Mary Rose was also pleased to be an Adjunct Associate Professor at the School of Public Health. She was the inspiration (and much of the perspiration) behind the development, implementation and funding of the Carolina Global Breastfeeding Institute in the Department of Maternal and Child Health where she co-taught 2 courses and offered lectures in many others.
She particularly wanted us to start a lactation consultant training program for masters students, and possibly some day to expand to accept others.
Last summer, she started this effort, which we (unofficially) named the Mary Rose Tully Training Initiative last year. We will now be seeking official status for this name.

Now that the business is done, please allow me to add a personal note.

Mary Rose has been a colleague and friend for decades, but in recent years, since she contributed to the effort to bring me down here, she has been my closest colleague and confidante. If things had been otherwise, we would have been driving up to DC today to room together at the USBC and national state coalitions meeting. At this moment we would have been scheming or gossiping or singing together.
I have missed her during her illness, and will feel her absence always. AND she promised me, that wherever she is, she will be letting us know, somehow, what we need to do to fulfill her dreams for breastfeeding, milk banking, and for the lactation consultant profession.

Miriam