Glenola Rose

Glenola Behling was born in Buffalo, New York, the daughter of Charles Ernst Behling and Anna Beitz Behling.[2] She graduated from Masten Park High School in Buffalo in 1908, and earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Chicago in 1913.[3] She pursued further studies at the University of Michigan, where she completed a master's degree in chemistry.[4] She completed doctoral studies in chemistry at the University of Washington in 1915, with a dissertation titled "The isolation of inorganic compounds with special reference to the green salts of cobalt."[5]

Rose worked in the Dyestuffs Technical Laboratory at DuPont from 1918 to 1935.[6][7][8] In 1921, she presented Marie Curie with an honorary membership in Iota Sigma Pi.[9] In the early 1920s, she served on a committee on women in chemistry for the American Association of University Women and the Bureau of Vocational Information.[10] She ran the Women's Service Committee of the American Chemical Society, which she co-founded in 1926.[9][11][12] She also spoke to community women's organizations about her work.[13]

Rose was president of the Wilmington Business and Professional Women's Club in 1923.[14] She and her husband traveled extensively,[15][16] and photographed the wildflowers of New Jersey; she shared travel films and slide presentations on both subjects with community organizations.[17][18] In 1952 she studied public health and education in Puerto Rico.[19]

In 1915, Glenola Behling married fellow chemist Robert Evstafieff Rose, a British subject born in Italy.[4][20][21] Her husband died in 1946,[22] and she died in Salem County, New Jersey, in 1970, aged 79 years.[23]