Mason Welch Gross
| Mason Welch Gross | |
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| Born | June 11, 1911 Hartford, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Died | October 11, 1977 (aged 66) Riverview Hospital Red Bank, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Education |
Jesus College, Cambridge Harvard University |
| Title | President of Rutgers University |
| Term | 1959–1971 |
| Predecessor | Lewis Webster Jones |
| Successor | Edward Bloustein |
| Spouse(s) | Julia Kernan |
| Children | Ellen Clarissa Gross Katharine Wood Gross Charles Welles Gross Thomas Welch Gross |
| Parent(s) | Hilda Frances Welch (c1880-1962) Charles Welles Gross (1877-1957) |
Mason Welch Gross (June 11, 1911 – October 11, 1977) was an American television quiz show personality and academic who served as the sixteenth President of Rutgers University, serving from 1959 to 1971.
He was born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1911 to Hilda Frances Welch (c. 1880-1962) and Charles Welles Gross (1877–1957). He had two siblings: Spencer Gross (1906–1982) and Cornelia Gross (1914-?). Charles Gross was an attorney. Mason started in the Hartford public grade school system and two years at Hartford High School. He then entered the Taft School, a preparatory school in Watertown, Connecticut in 1925. In 1927 he became ill following his inoculation for scarlet fever. He missed a year of school and spent part of the year at a ranch belonging to his mother's cousin in Arizona.
Mason earned his Bachelor of Arts in 1934; and Master of Arts degree in classics in 1937, at Jesus College, University of Cambridge. While there he rowed under the legendary Steve Fairbairn.
He returned to the United States and studied at Harvard University under Alfred North Whitehead, earning his PhD in 1938. He taught at Columbia University from 1938 to 1942, where he met Julia Kernan, a Vassar graduate, and they married on September 6, 1940. They had four children together: Ellen Clarissa Gross who married Frank A. Miles, Katharine Wood Gross who married Clayton H. Farnham, Charles Welles Gross, and Thomas Welch Gross.
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