People: SIA Original Jim Weinstein Dies...


	People: SIA Original Jim Weinstein Dies...


	Submitted by admin on Tuesday, October 25, 2005 - 01:38
	McLean, Va. (Ski Press)-From SnowSports Industries America: Jim Weinstein, 101, one of the original founders of the trade organization that became SIA, and four decades corporate counsel to the organization, died Oct. 20 in Woodstock, Vt. James Julian Weinstein was born and raised in Boston and worked part-time in his father's specialty grocery business. He began skiing as a teenager, and graduated from Harvard in 1927. After graduating from Harvard Law School in 1930, he set up a private law practice while continuing to help operate the family business. In the postwar years, among Jim's clients was Lew Russfield, owner of Sun Valley Skiwear. By 1954, Russfield was active in a group of ski equipment and clothing wholesalers who were unhappy with the dates of the national ski trade show, held in New York. Jim organized a meeting at a New York restaurant, attended by two dozen vendors, and helped them organize the National Ski Equipment and Clothing Association, with Russfield as president and Jim as counsel. Later, Jim also served as legal counsel to both the New England Sporting Goods Agents Association and to the American Windsurfing Industries Association. Jim skied until age 80, and while he and his wife Selma �retired� to Vermont, he continued to practice law, sporadically, until age 99. Selma died in 1996. Jim Weinstein is survived by two children, David and Wendy, five grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. This is cache, read story here [ login to post comments ]