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

1946 Betty Halowell, Connie Ecklund Hubbard, Vivian BlumfieldThrockmorton Collection · The History Museum, Great Falls, MT

Vivian Blumfield

Ran the club's first Ski Week after the war, 1946, and became its secretary

Legend of Showdown

Born
First skied at Showdown
First worked here: February 1946, directing the club's Ski Week promotion
Years at Showdown: 1946
Positions: Director of the Ski Week promotion, Great Falls Ski Club, February 1946
Secretary, Great Falls Ski Club, elected March 1946
Dinner-dance committee, March 1946

What they did

5 entries

February 1946Directed the promotion of the club's revived Ski Week, 2 to 9 February, over a committee of ten that included Bob Blumfield, Lee Gendreau and Jack and Margaret Throckmorton
March 1946Elected secretary of the Great Falls Ski Club, with Jack Throckmorton re-elected president and Bob Blumfield vice president
March 1946On Christie McCafferty's committee for the club's end-of-season dinner dance
24 March 1946Entered the women's downhill at the club's tournament at Kings Hill
19 December 1948Pictured in the Tribune at the piano in the new lodge, playing for the crowd after an afternoon of skiing, while club president C. O. McCafferty sang with the rest

2 in the archive

1 document

Jack Throckmorton’s scrapbook Club papers, membership records and cuttingsc.1937–1957 · pages 11, 21, 66