Seven Ways to Keep the Sport’s Treasured History Alive: Your Help Is Crucial + Become a member. Join at skiinghistory.org, or phone 802.366.1158. Add a tax-deductible publish History. ISHA is presently seeking donation on top of your annual dues. an endowment, with naming rights, to sustain its annual Awards Program. + Give a membership to a friend. Gift Being from , Dad knew first- includes a subscription to Skiing History. + Give Stock. Gifts of securities to ISHA can be a hand“ the importance of skiing history. smart financial move. By contributing securities Skiing and jumping was a passion + Make an outright donation. You don’t have instead of cash, you gain a tax advantage through throughout his life and career, and so to join. Go to skiinghistory.org and make a claiming the full market value of the securities when it came to estate planning, it donation by credit card. as a tax deduction, while you owe no tax on the was natural that he included ISHA in + In memory of others. 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Skiing History, and sponsors at the $1,000-level $99 (Bronze Medalist) to $10,000 and up + Make an Endowment. The late Rigo can advertise at the world’s most visited ski history website, www.skiinghistory.org. (Lifetime). Individual donors are recognized Thurmer’s love of ski history led to an ISHA in the ISHA Honor Roll, published every year endowment now valued at more than a By supporting ISHA you become a in the March-April issue of Skiing History. hundred thousand dollars, yielding income to steward of skiing’s historical record. Corporate sponsors are listed in every issue of the magazine and on the ISHA Website. JOIN A “WHO’S WHO” OF LEGENDS Skiing has defined my life and friendships, WHO LOVE SKIING HISTORY Join or donate online which“ I find reflected over and over in the www.skiinghistory.org/join We read our copies of Skiing pages of Skiing History. or send a check to: History“ cover-to-cover. Fascinating -- Jean-Claude Killy, first World Cup of winner, 1967. and entertaining information. ” International Skiing History Association -- Nancy Greene Raine, first women’s overall World Cup Every skier who appreciates the sport’s P.O. Box 1064 of Alpine Skiing champion, 1967. ” past“ should join ISHA. Manchester Center, VT 05255 -- , 1954 World Championships triple gold medalist. The sport’s history unfolds in every ” 802.366.1158 PRESERVE & CHERISH issue...“ rich and colorful because skiing When my issue of Skiing History arrives in [email protected] Skiing’s Awesome Heritage is several thousand years older than any the“ mail, I stop everything and begin reading. www.skiinghistory.org other sport. I learn something new in every issue. -- Billy Kidd, 1970 FIS Alpine Combined World Champion. -- Penny Pitou, 1960 Olympic double silver medalist. ISHA is a 501(c)(3) organization and all donations are One organization does it, ” ” tax-deductible. EIN: 06-1347398 with your help. Billy Kidd receiving One organization does it, with your help... TV Broadcast Lifetime Achievement Award from ISHA President The non-profit International Skiing History Association (ISHA) preserves and John Fry. increases awareness of the sport’s heritage through our skills and long experience in editing, research and publishing. OUR ROLE IN PRESERVING SKI HISTORY IS UNIQUE. WE PRESENT ANNUAL AWARDS to the authors of ski history books, and to journalists, filmmakers, TV and radio Donations helped ISHA re-design broadcasters, website creators who have WE PUBLISH A MAGAZINE filled its website, and opened it to mobile devoted their professional lives to recording phones and tablets. with lively, carefully researched stories the sport’s history. In the past ten years, and stunning images from skiing’s past, Lifetime Achievement Award honorees WE MAKE SKI HISTORY prepared by the sport’s most experienced, have included Willy Bogner, Billy Kidd, Bob most respected writers and editors. ACCESSIBLE to thousands of Beattie, Warren Miller, Dick Barrymore, Joe Enthusiastically read six times a year by enthusiasts on the Internet, operating Jay Jalbert and Roger Brown. more than two thousand subscribers, the world’s most-visited website of researchers, hall-of- information about the sport’s past. At fame members, and www.skiinghistory.org, there’s a timeline skiers around the of events going back to 5,000 BC. The world, Skiing History website contains histories of ski shapes, is recognized as the waxing, plastic boots, the invention of world’s best periodical the steel edge, skating in cross-country, of ski history women’s jumping, the World Cup, Nastar, published in any and much more. There’s an index to language. 7,000 ski books and films, and to ski magazines published since the middle of the 20th Century. Members can also WE HOLD AN ANNUAL GATHERING, access back issues of the magazine at Skiing History Week, which brings together The website and the magazine constitute our digital archives. skiers to celebrate the sport’s history invaluable resources for educators, in historic ski towns, broadening local researchers, writers, students, and the interest in the sport’s heritage. general public seeking to learn more about the sport’s legacy. Photo credits, l to r: Herman Gollner, Ted Farwell, Tom Kelly, Curtis Fong. Magazine covers courtesy Beekley Collection of International Ski Art and Literature: Front, “Downhill Skiing in the Mountains (William Medcalf, 1975); left, “Ski Couple” (William Reusswig, 1940).

I am committed to helping ISHA capture and communicate the history of skiing to a worldwide audience. “ Jean-Claude Killy, 1968 Olympic triple gold medalist, World Cup champion. ”