This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JRB.2ACE/1505 Message Board Post: The Sun, San Bernardino, CA - Wednesday, August 18, 2004 DONALD HAROLD ROSE dedicated more than 40 years of his life to helping people at his Del Rosa Medical Clinic. Rose, a 70-year San Bernardino resident, died August 2 at Loma Linda University Community Hospital after battling heart disease. He was 76. “His life was medicine – it was the No. 1 thing,” said his son, Damon Rose, of San Bernardino. Rose was born June 8, 1928 in the Bronx, New York. In 1936, his family moved to San Bernardino, where his father opened an auto parts store. At 16, Rose graduated from San Bernardino High School and went on to earn several degrees from UC Berkeley, including a master’s in history. While in college, Rose worked as a ballroom dance instructor and a professional dancer. He even appeared as a background dancer in Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly movies, Rose’s son said. He earned an osteopathic degree from UC Irvine and later received a medical degree from UCLA. He did his surgery residencies in Iowa and Vienna, Austria. Rose founded his private practice on Del Rosa Avenue in the early 196t0s. He also founded the Fellow of the American Academy of Family Practice and help found Loma Linda Community Hospital, which now is Loma Linda University Community Medical Center. In addition, he served on the San Bernardino County Museum Commission, was a professor at San Bernardino Valley College and was affiliated with a number of hospitals and medical organizations. Patients and friends described him as very passionate about his profession and being able to help people, Damon Rose said. Donald Rose was appointed by President Ronald Regan in the early 1980s to be an emissary to the American ambassador to Switzerland and was later appointed as a special ambassador for the United Nations on world health care, his son said. Outside of work, Rose enjoyed skiing, swimming and riding his Arabian stallion. “He enjoyed sunshine and the beach,” Damon Rose said. “He loved traveling – he’d been all over the world. And he especially liked working in his garden.” When he began having serious heart problems about six months ago, Rose closed his 43-year-old clinic. Other survivors include a son, Sven Rose of Los Angeles, CA; a sister, Betty Russel of Pal Springs; and one granddaughter. Services were held. Aaron Cremation and Burial Services/Mark B. Shaw Chapel in San Bernardino handled the arrangements. NOTE: Submitter is not related in any way to deceased. Obituary is provided for genealogical interest only.