News from ISHA

Back in May, ISHA launched an extensive redesign of the website skiinghistory.org.

With more than 1,000 articles and 7,000 bibliography items, skiinghistory.org is the world’s largest online resource of snowsports history. It contains all back issues of Skiing History magazine back to 2010, with links to online archives back to our very first issue in 1999.

New tools make all of this material easily searchable via text search, or by category or era. For instance, you could search for “ski sidecut” or for “equipment” and 1980s and 1990s. Or simply browse the magazine archive, or the 90+ videos in the media library or the 300+ biographies.

The entire ISHA archive is accessible to all active ISHA members. It’s great fun to read through content from 10 and 20 years ago.

We’ve also streamlined the e-commerce tools to make it easier and quicker to join ISHA, to renew your membership or to give a gift membership.

We created this redesign because our technical platform, a software package called Drupal 7, became obsolete in
2022–23. In upgrading to the newer, more sophisticated Drupal 9 platform, we had the opportunity to improve the graphics, navigation and e-commerce tools. The new platform gives the ISHA staff more direct control of content and greatly reduces the time spent in routine data-entry tasks.

We hope you’ll like the new website. Please check it out and let us know what you think. Email comments to Executive Director Janet White, at janet@skiinghistory.org.

Save the Dates: Skiing History Week 2024 Park City, March 20-23

ISHA will host the 32nd annual Skiing History Week at Park City’s new Black Rock Mountain Resort, March 20 to 23, 2024.

Schedule (subject to revision):

• March 20: Welcome Reception/Vintage Fashion Show at the Alf Engen Museum.
• March 21: John Fry Lecture, celebrating the 100th anniversary of the first Winter Olympics, featuring American Olympic medalists.
• March 22: Annual ISHA Awards Banquet, honoring the best works of skiing history published in 2023.
• March 23: U.S. Ski & Snowboard Hall of Fame Induction Banquet.

More information on events and ticket sales will be posted at skiinghistory.org/events

Submit Nominations for ISHA Awards and Museum Grants

Nominations are due December 1, 2023, for the next round of ISHA Awards and Museum Grants. ISHA Awards honor the best works of skiing history published during the calendar year 2023, in book, video or electronic formats. To submit a new book or video published this year, contact Awards Committee Chair Rick Moulton (rick@rickmoulton.com).

Beginning in 2023, ISHA offers a $5,000 grant to support the work of a ski museum program. Any ski museum, anywhere in the world, may apply for the grant; only one grant will be awarded each year. The first year’s grant went to the Maine Ski & Snowboard Museum, to support creation of a new exhibit honoring members of the Maine Ski Hall of Fame.

For grant requirements and an application, contact Executive Director Janet White (janet@skiinghistory.org). 

Financial report: In 2022, donors and sponsors kept Skiing History vital.

For the ninth straight year, donors to the nonprofit International Skiing History Association (ISHA) set a record for charitable giving in support of our mission. Individual donations rose rose 4.7 percent over 2021 (not including the Dick and Georgette Bohr bequest).

The 2022 Fundraising Campaign raised $146,547 from 383 individuals and families. The ISHA Board of Directors extends thanks to Christin Cooper, Bode Miller and John McMurtry for leading the annual drive—and of course, thanks are due to all our generous donors.

Seventy-one companies and organizations contributed $62,942, up 18 percent over 2021. Total unrestricted donations and sponsorships rose 5.5 percent over 2021.

ISHA membership expanded about 8 percent in 2022, based on a successful introductory discount program. As a result, membership dues and magazine sales revenue rose 1.2 percent, and covered 19.3 percent of ISHA’s costs for publishing the magazine, maintaining the website, producing the annual Awards program and maintaining communications with the membership. The balance of the budget was met through charitable contributions, corporate sponsorships and investment revenue.

Sixty-six percent of the budget went to support ISHA programs (magazine and website publishing and the Awards program). The remaining 34 percent went to administration (member service, bookkeeping and tax preparation, fundraising and member recruitment).

ISHA is a 501(c)(3) public charity, eligible to receive grants from family and community foundations, donor-advised funds and corporate matching programs, in addition to direct contributions from individuals. If you’re interested in supporting a specific ISHA program, please contact President Seth Masia at (303) 594-1657. If your firm would like to be a corporate sponsor, contact Peter Kirkpatrick at (541) 488-1933.

Listed here are the donors who supported ISHA’s mission with tax-free donations and gift memberships above and beyond their membership dues in 2022. 

Income 2022

 Donations $146,547

 Sponsorships $62,942

 Memberships/Magazine Sales $59,724

 Interest/Dividends $18,461

 Events $10,930

Total $298,604

Expenditures 2022

 Magazine Production $102,659

 Events, ISHA Awards program $77,179

 Website $15,000

 Administration & bookkeeping $79,790

 Fundraising, member recruitment $13,659

 Membership Recruiting $5,293

Total $293,580

Pinnacle Club: $10,000 and up

• Jake Hoeschler
• Barry Stott

Chairman's Circle: $5,000 to $9,999

• Beekley Family Foundation
• Jean-Claude Killy
• Jack Nixon
• Nicholas Skinner
• Jeff Storey, Lennox Foundation

Super G(ivers): $2,000 to $4,999

• Adaline Ancinas
• Eliot Cooperstone
• Nancy Cushing Evans
• Gerald Butters
• Mike & Carol Hundert
• Stephanie McLennen
• Nicholas Paumgarten

History Leader: $1,000 to $1,999

• Graham Anderson
• John Bucksbaum
• John Byrne, In honor of the Byrne Family
• Christin Cooper & Mark Taché Nicholas Giustina, In gratitude for Bob Woodward
• Adolph Imboden
• Cynthia Kellogg
• Michael Lafferty
• Peter Looram
• Caroline & Serge Lussi, Adirondack Foundation
• Irene & Howard Marshall
• Seth Masia, In memory of Dick Bohr
• Juliette Clagett McLennan
• Marvin & Renee Melville
• David Moulton
• Richard Pearce
• Charles Perkins
• Barry & Carol Stone, In memory of Jeff Stone
• Stephen Storey
• Thomas Wilkins

Gold Medalist: $500 to $999

• Brian Balusek
• Robert Bolduc
• Gregg Brooksbank
• Michael Calderone
• James Clarke
• Peggy Dean
• Mike Deelich
• Yves Desgouttes
• James Duke
• Sarah Faulkner
• Peter Fischer
• Keith & Liz Fleischman
• Jim Gaddis
• Wes Goyer
• Hugh Harley, In honor of Franz Klammer
• Gordon Hine
• Ron Hoffman
• Bill & Keefer Irwin, The Baird Foundation
• Nigel Jones
• Peter Kirkpatrick
• Sepp & Measi Kober
• Win Lockwood
• John Logan
• David & Susan Moffett
• Keith & Liz Nelson
• Philip Palmedo
• Doug & Virginia Pfeiffer
• Thomas Pierce
• Penny Pitou & Milo Pike Charitable Foundation
• Bruce Rosenoff
• David Scott
• Barbara Simon
• Robert Soden
• William & Carolyn Stutt, Carwill Foundation
• Einar Sunde
• Otto Tschudi
• Lee Turlington
• Bruce Wadsworth
• Peter Weaver
• Doug & Julia Webb Jones

Silver Medalist: $100 to $499

• Bo & Cindy Adams
• Greg Adams
• Guy Alexander, Jr.
• Alf Engen Ski Museum
• Michael & Sharon Argyle
• Gordon Arwine
• Carol Atha
• F. Michael Bannon
• Nat Barker
• Phil Bayly
• Kevin Beardsley
• Skip Beitzel
• Stephan & Louis Berry Fund
• Nicholas Besobrasow
• J. Truman Bidwell
• Michael Bing
• John Blachford
• Spencer Bocks
• Junior Bounous
• Keith Bowen
• Peter Brainard
• Michael Briggs
• Jerome Britton
• Stanley Brown
• Jan Brunvand
• Mary & Charlie Brush
• Daniel Burack
• Dorothy Cantor
• Richard Carter
• Warren Cash, In memory of Jim Fain
• Eric Cherashore
• Bonnie L. Clark
• John & Patricia Clark
• John Clark
• Andrew Cohen
• Jamie Coleman
• Steve Corneillier, In memory of Warren Miller
• Robert Corroon, In memory of John Burton Carpenter
• Jay Cowan
• Allen Cranmer, In memory of Betty Cranmer
• Robert & Trudy Craven
• Michael Dawson & Vicki Dunaway
• Mike Day
• Dennis & Dianne De Cuir
• Jason & Kiki Densmore
• Keith D’Entremont
• Ralph & Heidi Derbyshire
• Peter Dirkes
• Sven & Mary Dominick-Coomer
• David Donaldson
• Paul Duncan
• Sean Durkin
• Dorothy Dyer, In memory of Jeff Stone
• Curtis Emerson
• Alan & Barbara Engen, In memory of Jon Weisberg
• Everbright Pacific (Wisp Resort)
• Mark Fischer
• Mitchell Fleischer
• Ingegerd Franberg
• William Frank
• Karen & Edward Frohlich
• Victor & Karin Frohlich
• Kenneth Gallard, In memory of John Fry
• Kirby Gilbert
• Rick Glesner
• Harry Glesner
• Christina Gnehm-Boyle, In honor of Gus Gnehm
• Robert Goode
• Peter Graves
• Wende Gray
• Larry Gubb
• Martin Hagemeister, In honor of Hans Hagemeister
• Thomas Halloran, In honor of Uhlr
• KF Hammer
• Curtis Hammond
• Erica Hansen
• Hill Hastings
• Newlin & Liz Hastings
• Cathy Hay, Alpine Ski Shop
• Annie Heggtveit
• Strickland Heilman
• Brett Heineman
• Tom Heinrich
• Jack & Marnie Henderson
• Stephen Hill
• John Hoagland
• David Hoff
• William Holman
• John Hood
• Ken Hugessen
• William Humes
• Steven Irwin
• Jeffrey Jacobs
• Lawrence Jensen
• William & Cheryl Jensen
• Stanley Jeppsen
• David Johnson
• Philip Johnson
• Sharon Johnson
• Wini Jones
• Ken Jones, Ken Jones Ski Mart
• Jack & Susan Kannapel,
• Ski Pro Inc.
• Jim Kauffman
• Henry Kaufmann
• Alfred Kimberley
• Leroy Kingland
• Leon Kirschner
• John Kirschner
• Mike Korologos
• Erik Kvarsten
• Bill Lash
• Charles Leavitt
• Walter Levering
• Mimi Levitt
• Alan Lizee
• John Lovett
• Jean Luce
• Karl Lund & Alicia O’Meara
• John Lundin
• Phil Lutey
• Jim Mahaffey
• Thomas Maires
• James Mangan
• Robert & Trudy Matarese
• Daniel Matthies
• Jeff Mayfield
• John McMurtry
• Christine McRoy
• Charles McWilliams
• Paul Mehrens
• Emily (Millie) Merrill
• Shirley & Wayne Metcalf
• Richard Mize
• Louisa Moats
• Rodney Morgan
• Robin Morning
• John Morton
• Janet Mosser
• Richard & Melinda Moulton
• Teresa Murtagh
• Robert Musser
• Trygve Myhren
• Paul Naeseth
• Michael Neal
• Robert Nessle, NY Museum of Skiing
• Michael Noonan
• Theresa Northcutt, In memory of John Martin Hansen
• Edward Nunes
• Cherie Oates
• Gary Olson
• T. Mark O’Reilly, In memory of Erle Morse
• George Page
• Deanna Painter
• Tom & Sally Parrott, Baird & Co.
• Tom & Sally Patterson
• Scott Peer
• Peter Pell
• Donald Pitkin
• Bob Presson
• Michael Prinster
• Paul Prutzman
• Roland Puton
• Thomas Quarles
• Christian Raaum, In memory of Gus Raaum
• Ken Read
• Haldor Reinholt
• Stuart Rempel
• Ken Rendell
• Rick Richards
• Alex Riddell
• David Ries
• Matt Rittman
• Henri Rivers
• Bill Roberts
• Sally Roberts
• Paul Rogers
• Jan Rozendaal
• Paul Ryan
• Mary Sargent
• David Schames
• Rodney Schrage,
• Ski Haus Steamboat
• William Scott
• Allan & Sally Seymour
• Alan Seymour & Susan Boswell
• Thomas Sharp
• John & Judy Sherman
• Bradley Simmons
• Ski Barn
• Lowell Skoog
• Geoff Smith
• Preston Smith
• Robert Sorvaag
• Rick Stark
• Ron Steele
• Sam Stout
• John Stout
• Thomas Stranahan
• Kent & Kim Taylor
• Robert Tengdin
• Joanne Ter Molen
• Robert & Sue Thibault
• Russell Thomas
• Charles Thorndike
• Barbara Thornton, In memory of John & Yvonne Kerby-Miller
• Charles Todd
• Pascal Tone
• Bradford Tuck
• Richard Tucker
• Charles H. Upson
• Davis Van Winkle
• Paul Vesterstein
• Ivan Wagner
• Karl Wallach
• Annie Ward
• Raymond Watkins
• Ray Dave Watkins
• William Watson
• Ronnie Wedig
• Deborah Werner
• Thomas Wies
• Jonathan Williams
• Heggie Wilson
• Pete Wither
• Maurice Woehrle
• Victor & Karin Wortman
• Carmen Yonn

Bronze Medalist: Up to $99

• Nancy Abens
• Margi Albrecht
• Vicki Andersen, In memory of John Hoefling
• Alan Baker
• Ned Baldwin
• Julie Bookstrom
• Richard Boutelle
• Sally Brew
• Rouene Brown
• Nancy Brucken
• Barry Bryant
• Norman Burton
• Robert Campbell
• Frank Carrannante
• Richard Carrick
• Harvey & Reserl Chalker
• Ned Cochran
• Phil Cooke
• Jeremy Davis
• Chris Dawkins
• Enzo Di Salvatore
• Duane Ecker
• John Farley
• Tracy Gibbons
• Mark Graham
• John Greenwood
• Ernst Hager
• Thomas Henry
• Ellis Hillinger
• Peter Ingvoldstad
• John Holland
• Brad Johnson
• David Kaufman
• John Kelley
• Douglas Kennedy
• Paul Kenny
• Ed King
• David Kirkpatrick
• Lyndia Lamson, In memory of Dr. Thomas Lamson
• Gilman Lang
• Ellen Layman
• John Lewis
• John Lippman
• John Lutz
• James McHale
• Walter Melvin
• Donald Miller
• Louis Miller
• Halstead Morris
• Stan & Sarah Morse
• Warren Nelson
• Gionvanni Pacini
• Stanton Phillips
• Todd Pitcher
• Evelyn Pitt
• Charles Quinn
• Edward Rengers
• Reinhard Richter
• Joseph & Cynthia Riggs
• William Rude
• Freddy Runne
• Jim Santa
• Jay Sarnoff
• Jeffrey Saxe
• Fred Schaff
• Monique Schatten
• Henry & Deborah Schwarzberg
• Dale Severson
• Eleanor Stanwood
• Arthur Stegen
• Donald Sturgess
• Edith Swift
• Simeon Thomas, In memory of Ron LeMaster
• Christof Thöny
• Tony Vagneur
• Egils Vigants
• Patrick Walsh
• Sharon Wellsandt
• Greg Witt
• Henry Yaple
• Michael Zangrilli, In memory of Jonathan Weisberg

Early Givers

These donors got an early start, sending charitable gifts during the first weeks of 2023.

• Caralue Anderson
• Chip Benson, In Memory of Dick Cutler
• Steve Cohen, In Honor of Richard Cutler
• Austen Gray
• Paul Hooge
• Kathleen James, In Memory of Dick Cutler
• Peter Kirkpatrick, In Memory of John Fry
• Juliette Clagett McLennan
• Stephanie McLennan
• John McMurtry, In Memory of John Fry
• Athy O’Keeffe, In Memory of Richard Thales Cutler
• Robert Ravich, In Memory of Richard “Dick” Cutler
• Andrew Simonds, In Memory of Richard Cutler
• Nancy Stone
• Sue Westphal, In Memory of Richard T Cutler
• Sheila Whitman, In Honor of David and Renie Gorsuch

2023 Corporate Sponsors

For information, contact: Peter Kirkpatrick | (541) 944-3095 | peterk10950@gmail.com

ISHA deeply appreciates your generous support!

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP ($3,000 and up)

• Berkshire East/Catamount Resorts
• Gorsuch
• Peak Ski Company
• Polartec
• Sport Obermeyer
• Warren and Laurie Miller

CHAMPIONSHIP ($2,000)

• Fairbank Group: Bromley, Cranmore, Jiminy Peak
• Hickory & Tweed Ski Shop
• Rossignol
• Snowsports Merchandising Corp.

WORLD CUP ($1,000)

• Aspen Skiing Company
• Atomic USA
• Bogner of America
• Boyne Resorts
• Dale of Norway
• Darn Tough Vermont
• Dynastar | Lange | Look
• Gordini USA Inc. | Kombi LTD
• HEAD Wintersports
• Intuition Sports, Inc.
• Mammoth Mountain
• Marker-Völkl USA
• National Ski Areas Association (NSAA)
• North Carolina Ski Areas Association
• Oppenheimer & Co. Inc.
• Outdoor Retailer
• Outdoor Sports Center
• Salomon
• Ski Area Management
• Ski Country Sports
• Sports Specialists, Ltd.
• Sugar Mountain Resort
• Sun Valley Resort
• Vintage Ski World
• World Cup Supply

GOLD ($700)

• Larson’s Ski and Sport
• McWhorter Driscoll, LLC
• Race Place | BEAST Tuning Tools
• The Ski Company (Rochester, NY)
• Thule

SILVER ($500)

• Alta Ski Area
• Boden Architecture PLLC
• Dalbello Sports
• Deer Valley
• Ecosign Mountain Resort Planners
• Elan
• Fera International
• Fischer
• Holiday Valley
• Hotronic USA, Inc. | Wintersteiger
• Leki
• MasterFit Enterprises
• Metropolitan New York Ski Council
• Mt. Bachelor
• New Jersey Ski & Snowboard Council
• Nils
• Russell Mace Vacation Homes
• Schoeller Textile USA
• Scott Sports
• Seirus Innovations
• SeniorsSkiing.com
• Ski Utah
• Snowbird Ski and Summer Resort
• Steamboat Ski & Resort Corporation
• Swiss Academic Ski Club
• Tecnica Group USA
• Timberline Lodge and Ski Area
• Trapp Family Lodge
• Wendolyn Holland
• Western Winter Sports Reps Association
• World Pro Ski Tour

Lifetime Achievement Award to Christin Cooper

The International Skiing History Association is pleased to announce the 19 recipients of its annual awards honoring the best works of history published during 2022. Winners include four films, 10 books, four honorable mentions and a Lifetime Achievement Award.           

First established in 1993, the ISHA Awards include the year’s best creative works of ski history, including books, films, websites and other media projects.                      

The awards will be presented during an Awards Banquet at Big Sky Resort, Montana, on March 22.                      

Ullr Book Awards—for histories of global interest

Powder Days: Ski Bums, Ski Towns and the Future of Chasing Snow by Heather Hansman

Österreichs Skisport im Nationalsozialismus: Anpassung–Verfolgung–Kollaboration (Austrian Ski Sport in the Time of National Socialism: Adaptation–Persecution–Collaboration) by Andreas Praher

Surmonter les frontières à ski - Grenzen überwinden mit Ski (Overcoming Frontiers/Limits on Skis) edited by Thomas Busset and Peter Engel (German and French)

Heroes in Good Company: L Company, 86th Regiment, 10th Mountain Division, 1943–1945 by Skyler Bailey

Trail to Gold: The Journey of 53 Women Skiers by the U.S. Olympic Women Cross-Country Skiers–1972–2018 Editor Sue Wemyss

Baldur Book Award

Rise: My Story by Lindsey Vonn

Skade Book Awards—for regional histories

Winter’s Children: A Celebration of Nordic Skiing by Ryan Rogers (John Fry Award for Excellence)

Traveling the Old Ski Tracks of New England by E. John B. Allen

Ski Jumping in the Northeast: Small Towns and Big Dreams by Ariel Picton Kobayashi, Publishing agent Katie Perry

Provenance in the Snowfields: 60 Years of the Dulmison Ski Club Australia by Donald Johnston

Film Awards

Magic in the Mountains by David Johnson, Coolfire Studio

Picabo Directed by Lindsey Vonn, Produced by Greg Groggel, Olympic Channel

Lifetime Achievement Award

Christin Cooper, for her 30-year broadcasting career.

ISHA Museum Grant

The Maine Ski and Snowboard Museum receives a $5,000 grant from ISHA (see page 25). 

Honorable Mentions

My Life in Winters: The Extraordinary Tale of One Man’s Journey Through the Rise of the Ski Industry, by Mike Ewing (Baldur Award)

Copper Mountain Resort: Fifty years of Fortitude, by Tim Nicklas (Skade Award)

Passion and Purpose (Series) by Jalbert Productions International (Film Award)

 Mark the dates: ISHA and Hall of Fame events, March 21-27, 2023.

Plan now to attend ISHA’s 31st Annual Awards Banquet, scheduled for Big Sky, Montana, March 22, 2023, with ancillary events beginning March 21. It’s a chance to hang out and ski with the ISHA crowd and our award winners. As part of Skiing History Week, the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame will honor 13 inductees, including Bode Miller and Lindsey Vonn, with banquets on March 24 and 25. The week is filled with events on and off the slopes.

In case you missed it, Big Sky acquired its neighbor resort Moonlight Basin in 2013, becoming (at the time) the largest lift-served skiing network in the United States, with 5,850 acres of skiable terrain over 4,350 vertical feet (it’s now surpassed in acreage by Park City). With winter-skiing weather into late March, Big Sky should be on your bucket list. It’s easy to get there—just an hour’s drive from Bozeman, with direct flights from all major West Coast airports, and from Denver, Salt Lake, Minneapolis, Chicago, Boston and New York.

ISHA Fundraiser Kicks off October 1

Longtime ISHA supporters understand that membership dues pay a fraction of the cost of publishing this magazine, maintaining our website skiinghistory.org, producing the annual Awards Program and recruiting new members. In 2021, membership dues covered about 18.2 percent of the operating budget. The remaining 81.8 percent was provided by generous donations from individuals and family foundations, by corporate sponsors, by bulk sales of the magazine to partner organizations and by dividends from the ISHA investment accounts.

In 2022 we are faced with rising costs for printing and mailing the magazine, so we depend more than ever on your generosity to keep the magazine content fresh and the printing press rolling. Please watch for ISHA’s fundraising mailer in October. And please give gift memberships during the holiday season! Go to skiinghistory.org/join

ISHA is a 501(c)(3) public charity, eligible to receive grants from family and community foundations, donor-advised funds and corporate-matching programs, in addition to direct contributions from individuals.

If you’re interested in supporting a specific ISHA program, please contact president Seth Masia at 303-594-1657. If your firm would like to be a corporate sponsor, contact Peter Kirkpatrick at 541-488-1933.

Welcome to Jamie Coleman

In May, ISHA’s friendly and efficient membership-marketing manager, Laurie Glover, retired and moved to join her family in Florida. Laurie remained on the job for months thereafter, helping to train her replacement. Please meet Jamie Coleman, a lifelong skier, Vermonter and educator, who is now on the job answering your queries at the ISHA office in Manchester Center. Reach him at jamie@skiinghistory.org or phone 802-375-1105. 

Lindsey Vonn is the latest addition to ISHA's Presidential Circle. Bode Miller, also a member of the Presidential Circle, will be a featured speaker at the annual John Fry Lecture during Skiing History Week at Big Sky Resort, Montana, in March.

Sharp-eyed readers noted from the masthead of the November-December 2022 issue of Skiing History that Lindsey Vonn had joined ISHA’s Presidential Circle. The Presidential Circle also includes Christin Cooper, Billy Kidd, Jean-Claude Killy, Bode Miller, Doug Pfeiffer, Penny Pitou and Nancy Greene Raine, a roster of North American champions who have wholeheartedly endorsed ISHA’s mission.

A year ago, Vonn published her own contribution to the sport’s historical record, the autobiography Rise (reviewed in the March-April 2022 issue). The book has earned the ISHA Ullr Award, to be presented at the 31st annual ISHA Awards Banquet at Big Sky Resort, Montana, on March 22, 2023.

Another Presidential Circle member, Bode Miller, has agreed to be the keynote speaker at ISHA’s annual John Fry Lecture, to be held as an après-ski function at Big Sky on March 24. This should draw a crowd. Miller stepped up to write a fundraising letter on behalf of ISHA, which mailed in November.

In other news, Professional Ski Instructors of America pioneer and Hall of Famer Horst Abraham will write about ski instruction for Skiing History, stepping into the late Ron LeMaster’s role. Look for his first article, on the origins of student-centered teaching, in the March-April 2023 issue.

The ISHA Lecture Circuit

ISHA Chairman Rick Moulton, with Executive Director Janet White, attended the Ski Club Hochgebirge’s annual dinner on December 6, 2022, in Boston, and he delivered a talk about the club’s history. ISHA Vice President Jeff Blumenfeld gave a talk to an audience of 60 on December 8, 2022, at Neptune Mountaineering in Boulder, Colorado. If your group would like to schedule a Skiing History evening, let us know.

New Videos on Website

ISHA’s Oral History Project has uploaded eight new videos to the website, each about an hour long. See skiinghistory.org/video-library for interviews, produced by Rick Moulton, with Ingrid Christophersen. Art Clay, Dick Dorworth, John Egan, Ben Finley, Paul Ryan, Charlie Sanders and Win Smith. 

Skiing History Week Schedule

Big Sky Resort, Montana

Tuesday, March 21

• ISHA Welcome Reception with Vintage Ski Fashion Show and Historic Ski Display.  6–8 p.m., Talus Room. Cash bar, public invited.

Wednesday, March 22

• ISHA Cocktail Party/Book Signings. 5–7 p.m., Lower Atrium. Cash bar, public invited.
• 31st Annual ISHA Awards Banquet, 7–10 p.m., Jefferson Room. Ticket holders only.

Thursday, March 23

• Historians’ Colloquium, 7–9 a.m., Cheyenne Room. By invitation only.

Friday, March 24 

• ISHA Board Meeting, 7–11 a.m., Shoshone Room.
• ISHA John Fry Lecture, featuring Bode Miller, 3–4 p.m., Talus Room. Public invited.
• USSS Hall of Fame Banquet, inducting the Class of 2022. 

Saturday, March 25

• USSS Hall of Fame Banquet, inducting the Class of 2023

For details, tickets and lodging, visit skiinghistory.org/events.

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Because the September-October issue went to press before a scheduling change was announced, that issue reported an inaccurate date for Skiing History Week 2023. The actual dates will be March 21 to March 25—a week earlier than originally scheduled, with better snow.

If you haven’t skied at Big Sky Resort, it should be on your bucket list. It’s the second largest ski area in the United States (after Park City); ISHA dedicates each day to skiing together with old friends and new colleagues. Big Sky Resort is easy to reach: It’s just an hour from Bozeman, with direct flights from both coasts and major mid-continent airports.

Skiing History Week is held annually in partnership with the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame. ISHA’s events are as follows:

• March 21, après ski: ISHA Welcome Reception and Vintage Fashion Show
• March 22, après ski: 31st Annual ISHA Awards Banquet
• March 23: Historians’ Colloquium Breakfast (by invitation)
• March 24: Après Ski John Fry Memorial Lecture (special superstar speaker!)
  • Hall of Fame Induction Banquet, Class of 2021
• March 25: ISHA Board of Directors Breakfast and Meeting
  • Hall of Fame Induction Banquet, Class of 2022

For details and booking information, see skiinghistory.org/events.

Welcome to the Website

With this issue we welcome a new class of readers: senior passholders at a select group of resorts. If you’re one of our new print-edition recipients, you may not know about our entertaining, informative and newly updated website, skiinghistory.org. The site contains a vast archive of articles and art about skiing from prehistoric times through the modern era, including all back issues of this magazine and hundreds of additional features. When you visit the website, please sign up for ISHA’s newsletter, emailed monthly, with news of ISHA events and new website content. We also use the newsletter to notify subscribers when a new print issue mails.

Jeff Blumenfeld

Jeff Blumenfeld, a regular contributor to this magazine and since 2017 our vice-president for communication, needs a kidney from a healthy live donor.

Jeff has worked in the ski business since 1972, began writing for SKI magazine in 1980 and over the last five years has written dozens of articles for Skiing History. He serves as president of the North American Snowsports Journalists Association (NASJA) and chairs the Rocky Mountain chapter of the Explorers Club. Jeff has been to Nepal on two cataract missions, volunteered in Antarctica with Students on Ice and written two books—one on voluntourism, the other on expedition funding. For 28 years he’s supported exploration through a free newsletter and website, expeditionnews.com.

Now he needs our help. After a 13-year battle, he learned recently that he’s going to need a kidney transplant from a living donor, otherwise the wait from a deceased donor is five years at least. He passed a battery of tests at University of Colorado Health and has also been registered with Porter Adventist in Denver and the New York-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medicine Transplant Center. He’s also been accepted by the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), the nation’s nonprofit transplant system.

If you or someone you know might be able to help, please email R25585@Renewal.org or call 718-431-9831 x 209. 

Yes, the magazine publishes through the hot months. But that’s not all that's keeping us busy.

ISHA Archives

Over the past year, we’ve been working to consolidate ISHA’s research library within an accessible space. Comprised of more than 1,200 books plus hundreds of loose magazines, the archive consists of material collected by Morten Lund, John Fry, Cathleen James and me, and was stored variously in a basement warehouse in Vermont and in a dry storeroom at my house in Colorado. In March and April the Vermont collection was packed and shipped to Colorado, where the entire archive is now shelved safely for cataloging. I refer to the library daily while fact-checking articles in Skiing History and skiinghistory.org, and researching future articles.

The archive contains some gems: manuscripts of unpublished diaries by Charley Proctor and Charlie Lord; photocopies of Western Skiing Magazine, going back to April 1947; the first post-war issues of SKI magazine, combining four regional magazines, and the first bound volume of Ski Industry Magazine, from 1949 (all published and largely edited by Bill Eldred); British and American Ski Annuals, dating back to 1936; most of Arnold Lunn’s literary output from the 1920s onward; and the first eight years of Ski Racing. We have dozens of instructional manuals, including Vivian Caulfeild’s seminal Ski-ing Turns (1922), and hundreds of local histories and autobiographies—enough original material to keep Skiing History in fresh content for decades.

It’s dusty work but when complete, we’ll publish the catalog on the website for reference by ISHA’s writers and other researchers. –Seth Masia

Deadline for ISHA Awards 2022

Books and videos on the history of snow sports are eligible for this year’s round of ISHA Awards if published before December 31, 2022. To submit a work for consideration, drop a note to the ISHA Awards Committee (email seth@skiinghistory.org). A copy of the book or video should reach the committee before December 1.

Website Redesign

Technology changes. Two years ago we learned that Drupal 7, the platform on which ISHA runs its website, will be obsolete in 2023. Accordingly, ISHA staffers have been collaborating with our outside technical team to launch a ground-up redesign of the website, to go live this autumn. The new skiinghistory.org will incorporate all of the existing archives—more than 13,000 web pages—with vastly improved navigational tools to make finding content much easier. E-commerce functions, especially membership renewals, are streamlined and easier to use, saving time and hassle for members and staff alike. The graphic design will be fresh and dynamic. Watch for the change before the first snowfall.

Recruiting New Members

Historically, ISHA’s most productive source of growth has been through the passion of existing members, who pass the word along to their friends, family and colleagues. As thoughts turn toward the new ski season, please remember Skiing History as a gift for birthdays and holidays—and think about passing old copies of the magazine along to friends who might enjoy our stories and will want to join ISHA. To send a free sample issue to a friend, go to skiinghistory.org/send-friend-trial-membership. To send a gift membership, go to skiinghistory.org/join.