Dr. Donald Morris Ross

A very nice man. I got to meet you later in life.

Hello Ross Family, My condolences to the family. I didn´t know the Doop personally; however, reading his obituary I feel a kindred spirit and soul mate. I can relate to being a bridge playing tennis enthusiast and collecting way too much of everything interesting. Let the fond memories resound and soothe your loss. Michael J. Piellusch

I got to know Don In 1980 when he became my supervisor at the Department of Energy. He was one of those rare supervisors who took genuine pleasure in the success of his employees. Before the internet, there was Don Ross´ rolodex and his floor-to-ceiling bookshelves full of industrial hygiene and health physics journals. He seemed to know everyone, at least anyone associated with a national lab or school of public health. You were rarely more than a phone call away from the world´s best...

It is not possible to imagine endless years of childhood without the Ross family quickly coming to memory. Mr. and Mrs. Ross figured large in all departments of my family life -- socializing with my parents, Mr. Ross for many years the tennis partner of my father (I the ball boy), Mrs. Ross rousing assemblies to song around our piano, the Ross kids floating about the school and neighborhood. It was yesterday, it seems, when the world was small but seemed so large, that the voices and...