From 1912 to 1915, she taught piano and voice at Walla Walla College where she worked as an assistant to Grace Wood-Reith, music department chair. Reith, who had taught Shaffer when she had been a student at WWC, made the hiring of Shaffer a condition for her accepting leadership of the music program at WWC.

Shaffer, who also directed the chorus, married J. Wilson Rowland in the summer of 1913. She left with her husband when he graduated from WWC in 1915 and accepted a position as Sabbath School Secretary at the Singapore Mission. During there thirteen years there, she taught music at the Malayan Seminary from 1926 to 1928. They then worked in Borneo, where he served as Sabbath School Secretary at the British North Borneo mission until 1933, when they returned to the United States.

The Rowlands subsequently served at Auburn Academy, Canadian Jr. College in Alberta, and Union College before returning to the Far East to Phillipine Union College, now Philippine Adventist University. They retired to Portland, Oregon, where they lived until his death. She spent the rest of her life in St Helena, California.

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