From St. Poelten to America [1906-1997]

The memoirs were written in the United States in 1997. Childhood recollections. Ambition of Rosa's father, a leather merchant, to send his daughter to Gymnasium (high school) in order to prepare her for studies at the University. Rosa was the only female student in the local Gymnasium. Recollections of World War One. After graduation in 1924 she enrolled at the University of Vienna. Her plan to study medicine was opposed by her mother, so she registered in pharmacology and chemistry. In 1930 she became engaged with her future-husband Dr. Ludwig Kubin, specialist in dermatology. Rosa received her doctorate in chemistry in 1931. She got a position with the Austrian Chemical Works as the only female applicant among 50. Rosa and Ludwig Kubin were married in 1935. Preparations for their emigration prior to the Anschluss 1938. The couple received affidavits for the United States. They left for Portland, Oregon via Switzerland and Paris in 1938. Life as immigrants in the new country. Rosa became the breadwinner of the family as a hospital technician at the Oregon Medical School. They moved to Boston, were they both obtained positions at the Waltham hospital. Rosa became an Assistant Professor of chemistry at Middlesex University (later: Brandeis University). Sudden death of her husband in 1954. Rosa Kubin was the only women honored as a 50-year member by the American Chemical Society at Harvard in 1990.Rosa Kubin, 1998Rosa Kubin was the oldest daughter of Richard and Klara Lustig. She was born in St. Poelten, Austria in 1906. Rosa studied chemistry at the Vienna University. She emigrated with her husband Ludwig Kubin to the United States in 1938.Synopsis in fileHabsburg-Lothringen, Otto, 1912-St. PoeltenBostonCambridgeParisPortlandSemmeringWalthamViennaAustriaAmerican-Austrian-AssociationAmerican Chemical SocietyAustrian Chemical WorksChildhoodEducation, primary and secondary, 1918-1933Harvard UniversityHospitalsOregon Medical Schoo