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Convention 2012Award RecipientsSnowsports Builder Award - Bill Marolt,President / CEO of USSA;Greg Thompson, Ski Archivist,University of Utah,J. Willard Marriott LibraryHans Georg Award - Catherine Ohl, FWSAWebmaster, Graphic ArtistElizabeth ‘Schatzi’ Wood Award -Eileen Sanford, President - San DiegoCouncil of Ski ClubsJ. Stanley Mullin Award - David Krupp,FWSA TrusteeJimmie Heuga Award - Chris Waddell,ParalympianJordan-Reily Award - Robert Redford,Actor / Conservationist andEnvironmentalistBill Mackey Award - Bob Bourquard,Sales Executive, Mt. BachelorTommi Tyndall Award - Big White SkiResort / Silver Star Mountain ResortBill Berry Hard News Award -Bob Wilbanks, Publisher,“The National Ski Club Newsletter”Bill Berry Featured News Award -Jon Tullis, Book“Timberline Lodge: A Love Story, DiamondJubilee Edition”Warren Miller Modern Media Award -Steve Bellamy, Movie “Winter”(The Ski Channel)President’s Award Recipients:Mary Azevedo, FWSA VP ofMembership;Norm Azevedo, Past FWSAVP of International TravelSarah Hendrickson,World Cup Champion Ski JumperProgram Award Recipients:Western Ski Heritage Award - John James,Edelweiss Ski Club, Los AngelesCouncil of Ski ClubsSafety Person of the Year - Fran Long,President of Central Council ofCaliforniaCharity & Community ServiceRecognition - Fire & Ice Ski Club of Bay AreaSnow Sports CouncilThe Association’s Snowsports Builder Award is awarded to a person or persons who have madean indelible positive impact on snowsports. The builder honored may be for achievements in athletics,the press, publishers, historians, industry, humanitarian work, area development, technology; in short,for any indelible contribution to snowsports.SNOWSPORTS BUILDERAWARD FOR 2012Randy Lew, FWSA President,presents a Snowsports Builder Awardto Dr. Gregory Thompson.photo by Bill Singleton, Shutterrific PhotographyGREGORY C.THOMPSONSNOWSPORTSHISTORIANby John Watson and Barbara YamadaGreg Thompson continues his leadershipin the Ski Archives, a priceless history resourceand ski database in the University ofUtah’s J. W. Marriott Library. The Marriott Librarycontains collections related to skiingcomparable to any similar library worldwide.In the 1980s Greg and the late Sue Raemerfounded the Marriott Library’s Ski ArchivesProgram. Dr. Thompson has been the drivingforce for the Ski Archives over the fourdecades since its founding and this effort hasmade the Ski Archives a world class repositoryof the history and development of wintersports and skiing in the Intermountain regionand beyond. He has helped build the archivescontact-by-contact, collection-by-collection.Dr. Thompson continues to stimulate thedevelopment of resources to sustain the SkiArchives. In 1991, the first Ski Affair was heldas a fundraising tool for the Ski Archives andthis has successfully earned hundreds of thousandof dollars for the archives over the years.Not only is the Ski Archives one of the biggestcollections of its kind, the Ski Archives membershipis one of the largest and most successfullibrary “friends” organizations associatedwith a specialized collection in the nation.Thompson grew up in Durango, Coloradoand as a youngster skied and competedin Colorado and New Mexico. A chartermember of the Alf Engen Ski Museum Foundation’sBoard of Trustees, Greg has been involvedwith skiing since the early 1950s as aparticipant and historian. He has lecturedwidely and published numerous articles on thehistory of skiing in the Intermountain area.His latest publication with Alan K. Engen,First Tracks: A Century of Skiing (2001), focuseson the history of skiing in Utah. Greg isalso the general editor of the Tanner Trust PublicationSeries.Gregory C. Thompson is the AssociateDean for Special Collections of the Universityof Utah J. Willard Marriott Library and an AdjunctAssistant Professor of History. He receivedhis Bachelor of Science degree fromColorado State University (1965), Bachelor ofArts degree from Fort Lewis College (1967),and his Master of Science (1971) and Doctoral(1981) degrees from the University of Utah.See: http://www.lib.utah.edu/collections/skiarchives/\▲▲Note: John Watson is History CommitteeChair, FWSA; and Barbara Yamada is Chairmanof the Ski Archives Advisory Board at theMarriott Library.FWSA HISTORY COMMITTEE: The FWSA History Committee met on Friday at the Convention. The committee’sfocus is to ensure the rich history of the development of snowsports in the western U.S. and the contributionsto it by the FWSA are recognized and preserved. Discussions included a potential legacy history seminar for theupcoming 2013 convention either as a Public Affairs panel or Snowsports Leadership Academy panel. Potentialhistory projects may be: creating an online history resource guide with effective history interview questions; resourcesfor digitizing 8mm/16mm film reels and VHS tapes; poster display guidelines; developing regional repositoriesfor historical snowsports materials; and increasing participation in the FWSA Club and Council Historyrecognition program and FWSA Western Ski Heritage Award program. If you are interested in joining the committeeand/or helping out with any project/starting a new history project, please contact John Watson at geospace@pacbell.net,as membership is open to anyone.38 Far West Skier’s Guide 2O12 - 2O13 / See the Digital Edition of the Far West Skier’s Guide at www.fwsa.org.