Home Joseph Rose, Former NCS Deputy Manager, Dies Arlington, VA., July 12, 2002 - Joseph Rose, 79, an electrical engineer who served as the Deputy Manager of the National Communications System (NCS) from 1973 to 1981, died July 2 at a hospital in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Mr. Rose served four different NCS Managers in his NCS tenure as the Deputy Manager before retiring from the Government in 1981. He followed his Government career by spending a decade in the Washington area as a communications engineer with IBM. Among the communications systems Mr. Rose worked on was the Washington-Moscow hotline. He also had done work involving transatlantic cable. An Annandale resident who also maintained a home in Virginia Beach, Mr. Rose had lived in Northern Virginia since 1953. The Philadelphia native served in the Pacific with the Army Air Forces during World War II and was a 1979 graduate of George Mason University. Over the years, he had done volunteer work with the Fairfax Hospital auxiliary, as a docent with the Albert Small Jewish Museum in Washington and as an usher at Washington’s Arena Stage. He also was a boating safety instructor with the Coast Guard auxiliary.
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