Education
Haskell was born in October, 1938 into a prominent family in Birmingham, Alabama. His parents were Preston Hampton Haskell, Jr. and Mary Wyatt Rushton. He graduated with the second graduating class in 1956 from Indian Springs School in Shelby County, Alabama; attended Princeton University and earned a Civil engineering degree with honors in 1960; received an MBA with distinction from Harvard in 1962 and continued his studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Building Engineering and Construction.
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