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Wickliffe Rose

Director, International Health Commission

Centurion, 1916–1931

Born 19 November 1862 in Salisbury, Tennessee

Died 5 September 1931 near Alberni, British Columbia, Canada

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Proposed by Grenville L. Winthrop and Henry James Jr.

Elected 3 June 1916 at age fifty-three

Century Memorial

Wickliffe Rose was one of those energetic workers who have built up the great endowed foundations of our day. He had been a college professor in the South, whence he was called to the Rockefeller Sanitary Commission, twenty-one years ago. With the unerring judgment which these undertakings have displayed in selecting and promoting their active personnel, he was made successively manager of the international Health Board, and president of the General Education Board.

Alexander Dana Noyes
1932 Century Association Yearbook