death_date successor religion birth_place nationality office birth_date term_start article_title term_end name
20 july 2000 david w. slater protestant sydney , nova scotia canadian president of york university 12 april 1910 1959 murray g. ross
 1970 murray george ross
murray g. ross

murray george ross , -lrb- april 12 , 1910 -- july 20 , 2000 -rrb- was a canadian sociologist , author , and academic administrator .
he was the founding president of toronto 's york university and served in that role from 1959 to 1970 .
born in sydney , nova scotia , ross received a bachelor of arts degree in economics and sociology from acadia university in 1936 .
he received a master of arts degree in sociology from the university of toronto in 1938 .
he did post-graduate work in sociology at the university of chicago in 1939 and in social psychology from columbia university in 1949 .
he received a ll.d .
from the university of toronto in 1971 .
in 1951 , ross was appointed an associate professor of social work at the university of toronto .
he became a professor in 1955 .
from 1956 to 1957 , he was an executive assistant to the president and was a vice-president from 1957 to 1959 .
in 1959 , he was appointed president of york university and served until 1970 when he became a professor of social science .
he retired in 1972 .
