Nielsen, Sandra Lee (Rose), (July 5, 1939—April 6, 2022)
Sandra Lee Rose from Aldan (a borough west of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) attended Grinnell as a freshman and sophomore. For her first year she was an intramural chair for the WRA [Women’s Recreational Association?]
In December 1957 she sang Christmas carols while walking down the women’s loggia from Mears to Loose Hall for a Christmas Vespers service, where she also sang while Joan Christiansen and Mariann Rice were readers.
For her second year she was a resident of Haines Hall and continued as a member of the College choir. In May 1959 she sang at a Herrick Chapel concert as a member of in an acapella madrigal group that sang “The Swan” by Paul Hindemith and “My Spirit Sang All Day” by Gerald Finzi and six folk songs by Johannes Brahms.
Thereafter she transferred to Pennsylvania University and subsequently had jobs as Export Traffic Manager for Ballagh and Thrall, Inc. in Philadelphia and then as Manager-Buyer for Scandinavian imports for the Scandinavian Center in Plymouth, PA.
On June 3, 1961, she married Svend Nielsen (from Copenhagen, Denmark). They had one son, Sven Eric Nielsen, born April 15, 1966.
