George Montrose

Ski school director, and the man who tested the teachers

Legend of Showdown

Born: Logan, Utah
First skied at Showdown
First worked here: December 1963, Kings Hill Ski School
Years at Showdown
Positions: Instructor, Kings Hill Ski School, from December 1963
Director of the Kings Hill Ski School, 1965–68
Chief instructor under Jack Throckmorton, from December 1968
Chief examiner, Northern Rocky Mountain Ski Instructors Association

What they did

9 entries

1960Organized the Bridger Bowl Ski School near Bozeman, and ran it for two years
February 1962Chief examiner for the Northern Rocky Mountain Ski Instructors Association's certification exams at Red Lodge, with Floyd Dupuis assisting; Ron Hall and Carl Spinti of Kings Hill passed as associate instructors
December 1962Named the ski pro at the Bear Paw Ski Bowl near Havre
December 1963Joined the Kings Hill Ski School, a fully certified instructor and the former director of the Bridger Bowl Ski School
December 1964Teaching at Kings Hill with Ron Hall, Carl Spinti and Lee Robinson, all four certified, and writing the Kings Crier's Ski Tips column as the instructors' chief examiner
1965-66Director of a new Kings Hill Ski School; the school put up a large sign topped with a bell to call its classes
November 1966As director, offered the ski school's Christmas Lesson Plan at the Ski Hut's open house on the hill
1 December 1968Stayed on as chief instructor when Jack Throckmorton was named to run the ski school; the Tribune said he had headed it in past years
His wife Marge taught in the ski school too

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