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Ian Simpson Ross (9 August 1930, Dundee). He remembers growing up in the Depression and watching unemployed men line up outside the "burro" – the bureau – to get their dole money. He went to Blackness Primary, Dundee. He then received a bursary to go to Harris Academy, Dundee, he started out doing technical subjects, but was encouraged to take Latin in his third year. He didn't pass his Higher Latin, however. He remembers being very active in Sports at school – rugby, football, golf, cricket…