1922
Mildred
2018
Mildred Rose
October 25, 1922 — April 16, 2018
Mildred's parents stressed getting an education since religious persecution had prevented them from going to school. She attended schools in Brooklyn and Queens, eventually traveling out to Chicago to finish her B.S. at Northwestern University in 1945.
As a social worker, she was proud of her work at University Settlement house on the Lower East Side of NYC, following in the footsteps of Eleanor Roosevelt prior to her marriage to F.D.R.
She married Harold J. Rose, DDS in 1950 and together they raised 3 children in Jamaica, NY. After engaging as a "household engineer" for 16 years, she returned to school to get a Master's degree in Education at NYU. She then worked as an Early Childhood Education Director and teacher, with Head start and other programs creating a positive creative learning environment for students and teachers alike.
She retired to Vermont in 1976, managing her husband's Dental practice. She also re-engaged with her commitment to social justice. In the 1960s she was politically active, supporting the integration of NYC public schools, Women's Strike for Peace and marching in Washington DC in support of civil rights, peace, and demonstrating against the war in Vietnam. As a resident of Dorset, she was secretary of the local Democratic Party, regularly helped in the food cupboard, the Rutland Women's shelter, Blood Drives, organized the Race for the Cure, and the Northshire PAX presentation of Gould & Stearns' "A Peasant of El Salvador". After her husband's death she moved to Bennington and was an active supporter of world peace and legislation to support early childhood education.
She was most proud of her accomplishments as a Guardian Ad Litem (during her winter trips to Miami) where she helped abused or abandoned children rehabilitate while finding permanent homes for foster children.
Mildred is survived by her children Stephen (Kathy), Martha, and Jonathan, her dearly beloved granddaughter Julia, her brother Allen (Rita) Kropf, and many Rose and Kropf nieces and nephews.
Please send contributions to T'ruah (Rabbis for Human Rights), the Arava Institute, Sunrise Family Resource Center (Bennington), Congregation Beth El (Bennington), Marian Wright Edelman's Children's Defense Fund, local Democratic races, or any other causes that support human rights and social justice.
A memorial service will be held Sunday, June 24th, 1:00 - 3:00 PM at Congregation Beth El 107 Adams Street Bennington, VT.
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