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Article: Ralph Ross; professor, former head of `U' humanities program.(NEWS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- April 19, 2000
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Ralph G. Ross, chairman of the University of Minnesota's humanities program in the 1950s and '60s and a champion of liberal arts education, died on April 7 in Uplands, Calif., of complications from pneumonia. He was 89.
Ross assembled such famous writers as Allen Tate, Saul Bellow, John Berryman and James Wright under the humanities banner at Minnesota and sought to give them a broad audience.
"He was one of the most notable professors I ever knew," said A. Boyd Thomes of Minneapolis, a retired physician who knew Ross as patient, teacher and friend. "If I wanted to know what Plato said about something, I'd call Ralph. If you wanted to know anything ...