New Entry to Museum! ISHF Class of 2007 Woody Anderson Ted Johnson Pete Karns Paul McCollister K Smith Margo Walters- McDonald Winter 2007 www.engenmuseum.org The 2007 Intermountain Ski Hall of Fame was held at the Joe Quinney Winter Sports Center on Thursday, September 20, 2007. The six inductees are outlined below. Woody Anderson (1932 - ) A Renaissance man of skiing in the Intermountain Region, operated the Miner’s Find Ski & Sport Shop Woody Anderson’s accomplishments cover the spectrum of the in Park City. He became owner-president of sport. Woody began teaching skiing in 1947 in Salt Lake City, Pomerelle Ski Resort, Albion, Idaho, in 1973. Utah with the Deseret News Ski School. He joined the Brighton From 1977 to 1984 Anderson was owner- Ski School in 1948 and was its assistant director from 1954 to president of Magic Mountain Ski Resort near 1962. Woody owned and operated the Woodhaus Ski and Sports Twin Falls, Idaho. Shop at Brighton from 1956 to 1963. Woody was one of the founders of the Woody competed for the Armed Forces while stationed with Intermountain Ski Instructors Association, the U.S. Army in Germany from 1951-1953. serving as its secretary, certification chairman, president and director. He was National Certification Chairman of the Woody became ski school director at the new Park City Resort Professional Ski Instructors of America in 1968 and was in 1964 and was named its general manager in 1965, serving designated a Lifetime Member for his contribution to organized in both capacities until 1971, when he was appointed vice skiing by the PSIA/PSIA-I in 1978. Woody was inducted into the president-general manager. From 1963 to 1967 he owned and PSIA-I Hall of Fame in 2004. Ted Johnson (1926 - ) As the visionary and founder behind Snowbird Ski and Summer construction of a canyon-long sewer line, Resort, Ted Johnson forever altered the recreational landscape Johnson welcomed the first skiers to of Utah. The one-time beach enthusiast in his native California Snowbird in 1971. The resort’s environment- and later a do-it-all employee at Alta Ski Area, Ted in 1965 put embracing sod-covered roofs, internationally- his foresight and fortitude into a dream of establishing a resort acclaimed ski runs, hotels and cuisine, and with the purchase of the Blackjack mining claims. This lead to its skier/boarder/tourist conveyance system Johnson’s acquisition of the 800-acre parcel abutting Wasatch that includes a 120-passenger tram and a National Forest lands in storied Little Cottonwood Canyon. skier tunnel, stand as legacies to the wily “Silver Fox,” an entrepreneur whose quest After persevering through five years of study and setbacks, was not to be denied. heartbreak and breakthroughs, and orchestrating the Pete Karns (1945 - ) Pete Karns carved an impressive legacy of accomplishment at at that time. He was second in the 1980 every level of skiing competition – junior, collegiate, Olympic, U.S. Biathlon National Championships and Masters. A native of Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Karns was a second in the team relay in the 1985 World dominant competitor in slalom, downhill, cross-country and Masters Cross-country Championships. jumping in the region’s junior ranks starting in 1955. His triumphs in cross-country and Skimeister (4-way combined) Karns served as a member of the U.S. events as a member of the University of Utah Ski Team between Olympic Committee from 1973 to 1976, the 1964 and 1967 earned him NCAA All-American honors in 1966. same years he coached the U.S. Biathlon In 1967 he won the cross-country title in the 1967 Rocky Team. He coached the U.S. Olympic Biathlon Mountain Intercollegiate Ski Championships. Team in 1976 and was Chief of Timing for Biathlon during the 1980 Olympic Winter Games in Lake Placid, New York. During Pete placed first in the U.S. Biathlon National Championships the 2002 Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City, Karns served in 1970 and 1972. In 1972 he was a member of the U.S. as chief of forerunners for biathlon events. Olympic Biathlon Team that placed 6th in the Sapporo, Japan, Olympic Games, the best performance by a US Biathlon team 2 Winter 2007 Paul McCollister (1915 - 1999) Following a successful career operating a California-based radio three chairlifts and a 63 passenger aerial advertising company, Paul McCollister used his creative genius tramway, the iconic centerpiece of Paul’s to envision, and ultimately build, the world-renowned Jackson dream. The tram whisked skiers to the Hole Ski Area in Northwestern Wyoming. In 1957, nearly 20 summit of Rendezvous Mountain, boasting years after discovering the pristine beauty of the Grand Tetons, a vertical rise of 4,139 feet, the greatest Paul moved his family from the rapidly growing California in North America at the time. From day Bay Area to the remote and wild valley of Jackson Hole. Paul one Jackson Hole has attracted the most experienced all the wonderful opportunities the area had to talented and dedicated individuals. It is offer, but his entrepreneurial spirit was about to be unleashed. truly a skiers’ mountain. Rightfully proud, In 1963 Paul McCollister launched the infant resort by forming Paul said of his efforts: “There are not the Jackson Hole Ski Corporation, obtaining a $1 million too many people who have created something from virtually government-sponsored loan, and heeding the advice of ski nothing. This is my baby. It has turned out to be my life.” Paul mountain-savvy Willy Schaeffler, legendary coach of the touted McCollister retired from the resort in 1992 and died in 1999 at Denver University Ski Team. Construction began in 1964. the age of 84. When the Jackson Hole Ski Area opened in 1966, it offered K Smith (1916 - 2001) The ski pioneering exploits of K Smith are various and name. He was responsible for training numerous. But one is paramount: Brighton Ski Area in Utah’s numerous ski instructors and served on the Big Cottonwood Canyon. In 1936 the man with only an initial board of directors of the Professional Ski for a first name added alpine skiing to Brighton’s recreational Instructors of America-Intermountain. offerings when he installed a T-bar tow to serve skiers. K began skiing in 1924. What followed was a lifetime of significant In 1954 K started the Salt Lake County Ski skiing-related accomplishments. They include being president School for school children and in 1956 of the Alpine Ski Club in 1940, a member of the storied 10th he pioneered the Deseret News Free Ski Mountain Division of World War II fame, and the battalion ski School, the largest in the nation, both held supervisor in the 86th Mountain Infantry Division. in Brighton. He coached the Westminster College, Salt Lake City Ski Team in 1970 and set many challenging race courses for While stationed in the military in Japan in 1945, K built that local racers during the 50’s and 60’s. K retired in 1972 and was country’s first ski lift in Sapporo, which played host to the inducted into the PSIA-Intermountain Hall of Fame in 1989. He 1972 Olympic Winter Games. In 1946 Smith became operator died July 21, 2001. of Brighton Ski Area and started its ski school, which bore his Margo Walters-McDonald (1942 - ) From 1957 to 1967 the name Margo Walters perennially second place finish in the Senior Nationals, appeared high on the result sheets that spanned the three Snow Cup victories (1960, 1961 spectrum of ski racing: the Intermountain Championships, and 1963), and a 21st place finish in the the Intermountain Junior and Senior National Championships, downhill in the 1964 Olympic Winter the Western Regional Championships, the storied Snow Games in Innsbruck, Austria, where she was Cup, Roche Cup, and Harriman Cup events, the U.S. National a member of the U.S. Olympic Team. Championships and the Olympic Winter Games. A graduate of Salt Lake City’s Jordan High The fiercely-competitive, yet diminutive, Margo first donned School, Margo served as executive director skis in 1951 in Bear Gulch, Idaho -- a fateful event that of the Intermountain Ski Association from 1967 to 1970. ultimately led to a first place finish in the Junior Nationals, a Alf Engen Ski Museum Foundation 3 Herb & Helga Lloyd, Patti & Dan Meldrum, Nona Weatherbee Barbara and Alan Engen Lester & Safia Keller, John Durham, Dr. Greg Thompson Mike Wilson, Dave Thurgood, Bill Briggs, Woody & Sandy Anderson Chris McCollister, Holly McCollister, Janne Martell, Anne Smith, Pete Karns, Woody Anderson, Margo Walters-McDonald, Ted Johnson 4 Winter 2007 Celebration! Alf Engen Ski Museum Celebrated its 5th Anniversary On July 14th, 2007 at the Utah Olympic Park The Alf Engen Ski Museum Foundation hosted their five year Anniversary at the Utah Olympic Park on Saturday, July 14th, 2007. A public celebration was held from 1:00 - 5:00 pm. Admission to the event was free. Half-price rides on The Comet summer bobsled, Xtreme and Ultra Ziplines and Quicksilver Alpine Slide were offered to all guests, plus free hot dogs and sodas to the first 500 attendees. Additional activities for the whole family included a magician, face painting, bounce houses, giveaways, museum tours, ski history lectures and more. Over 800 guests participated in the day’s activities. Xtreme Zipride Later that evening 130 donors to the Foundation enjoyed a thank-you reception at the Utah Olympic Park. This included a bar and light buffet in the third-floor Quinney Conference Room, followed by a program and Freestyle Aerial Show. Happy Five Year Anniversary Alf Engen Ski Museum! Made possible by generous grants from the George S.