Take the school backpack, for example. Its invention can be traced to one man, Murray McCory, who died last month. McCory ...

By Clay Risen Murray McCory, who founded the outdoor equipment company JanSport while still in college and whose signature innovation, a lightweight backpack, revolutionized school life for ...

Every teen and college woman needs a good school ... though your backpack is an everyday essential, there is no reason it has to be ordinary. We asked our Grown and Flown community of 290,000 parents ...

The recent passing of a man from Seattle is shining new light on a forgotten chapter of modern Pacific Northwest mythology about a ubiquitous school ... one of JanSport’s hiking backpacks ...

Murray McCory, who founded the outdoor equipment company JanSport while still in college and whose signature innovation, a lightweight backpack, revolutionized school life for millions of students ...

After the death of Murray McCory, a founder of the outdoors equipment company JanSport, readers recalled how their backpacks served them on life’s journeys. By Amisha Padnani Amisha Padnani is ...

Murray McCory, a free-spirited outdoorsman who co-founded the rugged gear and pack company JanSport, designed a widely imitated dome tent, and created a durable but lightweight backpack that ...

But JanSport became better known for its school backpacks than its alpine gear. The company was widely credited with helping bring an end to an era when students would lug their books around in a ...

According to the New York Times obituary, McCory, who until the early 1980s had the surname Pletz, came up with Jansport in the sixties as a student at the University of Washington after winning first ...

My choice was Jansport, but there were options. Colors, patterns, sizes. I wanted to show up for the new school year with the right backpack ... $3,900 There are two adjustable leather straps, making ...