Service Rosenberg Foundation National Endowment for the Humanities National Institute of Mental Health Weatherhead Foundation U.S. Human Resources Corporation Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc. Bureau of Census U.S. Department of Labor National Science Foundation WK Kellogg Foundation Colorado Anti-Discrimination Commission National Upward Bound President's Commission on Rural Poverty President's Commission on Income Maintenance Program Indiana Civil Rights Commission Mexican-American Legal Defense & Education Fund National Assessment of Educational Progress National Advisory Committee to the Bureau of the Census National Advisory Committee to Immigration and Citizenship Conference National Advisory Committee to U.S.-Mexican Border Research Program National Advisory Committee to Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups Committee on Opportunities in Science American Association for the Advancement of Science Council on Foundations University of Notre Dame Press and the Allocations Committee for United Way He was co-founder, with Dr. Ernesto Galarza and Herman Gallegos, of the Southwest (now National) Council of La Raza, and was instrumental in the founding of the Mexican-American Legal Defense and Education Fund. His greatest accomplishment, he told an interviewer, was his Mexican-American Graduate Studies Program at Notre Dame, which was funded by a grant from the Ford Foundation in 1971. He served as mentor and trainer of at least fifty-seven students who went through the program from 1971 to 1985, most of them graduating with advanced degrees in law, political science, psychology, history, government, sociology and economics. These men and woman are his legacy of scholarship and the pursuit of social justice. Retirement Samora retired from the University of Notre Dame in 1985. In 1989, Michigan State University founded the first major university research center named for a Latino, the Julian Samora Research Institute. Dr. Samora is quoted as saying, “As I told the gathering, it’s about time a major university established a research center for Latinos; that it bears my name is very emotional to me.” In 1990, the Mexican government granted Professor Samora El Orden del Aguila Azteca (Aztec Eagle Award). It is the highest award Mexico gives to non-Mexicans. Death In 1989 he started showing signs of a puzzling illness. It was misdiagnosed as Parkinson’s disease until the fall of 1995. When he received the news that he had progressive supranuclear palsy, a terminal neurological disorder, he thanked the neurologist, Dr. Neal Hermanowicz, for telling him what was wrong, for there was relief in finally having the correct diagnosis, and then he cried. He died February