arrived to Direct our new Center for German and European Studies in 1991, I had the blessed opportunity to become a great admirer, and indeed friend, of Sam and his incomparable wife Anne. (It turned out that we had both been on the same crossing of the Atlantic on the Liberte in 1956 when each went to France on Fulbrights.) Sam was the ideal founding Director for our new Center: brilliant, diplomatic, cosmopolitan, far-seeing, marvelous...