Rosemarie Eleanor Clive's Obituary
Rosemarie Eleanor Clive (nee Dupont), LPN, CTR, passed away on December 19, 2015 at The Villages Regional Hospital in The Villages, Florida.
A native of Bridgewater, MA, Ms. Clive resided for two decades in Chicago, where she retired in 1999 as Director of the Cancer Department of the American College of Surgeons (ACoS). She focused her work on the development of standards for Commission on Cancer (CoC) approved hospital cancer programs and coding and standards for the reporting of computerized data collection on the diagnosis, staging, treatment and follow-up of patients with malignant disease. Rosemarie was a participant in standardization working with local, state, national and international cancer organizations such as the American Cancer Society (ACS); American Joint Committee on Cancer Staging (AJCC), Association of Community Cancer Centers (ACCC), Center for Disease Control (CDC), International Union Against Cancer (UICC) in Switzerland, National Cancer Institute Surveillance. Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) program, National Cancer Regestrars Association (NCRA), North American Association of Central Cancer Registries (NAACCR), World Health Organization (WHO) in France, the Arab Emirate headquartered in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Ms. Clive held numerous offices including president of NCRA; president of the Tumor Registrars Association of New England (TRANE), and advisor to the President of the Florida Cancer Registrars Association. She was the recipient of the Distinguished Member Award of the NCRA and the Calum Muir Award of the NAACCR. Author of more than thirty publications, Rosemarie traveled throughout the US as well to Brazil, France, Germany, Switzerland, Norway, Saudi Arabia and Kazakhstan addressing the need for standardization and computerization of cancer data in order to target scarce resources to address local and national cancer issues.
She is preceded in death by her parents, Anthony J. and Eleanor M. (Giovannoni) Dupont, her brother John A. Dupont, and her sons, Anthony A. Monte and Fred Hirsh. Surviving Ms. Clive are four daughters and a son and their respective spouses: Roseanne M. Eberle (Tom), Christine E. Hirsh, Adrianne L. Manson (Bob), Heidi A. Monte and Jude T. Monte (Marilyn) and eleven grandchildren, ten great-grandchildren. She was devoted to her two sisters, Mary Lou Dumoulin of Winter Park, FL and Antoinette T. Fanjoy of Middleboro, MA.
The Funeral Mass will take place at St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church, Wildwood, FL on Monday, January 4, 2016 at 10:00 AM where Rosemarie was a communicant. Interment will be in St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church in Bridgewater, MA. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Rosemarie Clive Scholarship Fund of the Central Florida Registrars Association or to the charity of your preference.
On-line condolences may be shared by visiting www.bankspagetheus.com. Arrangements are entrusted to Banks/Page-Theus Funerals and Cremations, Wildwood.
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