On November 15th, 1998 longtime Kings Island public relations director Ruth Voss passed away. She is best known for her early morning rides on The Beast that she reported as helping her arthritis. She eventually asked if some ACE members would care to join her for the morning rides, and the tradition of the ACE walk back to The Beast was started.

Thanks to Ruth Voss this tradition still happens and I hope Cedar Fair keeps this tradition because Kings Island has been good to ACE for many of years.

Ruth was pure class.

I still have quite a few press releases that were signed by her.

Ruth Voss was a very special lady. She exuded excitement for Kings Island, excelled in her relationships with the media and park guests, and made everyone feel that they were Kings Island's and her very special guest.

She was, most of all, a friend of all...of Kings Island, of the people she served and of all who knew her.

She is missed. Next time you ride The Beast, think of Ruth. If you knew her, this will be particularly easy. If you didn't, think of Ruth and of all the Ruths who have contributed to make Kings Island, and for that matter the world, the place it is today.

It's really a shame that the younger folk never got a chance to meet her.

She was indeed a very special lady. Mrs. Voss passed just prior to me working at the park, and I recall how many of the long-term employees were still lamenting her passing... specifically The Beast maintenance crew.

She left quite a mark... even outside of KI. As a matter of fact, I think Richard Nixon mentioned her in a speech he gave. Not positive it's her. but sure seems like it... here's a link to it:

http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=3197

It says:

"Then yesterday, while you were taking your tour of the White House, another lovely lady came to see me. She was from Cincinnati, Ohio--Mrs. Ruth Voss, the mother of eight children. She worked for the Cincinnati Enquirer. Incidentally, whenever I get discouraged with the Washington Post, I read the editorials in the Cincinnati Enquirer. But she works as their teenage editor. Over the past few years, this woman, with eight children, has given over 50 percent of her time working on projects for teens. Her present project is to develop in Cincinnati a halfway house for girls who have gone to correctional institutions and then come back into productive life and, of course, need a chance, a chance to get some hope, a job, and so forth.

As she described what she was doing, not in a boasting way because I was probing her to find out what she was doing, I realized what a perfectly remarkable woman she was. I also realized that across this country there are hundreds of thousands of women like her doing volunteer work, with young people, with older people, with those who have not had a chance, with those who were disabled.

I think of the volunteer spirit of America, and I think what a good country this is. "

WOW.

I met Ruth when I was younger (around 6 or 7) she is a great lady, pure class.