Lucinda Hopstetter Rose of Starkville, professor of curriculum and instruction in the College of Education at Mississippi State, died Oct. 9, 1996. She was 52.
A native of Huntington, W. Va., Rose received her undergraduate degree at the University of Arizona and master's and doctoral degrees at Northern Arizona University.
She came to Mississippi State in 1989 after teaching social studies in the Arizona Public Schools.
She chaired the President's Commission on the Status of Women at Mississippi State and had been named an intern in the Office of the Provost shortly before her death. She served as adviser to Kappa Delta Pi and was project facilitator for the Mississippi Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.) Program and of Project Wild sponsored by the state Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks.
Last summer, as director of the Senior Block Field Experience, she accepted for the College of Education and the university the 1996 Forum Award for Excellence, presented by the Public Education Forum.
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