Ross (and Ross)

Eleven years ago, Mary Bishop Ross joined the staff of this magazine as associate editor. That happy, productive association comes to an end with this issue, with her retirement to what she claims is the bucolic life of Waterford, Maine. (Her retirement there will increase the number of Democrats in Waterford by 100 per cent, if that sounds bucolic.) For the readers of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, Mary Ross carefully crafted upwards of 100 "Alumni Album" profiles, many of them about famous people, many about people who would soon become famous, and some about people who were never heard of again. For the rest of us on the staff, however, Ross (as we call her) "fixed things" things we overlooked, more often things we should have known but didn't.

The (and Ross) is Robert Ross '38, who sensibly waited until Mary Ross got the hang of this place before joining the staff as reviews editor. English professors, of which he was one, frequently are skeptical souls, and Robert Ross was skeptical at first about joining us because of "how it would look to have both Mary and me on the staff." We told him that quality is what counts. And it did.

Mary Ross and Bob Ross are going off to that two-Democrat town of Waterford together.