Donald Gunn Ross III [Don Ross] is the g.g.g.g.grandson of Sergeant Donald McKay, and is a first-cousin-4-times-removed to the clipper ship builder Donald McKay. He attended Ulster County Community College in Stone Ridge, New York where he lives today. He holds a degree in journalism with all elective courses in history from the State University of New York at New Paltz. He is an avid hiker, mountain biker, canoeist, and sailor, and hopes someday to sail around Cape Horn aboard an American clipper ship.