Ed Schenck

Club president at the 1940 dedication

Legend of Showdown

Born: 1914, Great Falls
First skied at Showdown
First worked here: chairman of the club's ski sites committee from February 1939
Years at Showdown: 1939–1941
Positions: Chairman, ski sites committee, Great Falls Ski Club, February 1939
President, Great Falls Ski Club, 1939-40 — he gave the dedication address at Kings Hill on 21 January 1940
Founding member, Great Falls Ski Patrol
National Ski Patrol System — national public relations committee
Class B racer, Great Falls Ski Club, 1939 and 1940

What they did

1 entry

December 1939Announced the postponement of the Kings Hill dedication for lack of snow (page-one news)

6 in the archive

2 documents

Jack Throckmorton’s scrapbook Club papers, membership records and cuttingsc.1937–1957 · pages 1, 4, 5, 53, 55, 57, 67
Jim Hasterlik’s scrapbook Cover, 8 intro leaves, 43 pagesc.1937–1942 · pages 22, 34, 41

Built the second rope tow, the motor house and the warming house, 1939 — he oversaw all three as club president, and announced the naming of Prentice Run
Built the club's portable jeep-mounted rope tow, January 1947 — with George Prentice and Art Higgins
Built the club's emblem — the large replica that was the main decoration at the first annual dinner dance, April 1939, made with Mabelle Willcomb and Bob McKenna