Helen Maria Roser

Roser was from Glastonbury, Connecticut, the daughter of Herman Roser and Maria Ursula Heim Roser. Both of her parents were immigrants from Germany; her father was president of a tannery,[1] and her mother was a founding member of the Visiting Nurses Association in Glastonbury.[2] Helen Roser graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 1925.[3] She earned a nursing degree from Columbia University School of Nursing and a master's degree from Teachers College, Columbia University.[4]

Roser was a nurse and nursing educator. She was head nurse at the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York, and taught nursing courses at Columbia University.[4] She was co-author of Anatomy and physiology laboratory manual and study guide (1939, 1943, 1948), with Barry Griffith King; the textbook went through several editions in the 1940s.[5][6][7] During World War II, she was director of nursing education at the Institute of Living, a psychiatric facility in Hartford.[4][8] She was assistant executive secretary of the American Nurses Association's Professional Counseling and Placement Service from 1945 to 1953, based at ANA's headquarters in Maryland.[9][10][11] In 1947, she spoke at the annual meeting of the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses, in Atlanta.[12]

She was associate director of the Hartford Hospital School of Nursing in Connecticut from 1953[13] until she retired in 1968.[14] In retirement, she was active with the Visiting Nurses Association, the Women's Board of Hartford Seminary, and the Campfire Girls.[15]

Roser died in 1992, in Hartford, aged 89 years.[4]