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Amelia (Baer) Barnard

Posted 2009-02-16 by Pat Wilson
BARNARD, Amelia Baer
Amelia Baer Barnard, 88, of Tempe, Arizona, died on Sunday, November 21, 2004 after a short illness. Known to her friends as Amy, Mrs. Barnard had a long and distinguished career in social services. Born in 1916 in San Francisco, Mrs. Barnard received her undergraduate degree from Stanford University in 1936, and her M.A. in 1941 from the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago. Her early career as a caseworker and casework supervisor included service from 1940 to 1942 in Harlem, New York at the District Office of the Community Service Society. She returned to San Francisco to the Children's Protective Society for two years before taking a position as Hospital Field Supervisor for the Pacific Area Office of the American Red Cross, traveling extensively in the western United States from 1944 to 1946. Mrs. Barnard then worked as a Senior Psychiatric Social Worker at Langley Porter Clinic in San Francisco, and as Supervising Psychiatric Social Worker at the Berkeley State Mental Hygiene Clinic. From 1953 to 1961 she was an Assistant Professor at the Division of Social Service at Indiana University.

On March 29, 1956, she married David Barnard. In 1961, Amy and David moved to Denver, Colorado, where she took consulting positions, and served for a year as Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Social Work at the University of Denver. She then became the Executive Director of the Health Resources Center in Denver, where she was instrumental in the design and implementation of the first social services Information and Referral network in the state. She Went on to become the Director of the Community Services Department for the Mile High United Way, and spent the last six years of her career as the Director of Program Development at the Denver Medical Society. In 1984, the Denver Medical Society honored her as a creator of "social policy programs which are of major importance to the Society, physicians generally, and the community" Mr. and Mrs. Barnard moved to Prescott, Arizona after her retirement, and then to Friendship Village in Tempe, Arizona, where David died in 1993.

Amy is survived by her sister Elizabeth Baer Bachrach of Naples, Florida. In addition to her husband David, she was preceded in death by her father Lucien Baer, her mother, Florence Schwartzschild Baer, and her brother, Lewis Baer. A private interment will be held at the National Memorial Cemetery of Arizona 23029 N. Cave Creek Rd. Phoenix, Arizona. Arrangements entrusted to Tempe Mortuary. Published in The Arizona Republic on 12/1/2004.




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