Harry Usher

Usher was born on March 6, 1939, in Jersey City, New Jersey. His father died shortly after his birth. He entered Brown University on a scholarship, and his mother also died soon after. At Brown he played football and baseball, and graduated as a Phi Beta Kappa in 1961. He then matriculated at Stanford Law School, where he was editor of the law review and earned his law degree in 1964. ==Career==

Usher practiced law in California, initially at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in Los Angeles and then as a partner in a Beverly Hills firm. He specialized in entertainment law and was president of the Beverly Hills Bar Association when he was made executive vice president and general manager of the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee, which oversaw the business operations of the 1984 Summer Olympics, second in command to Peter Ueberroth, a former client. Usher exerted strict financial control, requiring all expenditures of $1,000 or more to be submitted for his approval; He was a director of the Amateur Athletic Foundation, now the LA84 Foundation, which was created to disburse California's portion of the surplus from the Los Angeles Olympics and which he was instrumental in making permanent. He was also executive director of the Association of Volleyball Professionals, and was a Brown trustee for six years and helped many California-based students to attend the university. ==Personal life and death==

Usher was married twice, to Jo Usher, with whom he had four children, and to Jane Ellison-Usher, with whom he had two children. he had checked into the hospital complaining of chest pains twenty days earlier on December 20, 1985. On June 22, 2000, at age 61, he was found in a workout room at the AmeriSuites Hotel in Secaucus, New Jersey after an apparent heart attack and confirmed dead at a hospital; he was on a consulting mission for General Electric Financial Services. ==References==