Александр Кокран Кашинг: Американдық адвокат және Squaw Valley шаңғы курортының негіз қалаушысы

American lawyer

Alexander Cochrane Cushing (November 28, 1913 – August 19, 2006) was a lawyer who founded Squaw Valley Ski Resort in California.

Alexander Cochrane Cushing was born on November 28, 1913, in New York City. He was the son of Howard Gardiner Cushing (1869–1916), a well known artist who died when Cushing was three years old, and Ethel (née Cochrane) Cushing (1882–1948), who had poor health most of her life. an artist. His older brother, Howard Gardiner Cushing Jr. (1906–1979), married Mary Callender Ames (1908–1982), daughter of Frederick Lothrop Ames Jr. In 1925, his mother remarried to James Denison Sawyer (1875–1943), As a child, he lived at a home on East 70th Street, in a house designed by his godfather, William Delano. and Mary Lynde (née Sullivan) Cochrane (1851–1918). His maternal aunt, Margaret Cochrane, married F. Murray Forbes, His first cousin, Alexander Cochrane Forbes was married to Irene Helen Robbins, the daughter of Warren Delano Robbins. Due to the early death of his father and his mother's health issues, Cushing spent much of his young life at boarding school, attended the Groton School, graduated from Harvard University in 1936, and then Harvard Law School three years later in 1939.

Following his graduation from law school, he practiced for three years, working at the U. S. State Department, upon the recommendation of Groton classmate, Stewart Alsop, He decided that its possibilities as a ski resort were great, so he went into partnership to develop it with Wayne Poulsen, a pilot and former champion skier who had purchased much of the valley's land, , in the 1940s from Union Pacific Railroad and first showed it to him. He eventually won his bid, and Squaw Valley hosted the 1960 Winter Olympics, beating out the well established St. Moritz, Switzerland, and Innsbruck, Austria. Due to his efforts, he was on the cover of Time magazine in 1959. Squaw Valley is one of the largest ski areas in the United States and is the second largest ski area in Lake Tahoe with and the only funitel in the U. S. attracting approximately 600,000 skiers a year.

His granddaughter, Charlotte Iris Cushing Howard, married Daniel Robert Osnoss, both graduates of Yale, in 2012.

In 1999, Cushing was inducted into the Ski Industry Hall of Fame for his lifetime contribution to the sport.