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Richard Rose Timeline (1917 - 2005)
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March 14, 1917
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Born in Benwood,West Virginia.
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Age Five, before entering St. Alphonsus orphanage for primary education. |
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| 1929 |
Rose Family
(front row: Richard, Jr., Joseph, James and young Vincent; second row: Richard, Sr. and wife Marguerite Orum Rose) |
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Around 1929 Richard enters the Capuchin Monastery in Butler, PA. |
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| Leaves monastery after four years and attends Wheeling Central High School for senior year, graduating in 1934. |
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| Enters West Liberty State University to acquire a major in English. |
1938 |
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1939
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1945
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Travels the country taking various jobs, including working as a chemist and metallurgist. He also worked on riverboats on the Ohio as a very young man, recalling those being some of the most pleasant experiences of his youth. |
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| Richard in Baltimore, circa 1942. His brother James Lloyd Rose becomes the first boy in Marshall County, West Virginia to be killed (drowned) during a WWII incident when the USS Delisle is destroyed by a German torpedo. James and Richard were very close, and after his death Richard said he received visitations from his brother. This disturbance may have propelled him further into his spiritual search. |
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1947
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Travels to Seattle, Washington to work, but more importantly, entertains the idea of proposing marriage to a girlfriend. When the illusion of the love affair fell away, Richard saw the complete picture of humanity and experienced a total death of the mind - Satori, Enlightenment, Samadhi – these are just a few of the terms used to describe the complete Death Experience or death of the ego that he experienced. (see The Albigen Papers, “Three Books of the Absolute") |
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Richard on the back farm about one year after his experience in Seattle |
1948 |
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| 1957 |
Richard married Phyllis Elizabeth West of Wheeling, WV in 1950. They had two children together and one adopted. Shown from left to right are Ruth, Kathleen and James. |
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Circa 1957 or 1958 Richard begins writing
The Albigen Papers |
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| Richard sitting under the sycamore tree on the family farmstead, age 57, when lectures were first starting on college campuses. First lecture was at the Theosophical Society in Pittsburgh, attended by a young University of Pittsburgh student, Augie Turak, who encouraged Richard to do more student lectures. |
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Richard at Harvard University.
By this time he had already started the lecture circuit at such campuses as Kent State, University of Pittsburgh and Brown University in Providence, RI where he met his future wife, Cecy. |
November 1975
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| Construction of the Community Building begins around early 1970’s based on the design of the Capuchin Monastery. |
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Richard and a crew of students, summer of 1976, who attended his lectures and came to his family farm to begin construction of the Chautauqua building where, each summer, dozens of people would come to attend seminars. |
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Richard lectures at seminars across the country. Two students from Pittsburgh, Dave Gold, author of After the Absolute (Duquesne) and Augie Turak (U. of Pittsburgh), acted as coordinators for these “Chautauquas”. |
1977 |
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| From around 1971 until he became incapacitated with Alzheimer’s Disease, Richard held quarterly meetings on his farm where students from across the country gathered to hear him talk and receive advice concerning their own search. Around this time he created an organization known as the TAT Foundation, standing for Truth and Transmission. |
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| 1980 |
Birth of his child, Tatia, to second wife, Cecy Rose. |
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One year before a head injury (caused by getting hit by a car while on foot), that would launch him into the early signs of Alzheimer’s, he stands with his eight-year-old daughter at Tappan Lake in Ohio, one of his favorite spots to visit on a Sunday drive. |
1988 |
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Richard retires from the lecture circuit due to Alzheimer related problems.
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Richard enters a local nursing home and is then transferred to Weirton.
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1997 |
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| Richard walked the farm every autumn with his wife and daughter. A painting of this scene (by Cecy Rose) hangs on the walls of the Alzheimer Unit at Weirton Geriatric Center as a memoriam to one of its more notable residents. |
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July 6, 2005
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The early morning of July 6, 2005, Richard S.V. Rose, Jr. passes away at WGC in Weirton, WV. (Tribute) |
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