The man who was a founder of future studies in the United States is journalist Edward Cornish. He does not have a Wikipedia page.
Edward Cornish (1927- ) is the founder and first President of the World Future Society. He is also a published futurist writer and the founding editor of The Futurist magazine (1966-2010).
Cornish was born in 1927 in New York City. His father George A. Cornish (1902-May 14, 1989) was the managing editor and executive editor of The New York Herald Tribune. Cornish graduated from Harvard.
Cornish began his writing career at the Evening Star in Washington as a copy boy and then eventually was promoted to a cub reporter. He later became a United Press correspondent. Cornish worked at United Press for six years in five different cities including London, Paris, and Rome. He then went on to work as a writer for the National Geographic Society in Washington before creating The Futurist magazine and the WFS.
Cornish has said that the 1939 New York World’s Fair and especially the General Motors “Futurama” exhibit was a strong influence. He also has written that the Cold War and the Cuban Missile Crisis (1962) were part of what prompted him to become a futurist writer. Cornish wrote “the study of the future might help the cause of world peace” in the first issue of The Futurist in 1966.
The popularity of The Futurist prompted Cornish to create the World Future Society in 1966.
Cornish is the author of many essays and journals as well as his only published book Futuring: The Exploration of the Future. (WFS. 2004. 313 pages. Paperback. ISBN 0-930242-61-0.) It’s described by the WFS as a comprehensive guide to the study of the future.
Cornish is now retired living with his son Jeff Cornish in Rockville, Maryland.
I like how you reached out to the organization to get information. I know there is not a lot of information about him online. It is nice having the primary source. The wiki page was easy to read and gave a quick overview of who Edward was.
I recommend again to watch out for punctuation. Sometimes it is missing or at the end of a quote a period is used when a comma should be.
The years were confusing. The Futurist magazine is presented as being founded in 1967. Then you quote it from 1966 and say the foundation was created in 1966 as a result of the magazine.