Rosa Roberto Carter | |
Office: | President of the University of Guam |
Term Start: | 1977 |
Term End: | 1983 |
Predecessor: | Antonio C. Yamashita |
Successor: | Jose Q. Cruz |
Birthname: | Rosa Garrido Roberto-Carter |
Birth Date: | 29 August 1929 |
Death Place: | Yona, Guam |
Spouse: | Lee Carter |
Party: | Republican Party of Guam |
Alma Mater: | Northern State University Sydney University Northern Colorado University Bowling Green State University |
Rosa Garrido Roberto-Carter (August 29, 1929 – April 11, 2010) was a Guamanian educator who served as the President of the University of Guam from 1977 to 1983.[1]
Carter, the oldest of nine children, was born to Antonia Santos Garrido and Jose Duenas Roberto on 29 August 1929. Under the Japanese occupation of Guam (1941-1944). she and her family survived through World War II, including internment in 1944 in the Manengon concentration camp.
Carter was inducted into the Guam Educator's Hall of Fame though a legislative resolution.
She died at her home in Yona, Guam, at the age of 80.[1]