Alice Elizabeth Rose

Alice "Bindy" Phillips Rose, national, international and community volunteer, died March 6, 2005 at her home in Atherton.

She was born June 14, 1907, in San Francisco. She was married to Dr. Milton Rose, a prominent Peninsula psychiatrist, for 55 years. Dr. Rose died in 1984.

She received her graduate and professional education from the University of California, Berkeley, the Yale University Graduate School, the Smith College School of Social Work and Columbia University. Since the 1950s, she was an active member of the American Red Cross and assumed many leadership positions at the local, national and international levels. She was appointed a consultant in Social Services to the Board of the Palo Alto Chapter of the American Red Cross and honored with their Chapter Lifetime Achievement Award in 1999.

She was a delegate to National and International Conferences, hostess to International Delegates, panelist at National Conventions and Technical Presenter on the Structure of International Red Cross.

In 1987 she received the highest award of the American Red Cross, the prestigious National Harriman Award for Distinguished Volunteer Service, which included her research and discovery of the original, hand-written Founding Documents of the League of Red Cross Societies. Copies of the documents were subsequently presented to the executive committee of the League of Red Cross Societies, the Henri Dunant Institute in Geneva, Switzerland, and the International Committee of the Red Cross.

She was appointed American representative to the Henri Dunant Institute, consultant to the Ethics Committee of the League of Red Cross Societies and member of the Advisory Board of the Historical Resources Division of the American Red Cross.