[1] While working in Philadelphia Hum met and married to Ku Young Lee, a Chinese national who was in the US pursuing an engineering degree from the University of Pennsylvania.
[2] During the Japanese invasion of China in 1937, Rose organized emergency social services for displaced widows and children.
in social work from the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, financing her degree with "lectures and freelance writing about the situation in China.
"[1] She completed her doctorate at the University of Chicago in 1947 with her thesis titled, The Growth and Decline of Chinese Communities in the Rocky Mountain Region.
[1] Rose gained a teaching position in sociology at the newly formed Roosevelt University in Chicago.