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Legends of Showdown · The Ski Club years, 1936–1956
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Andy Farago

Club president the winter the lodge opened, and chairman of Old Fogey Day

Legend of Showdown
Born
First skied at Showdown
First worked here
on the Great Falls Ski Club's special lodge committee, February 1946
Years at Showdown
1946–1953
Positions
  • Special lodge committee, Great Falls Ski Club — one of seven, February 1946
  • Chairman, the club's city ski tournament at Kings Hill, 1947
  • President, Great Falls Ski Club, March 1947 to March 1948
  • Board of directors, Great Falls Ski Club, 1948
  • General chairman, Old Fogey Day, 8 March 1953

What they did

13 entries
  1. February 1946One of the seven on the club's special lodge committee, under Dan Moran and Clif Rumford, that drew up the plans for a lodge at Kings Hill
  2. February 1947Named chairman of the club's city ski tournament at Kings Hill, run on 23 and 30 March
  3. 11 March 1947Elected president of the Great Falls Ski Club, succeeding Jack Throckmorton
  4. 23 March 1947Entered the men's downhill at the club's tournament, as its president
  5. 29 August 1947Took Senator Charles Bovey's personal check for the first promissory note the club issued to pay for the lodge; the Tribune photographed the two of them
  6. 7 December 1947President when skiing began at the new lodge, on the first day of Ski Week
  7. January 1948Announced the showing, at the club's meeting, of five rolls of movie film taken while the lodge was built, four of them in colour, running from the start of the work to the opening day of skiing
  8. February 1948Told the club that a fifteen-member local ski patrol would help police the Kings Hill course
  9. 15 March 1948Handed the presidency to C. O. McCafferty
  10. September 1948On the club's board of directors
  11. 8 March 1953General chairman of Old Fogey Day, the club's day for everyone who had skied with it in 1943 or before, and the dedication of Throckmorton's Mile; more than five hundred people came and the road was jammed
  12. 18 April 1953Sang in the ten-man Men's Ski Club Glee Club at the Skier's Spring Fling
  13. Remembered by Jack Throckmorton for the day he hit a pheasant on the drive to Neihart and ate it for supper at Taylor's Restaurant that evening

In the papers

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Also

  • Built the Great Falls Ski Club's lodge at Kings Hill, 1947 — on the seven-man committee that planned it in 1946, and the club's president through the summer and fall it was built

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