
Class: 1970
Major: Anthropology, Sociology
Residence: Seattle, WA
Deceased: February 27, 2020
Alumni survivors: Ms. Elena Rosenberg-Carlson ’12 (Niece)
Anita Erin Ross, nee Anita Joan Rosenberg, ’70, Seattle, WA, passed away on March 6, 2020. Born in Chicago on February 10, 1949, she was raised largely in Washington, DC, and Bethesda, MD. Anita graduated from Carleton with a major in Anthropology and Sociology, after spending her junior year studying Arabic at the University of Wisconsin. Post-college, she worked at an underground news service illuminating the truth of the Vietnam War, traveled widely, lived in Greece, and designed and painted a mural on the walls of a children’s bomb shelter in Israel. She met her husband-to-be, Scott Hofmann, fighting fires in the Northwest woods. They married in 1982. She also discovered what would become her lifelong passion for belly dancing. In 1983 she graduated from the University of Washington Medical School, entering family practice. She soon came to divide her work as a physician with her performances as an acclaimed professional belly dancer under the moniker Sabura, making her own elaborate costumes and championing Middle Eastern dance and culture in Seattle. Some of her favorite performances can be viewed on YouTube. Survivors include her husband, Scott Hofmann, mother Mae Stephen, sisters Lisa Rosenberg and Sharon Andrews, brothers Frank Rosenberg and Robert Rosenberg, and many other relatives and friends, including her niece Elena Rosenberg-Carlson ’12.
A small, slight woman, silvery and still
Rests her gaze in the embrace of mountains
Arrayed like an eternal necklace before her
Without a sound
Her arms lift and glide
Her fine veil sails high and floats down
Her costume echoes like rain
Now and forever
She is dancing
2/27/20
Comments
She was a friend. I hadn't seen her for fifty years, but I'm much saddened to hear that she's gone. Sympathy to all of you where were close to her and loved her.
I just read that Anita passed away in the Carlton Voice. My heart is heavy with her loss even though I hadn't seen her since college. She was a beautiful soul!
I remember Anita Rosenberg, right before she went away to College, I was only in the first grade then but I remember that she was so nice to me, I never saw Anita again, I am very sad about her passing away, it was almost like many years ago, right before Anita went away to college, she was saying Goodbye, then. You never know, You cannot take anyone for granted. From, Lydia Gray
dance in the Northwest winds, Anita