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

1951 Cliff Rumford — Racing by a gateThrockmorton Collection · The History Museum, Great Falls, MT

Cliff Rumford

Class B slalom winner in 1939, a founding patroller, and co-head of the 1946 lodge committee

Legend of Showdown

Born
First skied at Showdown: racing at Kings Hill by spring 1939
First worked here: on the Great Falls Ski Patrol from February 1940
Years at Showdown
Positions: Great Falls Ski Patrol — from its formation in February 1940; still on it in October 1941
Great Falls Ski Patrol — signed on again when it was rebuilt, January 1946
Chairman, the committee that kept the hill clean on the club's weekly outings, 1946
Co-head of the club's special lodge committee, with Dan Moran, 1946
Great Falls Ski Club board of directors, 1965-66

What they did

16 entries

2 April 1939Won the Class B slalom at the Great Falls Ski Club's first annual championships, at Kings Hill
April 1939Pictured in the paper with Dan Thorson as the club's junior and senior champions of the season
February 1940On the Great Falls Ski Patrol when it was formed, under Robert Selzer
17 March 1940Second in the club downhill, from the top of Porphyry Peak to the bottom of Bovey Slope, in 1:38.9, behind Dan Thorson
31 March 1940Raced in the ten-man class A of the club slalom championship on the power line run
1940On the five-man Great Falls squad for the state tryouts at Anaconda
1941Third in the club downhill, in 2:07.8
1941A judge at the club championships
October 1941On the ski patrol under Richard Voorhees
January 1946Signed on again when the club rebuilt its ski patrol under Joe Taylor
January 1946Chairman of the committee that kept the hill clean on the club's weekly outings
3 February 1946Pictured in the Great Falls Tribune taking a somersault on skis for the photographer and the admiring novices
6 February 1946Named, with Dan Moran, to head the club's special lodge committee; the lodge was built in 1947
6 March 1946Nominated to the Great Falls Ski Club's board of directors
1956Bought a share in Ski Tow Incorporated, the club's stock drive for a lift
1965-66On the Great Falls Ski Club's board of directors

2 in the archive

4 documents

Jack Throckmorton’s scrapbook Club papers, membership records and cuttingsc.1937–1957 · pages 17, 21, 37, 40, 69
Jim Hasterlik’s scrapbook Cover, 8 intro leaves, 43 pagesc.1937–1942 · pages 22, 31
Ski Tow Incorporated Stock subscriptions — the founding list1956 · page 3
Kings Crier Vol. III, No. IIDecember 1965 · page 2