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

1950s Dr. Lester Howard — on the Rope Tow with the Lodge in the background1938-1957 High Res Scans

Dr. Lester F. Howard

The ski patrol's doctor for more than twenty years, and a photographer of the hill

Legend of Showdown

Born
First skied at Showdown
First worked here: by December 1947, on the club's board and one of the ski patrol's three doctors
Years at Showdown
Positions: Great Falls Ski Patrol — one of its three doctors, 1947
Board of directors, Great Falls Ski Club, 1947
District patrol chairman, National Ski Patrol, 1948
National Ski Patrol section leader, the mountain area
First-aid instructor to the ski patrol, 1963
Ski patrol first-aid adviser, 1969

What they did

9 entries

By December 1947One of the three doctors on the Great Falls Ski Patrol
December 1947On the Great Falls Ski Club's board of directors
19 December 1948Photographed by the Tribune as district patrol chairman, with one of the club's four first-aid sleds, beside Fred Leftwich of the Lewis and Clark National Forest
18 April 1953Gave out the ski patrol's awards at the club's Skier's Spring Fling
24 January 1960His photograph of Harry Birkenbuel in powder at Kings Hill was the cover of the Montana Parade, the Tribune's Sunday magazine; it won first place in the Great Falls Camera Club's January black-and-white contest
Fall 1963Taught the nine-hour first-aid refresher course to the ski patrollers returning for the season
16 November 1969Pictured on the slopes as the ski patrol's first-aid adviser, with patrol chief Charlie Nebel, talking with patrolmen on the new shortwave radio system
Appointed to the National Ski Patrol by its board of trustees, with the shoulder insignia of a section leader for the mountain area
The ski patrol's doctor for more than twenty years

3 in the archive

1 document

Jack Throckmorton’s scrapbook Club papers, membership records and cuttingsc.1937–1957 · page 30