He brought lightweight packs to millions of students and transformed the way they carried their textbooks to school.

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Take the school backpack, for example. Its invention can be traced to one man, Murray McCory, who died last month. McCory founded JanSport in 1967 with his future wife (Jan, the company’s namesake).

He started the backpack company in 1967, while still in college, and went on to revolutionize the way students carry books.

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Murray McCory, who founded JanSport while a student at UW and whose lightweight backpack, revolutionized school life for millions of students, died Oct. 7 in Seattle.