Still Going DownhillLegends of Showdown · The Ski Club years, 1936–1956
C. O. McCafferty
Ran the club's first race after the war, and was its president in 1948 and 1949
Legend of Showdown
- Born
- First skied at Showdown
- First worked here
- March 1946, chairman of the club's tournament committee
- Years at Showdown
- Positions
- Chairman, the Great Falls Ski Club's tournament committee, March 1946
- Timer at the club's races, 1946 and 1947
- Board of directors, Great Falls Ski Club, 1947
- President, Great Falls Ski Club, March 1948 to March 1949
- Co-chairman, the collections and lift committee, 1951
What they did
12 entries
- March 1946Chairman of the Great Falls Ski Club's tournament committee, for the first races at Kings Hill after the war
- 6 March 1946Nominated to the club's board of directors
- 24 March 1946Timer at the club's tournament at Kings Hill
- 23 March 1947Assistant timekeeper at the club's city tournament
- December 1947On the club's board of directors
- March 1948Elected president of the Great Falls Ski Club, succeeding Andy Farago
- 1948-49Signed the club's no-interest loan certificates as president, with Judith Birch as secretary
- December 1948Photographed by the Tribune in the ski lodge as club president, with Jack Throckmorton and forest supervisor Fred Leftwich, on an opening day of 150 skiers
- December 1948The paper found him singing around the lodge piano while Vivian Blumfield played
- October 1951Co-chairman, with Carter Williams, of the club's collections and lift committee
- 18 April 1953Sang in the Men's Ski Club Glee Club at the club's Skier's Spring Fling
- Bought a share in Ski Tow Incorporated, the club's stock drive for a lift
In their own words
Photographs
1 in the archive
In the papers
2 documents
- Jack Throckmorton’s scrapbook Club papers, membership records and cuttingsc.1937–1957 · pages 65, 66, 70, 76
- Ski Tow Incorporated Stock subscriptions — the founding list1956 · page 3