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Lucille Mason Rose was the New York City Commissioner of Employment.

Early life
She was New York City's Commissioner of Employment, Lucille Mason Rose oversees an agency which attempts to find skilled job openings and then train unskilled and uneducated workers to qualify for the jobs. Born in Richmond, Va., she came to Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant section as a young child when her family moved North. While attending Girls' High, she joined the local branch of the NAACP. She has always been a firm believer in diligent work and personal responsibility. When her husband enlisted in World War II, she enrolled as a welding trainee at the Brooklyn Navy Yard to earn money for their house mortgage.

Career
In 1949 Mrs. rose joined the Department of Social Services. She graduated from Brooklyn College at night in 1963 (B.A., economics), and was shortly thereafter appointed director of the Bedford-Stuyvesant field office of the city's Department of Labor. When the poverty programs centralized neighborhood employment services in 1966, Mrs. Rose became the first director of the Bedford-Stuyvesant Manpower Center. Mayor Lindsay appointed her first deputy commissioner of the Manpower and Development Agency in 1970, where she remained until November 1972, when she was named to be the city's employment chief.

Under Mrs. Rose's direction, the city's employment agency locates employment openings and then trains people on the job, a program which avoids the old pitfall of training workers for nonexistent jobs. "Our main concern," she says, "is to get poor people into jobs."