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tom Anderson, Local Committee Chair, Marquette, MI tom Kelly, Chairman, Park City, UTAndy Bigford, Boulder, CO steve Kircher, Boyne Falls, MImichael Bisner, Manchester, MA sepp Kober, Charlottesville, VADavid Brule Jr., Iron Mountain, MI rudy maki, Iron Mountain, MIraelene Davis, Salt Lake City, UT Bob orbacz, McLean, VAmark Dorsey, Lakewood, CO shawn owens, Stowe, VTBrian Fairbank, Hancock, MA Bill Quigley, Laconia, NHpeter graves, Thetford, VT David scott, Boulder, CODavid holli, Ishpeming, MI Frida waara, Marquette, MIDavid Ingemie, McLean, VA Bernie weichsel, Waltham, MAwilliam Irwin, Rochester, VT trace worthington, Park City, UT

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Staff tom west, President/CEO stacey wooley, Development DirectorBob hendrickson, Retail/Guest Services/Website Ann schroeder, AdministratorJeri Ahola, Registrar Doug windsand, Custodian

Carol Baily, Candice Bannister, Moose Barrows, Thomas Bogel, Peter Daley, Winnie Delliquadri, Christine Donovan, Tarsha Ebbern, Michelle English, Sara Floyd, Hans and Roberta Geier, Connie Greene, Nate Johansing, Kim Kerr, Billy Kidd, Jenny Lay, Rick Moulton, Simone Olive, Scott Parker, Randi Pattison, Carolyn Peters, Joel Reichenberger, Karen Schnieder, Karen Travis, Bernie Weichsel, Larry Young.

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2014 Induction Ceremony

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Th e U.S. Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame’s annual induction event and Skiing History Week have become the hallmark of every ski season. Th is year it is great to have brought this event to Steamboat Springs, which has produced more skiing and snowboarding Olympians than any other community, and to help mark the 100th anniversary of its legendary Howelsen Hill.

Howelsen Hill is named aft er a great Hall of Famer, Carl Howelsen who brought his passion for skiing from his native Norway to America in 1905. Th is week we also celebrate the impact of another Hall of Famer, Buddy Werner, who inspired so many skiers with his success during his career in the 1960s.

Our class of honorees this year is the largest group inducted into the Hall of Fame since 1984 bringing the total number of Hon-ored Members to 404. Being inducted into the Hall of Fame and receiving its Medal of Honor is the highest award that a person involved as a national team member or as a builder of the sport can receive in this country.

We do appreciate your support of this event which serves as the primary fundraiser for the Hall of Fame each year. Not only will you enjoy reliving the stories of these great people you will also be helping underwrite the Hall’s work in honoring those who have paved the way for us to enjoy such a wonderful lifelong sport as skiing and snowboarding. You will also be supporting the eff ort to maintain the memory of their records and the artifacts that help tell their story.

10 new Hall of Fame inductees, six fi lms added to the “Snow-100,” a celebration of

Howelsen Hill’s 100th Anniversary and the Legend of Buddy Werner

6 Class of 2014 inductees

6 Curt Chase 8 Joe Cushing 10 Chris Davenport 12 Kristina Koznick 14 John McMurtry 16 Ralph Miller 18 Ross Powers 20 Erik Schlopy 22 Robert Smith 24 Jeannie Thoren

26 Hall of Fame Honored members

A list of the greats whose names are on the Honor Roll of the Hall of Fame

30 The History of 100 years

at Howelsen Hill

34 The ishpeminginternational

Film Festival and Jerry Awards

tom KellyChairman, Board of Directors

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610 Palms AvenueIshpeming, MI 49849

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Steamboat Springs, CO 80487970-879-1502

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— local productions showing during the festival

Buddy werner: i never look backBy Joe and John Dee – 1997 (32 minutes) Featuring testimonials from Gordie Wren, Billy Kidd, Moose Burrows and other key fi gures, this fi lm explores the life of Buddy Werner as it shows off the history of skiing in Steamboat with vintage fi lm clips. It also offers a great look at Buddy’s Racing career from the 1950s up through the 1964 Olympics.

History of skiing in steamboatTread of Pioneers Museum (9 minutes)Introduced by Helen Hill, this fi lm was made for the Museum as an overview of the story of skiing in Steamboat Springs featuring its notables and highpoints seen against the backdrop of the Town today.


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T he U.S. Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame is likely the largest ski museum in the world. Oc-

cupying more than 20,000 square feet of space and maintaining a collection of 75,000 artifacts, photographs and fi lms, including thousands of feet produced by the legendary John Jay it off ers a lot to those interested in learning about and preserving the history of skiing and snowboarding. It was founded in 1954.

It is located in Ishpeming, a city in the heart of Michi-gan’s Upper Peninsula that can legitimately claim to be the birthplace of organized skiing. In 1905, Carl Tellefsen, a local businessman with a passion for skiing who had immigrated

from Norway 20 years earlier pulled together a meeting of ski clubs in the midwest to form the National Ski Asso-ciation of America. Today it is known as the USSA, which has been so successful with our national ski teams. Tellefsen was the founding president and later would be the fi rst Hon-ored Member of the national Hall of Fame.

Th e Vision of the Hall of Fame is: To promote, honor, cel-ebrate and preserve the records of the athletes and builders of skiing and snowboarding as a sport and industry.

Th e selection process each year takes almost six months. Nominations are accepted from anyone with the annual deadline being April 30. A Se-

lection Committee of 20 to 25 experts then meets and reviews each nomination to make sure that a nominee must at least have had national impact on our sport. Skiing and snow-boarding athletes must have been successful in World Cup, World Championship or Olym-pic competition. Th e rules have been expanded to honor the best free and big mountain skiers that have emerged in the last 20 years.

A ballot is produced by the committee that is voted online by the National Voting Panel which consists of nearly 200 enthusiasts in the country. To become an inductee a person must receive at least 50 percent of their votes. (Visit SkiHall.com to see the Rules of Gov-

ernance and the Nomination Form). With the Class of 2014, 404 people have been honored.

Everyone is encouraged to become a Patron of the Hall of Fame to help support its Vision and Mission in the preservation of the heritage for the sport we love. Th is can be done through the Hall of Fame’s website or by calling its staff at 906-485-6323.

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Hall oF FaMeMore Th an 60 Years of Service to Ski Sport

Carl tellefsen

Photo by Bob Hendrickson

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CUrT CHAseCurt Chase was an innovator and motivating force in ski instruction for nearly 50 years. One of the founding directors of the Professional Ski Instructors of America (PSIA) he had a signifi cant impact on the development of the American Ski Technique.

Curt Chase (right) with legendary Hall of Famer Friedl Pfeiffer.

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H e fi rst learned to ski at the age of 10 and was inspired in the 1930s by America’s ski star of the time, Dick Durrance. A good ski racer, he was on the ski team for

the University of New Hampshire for two ski seasons in the early 1940s and later would have raced at the 1950 World Championships in Aspen had he not broken his leg.

In 1943 he became a survival training instructor for the U.S. Army’s 10th Mountain Division. As a staff sergeant he fought in the battle of Mount Belvedere in Italy and was awarded a Bronze Star Medal. From 1951 to 1953, as a civilian, he was again a survival training instructor for the Strategic Air Com-mand. In 1946 he had moved to Aspen and immediately organized, trained and directed the Aspen Ski Patrol. He also became an apprentice ski instructor for the Aspen Ski School, beginning a career that took him to the Otsego Ski Club in Gaylord, Michigan, the Strategic Air Command and then to directing the ski school at Grizzly Peak in Red Lodge

Montana for four years. By 1959 he was not only a certifi ed instructor but also the chief examiner for ski instructors in the Northern Rocky Mountain Ski Instructors Division. In 1962 he helped found the PSIA and a year later took on the leadership of the Aspen Ski School, a position he held for 17 years. In 1968 he was the coach of the U.S. Ski Instructors Demon-stration Team at the 8th INTERSKI being held in Aspen that year.

He studied the art of ski instruction, empha-sizing the practical and comfortable methods of skiing that would become part of the American Teaching Technique and have a huge impact on ski instruction nationally and internation-ally. It has been said that he had direct contact with more than 1,000 instructors and likely infl uenced more than 100,000 more. He had the legendary George Joubert’s book Teach Yourself To Ski, translated into English in 1970.

Aft er retiring as Snowmass’s ski instruction leader in 1983, he continued as a ski instructor for another 10 years while also enjoying skiing for up to 180 days each winter.

Curt ChaseBorn Oct. 3, 1922 Died June 6, 2014

Resided in Colorado

Career Awards & Highlights

1943Survival Training Instructor,

10th Mountain Division

1946Organized and trained the

Aspen Ski Patrol

1951-1953Civilian survival training instructor,

Strategic Air Command

1962One of eight founding directors

of the PSIA

1963 – 1980Aspen Ski School Director

1980 – 1983 Snowmass Ski School Director

1989Inducted into the Colorado

Ski Hall of Fame

2012Recipient of the PSIA Lifetime

Achievement Award

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JOe CUsHing

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D uring his 35 year career, his contributions to skiing in North America signifi cantly infl uenced what ski resorts are today and what skiers have come to expect

from their favorite resorts.In 1964 Cushing joined Sel Hannah’s

company, Sno.engineering, which became the pre-eminent international ski area planning and design fi rm. Hannah’s leadership at the time led to his being inducted into the national hall of fame fi ve years later. Cushing would take it to a whole new level. He had the ability to “read” a mountain and to create a network of trails that catered to all skier ability levels. Together they developed techniques and standards that con-tinue to guide ski area development today.

During the course of his career Cushing was invited to explore more than 400 projects, of which more than 150 include some or all of his design infl uence. Many were built from scratch while others were existing ski areas that were renovated to modern standards. His infl u-

ence can be seen at the many of ski areas in the United States where trails fl ow gracefully down the mountain, lift capacity is balanced with terrain capacity and facilities are balanced with a comfortable carrying capacity. His work is now enjoyed at many resorts including Loon Mountain and Bretton Woods in New Hamp-shire; Sugarbush and Stratton Mountain in Vermont; and Copper Mountain and Keystone in Colorado. He was involved in the design of Deer Valley in Utah from the very beginning until the near completion of the project in 1998. Th e resort has named a guest facility at the top of the mountain, Cushing’s Cabin, to recognize the key role he played in designing this famous resort.

In the 1980s he started to mentor the younger planners that would carry forward his design legacy, including Tim Beck (Vice Presi-dent, Mountain Planning, Vail Resorts) and his son Chris (Mountain Planning Director, SE Group). Th ey continue to utilize the techniques developed by him.

Joe CushingBorn June 14, 1930

Resides in New Hampshire


mid-1960sCreated Ski Area Design Guidelines

1989 National Ski Area Design Award

(Copper Mountain) Snow Country Magazine

1990Best Overall Design (Deer Valley)

Snow Country Magazine

1992National Ski Area Design Awards

(2) Snow Country Magazine

2008New England Ski Museum

Spirit of Skiing Award

2013Carson White Quill Award,

NASJA

Joe Cushing is a pioneer and producer of modern ski area planning and design.



CHris dAVenPOrT

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H e has many ski mountaineering achievements including skiing all 54 of Colorado’s 14,000-foot peaks in one year. He has nu-merous fi rst descents under his

belt and guided and skied on Mount Everest four years ago.

Aft er racing for New Hampshire’s Hol-derness School and the University of Colo-rado, Davenport got involved with the newly established big mountain competition scene. He rapidly made his name by winning the 1996 World Extreme Skiing Championships, the 1998 24 Hours of Aspen, and a medal at the 98 XGames. He would repeat his Extreme World Champs victory in 2001, a year aft er having reached the podium in every competition he entered. His consistent success, coupled with his skill as a spokesman and his involvement

in the fi lm and print media helped to usher in the modern era of big mountain free ride ski-ing. He has been featured in nearly 40 Warren Miller and Matchstick fi lm productions.

He is also a television commentator for ESPN, ABC Sports and Outside Television along with doing announcing at many World Cup and World Championship events. He was the host announcer for alpine skiing at the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver.

He tours as a professional speaker, lecturing on risk management as it relates to the business of mountain sports and has also been the author of two popular coff ee table books: Ski the 14ers and Fift y Classic Ski Descents in North America. In the world of athlete sponsorship, he was the fi rst North American in any sport to be sponsored by the famous Red Bull company, and is also an owner of the famous Austrian brand, Kastle Skis.

CHris dAVenPOrT

Chris davenport

Born Jan. 4, 1971

Resides in Colorado


1996World Extreme Skiing Champion

1998ESPN X-Games bronze medal

winner; 24 hours of Aspen Champion

2001World Extreme Skiing Champion

2002Powder Magazine

Reader’s Pole Award (*Repeated in 2004 and 2005)

2006-2007First person to ski

all of Colorado’s 14,000-foot mountain peaks

2011Skied the Lhotse face of

Mount Everest

2013Named among ESPN’s

Ten Greatest American Freeskiers of All Time

A two-time World Champion skier, Chris Davenport continues to be widely regarded as one of the premier big mountain skiers in the world.

Photos by Christian Pondella/Red Bull Photofi les



KrisTinA KOZniCK

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A s a talented youngster she made it to the U.S. Ski Team at the age of 15 and remained on it for 16 years. Over the years in World Cup competition she reached the

podium 20 times and earned top 10 results in over one third of the races she competed in. Her consistent success in the technical slalom events opened the door for the outstanding results by the women who were to follow her.

Born in Minnesota she developed her skills on the runs at the Buck Hill ski area outside of Minneapolis. She was coached by Hall of Famer Erich Sailer who has produced many of America’s top skiers. She competed in her fi rst World Cup event in Waterville Valley, New Hampshire in 1991 and won her fi rst World Cup points two years later. Her best seasons would come in 1997-1998 and 2001-2002 when she earned Crystal Globes for her overall sec-ond place. Th is is an outstanding accomplish-

ment achieved only by a few select racers. Her six World Cup wins in the slalom were

only surpassed by Tamara McKinney until Mi-kaela Shiff ren came on the scene. Still during her career she was the best U.S. slalom skier during her career winning fi ve national titles. She competed at three Olympic Games and six World Championships.

Ski Racing Magazine picked her as the Top Alpine Ski Racer of the Year in 1998, 1999, 2000 and 2002. Following her retirement in 2006 she worked as a ski racing commentator for NBC and Universal Sports and now has her own ski guiding business, Performance Studios, work-ing with adults and children to help them fully enjoy their time out on the mountain.

A source of pride for her was her consis-tency. She was the top U.S. female skier in World Cup slalom races from 1995 to 2005 and remained ranked in the top 15 from 1998 to 2006.

Kristina Koznick

Born Nov. 24, 1975

Resides in Colorado


1995-2005Five national slalom titles

plus three second place fi nishes

1998-2003 Six victories in World Cup

slalom races

1997-200510 second place fi nishes in

World Cup slalom races

1998 & 2002World Cup Crystal Globes earned

for fi nishing second overall

1998-2000 & 2002Selected U.S. Alpine Ski Racer of the Year

Kristina Koznick is among the select group of U.S. female skiers who have excelled in competition at the international level.

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J ohn McMurtry might be best known for his career coaching the U.S. Ski Team in the 1980s. His racers won World Cup titles, Olympic medals and the team’s only Nation’s Cup.

Many of the skiers he coached have become Honored Members of the national ski hall of fame.

Yet his most signifi cant contribution to the sport of skiing could be the USSA’s Regional Development Program that has brought and continues to bring thousands of young athletes into the sport. Aft er he left the U.S. Ski Team in 1984, it rarely achieved top 10 results. It was the top alpine ski team at the 1984 Sarajevo Olympics

but won no medals at the 1988 Games in Calgary. In 1987 he was invited back as the Alpine Director and the Director of Athlete Development. He envisioned and executed a regional development program that set the team up for its consistent success today.

He proposed that the country be divided into three regions: Eastern, Rocky/Central and Western. Th ese regions would organize training camps and competitions for the top junior talent and their coaches. Th ey would remain connected to their home program. Th is exposed these athletes to national programs and allowed regional and national directors, coaches and staff to identify talent. Within three years 14 medals had been won

at the World Junior Championships. Th is structure remains in place today and has produced racers like Picabo Street, Tommy Moe, Bode Miller, Julia Mancuso, Lindsay Vonn and Kristina Koznick.

He is presently the Chief Develop-ment Offi cer of the Steadman Philippon Research Institute where he and his team work to prevent ski injuries through research and education. Th eir goal is to increase lifelong enjoyment of sports through proper physical preparation. He has created a legacy with his training performance manuals for athletes and coaches, assisting with international ski programs and sports medicine research.

JoHn MCMurtrYJohn McMurtry, U.S. Ski Team coach and alpine development leader during the 1980s, established a regional feeder program bringing thousands of athletes to the sport.

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JoHn MCMurtrY

John mcmurtry

Born June 28, 1950

Resides in Colorado


1969-1971Member of the University of

Denver’s NCAA national championship team

1974Rocky Mountain Coach of the Year

1976-1984U.S. Ski Team Women’s Coach

1978Authored the fi rst comprehensive

U.S. Ski Team Alpine Training Manual

1980-1984Coach, U.S. Women’s World Cup, Olympic Slalom and Giant Slalom

Ski Teams

1982Colorado has John McMurtry Day

1985Chief of Race for the fi rst

World Cup races held in Utah

1987-1990U.S. Ski Team Alpine Director and Director of Athlete Development

1994 to presentDirector of Development,

Steadman, Philippon Research Institute

1995Inducted into the Colorado Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame



rAlPH millerRalph Miller has to be regarded as one of America’s best competitive skiers during the 1950s. He excelled in all aspects of the sport and was competitive in just about every event that he entered.

Ralph Miller (center) with teammates Marvin Miller (left) and Buddy Werner (right).

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B orn and raised in New Hampshire he would compete and win in the four event competitions that were part of skiing at that time while in high school and college. Th e down-

hill, slalom, ski jumping and cross-country were the events the students were expected to enter. As Otto Schniebs said, “If you must specialize, specialize in four events.”

While attending Dartmouth College he won the NCAA overall championship in 1951 and in 1957 earning the title of “Skimeister.”

At the same time he claimed four North American titles and four U.S. national titles. He also participated in the World Champion-ships in 1954 and the Olympics in 1956, before the U.S. Ski Team had a full time coach to help its skiers excel. Sports Illustrated acknowl-edged his leading position by featuring him on the magazine cover on Feb. 6, 1956, prior to the Cortina Winter Olympics.

He was competitive in many major ski races and often beat the top international skiers who raced in them. He won or reached the podium in the Roch Cup, the Harriman Cup, The Silver Belt Trophy, the classic In-ferno race, and the American-International

Championships.Starting in 1951 he would go to Chile

during the northern summer period to train and race at Portillo. Th ere he would win two Chilean national championship events. In 1955 he set a world speed record on his Northland skis of 109 miles per hour. It was a record that stood for 15 years.

rAlPH miller

ralph millerBorn Sept. 23, 1933

Resides in Kentucky


1951Eastern Interscholastic Champion,

1st in the Chilean Nationals

1952Winner of the USEASA Webber Challenge Cup,

Sandler Trophy, Sherburne Trophy, 1st - Chilean National slalom,

3rd – Inferno Race

1953North American Downhill title,

Roch Cup and U.S. National downhill and combined titles

19542nd place fi nishes in three

international events in Europe

1995 Sets world speed record for skiing

that stood for 15 years, top American at the American-

International downhill and slalom championships

1956 U.S. Olympic Ski Team



rOss POwersRoss Powers had an extraordinary career in snowboarding competition and continues to this day to contribute to success of others who are following in his wake on the slopes.


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H e was the winner of the first medals by an American once snowboarding made it to the Olympics. During the course of his career as a competitor

he would win just about every event that there was while also demonstrating leader-ship and good sportsmanship to the benefit of all snowboarders.

He was only nine years old when he com-peted in his fi rst U.S. Snowboarding Open. Six years later he was fi rst in the U.S. Nation-als in the halfpipe event and earned a place on the U.S. national team. Th e next year saw his fi rst World Cup win. Th ere would be 23 World Cup podium achievements during his career. He won the FIS Halfpipe World Champion-ship in 1996.

One of his career highlights was his bronze medal at the 1998 Olympics. It was the fi rst American Olympic medal in snowboarding. Four years later at the Olympics in Park City he won the gold in an event swept by the U.S. team. He was a dominant fi gure in the sport during this time winning the Gravity Games and the World Championship in 2000. During his career he won just about every title possible. Aft er moving from the halfpipe to boarder-cross competition in 2007 he earned several more podium results.

He is just as successful in his post competi-

tive career. Since 2010 he has been the director for the Stratton Mountain Snowboard School leading his team to numerous Rev Tour victo-ries and World Cup top results. Several of his athletes have made it to the U.S. snowboard team.

In 2013 he was the recipient for the Buddy Werner Award for his excellence as a competi-tor and leader in our sport. He has established the Ross Powers Foundation to help talented riders with funds for education, travel and competition. Th is Level Field Fund has assisted dozens of athletes.

ross PowersBorn Feb. 10, 1979

Resides in Vermont


1996Gold medal, FIS World

Championships

1998Olympic bronze medalist, Winter X Games double

gold medalist

2000Gold medalist, Goodwill Games,

Gravity Games, World Championship

2002Olympic gold medalist

2010 to presentStratton Mountain

Snowboard School Director

2013Buddy Werner Award,

Inducted into the Vermont Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame

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eriK sCHlOPy

U.S. Ski Team/Getty Images

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Erik Schlopy is a three-time Olympian (1994, 2002, 2006), seven time na-tional champion, World Pro Super G champion, World Champion-ships bronze medalist, and winner

of a FIS crystal globe for his success in World Cup races. An outstanding elite ski racer for 18 years he competed in the World Champion-ships six times from 1993 to 2007 and had 17 top 10 results in World Cup races.

Along with his long and successful racing career, Erik Schlopy was an inspiration with his tenacity and perseverance through multiple injuries and challenges. He suff ered a broken back (1993), several other injuries and required four knee surgeries. He always fought through to continue his success.

Along with his success was his reputation for innovations in and around the sports. He is credited with being the fi rst racer to “double stack” the lift ers under the bindings which increased the leverage and edge angle result-ing in more speed. Realizing that travelling through Europe created more stress for North American racers, during the strenuous World Cup season he teamed up with Bode Miller to pioneer the practice of using a European home base that was centrally located in Innsbruck, Austria. Th is strategy is followed by many of our country’s top skiers today.

Schlopy has been the only ski racer in history to successfully go from World Cup racing to the Pro Tour and then back to the World Cup.

erik schlopyBorn Aug. 21, 1972

Resides in Utah


1993-2007Named to six U.S. World

Championship Teams

1996Pro Tour Rookie of the Year

1998World Pro Super G Champion

2001Third overall World Cup GS

2003Bronze medalist – GS World Championships

2014Inducted into the Buffalo (NY)

Sports Hall of Fame

Erik Schlopy, World Champion medalist, three-time Olympian and seven-time national champion who had one of the longest and most successful careers in U.S. ski racing history.



Dr. roBert sMitHDr. Robert Smith, dentist turned goggle inventor who changed the face of skiing in the 1960s when he developed a thermal lens goggle that did not fog and founded his eyewear company, Smith Optics.

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Dr. roBert sMitH

dr. robertsmith

Born May 12, 1933Died April 18, 2012

Resided in Idaho


1968Receives Patent 3,377,626

1970Smith Optics becomes the

largest ski goggle manufacturer in the United States

1981With Charles Ferries and Richard

Sudgen purchases Scott USA

2013Elected to the Sun Valley

Ski Hall of Fame and the Inter Mountain Hall of Fame

A passionate powder skier and den-tist, Bob Smith had problems with his goggles in the late 1950s. Th ey would fog up, or snow would come through the goggle air vents on

the side and through the face. Bob solved these problems. He did this by inventing the thermal lens goggle and inventing a new foam that kept the snow out and let air in the goggles from the side. He also developed a face foam that kept the snow from coming in through the nose area. Finally he created a new strap that held the goggles tighter against the face.

He filed a patent for these features in 1966 and in 1968 received the approval for

U.S. Patent 3,377,626. It gave birth to goggles that are enjoyed world-wide by skiers and snowboarders.

He founded Smith Optics in Sun Valley, Idaho that has served as an inspiration for snow sport industry dreamers and builders. Within three years it was the largest goggle manufacturing company in the United States. Today it has annual worldwide sales exceed-ing $60 million and continues to improve the skiing experience as evidenced by the fact that thermal lenses are used on nearly all perfor-mance goggles today.

Famous ski fi lm producer Warren Miller once wrote: “Bob Smith changed skiing…”



Jeannie tHoren

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W hen she started to ski there was no women’s specifi c equipment in the sport. She began to customize her own equipment and

saw a direct connection between her gear and the improvement in her technique. She would make it her lifelong mission to help other women by making their equipment better. Eventually, in 1981 she held her fi rst women’s gear clinic, at Buck Hill in Minnesota. Th is inspired her setting up regular clinics, up to 70 per season, around the country, from 1988 to 2006 when she travelled with a trailer of gear in tow. Her “Th oren Th eory Women’s Ski Equipment Seminars” helped thousands of women throughout North America to im-prove their skiing.

Recognizing that women have smaller feet and a lower center of gravity than men,

she focused on better fi tting boots including footbeds, heel lift s and cants under the bind-ings, along with moving bindings forward on the skis that women used. In 1986 she designed what is believed to be the fi rst specifi c woman’s ski for Blizzard. Besides her clinics she worked as a marketing consultant and drew attention from the ski press thus creating awareness and demand for women centric gear. Th is raised the bar for the entire ski industry while improving the sport for all women. Th e Exclusive Carve Ski which she designed for Dynastar became SKI Magazine’s ski of the year in 2007.

In 2009 Th oren and her husband Tom opened Jeannie Th oren’s Women’s Ski Cen-ter in Vail, Colorado. It is the fi rst women’s ski shop in the country to focus on women’s specifi c equipment. Its success has proven once again to the ski industry that if you build it right she will buy it.

Jeannie tHoren

Jeannie Thoren

Born July 18, 1946

Resides in Minnesota


1984-1985Author of “The Woman Skier”

for SKI magazine

1986Designer of the fi rst women’s specifi c ski

1988-2006Holds women’s gear clinics throughout North America

1999Skiing magazine ranks her

as one of the 25 most infl uential people

2000-2002Ranked in the top 100 ski

instructors in the United States

2003Received the Carson White

Golden Quill Award from NASJA

Jeannie Th oren, regarded as the Johnny Appleseed women’s of skiing, a pioneer in developing women’s specifi c ski equipment.



1956Arthur J. Barth*Aksel Holter*

Edward F. Taylor*Carl Tellefsen*

1957Fred Harris*

1958Charles M. Dole*Richard Durrance*Harold Grinden*Roger Langley*

Andrea Mead Lawrence*Fred H. McNeil*

Hannes Schneider*Marthinius Strand*

Gordon Wren*

1959Alexander Bright*

Dr. Raymond Elmer*Alf Engen*

Robert McLean*Charles N. Proctor*

Torger Tokle*

1960Gretchen K. Fraser*

1963Arthur Devlin*

Anders Haugen*Lars Haugen*

Casper Oimoen*Magnus Satre*

1964Roy Mikkelsen*Rolf Monsen*

Wendell Robie*Wallace Werner*

1965Walter Bietila*Burton Boyum*

Dr. Amos R. Little*Eugene Petersen*

1966Asario Autio*

Erling Heistad*David Lawrence*

Grace Carter Lindley*Lawrence Maurin*

John McCrillis*Charles A. Proctor*

Hannes Schroll*Lowell Thomas*

Conrad Thompson*Marian McKean Wigglesworth*

Henry S. WoodsKaty Rodolph Wyatt*

1967Edward Blood*

Henry Hall*Hjalmar Hvam*

Jill Kinmont Boothe*Toni Matt*

Dave McCoyRagnar Omtvedt*Otto Schniebs*Hans Teichner*

1968Julius Blegen*

Clarita Heath Bright*John P. Carleton*

Henry Percy Douglas*John Elvrum*

Alf Halvorson*Selden J. Hannah*

George S. Kotlarek*Sir Arnold Lunn*Ole Mangseth*Helen McAlpin*

Roland Palmedo*Ernest O. Pederson*

1969LeMoine Batson*

John BowerDr. Harold C. Bradley*W. Averell Harriman*Harry Wade Hicks*

John Hostvedt*Carl Howelsen*

Alice Damrosch Kaier*Col. George Emerson Leach*

Harry Lien*Ernie McCulloch*

Fred Pabst*Nancy Greene Raine

Jack Reddish*Herman Smith-Johannsen*

Sigfi ed Steinwall*George H. Watson*

Betty Woolsey*Rhoda WurteleRhona Wurtele

1970Paul Bietila*Fred Bruun*

John J. Clair, Jr.*Godfrey Dewey*

William T. Eldred*Thor C. Groswold*

Ole Hegge*Cortlandt T. Hill*

Jannette Burr JohnsonL.B. MacNab*

Richard Movitz*George A. Newett*

Birger Ruud*Sigmund Ruud*Lloyd Severud*

John A. Thompson*Arthur Tokle*

Paula Kann Valar*John Wictorin*

1971Reidar Andersen*Warren Chivers*Sverre Engen*

Sigi Engl*Nathaniel L. Goodrich*

James Griffi th*James R. Hendrickson*

Sally Neidlinger Hudson*Chiharu Igaya

Ronald MacKenzie*Nels Nelson*

Guttorm Paulsen*Paul Joseph Perrault*

Paul Ottar Satre*Albert E. Sigal*

1972Hermod Bakke*Magnus Bakke*Nancy R. Cooke*Donald Fraser*

Fred Iselin*Sigrid S. Laming*

Earle B. Little*John E. P. Morgan*Dorothy H. Nebel*

Willis S. OlsonErling Strom*

Birger Torrissen*

1973Hannah Locke Carter*

Howard Chivers*Corey Engen*Luggi Foeger*

Sverre Fredheim*Carl Holmstrom*Arthur Knudsen*

George MacomberMalcolm McLane*J. Stanley Mullin*Harald Sorensen*

1974Richard Buek*Frank Elkins*E.O. Erickson*James Flaa*

Clarence "Coy" Hill*Felix Koziol*

Dr. Hans Kraus*C. Allison Merrill*Strand Mikkelsen*Sondre Norheim*Willy Schaeffl er*

1975Ralph Bietila*

Jimmy Ellingson*A. Andrew Hauk*Sven Johanson*Steve Knowlton*

S. Joseph Quinney*Robert H. Reid*

Dr. Merritt Stiles*Hans Strand*

Ralph J. Townsend*

1976William B. Berry*

Barbara A. CochranSusan Corrock

Edmund Couch*Ann Heggtveit Hamilton

James Heuga*William Winston Kidd

William KochKathy KreinerCindy Nelson

Byron L. Nishkian*Sigurd Overby*

Roger A. Peabody*Penelope PitouHarry Pollard*Jean Saubert*Betsy Snite*

Jakob Vaage*Lucile Wheeler Vaughan

honoreD memBers

Members of the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame represent the highest level of

achievement in the sport — featuring athletes, artists, visionaries, inventors, promoters, entrepreneurs, doers and dreamers. Th ey

are all pioneers in their own right and have forever changed skiing and boarding. For that, we can only say thank you!


1977Sepp Benedikter*

Siegfried Buchmayr*Ralph A. DesRoches*

Halvor Halstad*Barbara Kidder-Lee*

Anton Lekang*Robert Livermore*

Walter Prager*Joseph B. Ryan*Enzo Serafi ni*

1978Elizabeth CliffordMarilyn CochranJ. Negley Cooke*Thomas Corcoran

Sally Deaver Murray*Brooks DodgeBarbara FerriesJoan HannahJames HunterGregory Jones

Otto Lang*Penny McCoyWarren Miller

Peter PattersonSepp Ruschp*

1979Montgomery Atwater*

Howard Head*William C. Janss*Roland Peabody*

Walter Schoenknecht*Clif Taylor*

1980John Balfanz*Steve Bradley*

Edwin D. Eaton*Friedl Pfeifer*

Wayne Poulsen*Gustav Raaum

1981Wallace Bertram*Wendell Broomhall

Marc Hodler*John Jay*

Paul Leimkuehler*Phil Mahre

Olav Ulland*Sven Wiik

1982Stein Eriksen

Katharine Peckett Holman*Gene Kotlarek

Rudy MakiLinda Meyers Tikalsky

Eugene Wilson*

1983John CaldwellMax Dercum*William Lash

Rudolph Mattesich*Albert F. Sise*

Helmut Teichner*

1984Graham AndersonDebbie Armstrong

Robert BeattieChristin Cooper

Ernest Dion*William Johnson

Steve MahreTamara McKinney

Peter Seibert*Dorice Taylor*

1985Dr. David Bradley*

Robert ParkerBen Rinaldo*Paul Valar*

1986Nelson Bennett

Gloria Chadwick*Gerald Groswold

Marilyn S. McMahon*Martha Rockwell

1987Ernest Blake*

Dr. Frank Howard*Douglas PfeifferErnest Robes*

1988Fred Bellmar*

Suzanne ChaffeeMichael Gallagher*Wilbert Rasmussen*

Suzy H. RyttingAnthony Wise*

1989Charles Ferries

H. Devereaux Jennings*Dr. Richard Steadman

1990William Brown*

James H. Carruthers*Cal Conniff

Harold S. Hirsch*Benno Rybizka*

1991George Bauer*Edna Dercum*

Robert Johnstone*

1992Thomas Gary Allen*

Ted Farwell*Richard Kohnstamm*J. Vernon Lamb, Jr.*Herbert Schneider*

1993Jan Bucher

Christina CutterWilliam C. Marolt

1994James R. Branch*

Earl A. Miller*Hal O'Leary

1995John Fry

1996Junior Bounous

Jimmy Johnston*David Rowan*

1997Diana Golden*

W. David Judson, Jr.*Morton Lund

Klaus Obermeyer

1998Anna McIntyreWilliam Tanler*

Warren Witherell*John Woodward

1999Emile Allais*

John Henry AuranMerrill Barber*

Frederick W. Mittelstadt*Webb Moffett*Edward Scott*

Dr. J. Leland Sosman*

2000Dick Barrymore*

Bill BeckNed Gillette*Bob Lange*

Olav Pedersen*Preston Leete Smith

2001James Curran*

Dodie Post Gann*Charles Gibson*

H. William Kirschner*Josef Stiegler

Michael Strauss*Picabo Street

2002Georgene Bihlman*

Clare Bousquet*Hans Gmoser*John Litchfi eld*Robert Oden*Carroll Reed*Nikki Stone

2003Ernst Constam*

Alexander Cushing*AJ Kitt

Tommy MoeJerry Nunn*Diann Roffe

2004Alan Engen

Thor B. GroswoldDonna Weinbrecht

2005David Brown*

Walter Foeger*Hilary LindhErich Sailer

2006Jonny MoseleyJulie Parisien

Trace Worthington

2007Cary AdgateEric Bergoust

Jake & Donna Carpenter Mitch Cubberley*

Tom Jacobs*Everett Kircher*

Doug Lewis

2008Bill Briggs

Nelson CarmichaelLiz McIntyre

2009Jack Benedick*Stu Campbell*Doug Coombs*

Sepp Kober*Paul Robbins*

Ansten Samuelstuen*Chris Waddell

Sarah Will

2010Bobby Cochran

Muffy DavisEarl Holding*

Shane McConkey*Glen Plake

Daron Rahlves

2011Nick Badami*

Mason Beekley*Dick DorworthPhilip GravinkHarry Leonard

Joe PackTyler Palmer

Eva Twardokens

2012Horst AbrahamJeremy BloomKirsten ClarkHans GeierCraig Kelly*

Wayne Wong

2013John ClendeninToby DawsonKris FeddersenJoe Jay JalbertScot SchmidtJerry Simon*

2014Curt Chase*Joe Cushing

Chris DavenportKristina KoznickJohn McMurtry

Ralph MillerRoss PowersErik Schlopy

Dr. Robert Smith*Jeannie Thoren

*deceased


HOnOred memBersHere is a showcase of logos from the businesses belonging to several of our Honored Members.

Th ank you for sharing them with us.

eric BergoustClass of 2007

suzy ChaffeeClass of 1988

Kristen Clark-rickenbachClass of 2012

John ClendeninClass of 2013

Christin CooperClass of 1984

Chris davenportClass of 2014

Kris FeddersenClass of 2013

Chuck FerriesClass of 1989

Anne Heggtveit HamiltonClass of 1976

Jim HunterClass of 1978

AJ KittClass of 2003

doug lewisClass of 2007

Phil mahreClass of 1981

Cindy nelsonClass of 1976

Pete PattersonClass of 1978

Penny PitouClass of 1976

daron rahlvesClass of 2010

diann roffeClass of 2003

erich sailerClass of 2005

Pepi steiglerClass of 2001

nikki stoneClass of 2002

eva TwadokensClass of 2011

Chris waddellClass of 2009

wayne wongClass of 2012


nsaa.org

Congratulations to the Class of 2014

Curt ChaseJoe Cushing

Chris DavenportKristina KoznickJohn McMurtry

Ralph MillerRoss PowersErik SchlopyRobert Smith

Jeannie Thoren


View: Howelsen Centennial

sets us apart H owelsen Hill Ski Area may be

tiny by modern standards, but it undeniably looms large in the history of competitive skiing in North America.

Our town hill has hosted televised Nordic combined World Cups and many national ski jumping championships.

However, as the community celebration of Howelsen Hill’s centennial reached a cre-scendo in February 2015, we’re reminded that the significance of the little ski area to the community transcends the 88-plus Winter Olympians who have trained there.

Howelsen is part of our DNA. It’s what sets us apart from other ski towns and most certainly from suburban America.

Howelsen Hill is on the Colorado Register of Historic Places, calling out its stature as the longest continuously operating ski area west of the Mississippi River. But it’s also where our youngsters go to experience a childhood most families can only dream of offering their children. As a community member of our editorial board asked rhetorically: “Can you imagine growing up like this?”

Steamboat Springs, in addition to being a place where hardworking families enjoy a remarkable outdoor lifestyle, also is that mythical little town in the Rocky Moun-tains where youngsters put down their textbooks at 3:30 p.m. and head off to ski practice with the Steamboat Springs Winter

Sports Club at Howelsen. Many people toiling in distant cities have a longstanding dream of someday moving here. And for many of those households with children, Howelsen is emblematic of that dream.

There is an annual rite of passage that takes place at Howelsen Hill known to parents as Poma Trauma. It’s the day when 3- and 4-year-olds prove their mettle and qualify to ride the old Poma ski lift that takes them to the top of the hill — 440 vertical feet up.

Surviving Poma Trauma is the equiva-lent of 16-year-olds passing their driver’s test. Parents line the tow path to support the children while the little skiers learn to stand on their own two feet, literally and figuratively, while mastering the tricky lift.

Once that goal is reached, children gain autonomy as they are allowed to ski Howelsen with relatively loose supervision from adults who are not their parents. They even learn to manage money at Howelsen. Parents can hand over a $20 bill to the food concessionaire to have it recorded on an index card, serving as a form of credit. The kids can draw down their account gradu-ally in the form of after-school snacks.

For many youngsters, their dreams are realized when they qualify for a junior na-tional championship competition in Alpine, Nordic, snowboarding, freestyle and Tele-mark skiing. Others go on to realize their goal of qualifying for a national team and a

relative few represent the United States at the Winter Olympics. But life lessons learned are what endure for most of the youngsters.

Howelsen Hill already was experienc-ing a Renaissance in the middle of the past decade, with many youngsters freeskiing and snowboarding independently of the Winter Sports Club, when the Great Reces-sion changed the economy of the Yampa Valley. During those years and since, Howelsen has afforded many local families an affordable way to introduce their young-sters to snow sports. You can observe the trend any weekend at Howelsen Hill, where a season pass for Alpine skiing begins at $35 for children 5 and younger and costs $130 for youngsters 6 to 18.

But Howelsen also is a city park with tennis courts, softball diamonds, rodeo grounds, hiking and cycling trails and a hockey rink. The city of Steamboat Springs’ partnerships with the community and the Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club, along with the implied funding, are essential to the vitality of this unique municipal park.

Without the collaboration of city staff, on behalf of the taxpayers, it would be difficult, if not impossible to sustain the first-class winter sports park that is Howelsen Hill.

We hope everyone in Steamboat during Skiing History Week will take the opportu-nity to attend one of the entertaining events at Howelsen Hill to experience its charm.

Story by Steamboat Today editorial board • Photos courtesy of Steamboat Pilot & Today archives

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Left: Flag bearers from Steamboat Ski Area participate in opening ceremonies for an international competition at Howelsen Hill in March 1981.

Above: Marv Crawford, far right, 1956 Nordic combined Olympian and member of the Colorado ski and sports halls of fame, conducts opening ceremonies for a major ski jumping competition (probably sometime in the 1960s) at Howelsen Hill. He was also general manager of the Storm Mountain Ski Area (later to become Steamboat Ski Area) from 1964 to 1967.



This annual film festival, which is an important event during Skiing History Week offers the showings of the latest selection of ski films for the Ski and Snow-

board Film Institute. The institute is part of the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame.

These films are to receive a “Jerry” and become part of the “Snow-100,” that is the best 100 ski films ever made.

The Jerry Award, which is given to the makers of these films, honors Jerry Simon, Hall of Fame Honored Member — Class of 2013, who passed away in 2010. Simon, amongst his other many achievements estab-lished the first International Ski Film Festival in the early 1970s, which annually showcased the best ski films from each season. The statuette given to each winner came to be regarded as The Oscar for ski films. Unlike

Simon’s festival which judged the annual crop of new ski films, the Ishpeming International Film Festival celebrates the best films of all time and a film must have already stood the test of time for 10 years before becoming eligible. The Jerry Awards Ceremony, held on April 8 here in Steamboat, is free and open to the public. Films that are receiving awards from the International Skiing History Asso-ciation are also being shown this week.

IshpemIng InternAtIonAL “snow-100” FILm FestIvAL

2015 Jerry AwArd winning Films

The incredible skis produced and Directed by roger C. Brown & Barry Corbet, 1968 (30 minutes)

There had been sponsored films to promote ski products like skis, but “the Incredible Skis” was “a startling departure in ski movies” unique for its imaginative script that takes a leap into sheer fantasy. This could easily be called a chil-dren’s film. Showing the manufacturing of 1967 Hart Skis, the film follows a disgruntled factory worker who stumbles upon a formula for empowering skis with a magic ability to transform anyone who wears them into a magician on snow. With ground breaking acrobatic skiing performances by Art Furrer, Herman Goellner and Tom Leroy the film laid the foundation for what would later be know as, Freestyle with aerials creatively edited and mixed with ballet routines.

ski Fascination (skifaszination) willy Bogner producer Director 1966 (44 minutes)

This was a break out film for Willy Bogner. He employed a unique concept for its production. The film has no narrative or plot, but rather emphasizes alpine skiing’s beauty by cho-reographing the action to the musical background and in so doing Bogner became the world’s first skiing choreographer. The skiers are seen to dance their way down the mountain. Composed for the film the original score was preformed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Filmed in St, Moritz, Switzerland and Val-d’Isere, France and shot in 35 mm, the film featured the best skiers of the mid-Sixies including Jean Claude Killy, Toni Sailer, Karl Schranz, Buddy Werner and Bari Henneberger.


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2015 Jerry AwArd winning Filmsshishapangma: A Celebration of life michael Brown - Field producer and Director - 1998 (44 minutes)

The attempt to ski the 8,000 meter peak ends in tragedy. While becoming acclima-tized, Conrad Anker, David Bridges, and Alex Lowe are engulfed by an avalanche below the peak of Shishapangma. Alex and Dave are lost, but Conrad miraculously survives. The film is both a memorial and a celebration of these men who risk their lives while pursuing their passion for the mountain life and adventure.

in search of speedJoe Jay Jalbert - producer and Director 2004 (28 minutes)

In Search of Speed is an adrenaline packed look at Bode Miller and Daron Rahlves hitting the high points of their racing on the world stage, including the 2002 Winter Olympics. Able to draw upon years of filming world cup racers, the narrative offers an insightful glimpse at both the pressures and the skills that are part of an effort to ascend to the center of the podium, what it takes to win on the World Cup Circuit. This film is great record of racing at the elite level seen through Jalbert’s signature race coverage combined with revealing interviews. This film delivers a charged look at these two athletes against a relentless backdrop of competition.

ski movie steve winter - producer and Director 2000 (68 minutes)

Match Stick Productions made four films called Ski Movie. This was the first starring Seth Morrison, Shane McConkey, Vincent Dorion, Jonny Moseley, Brad Holmes and many more. This was Matchstick’s breakout film. It distinguished itself from its comple-tion with a seamless feature film feel, staging a road house fantasy that rolls into big mountain action that not only earned it the Powder Magazine’s Ski Movie of the Year but raised the whole standard of filming ski action for the adrenaline film genre.

Fire and ice (Feuer und eis)willy Bogner - producer and Director 1986

While this movie has a plot, it is essentially irrelevant. The movie captures the 1980s when “extreme” skiers hucked enormous cliffs amid the swift rise of snowboard-ing and the acceptance of Freestyle skiing. Directed and filmed by Willy Bogner the film features the pioneers of these movements. John Denver does the voiceover narration for the English-language version, Emil Steinberger for the German version. The film stars Susie Chaffee and John Eaves as well as other skiing luminaries like Wayne Wong as the cowboy. Besides skiing scenes, the movie contains snowboard-ing, hanggliding and windsurfing scenes. Marietta Waters performed the title track Fire and Ice. Among other honors this film won both a Bambi and the Bavarian Film Award in 1986.

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2015 winner OF THe isHA Film AwArd

“dog days of winter” (Brian Gilmore) is the fi rst feature documentary on the startup of organized freestyle skiing during the early 1970s in America. Told from the point of view of some of the most infl uential pio-neers of the sport, "Dog Days Of Winter" tells the story of key people and events that set the stage for the birth of the sport, the spirit that freestyle is rooted in, factors that took the "free" out of freestyle and what has become of the sport today.





The McMurtrys and extended families are incredibly proud of you, John. We congratulate you for this well-deserved award.




Carl Tellefsen society gold Patrons $5,000+Brian Fairbank, The Fairbank

GroupDave and Patt HolliRudy Maki

Carl Tellefsen society $1,000-$4,999Albert and Gretchen Rous BesserJay BlewettRoger Crimmins, A. Lindberg &

Sons/Kona Ridge MiningBob Flood, ArgonicsJames & Pamalene GrundstromRay LevertonMarquette Mountain Ski PatrolDave & Jeanne McCartneyJim Reevs, The Mining JournalPennsylvania Ski Areas Assn.Martin TassonRichard & Barbara WagnerTom & Diane WestBernie Weichsel, BEWI Produc-

tions

double Black diamond Patrons $750-$999Tony GagliardiStephen Kircher, Boyne USA

Resorts

Black diamond Patrons $500-$749Christin Cooper & Mark TacheCliffs Natural ResourcesTom Edmark, Iron Range AgencyMartha HeadGreg JonesPeter R. Kellogg, Peter R. & Cyn-

thia K. Kellogg FoundationKim Koehn, K2VenturesPhilip PabstGus RaaumTruNorth Credit UnionBarbara Alley SimonColleen Stewart, OrbitwearMark & Marcia StiegemeierUpper Peninsula Power Co.

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ElectricExchange Club of Marquette

CountyJim & Barbara GaddisGerald GroswoldHoliday StationstoresIshpeming Ski ClubD.J. KelehanSepp Kober, Freestyle Ski & Sport

CenterRichard Kun, Snow Summit Ski

CorpDanny Levine, Nation Ad Com-

municationsDon LiljequistPeter LooramJohn C. McCrillisIrvin Naylor, Snow Time, Inc.NSP - Central DivisionRobert OrbaczMichelle & Tim PetrickJohn & Marilyn PonttiChristian & Joanie RaaumTom Rider, Lutsen Mountain Corp

green Patrons $100-$249Ray AllardFrederick Anderegg, Western

Skisport MuseumBrian BalusekRobert BarnesJames Bartlett, Nub’s Nob, Inc.Calvin and Joy E. BeisswangerBarbara BerlenbachMichael BingMichael BisnerJames & Marylou R. BriggsGeorge Stanley BrownMary & Charlie BrushJohn CaldwellTim CarterBob CochranSam & Emily ConneryTom & Daphne CorcoranGale CrawfordAlan & Doris DausmanMichael DawsonPeggy Proctor DeanChris Diamond, Steamboat Ski &

Resort CorpThomas Engelman

Alan & Barbara K. EngenCarol & Richard Fallon, Ski BarnPeter & Carol FarmClark FischerNick Fredericks, Shawnee Moun-

tain Ski AreaHans GeierStephen GerrishThor B. & Twyla GroswoldWarren HeikkilaBarbara HendersonSteven HolliJim HunterDon & Georgie HurstMarilyn JacobsTed & Shirley JohnsonJames Johnson, Casa CalabriaPhilip & Brigitte JohnsonNigel JonesEd Jousma, Shuss-In Ski ShopLeRoy D. KinglandCharles Knappen IIIPamela Halle KonkalWilliam R. LashRick LindJim MacInnes, Crystal Mountain

Resort & SpaJames & JoAnn MantyRobert & Cheryl MariettiBill McCollomRobert MeyersJon MommaertsCindy NelsonLeigh NelsonJames & Melanie OlsonMichael Pierson, Resort Industry

Marketing, LLC/Mountain Travel Symposium

Pioneer Kiwanis Club of IshpemingBill Quigley, Gunstock Area Com-

missionGordin Rantz, Timber Ridge Ski

AreaMichelle Roark & Michael HormellG. Joseph RogersWalter RoosliErich SailerSaltChuk ResourcesMary SargentDavid ScottTom & Liz SolkaSteve StefankiBarry & Carol StoneSam StoutJoan StueberRusty & Tina (Thorington) Taylor

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supporters and PatronsLeon & Linda AbelBo & Cindy AdamsCraig Altschul, Craig Altschul &

AssociatesVicki Andersen, NASJA WestCoralue Anderson & John KruegerBill BeckMichael BergeronHeidi Bintz -FriedmanRobert L. BondFrank & Linda BothwellJunior & Maxine Bounous, Junior

Bounous Ski Inc.Paul Bousquet Jr.John BrennandJohn BriceWendall BroomhallBarbara BullMarion Post CaldwellMichael & Jennifer CalderoneNelson CarmichaelTom ChapinPatrick & Diane ClanceyJaycee & Patty ClarkJohn ClarkPhil CookeDavid DuvaliWilliam EasthamGregory FangelCorey FowlerBob & Debbie FriesSerge GagarinKirby W. GilbertPeter GravesPhilip & Shirley GravinkSteve HaberBrett HeinemanBob & Laura HendricksonWilliam & Carol HenniganHoward HermansonPaul & Kathy Hooge, Ohio Creek

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Tom & Vina HydeIshpeming Lions ClubRichard JacksonClarence & Alice JohnsonNed & Lois JohnsonRobert & Mary KasprzykStephen KellyRudolph & Darley KemppainenJim & Dorothy KleinJeanette KoskiDonald LieuPhil Lutey, Heritage MotorsJohn LutzJames ManganJay & Merrill W. MartinO. Ross McIntyre & Helen WhyteMetropolitan Detroit Ski CouncilDavid MirischErrol (Mo) & Connie MoffattNational Ski Patrol Systems, Inc. G. Michael NidifferBill Norkoli, Norkoli ConstructionNancy OdenWard OlsonWillis OlsonChris PeerCarl & Doris PellonpaaSteve & Wendy PeltoJay & Paula PriceDavid & Patsy RaaumRichard RahoiChristine RedmanHalder Reinholt, Reinholt Real

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