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Marion Barnes (1910-2002)
Marion Barnes, born May 19, 1910, died unexpectedly on April 4, 2002. Marion was a highly esteemed member of the faculty of Hanna Perkins where she worked with both parents and children, taught classes, and supervised students. She published a number of important papers on childhood bereavement and adoption. She was beloved by all who worked with her. For many years she generously made space in her Cleveland Heights home for students coming to Cleveland for field placements or internships. Marion earned a Master’s Degree in Social Work from Smith College in 1934. Her professional career spanned more than 60 years. After serving in the Red Cross in World War II and later in the Veteran’s Administration, she received special training in psychoanalytic work with children from Dr. Anny Katan who had been trained by Anna Freud before coming to Cleveland after the war. Marion was one of Dr. Anny’s first trainees and worked with her during the beginning years of Hanna Perkins, then known as the University Hospitals Nursery School. Marion held appointments as Chief Social Worker in the Psychiatric Department of University Hospitals of Cleveland and Assistant Clinical Professor of Child Therapy at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine (1954-1979). At the University Hospital’s Hanna Pavilion she developed the student-training program with Smith College School for Social Work, of which she was an Associate Clinical Professor from 1975-1979. Marion was a consultant for nursery schools, day care and Head Start centers, and long maintained a private practice in child therapy. She led a productive career, meeting with mothers of children until the last week of her life. Marion was a Charter Member of the Association for Child Psychoanalysis and a Fellow of the American Orthopsychiatric Association. In 1985 the Ohio Clinical Social Work Society, conferring its highest award, made Marion a State Fellow. The Smith College School for Social work honored her nationally in 1989 when she received the Day-Garrett Award “for leadership in clinical services and clinical education on behalf of children.” |
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