✍ Scribed by Bernard Lewis
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
With the passing of Helen Garden Barnes, the Combustion Institute has lost one of its foundation props. As Executive Secretary of the Institute from its founding in 1954 until her death in August 1976 she provided that happy and exemplary mix of qualities-efficiency, wisdom, compassion, selflessness, unbounded energy and a deep well of friendship and love for all mankind-qualities that virtually exuded from her vibrant and engaging personality, and made the Institute what it is, and we hope, as she would hope, will continue to be; namely, a flexible international society dedicated to the promotion of Combustion Science.
Helen possessed the genius for doing the right thing. It was rare for her to be faulted on a matter of judgment. Her life was one of sacrifice. Her whole life was tied up with that of the Institute. The personal sacrifices that she made from day to day to minister to the Institute's needs, as would a mother to a child, can perhaps never be quite appreciated except by those who were very close to her. As a result her output was prodigious. In large measure the high regard in which the Institute is held internationally must be ascribed to Helen's conviction that the Institute is composed of people, and that all people, irrespective of their origin or national state, should be considered true partners in an international endeavor.
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