John Rice

From the club's first committees in 1938 to treasurer of Ski Lift, Inc.

Legend of Showdown

Born
First skied at Showdown
First worked here: on the Great Falls Ski Club's ski lifts committee, November 1938
Years at Showdown: 1938–1973
Positions: Ski lifts and transportation committees, Great Falls Ski Club, November 1938
Director, Great Falls Ski Club, at its incorporation in December 1938; executive board 1939
Chairman, the club's special events committee, 1940
Treasurer, Ski Lift, Inc., from its incorporation in July 1956 to at least 1962
Stockholder, Ski Lift, Inc., until the sale of 1973

What they did

11 entries

25 November 1938Named to the Great Falls Ski Club's ski lifts committee, with Charles Anderson, and to its transportation committee
December 1938One of the seven directors of the Great Falls Ski Club when it was incorporated
1939Named to the club's executive board when Eddie Schenck was elected president
21 January 1940Chairman of the special events committee in charge of the program for the dedication of the club's Kings Hill course; more than five hundred skiers and spectators came
March 1940Chairman of the special events committee for the club's city ski championship at Kings Hill
1956Subscribed for a $25 class B share in Ski Tow Incorporated
July 1956Treasurer of Ski Lift, Inc. when it was formed to build a lift up Porphyry Peak, with Dr. Earl Hall president and Senator Charles Bovey vice president
3 August 1956Photographed by the Tribune in the front row of Ski Lift, Inc.'s directors as they signed the contract for a $19,040 platter lift
January 1962Still treasurer of Ski Lift, Inc., named in the Montana Parade as one of the early Ski Club members among its officers
4 April 1973Named among the larger stockholders of Ski Lift, Inc. when Edward B. Cogswell Jr. and George Willett bought the Kings Hill facilities
Named in the Tribune's histories of the club in 1947 and 1962 among the early skiers who first organized it

4 documents

Jack Throckmorton’s scrapbook Club papers, membership records and cuttingsc.1937–1957 · pages 1, 4, 6, 8, 36, 37, 81, 84, 85, 94, 95
Jim Hasterlik’s scrapbook Cover, 8 intro leaves, 43 pagesc.1937–1942 · pages 38, 41
Ski Tow Incorporated Stock subscriptions — the founding list1956 · page 3
Montana Parade “Skiing In Montana”Sunday, 28 January 1962 · page 5

Built the Pomalift, 1957 — treasurer of Ski Lift, Inc., the company formed in 1956 to build it