Dr. Albert P. Rosen

Is Albert P Rosen still alive?He was one of the authors of the "New York Walk Book" and our pediatrician when we lived in New Jersey.(2years, 28 days, 10 hours, 13 minutes- aloifetime!-My apologies to any still having to wake up every morning so far from the mountains!) He kept a rabbit running loose (box trained) in his house/office and gave away the baby bunnies to toddlers and thier unsuspecting parents.
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Dr Rosen is still alive.His wife died in 2001, but I just found this via a google search.

I have a friend of mine who has verified some trails for the NJ walk book but not the NY one.He's credited in the book I believe.

RIDGEWOOD - Asked for one story that illuminates the spirit of retired pediatrician Albert P. Rosen, the nurses from The Valley Hospital's pediatric ward all agreed: the one about the lamb.

"He snuck it up the back stairs.All of a sudden, we hear this thing making noise.We look in the room and there's this lamb sitting on a kid's bed," said Jane Van Hoff, who worked with Rosen at Valley for 18 years.
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Rosen was honored by the hospital, his colleagues, and friends Sunday for his unique approach to life and doctoring.A nursing station on the newly renovated pediatric ward at Valley was also dedicated in the memory of his wife, Shirley, who died last year.

Speakers described Rosen as a gentle and adventurous man who loved animals and the outdoors, treated his patients and their families with the utmost respect, and respected nurses in a way few doctors do."Albert, every time I talk to you I feel better about human beings and what physicians really should be," said Earl Wheaten, director of medical education for the hospital.

Rosen, 86, began his career in 1949, after serving in the Army Medical Corps.

"It was either internal medicine or pediatrics," he said."In retrospect, my choice was impeccable."

Pediatricians were besieged by measles and polio.House calls cost $5 and office visits were $3.

In 1951, The Valley Hospital opened, and Rosen became one of seven pediatricians.In 1958, he was named director of pediatrics, a role he filled until 1976.

He and his wifealso had an office at their home in Fair Lawn.While there, children could wander through his garden or play with his animals, which included the lamb, two goats, several rabbits, and baby chickens.

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In their spare time, Rosen and his wife would travel, and each year they would send holiday cards with a photograph of the two in some distant land.

Of new pediatricians, Rosen says, "They're the luckiest people in the world."