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ISHA honors eight

Parker, Brown, Howe, Briggs, Rowan, Olken, McEnany and Lorentz
get writing, film awards at Skiing Heritage Week

VAIL, Colorado, April 7, 2006 – Bob Parker, Roger Brown, Nick Howe, Bill Briggs and David Rowan are among eight prominent ski media personalities honored by the International Skiing History Association during Skiing Heritage Week here, at the ISHA Awards Banquet.

ISHA’s awards recognize outstanding works of skiing history, and the organization has honored writers and film-makers annually since 1993.

This year’s honorees are:

• Robert Parker, Ullr Award for his book What Did You Do in the War, Dad? The book recounts Parker’s combat experience in the 10th Mountain Division during WWII. Parker is a fixture in Vail. He was Vail’s first marketing director, and eventually served as chief executive; today he’s an archaeologist in New Mexico.

• Roger Brown, Ullr Award for the book Requiem for the West. Brown began his career as a pioneering film-maker in Vail. The book is his autobiography, and a history of the development of skiing in the West.

• Nick Howe, Lifetime Achievement Award in Ski Journalism. Howe is one of the most prolific and respected ski writers of his generation. He worked for Skiing Magazine for 20 years, appearing in almost every issue. He now contributes brilliantly-researched features to Skiing Heritage, the ISHA journal.

• Bill Briggs, Lifetime Achievement Award in Ski Song. Briggs is world-famous as mountaineer who made the first ski descent of the Grand Teton, and as ski school director of Snow King Mountain in Jackson Hole. He’s honored here for his two-decade career as a folk-singer, banjo-picker, bandleader and recording artist. Specifically, Briggs has almost single-handedly preserved a 70-year tradition of ski songs.

• David Rowan, Special Service Award. Rowan, who died in 2005, was a founder of the National Ski Areas Association and of the magazine Ski Area Management. He also served as an editor and as associate publisher of Ski Magazine, and was one of the founders of ISHA and its magazine Skiing Heritage.

• Lisa Olken, Film Award for A Century of Colorado Skiing. Olken is an Emmy-award winning producer at Rocky Mountain Public Broadcasting, for whom she made this historical documentary.

• Jack McEnany, Ullr Award for the book Bode: Ski Fast, Be Good, Have Fun. This is an “as told to” book to put on the shelf next to the autobiographies of Hermann Maier, the Mahre twins, and Jean-Claude Killy.

• Karen Lorentz, Lifetime Achievement Award in Ski Journalism. Lorentz, longtime ski columnist for Vermont’s Rutland Herald, is also the author of several ski resort histories, including The Great Vermont Ski Chase (2005), Okemo: All Come Home (1996), and Killington: A Story of Mountains and Men (1990).

Previous ISHA Lifetime Achievement honorees include Roland Palmedo, John Fry, John Jay, John Henry Auran, Charlie Meyers, Bill Grout, Mike Korologos, Carson White, Morten Lund, Doug Pfeiffer and Dick Needham.

Ullr, Skade and Film awards have gone to Pete Seibert, Dick Hauserman, Dick Dorworth, Bill Wilson, Dan Wendin, Ellie Huggins, David Goodman, James Sloan Allen, John Allen, Rick Richards, Martie Sterling, Dolores LaChappelle, Friedl Pfeiffer, Allen Adler, Otto Lang, Glen Parkinson, Dick Durrance, George and Beth Gage, Gretchen Besser, Luanne Pfeiffer, Mary Eschbaugh Hayes, Robert Frohlich, Lou Dawson, Frankie O’Rear, Wendolyn Holland, Gene Rose, Stan Cohen, Alan Engen, Bernard Mergen, Catherine and Neil McKenty, Greg Thompson, Michel Beaudry, David Gonzalez, Tom Bie, Ingrid Wicken, Alexis Kelner, Peter Shelton, Marty Forstenzer, Sonja Oimen Stalions, Gary Schwartz, Rick Moulton, Charles Sanders, Peter Oliver, Henry Yaple, Ian Scully, Joy Lucas, Franz Gabl, Louise Arbique and Marc Blais, Danielle Soucy, Rodney Touche, The Red Birds, Jean Arthur and Seth Masia.

The International Skiing History Association is a not-for-profit corporation, whose mission is to preserve and advance the knowledge of ski history and to increase public awareness of the sport's heritage. It publishes Skiing Heritage Magazine and the website skiinghistory.org.

Skiing Heritage Week, held April 7-9 in Vail, was jointly sponsored by ISHA, the Colorado Ski Museum, and the Vail Chamber & Business Association.

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