Marriage
After Rachel and Henry were married, she helped to support their income by giving piano lessons while he attended the University of Michigan, Rachel and Henry were one of the few married couples on campus. They had three children and Henry was beginning to establish himself in engineering when tragedy struck.
Henry Rose died in the encephalitis epidemic of 1934, at the height of the Great Depression. Rachel was left with three children to raise alone and not too many people opted to spend money on piano lessons at that time. So Rachel decided that the only way she could make it was returning to school and she decided to study social work; she received her MSW (Masters in Social Work) in a year and a half.
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