James McKinley Rose Jr. ’51

Jim was born Aug. 8, 1927, in New York to J.M. Rose 1913 and Helen Goodwin Rose.  

Jim came to us from Buckley and Phillips Exeter. He was a cadet in the Knickerbocker Greys. Jim served in the Army before coming to Princeton, where he was a history major and president of the Princeton Senate, belonged to Charter Club, graduated with honors, and roomed with Dick Paynter and Henry Tifft. He earned a law degree from Harvard in 1954.  

Jim and Anne Bourne were married in 1960. He had a noteworthy career in law, starting with Dewey Ballantine and ending with the Federal Emergency Management Agency when he retired in 1993. During their years in Washington, both Jim and Ann served as docents at the Washington National Cathedral. He was a member of the Chevy Chase Club. In their later years they maintained the house his grandparents built in 1911 on Prouts Neck, Maine. In 2014 they moved to Piper Shores in Scarborough, Maine.  

Jim died March 3, 2019, at the Holbrook Health Center in Scarborough. He is survived by Anne; their daughters, Anne Williams and Louise (Lee) Emery; grandchildren Averill and Hayden Emery; and Jim’s sister, Jean Gould.