# Sandy Ruby

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American mathematician

**Sandow "Sandy" Sacks Ruby** (July 23, 1941 – November 22, 2008) was an American [mathematician](/source/Mathematician) and [entrepreneur](/source/Entrepreneur) who helped found the electronics retail company Tech HiFi.[1]

He was born in [Orange, New Jersey](/source/Orange%2C_New_Jersey), to Myron Ruby and Leonore Sacks. The earliest years of his life were spent on army bases as his father served as an officer in the [United States Army](/source/United_States_Army) during [World War II](/source/World_War_II) but the rest of his childhood was mostly spent in [Essex Fells](/source/Essex_Fells%2C_New_Jersey) and [South Orange](/source/South_Orange%2C_New_Jersey). After graduation from [Phillips Academy](/source/Phillips_Academy) in [Andover, Massachusetts](/source/Andover%2C_Massachusetts), he was accepted into [Harvard](/source/Harvard), where he studied mathematics, he later attended M.I.T.[1]

While at [M.I.T.](/source/M.I.T.) he and a fellow student by the name of [John Strohbeen](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_Strohbeen&action=edit&redlink=1) started selling stereos out of their dorm room, a business which would grow into Tech HiFi, one of the largest consumer electronics chains in the country. Ruby and Strohbeen opened their first store at the corner of [Massachusetts Avenue](/source/Massachusetts_Avenue_(Boston)) and Vassar street in [Cambridge](/source/Cambridge%2C_Massachusetts). The business had expanded to more than eighty stores by the time they went out of business during the mid eighties.[2]

He died in [Boston](/source/Boston) at the age of 67 from [diabetes](/source/Diabetes)-related complications.[1] He was the brother of Democratic Party official Alice Germond, and the half-brother of poet and journalist [Michael Handler Ruby](/source/Michael_Handler_Ruby).

## References

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-Weber-nyt_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-Weber-nyt_1-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-Weber-nyt_1-2) Weber, Bruce (November 26, 2008). ["Sandy Ruby, Co-Founder of Tech Hifi, Dies at 67".](https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/27/business/27ruby.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries) *[The New York Times](/source/The_New_York_Times)*.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** Lawrence, J.M. (November 30, 2008). ["Sandy Ruby; launched Tech HiFi from MIT dorm room.](http://archive.boston.com/bostonglobe/obituaries/articles/2008/11/30/sandy_ruby_launched_tech_hifi_from_mit_dorm_room/) *[The Boston Globe](/source/The_Boston_Globe)*.

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