1. Rose R Terlin was an American Christian leader, economist, author of several books on religion and economic justice and a YWCA leader.
10 Facts About Rose Terlin
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Rose Terlin studied at the University of California at Berkeley, where she gained a master's degree in economics.
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Rose Terlin was one of the main supporters of the Fellowship in the early days, as were Eduard Heimann, Sherwood Eddy and Paul Tillich.
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On 9 October 1939 a witness told the Dies Committee that Rose Terlin was a member of the Young Communist League and that she had attended the national training school run by the Communist Party.
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Rose Terlin denied this in a sworn affidavit, but the charge was often brought up as evidence that the YWCA had been infiltrated by Communists.
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Rose Terlin was a member of the national board of the YWCA USA from 1939 to 1943, and was director of social and economic studies of the WSCF in Geneva.
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Rose Terlin became a supporter of the Committee for a Democratic Far Eastern Policy.
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Rose Terlin was director of public relations for the YWCA in Pittsburgh from 1955 to 1960.
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Rose Terlin moved to Washington, DC in 1960 and joined the Department of Labor's Women's Bureau, where she became a senior economist.
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Rose Terlin died of cancer on 17 June 1979, aged 71, at the Washington Home Hospice.