University 1975 Mason Gross School of the Arts created 1977 Death in Red Bank, New Jersey Organizations Board of directors Vassar College Taft School Middlesex General Hospital Trustee American Cancer Society Mediation Board of New Jersey National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges References Sources New York Times; August 8, 1954, Sunday; Dr. Mason Gross Judges Quiz Player's Answers. The quiet-spoken, scholarly gentleman seated adjacent to the Quizmaster on C. B. S. television's "Two for the Money" show is Dr. Mason Gross, Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University, and a one-man television brain trust. ... New York Times; February 28, 1959; Gross Named Rutgers President; Scholar Once a TV Personality; Arbiter of Quiz Show Joined Faculty in 1946. Taught Classes in Philosophy. Dr. Gross Named Head of Rutgers. Joint Announcement Noted as Speaker. New Brunswick, New Jersey, February 27, 1959; Dr. Mason W. Gross, a 47-year-old scholar, philosophy professor and former television personality, was named today as the sixteenth president of Rutgers University. ... New York Times; May 7, 1959, Thursday; The new president of Rutgers University, Dr. Mason Welch Gross, is known on the campus at New Brunswick, New Jersey, as a man of unflagging ability. He has demonstrated it in many ways. ... External links Rutgers Leaders, Rutgers History: Mason W. Gross (at the Rutgers University website) Inventory to the Records of the Rutgers University Office of the President (Mason Welch Gross), 1936, 1945-1971 (at Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University) The Mason Gross School of the Arts Mason Gross memorial 1911 births 1977 deaths Taft School alumni Alumni of Jesus College, Cambridge United States Army Air Forces personnel of World War II Harvard University alumni Columbia University faculty Educators from Hartford, Connecticut People from Rumson, New Jersey Presidents of Rutgers University United States Army Air Forces officers Military personnel from New Jersey 20th-century American academics