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Reservations RESERVE BY: OCT. 10, 2013 Resort,$1,300 originally reserved named table for 10 Open to the public, the dinnershould and galabe made cost $65by Oct. per 10,person TreasureCall: JudyMountain at 801 Resort,-581-3421 will or $1,300 for a reserved table of 10.201 Reservations3. Please contact should Judy be made be celebratedemail: [email protected] for embarking on by Oct. 24, 2012. Please contact JudyJarrow Jarrow at atthe the Marriott Marriott Library Library Special Collections, [email protected] or at 801- 581-3412. its 50th winter season of internationally known Special Collections, [email protected] or --Mike Korologos phone Judy at 801 - 581- 3421 . -Mike Korologos RESERVE BY: OCT 24, 2012 As Utah’s Winter Sports Scene Glistens Throughout the World, Ted Johnson to Receive U. Library’s Quinney Award Ted Johnson: Snowbird and a Sewer Line The S. J. “Joe” Quinney Award is presented by the Utah Ski Archives to an individual or organization that has made “significant contributions to skiing” in the Intermountain West. It is presented by the Quinney family to perpetuate the vision and fortitude of its namesake, Joe Quinney, who, in 1938, spearheaded the establishment of Alta, Utah’s first ski area, and thus earned him the title of “the father of Utah’s ski industry.” A prominent Salt Lake City lawyer, Quinney died in 1983. Ted Johnson, 2013 recipient of the Quinney Award, fulfills the award’s criteria to the Nth degree. Johnson, a California native and hearty beneficiary of its beaches and surfing, worked as a handyman, photographer, ski instructor and lodge manager at Alta where he became a world-class powder skier, appearing in Warren Miller ski films and on the cover of Sports Illustrated magazine. His “significant contributions” to skiing are two-fold – and huge! 1. Ted founded today’s world-renowned Snowbird Ski and Summer Resort in 1971, thus putting Utah skiing on the national and international maps of destination ski areas. He was inducted into the Intermountain Ski Hall of Fame in 2007. 2. Ted spearheaded the 1971 construction of a seven mile-long, $450,000 privately-funded sewer line that runs the length of the Little Cottonwood Canyon, thus eliminating the use of septic tanks in the canyon, which is a major Salt Lake City watershed. For that he has the dubious distinction of having a sewer line bearing his name. Quite appropriately, the S. J. “Joe” Quinney Award is comprised of a small plaque mounted on a cantaloupe-sized hunk of granite rock from Little Cottonwood Canyon. Previous S. J. Quinney Award recipients include: Alf Engen, Joe Quinney, Nick Badami, Charles “Chick” Morton, Earl Miller, Wilby Durham, M. Earl Miller , Junior Bounous , Spencer F. Eccles, Stein Eriksen, Corey Engen, Zane Doyle, Suzy Rytting, Janet Quinney Lawson, Edgar Stern, Karen Korfanta , Russ Harmer, Jim Gaddis and, in 2012, John W. Gallivan. HISTORY-MAKER AWARD HONOREE THEODORE SHARP “TED” LIGETY Somewhere there’s a ski coach saying “oops.” That would be the coach who told a young Ted Ligety that he wasn’t good enough to be a member of his ski team. That’s the same Ted Ligety who in 2013 became a triple world champion in giant slalom, super G and combined; who became the fifth man in history to win three or more gold medals at one world championship and first in 45 years since Jean-Claude Killy won four in 1968. What’s more, the Park City native and one-time “student” at its Winter Sports School, is the first racer of either gender to win the super G, giant slalom and combined at One World championships. Ted was the 2006 Olympic gold medalist in combined and Photo: Mitchell Gunn/ESPAAudi four-time World Cup champion in giant slalom (2008, 2011 and 2013). He won the gold medal in giant slalom at the 2011 World Championship and successfully defended his world title in giant slalom in 2013, where he also won an unexpected gold medal in the super G and a third gold medal in the super combined. Through March 2013, Ligety had 17 victories (all in giant slalom) and 37 podiums in World Cup competition. He is expected to be a major contributor to the medals count for the U.S. Ski Team that will compete in the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia. No doubt, those are accomplishments of historical proportions. For those accomplishments -- and more -- Ted Ligety will received the 2013 History-Maker Award from the Ski Archives. HISTORY-MAKER AWARD HONOREE SARAH HENDRICKSON Talk about taking flight – As a snow bunny, Sarah Hendrickson would seek out every bump and mogul on a ski run and jump off it for the excitement of being airborne for just a moment. Harkening back to those snow bunny days, she recalls being smitten by ski jumping at age 7 after watching her older brother enjoy the sport for two years while she remained earthbound. That was then. Now, the 19-year old Hendrickson sails off the world’s biggest ski jumps for distances as long as a football field. What’s more, she is the reigning world champion in women’s ski jumping and the marquee member of the U.S. Women’s Ski Jumping Team that will compete in the first Olympic Winter Games open to women’s ski jumpers in Sochi, Russia in 2014.