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Wickliffe Rose was born at Saulsbury, Tennessee. He was the third of the six children, five boys and one girl, of Kinchen Langston Rose, clergyman, and Jeanette (Cherry) Rose.
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Wickliffe Rose was born at Saulsbury, Tennessee. He was the third of the six children, five boys and one girl, of Kinchen Langston Rose, clergyman, and Jeanette (Cherry) Rose.
His higher education was obtained in his native state at the University of Nashville, where he received the degree of A. B. in 1889 and that of A. M. in 1890, and at the University of Chicago, where he took summer courses. His major study was philosophy.
From 1891 to 1902 Rose taught philosophy at Peabody College for Teachers, and from 1902 to 1904 he was professor of history and the philosophy of education at the University of Tennessee. A gift for administration brought him first the deanship of Peabody College and the University of Nashville, 1902-07, and later the general agency of the Peabody Education Fund, 1907-14.
Through these positions he became acquainted with educational institutions throughout the South. In 1910, at the age of forty-eight, he entered the field of public health as director of the Rockefeller Sanitary Commission for the Eradication of Hookworm in the South, an undertaking which started him on a career for the betterment of health and the upbuilding of science that was to assume worldwide dimensions. The announcement of the $1, 000, 000 gift of John D. Rockefeller, the first entrance of private philanthropy into the field of public health, was ill received throughout the South, which resented the suggestion of the wide prevalence of hookworm disease.
Rose's discretion, tact, and program of work soon overcame the opposition. His fundamental policy was to begin work in a state only upon invitation of government authorities, to exalt the importance and efficiency of official health agencies, and to avoid in every possible way the appearance of outside intrusion. Rose's procedure inspired confidence: studies were made to relate the extent of hookworm infestation to the terrain, which differed with locality and with the economic status of the region, and to secure an understanding of the biology of the hookworm and of the efficacy of available methods for its eradication. One measure of the success of Rose's policies may be found in the increased appropriations for public health work in the eleven Southern states in which the hookworm campaign was conducted, an increase of more than sixfold between 1910 and 1923 ($216, 905 to $1, 573, 470), the year Rose gave up the directorship.
When the Rockefeller Foundation was organized in 1913, Rose was made director of the International Health Commission (later Board) and the work of hookworm eradication was transferred to that institution. The scope of the enterprise was enlarged to include malaria and yellow fever and later to a worldwide attack on all preventable disease. This larger program under Rose's influence ultimately required the creation by the Foundation of a series of schools of hygiene and public health at Baltimore, Boston, Toronto, London, Copenhagen, Rome, and Tokyo, and smaller institutes of hygiene in Brazil, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Bulgaria, Rumania, and Turkey. It was during this period that Rose acted as chairman of the War Relief Commission of the Rockefeller Foundation, which brought aid to refugees in Belgium, Poland, Serbia, and other countries.
He retired from the International Health Board in 1923 to become president of the General Education Board, whose benefactions were limited to the United States. But he had long pondered means through which education could be supported on an international scale. At his suggestion, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. , founded the International Education Board for "the promotion and advancement of education throughout the world. " Rose was made president and set out to implement the idea. After conferring with leading scientific men in America, he spent five months in Europe visiting nineteen countries and some fifty universities and other educational and research institutions. In each country he sought the leading men in mathematics, physics, chemistry, and biology, inquired into their research programs, met the scientific staffs, and sensed the human relationships as well as the scientific resources of each place. He made inquiries also into the effects of the World War on the material resources and younger scientific staffs, and he conferred with government authorities on the state of agriculture and the opportunities for introducing more scientific methods into its practices.
Out of this survey grew the Board's policy of helping the natural sciences and agriculture as prime objectives; the humanities were also aided, but in lesser degree. It was decided not to undertake permanent functions and not to establish and maintain institutions of its own, but to promote the interests and development of strong institutions by providing support for men and facilities. While the individual gifts varied greatly in size, the amounts were proportioned to the opportunities presented. The largest gift was of $6, 000, 000 for the building of the 200-inch telescope at Palomar Mountain, Southern California, to be operated under the auspices of the California Institute of Technology. When Rose retired from the International Education Board in 1928, its work was almost completed and its activities practically suspended, and the sum of $28, 000, 000 in round figures, consisting of principal and income, had been allocated.
Although he was not a technical scientist, he became a great force in science. The temper of his mind was essentially scientific and he found no difficulty in dealing with scientists on their own ground. Apart from his work, he seemed to have one devouring passion, namely a love of fly-fishing. Honorary degrees were conferred upon him and in 1931 he was awarded the Marcellus Hartley medal of the National Academy of Sciences for the most important application of science to the public welfare. He died suddenly of a heart attack near Sproat Lake, Port Aberni, Vancouver Island, while on a fishing expedition.
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Rose was of middle height, dark complexion, and quiet demeanor, with an acute sense of humor. He was a superb listener, but when he spoke on a subject connected with his work he was extraordinarily clear, complete, and convincing.
On December 29, 1891, Rose married Ella Morio Sadler of Ozark, Ark. Three children, Ethel Lewis, Harold Wickliffe, and Dorothy Taliaferro, were born to them.