TV news reporter for Channel 23, Rockford, IL. for many years.
Received certificate as member in good standing of the International Society of Poets, 1995-96 and certificate for Editor's Choice Award for Outstanding Achievement in Poetry. Her poem, titled "The Second Key" starts this way: "My people were torn from their families and friends, Captured and sold by their fellowman. To work as slaves in another land.
To pick cotton -- become property -- no longer man." It goes on to tell how Abraham Lincoln "gave us a key" and ends with the soul triumphant.
Rose has also written the words for the songs "Shannon" and "Lena"

1998: Honored along with 4 other alumni of Highland Community College ... Distinguished Alumni Award. Chosen because of dedication to their communities, through community leadership. Rose led the way for adult retraining at HCC, enrolling as an adult student in 1972