From a Washington Post obit by Matt Schudel headlined “Donald Ross, leader of public advocacy groups, dies at 78”:
Mr. Ross had been a Peace Corps volunteer and was a recent law school graduate when he joined Nader’s Public Citizen movement in 1970 as one of the first of the idealistic “Nader’s Raiders,” who aimed to improve environmental and consumer protections and to make corporate America more responsible to the public.
