The Story of Helen Moss
When I first discovered my cancer, I very naively felt that I could be just like Bruce Willis' character in 'Die Hard' and that I would fight this cancer off and be victorious. However, the treatment pulled me down and 'fighting' or that mind set drained my energy.
Read the rest of Helen's story here.
Board of Trustees
Helen Moss, Managing Trustee
Carole Adrine
Shirlee A. Moss
Rev. Dr. Joan Campbell
Barrie Cassileth, Ph.D.
Dale H. Cowan, MD, JD,
Ensign Cowell
Stanton L. Gerson, M.D.
Betty Ann Helms
Jim Moss, Esq
John Moss
Peter Osenar
Timothy Resor, E.A.
Stephen Sagar, MD
James A. Schoff, Esq
Michael Weiss, MD, PhD
Robert J Ronis, M.D., M.P.H.
Wulf Utian, MD
Trustees Emeriti
Nathan Berger, MD
Barbara Peterson Ruhlman
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Background
The home is known as both the Pickands Mansion as well as the Cushing Mansion and is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
The Original Owner
In 1905, it was designed and built in the historic Village of Bratenahl on Lake Erie by Cleveland's most renowned architect, J. Milton Dyer, who is best known for designing Cleveland City Hall and the Summit County Court House.
Jay Pickands of Pickands-Mather & Co., one of the largest iron ore companies in the United States with shipping on the Great Lakes, was only 25 years old when he had the house built. Unfortunately, he died at a very young age and the mansion was bought by one of Cleveland's most illustrious medical families.
Prominent Medical Family
The Cushing family, which owned the house from 1915 to 1945, included four generations of doctors (Erastus, Henry Kirke, Henry Platt) and was responsible for founding Rainbow Baby and Children's Hospital, of University Hospitals in Cleveland, OH. The most famous of them, Dr. Harvey Cushing, was America's first brain surgeon and a recipient of a Pulitzer Prize.
Dr. Harvey Cushing, prominent in New York Society, was also famous for having three beautiful daughters who were the toast of New York. One married Vincent Astor, another married Jimmy Roosevelt and then John Hay Whitney, and the third married Bill Paley, founder of CBS. Her name was Babe Paley. The Cleveland and New York families visited each other often.
The house has been completely restored and is currently owned by Helen Moss and Richard Fleischman.
"A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more even than the whole man -- he must view the man in his world."
-- Dr. Harvey Cushing
(1869 - 1939)
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