Godfrey Dewey

Before graduating from Harvard in 1909 Godfrey Dewey started the design of the Lake Placid winter sports facilities. The construction of the ski hills, ice rinks, and toboggan tracks were all completed by 1920. His experience in the sector saw Dewey selected as the manager for the US ski team for the 1928 St. Moritz Olympics, where he was chosen as the flagbearer at the Opening Ceremony. Whilst in Europe he visited multiple winter resorts to study the logistics of hosting the Winter Games back home. His hard work paid off, helping to secure the hosting rights for Lake Placid for the 1932 Games.

Dewey wrote several papers on the design of ski hills, in addition to designing ski jumping hills at Middlebury College in Vermont, and St. Lawrence University in New York. In 1970 he was inducted into the US National Ski Hall of Fame. His father, Melvil Dewey, was the inventor of the Dewey Decimal Classification.