Winter-Newsletter-2016
P.O Box 331, Kirkland, Wa 98803 Winter 2016 WE’LL REMEMBER NELSON BENNETT IN MANY WAYS Nelson Bennett, an iconic figure in the ski world, Nelson served as a member of U.S. Alpine team passed away January 29 at his home in Yakima at the selection committees in 1948 and 1952, and, in 1956, age of 101. Nelson, an active member of the Ancient he served as manager of the U.S. Alpine team in Cor- Skiers, was well known not only for being the long- tina, Italy. On a broader scale in 1960, Nelson was time manager of White Pass Ski Resort but also for his assistant director of the Olympic ski events at Squaw pioneering leadership in the Sun Valley and National Valley. Ski Patrols and 10th Mountain Division and for his en- In summer 1960, Nelson left Sun Valley to be- during service to ski sport organizations, including the come general manager for the fledgling White Pass PNSA, NSA, U.S Olympic alpine teams, and Olympic ski area, leading him into a 25-year career helping committees. transform the area to a resort draw- Nelson was born in Lancaster, New ing more than 100,000 skiers a year. Hampshire, where he learned to ski as a When Bennett hired Dave Mahre as boy, getting his first pair of skis when he mountain manager, he thought that was 13 years old. During high school in having Mahre’s large family living the 1930s, he worked his first ski job as on the slopes would help keep his a waiter and dishwasher at Peckett’s on manager in place for many years and Sugar Hill, site of the first ski school in avoid the rapid turnover the resort America and the resort Otto Lang first had experienced in previous years.
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