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Legends of Showdown · The Ski Club years, 1936–1956
1960 Ron Hall — The T-Bar — Group of Ski Club Members
1960 Ron Hall — The T-Bar — Group of Ski Club MembersPhotos 1957-1973

Stub Gendreau

Chaired the 1956 drive that sold shares in the hill to Great Falls, and taught in its ski school

Legend of Showdown
Born
First skied at Showdown
1947, on the club's race list
First worked here
January 1946, on the committee for the club's first Ski Week after the war
Years at Showdown
Positions
  • Ski Week committee and tournament committee, Great Falls Ski Club, 1946
  • Chairman, the 1956 stock drive for a lift (Ski Tow Incorporated)
  • Director, Ski Lift, Inc., 1956
  • President, Great Falls Ski Club, elected April 1960
  • Kings Hill Ski School instructor, from December 1960
  • Chairman, the first Kings Hill Invitational, 1961
  • Wrote the Kings Hill Ski School's Ski Tips column, 1963

What they did

17 entries
  1. January 1946On the committee that ran the club's Ski Week of 2–9 February 1946, the first after the war
  2. 5 March 1946On the tournament committee for the club's 24 March races at Kings Hill, under Clarence McCafferty and Roscoe Rowe
  3. June 1946One of fourteen club members who finished the Red Cross advanced first-aid course that qualified them for the National Ski Patrol
  4. 23 March 1947Entered in the men's downhill of the club's city tournament
  5. Winter 1953-54Named one of the club's ski instructors, under Jack Throckmorton
  6. 29 March 1956In charge of the club's stock drive for a mechanical lift; his letter told members the runs and facilities had proven inadequate that season for the crowds driving to Kings Hill
  7. Chairman of the stock subscription committee; his name heads the 152 sign-ups for Ski Tow Incorporated, and he bought two shares himself
  8. 3 July 1956On the first board of directors of Ski Lift, Inc., the company that still runs the mountain
  9. 29 April 1960Elected president of the Great Falls Ski Club, succeeding Jerry Peterson
  10. 3 December 1960One of the five instructors who opened the ski school's season under Ski Lift, Inc.
  11. January 1961Represented the club at the Forest Service's safety meeting
  12. 5 March 1961Named chairman of the first Kings Hill Invitational, 25–26 March 1961
  13. 28 January 1962Pictured in the Montana Parade watching his students on the beginners' slope, one of the veteran Kings Hill skiers
  14. 8 April 1962Chief of course, with Lee Robinson, for the club races
  15. October 1962An instructor in the club's seven-week junior program
  16. 6 December 1963Wrote the Kings Hill Ski School's Ski Tips column, with his portrait, in the first issue of the club's newsletter, the Kings Crier
  17. 15 December 1963Narrated the ski school's demonstration, from the snowplow to parallel skiing, at the grand opening of the T-Bar, before close to a thousand people

Photographs

2 in the archive
1960 Ron Hall and GF Ski Club Back.jpg
1960 Ron Hall — The T-Bar — Group of Ski Club Members

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In the papers

5 documents

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