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Grant L, Beagley 3490 West 3800 South Salt Lake City 19~ Utah Dave Bernolfo 2371 Walkers Lane Salt Lake City 21, Utah Eugene Bernson 2549 Imperial Street Salt Lake City, Utah Merlin Berg Peruvian Lodge Alta~ Utah Marvin Blomquist 1470 Blackstone Ave, San Jose 24~ Calif. Aris Boyle 275 East 25th Street Idaho Falls~ Idaho Richard Boyle 275 East 25th Street Idaho Falls, Idaho ~, Jack Buffat 428 Filmore Street Pocatell0 9 Idaho Pvt, Gene Clausen US 55-757-011 Co. 32nd Bn. 3rd TRB Ft. Leonard Wood, Mo. Robert D. Clayton 2455 East 3225 South Salt Lake City 9, Utah Dick Coon 1730 South 19th East Salt Lake City 8, Utah Muffy Corbet Box 477 Jackson 9 Wyoming Curtis Coulam 2201 Wilmington Circle Salt Lake City 9, Utah Gary R. Cowan 450 Gray's Gables Rd. Apt. 442 Laramie 9 Wyoming Malcolm Davis 1515 Riviera Drive Idaho Falls. Idaho -4- Eddie Dittmar 2534 E, Yermo Avenue Salt Lake City 9, Utah Evelyn Engen 2293 East 6200 South Salt Lake City 21, Utah Patricia Evans 175 Chase Street Pocatello, Idaho Mel Fletcher 690 Park Avenue Park City, Utah Charles R. Fields 206 Minnie Fairbanks, Alaska Hood Fowler Box 1415 Sun Valley, Idaho Stanley Fry 1357 Yosemite Drive Salt Lake City 9, Utah Henry Gandiaga Castleford, Idaho Maurine Gillette Route 1 Burley. Idaho Terry Grogan 58 East 8th South Salt Lake City 1, Utah Dennis Guiver 2261 East 33rd South Salt Lake City 9, Utah D, Gerald Hales 832 South 800 East Orem, Utah Kenneth Hansen 2629 Burton Avenue Burley, Idaho Julia Hansen 6785 So. View Drive Bountiful, Utah Roger Haran 1310 East 9th So, #1 Salt Lake City 5, Utah Tim Heydon P. O. Box 550 Park City, Utah Robert Hilliard Route 2 Burley, Idaho Terry Hines 2682 St, Marys Way Salt Lake City 8, Utah Clyde Hoffman 1775 Washington Blvd. Ogden, Utah Farrell Holding 475 Cleveland Avenue Salt Lake City 15,Utah Lavern Hughes Box 411 Ketchum, Idaho Rod Hurich Ski School Sun Valley, Idaho Marjorie Jacobson 730 E. Lindell Street Sandy, Utah Merlin Jacobson Swan Valley, Idaho Harold Jenkins 7 So. Wolcott St. Salt Lake City 2, Utah Steve Jensen 326 South 10th East Salt Lake City, Utah Karen Jensen 2928 Polk Avenue Ogden, Utah Jannette Johnson Box 118 Sun Valley, Idaho Gary Jones 421 West 27th Street Bur ley 9 Idaho Gary Knudson Box 511 Park City, Utah ------ - -------- Bette Jane Kotter 498 Canyon Road Smithfield, Utah David H, Kotter 498 Canyon Road Smithfield, Utah Doloris LaChapelle Alta, Utah David Larsen 2229 Preston Street Salt Lake City 8, Utah Lileth Lash 6811 Meadow Drive Salt Lake City 17, Utah Glen E, Larson Burley, Idaho Sidney D. Lindholm General Delivery Sun Valley, Idaho Robert Locke 780 So. 11th East Salt Lake City 2, Utah Max Lundberg 1885 Sycamore Lane Salt Lake City 17, Utah John Martin 1001 Military Drive Salt Lake City 5, Utah William E. Meckem Box 994 Jackson, Wyoming Molly MacDonald 707 Eliason Drive Brigham City, Utah Sean Malone 1011 West Lee Street Seattle~ Washington Roland Melicher 3801 So. 2700 East Salt Lake City 9, Utah Tom Morgan 4717 Amber Lane Apt. 1 Sacramento 41, Calif. -5- Robert F, Mull 370 Linden Drive Idaho Falls, Idaho Lt, Richard Mulder AO 313 2753 PO Box 1518 Luke AFB, Arizona Robert Neill Box 1443 Sun Valley, Idaho Gene Palmer 302 Chautauqua Park Boulder, Colorado C lark Parkinson 1798 Yuma Street Salt Lake City 9, Utah Clint Pelto 12211 6th N. W. Seattle 77, Washington Jan Peterson 575 South 6th East Logan, Utah Garth Petersen 160 Tautphaus Drive Idaho Falls, Idaho Joe Poitevin 369 West 14th Street Idaho Falls, Idaho Phillip Pittz 729 Douglas Street Salt Lake City 2, Utah Robert Pollock 431 East 14th Street Idaho Falls, Idaho Tom Plofchan Alta Lodge Alta, Utah Geraldine Price 1134 Ramona Avenue Salt Lake City 5, Utah Sonya Redd LaSal, Utah Dan Reiman, Jr. Ashton, Idaho Roger Roche Cactus Drive Pocatello, Idaho Clark Sanford 58 East 8th South Salt Lake City 1, Utah Darrel Scott 676 West Lewis Pocatello, Idaho Angus Shearer, Jr. 2181 Keller Lane Salt Lake City, Utah Marilyn Shearer 2181 Keller Lane Salt Lake City, Utah Patricia Smith 934 Shirecliffe Rd. Salt Lake City 8, Utah Frank Smith 2529 Eccles Avenue Ogden, Utah Robert J. Smith Rou te 1 Box 307 Idaho Falls, Idaho Will B. Smith 3915 So. 2225 West Ogden, Utah Lee Snedaker 778 11th Avenue Salt Lake City 3, Utah 2nd Lt. Bill Spencer 422 G Beluga US Biathlon APO 949 Seattle, Wash. Kenneth Taylor 1612 Blaine Avenue Salt Lake City 5, Utah Hugh Thomson, Jr. 419 East 13th South Salt Lake City 15, Utah Dave Thurgood 2019 Lambourne Ave. Salt Lake City 9, Utah Karl Tucker 730 East 360 South Orem, Utah Howard Uibel 249 S, F, H. BYU Provo, Utah James Varin Route 1 Gooding, Idaho Sandra Wade 2207 Preston Street Salt Lake City 6, Utah Rex E. Warner 562 East 3000 North No. Ogden, Utah Rev. Louis E. Kern 2740 Pennsylvania Avenue Ogden~ Utah Bill Cook 2848 East Mt. Jordan Road Sandy, Utah ~.. Gus Hansen 2778 Parleys Way Salt Lake City 9, Utah Bill Levitt Alta Lodge Alta, Utah -6- Tom Webster 324 East 3rd South Rexburg, Idaho James Wharton 1601 Beverly Road Idaho Falls, Idaho Wendell White 1820 South Main #306 Salt Lake City 15, Utah Elmer Womack Route 1 Rexburg, Idaho HONORARY MEMBERS Clide Jones - Ex. Of. 292 Blue Lakes Blvd. No. Twin Falls, Idaho RETIRED MEMBERS Earl A. Miller 1270 East 2000 North Provo, Utah Herb Nolan 1096 So. Coast Highway Laguna Beach, California Rulan Nichol 1664 East 48th South Salt Lake City 17, Utah Cindy Wi llard Box 185 Sun Valley, Idaho James Wood Burley, Idaho 83318 Bob Young 1655 Roosevelt Ave. Salt Lake City, Utah Anne Zeigler 432 North 2nd West Logan, Utah Capt. Hugh Olander 05706272 225th Station Hospital APO 189, New York, N,Y. Ken Riggs 1245 Lavon Circle Salt Lake City 6, Utah Jim Shane 4010 El Dorado Street Salt Lake City 17, Utah Ronald Simmons 1082 4th Avenue Salt Lake City 3, Utah INTERMOUNTAIN SKI INSTRUCTORS ASSOCIATION MEMBER t S PROXY KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that I _________________ of _______________ _ hereby appoint _______________________________ to be my substitute and proxy for me and in my name and behalf to vote at the Annual Membership Meeting of the I.S.I.A. on all questions which may be presented and consid-ered at the annual meeting of the members of said association, with like effect as I might or could have done if I had been personally present and voting thereat. And I do hereby revoke and annul any and all proxies heretofore given by me to any person or persons. WITNESS my hand this _ day of ____________ , 1965. Signature ____________________________ __ Address Please date, sign and mail promptly to: M. Lloyd Frank, Secretary, I.S.I.A. 1545 Indian Hills Drive Salt Lake City 8, Utah ------- - --- ---------- --- INTERMOUNTAIN SKI INSTRUCTORS ASSOCIATION OFFICERS: Lou Lorenz, President Don Rhinehart, Vice Pres. Bob Zeigler, Secretary Craig Bennion, Treasurer BOARD OF DIRECTORS: Woody Anderson Wes Deist Sigi Engl Lloyd Frank John J. Harrington Lex Kunau Keith Lange Bill Lash Dave Parkinson Jack Simpson Bob J. R. Smith Dennis Staley Richard L. Voorhees, M.D. CLINIC CHAIRMAN: Adrien Segil 2010 West North Temple Box 305 432 North 2nd West 5721 South 1050 East Box 637 154 East 24th Street Ski School 1545 Indian Hills Drive Box TT Box 569 4784 Annabow Circle 6811 So. Meadow Drive 3823 Vi lla Drive Warm Springs Ranch Inn 2621 Capricorn Way Box 714 945 East 1st South 72 South Main Street AREA CERTIFICATION REPRESENTATIVES: Alta - Gene Huber 671 East 9620 South Sandy, Utah Brighton - K. Smith 3414 Brockbank Drive Salt Lake City, Utah Burley-Twin Falls - Lex Kunau Box 569 Burley, Idaho Idaho Falls, Pocatello, Ashton - Wes Deist 154 East 24th Street Idaho Falls, Idaho Jackson, Wyoming Dennis Staley Jackson Sporting Store Jackson, Wyoming Park City - Dave Parkinson 3823 Vi lla Drive Salt Lake City, Utah Beaver-Snow Basin Bob Zeigler 432 North 2nd West Logan, Utah Salt Lake City, Utah Ketchum, Idaho Logan, Utah Salt Lake City, Utah Park City, Utah Idaho Falls, Idaho Sun Valley, Idaho Salt Lake City, Utah Jackson, Wyoming Burley, Idaho Salt Lake City, Utah Salt Lake City, Utah Salt Lake City, Utah Ketchum, Idaho Salt Lake City, Utah Jackson, Wyoming Salt Lake City, Utah Salt Lake City, Utah Solitude - Dick Voorhees 945 East 1st South Salt Lake City, Utah Sun Valley - Don Rhinehart Box 305 Ketchum, Idaho Southern Utah Junior Bounous 772 East 3350 North Provo, Utah TO: AREA CERTIFICATIONREPRESENTA.TIVES FROM: DON RHINEHART, CHIEF EXAMINER SUBJECT: loS. I.A. CERTIFICATION PLANS AND E.XAM APPLICATIONS ADDITIONAL COPIES .OF l.S.I.A. PLAN FOR CERTIFICATION AND APPLICATIPN FOR EXAMINATION FORMS MAY BE OBTAINED BY ' CONTACTING DU MAC, INCORP.ORATED AT , 127 · South West Temple, Salt ~ake 'City, Utah. DU MAC, INCORPORATED 127 SOUTHWEST TEMPLE . SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH PLEASE SEND ME: I.S.I.A. Plans for Certification I.S.I.A. Application for examination forms Name ---------------------------------------- Address -------------------------------------- . City & State. _______________________________ _ ><' " •••• , c \' I " 1 ,'" ", .:, - , / /nk~"'5- f Er'/~~crl'1 m/~v~ '13 /1/' ~I , ': ,';\\1' \ £:-, O}}-.O L Svtl(~ t./jt~l -~~-. ~Q . 77i4;i~~+s doe fl/t AV{9>Cr~ ~'/t. ~ , 7Oe1N~d, s;~ st/~ It) ~"4 ~~ /'<#$4PW~~cJ; ~ell.s _________ a;_,~;~~ '3 ,~7J-a~~ t!!: 1 --~----------- 9 S~ ~ .~: };,oW~Loth S~'$M /~O ~~ '<5'S~~77'J ~lfiIn ------------- ~ :"r, , ~,t/AA,// ~I ~~s~~ :~ ~~,.l ,'\IC:7."'&~'~" cltA.".s~~ ------------ '-' :~,:,y~,:JK'I;~' ,j ------------ yo s~~ ,,"'>r:Shh',~s.~/iLe'j at) ~ .< .. ~",·~.J,,~/;I ,~iO!l~;.l'::;:~:';';·:\,-~~~i'X~!;~!··\':~",--L.>~'~.'. . 2."1>. ... l:".'l~ __ ·;.:...\'_;~.,)t ___ --7----~- ___________~ ~ __ -------L. ___. ____~ _ " ,.'-.-- \ t \ \ BY-LAWS OF INTERMOUNTAIN SKI INSTRUCTORS ASSOCIATION TABLE OF CONTENTS ARTICLE I. OFFICE .•.•••..........••...•...........•..••.. ~~ ARTICLE II. MEMBERSHIP Section A. B. Section Section ARTICLE III. 1. Classification .......................... . VO t i ng. : ...............................•.... Non-votlng ................................. . 1. Retired ................................ . 2. Honorary ............................... . 3. Registered Apprentices .............•.•.. 2. Annual Meetings .........•.••..•.......... 3. Special Meetings .......•............•.••• BOARD OF DIRECTORS ..•......••...•...•..•...• Section 1. Section 2. Section 3. Section 4. Section 5. Section 6. Section 7. Section 8. Section 9. Section 10. General Powers .......................... . Number~ Tenure and Qualifications ...•.... Vacancles ............................... . Regular Meetings ........................ . Special Meetings ........................ . QUo rum .................................. . Manner of Acting ........................ . Removal s ......................•.........• Compensation ............................ . Chai rman ............................... . ARTICLE IV. Section Section Section Section Section Section Section Section A. B. Section EXECUTIVE OFFICERS .............•........•.... 1. Number .................................. . 2. Election and Term of Office ............. . 3. President ...........................•.... 4. Certification Vice President ............ . 5. Technical Vice President ................ . 6. Administrative Vice President ........... . 7. Communications Vice President ........... . 8. Advisory Councils ....................... . Ski School Directors .....................•.. Past Presidents ...•......................... 9. Division Functions ..................•.•.• ARTICLE V. CERTIFICATION ••••••••••••••..•••••.••••••••••• ARTICLE VI. ETHICS ...................................... . Section 1. Section 2. Section 3. Rights and Privileges ................... . Expul s ion ............................... . Procedure ............................... . ARTICLE VII. WAIVER OF NOTICE ••••••••••••••••••••.••••••• ART I CLE VI I I. AMENDMENT S ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• ARTI CLE IX. FISCAL yEAR •••••••••••••.•••••••••••••••••••• ARTICLE X. DUES ......................................... . ARTICLE XI. CONTRACTS, LOANS, CHECKS AND DEPOSITS •••••••• Section l. Section 2. Section 3. Section 4. Contrac ts ............................... . Loans ................................... . Deposits ................................ . Checks and Drafts .. , ..................... . Page BY-LAWS OF INTERMOUNTAIN SKI INSTRUCTORS ASSOCIATION ARTICLE I OFFICE The Board of Directors shall designate and the Corporation shall maintain a principal office. The location of the princiapl office may be changed by the Board of Directors. The cora~~ae±on may also have offices in such other places as the Board may from time to time desig-nate. be: The location of the principal office of the Corporation shall 7234 Jonathon Circle Salt Lake City, Utah 84121 ARTICLE II MEMBERSHIP Section I. Classification A. Voting. In order to attain a voting membership in this Association, a person shall have passed the requirements for Cer-tified Ski Instructor or Associate Ski Instructor as provided by the Certification Policy; or hold the rating of Certified Ski Instructor, and be a member in good standing in any of the recognized professional ski instructors' organizations, and have paid the current I.S.I.A. dues, and/or initiation fee as required by the current policy. The yearly (2) maintenance of said active voting membership is dependent upon said instructor having taught a minimum of twenty (20) hours of ski in-struction in the season next preceeding the current season, payment of the current dues and attendance at a recognized clinic ~~_~two years. A default by said instructor in any of the aforementioned requiremen~ shall be grounds for expulsion from the Association. / B. Non-voting 1. Retired. There shall be a retired status for members who are Certified or Associate Ski Instructors, who by application to the Board of Directors request retired status. Retired members will be entitled to wear a badge that will so designate the word "retired", and will be issued a membership card bearing the word "retired". Re-tired members shall be allowed to attend all functions of the Association. Retired members will pay annual dues of one-half (1/2) of the regular dues rate for voting members. Retired members will not be eligible to hold office in the Association. I To obtain active status again, retired members must/t.QacR a flIirrilltWIL of twenty (20) hours, and at t~ completion t:rr""saltt-t'tvovt,¥ ~ ROU;r"S of teaehiRg,1 recertify. 2. Honorary. The Board of Directors shall have the auth­ority to bestow Honorary Membership upon any person or persons that have performed a deserving service to the sport of skiing and/or to the pro­fession of ski instruction. Such Honorary Members shall be allowed to attend all functions of the Association, and to receive all Association publications. Honorary Members shall not be required to pay dues, (3) however, they shall not be allowed to be an officer of the Association. Such individuals, designated by Resolution of the Board, shall receive from the Association a badge and card designating their honored status. 3. Registered Apprentices. Individuals desiring to become Certified Ski Instructors, and who are sponsored by a recognized Ski School Director may obtain a Registered Apprentice status with the Association by proper registration and payment of current I.S.I.A. dues. Such Registered Apprentices shall then be entitled to receive all pub­lications of the Association and to attend all meetings of said Associa-tion, however, such registered status will not qualify said individuals to hold any office in the Association. Section 2. Annual Meetings. The Association shall hold an annual meeting of its members at a place and hour to be determined by a majority vote of the members at a preceeding annual meeting. If no such determination is made, the time, place and hour shall be determined by the Board of Directors. Written notice of the time, place and hour of such meeting shall be given by mail or telegraph to each member at least ten (10) days prior to the gay. thereof. The Rre.R.enFY of a ~CJ1jpr- Q., W~ ~ 2£ ~ iW4£N~ ~~ ity of~ quorum.being present shall e necessary in order to conduct ~ ~drr..t· q ~~"{);JM~fl-.' the business of the said meeting. I Section 3. Special Meetings. Special meetings of the mem­bers may be called at any time by the President or a majority of the Board of Directors. Written notice of such meeting stating the place, date and hour of the meeting, the purpose or purposes for which it is called, and the name of the person by whom or at whose direction it was (4) called shall be given. No business other than that specified in the notice of the meeting shall be transacted at any such special meeting. ~ction I. ARTICLE III BOARD OF DIRECTORS General Powers. The business and affairs of the Association shall be managed by its Board of Directors. The Board of Directors may adopt such rules and regulations for the conduct of their meeting~ the management of the Association as they deem proper. Section 2. Number, Tenure and Qualifications. The number of Directors of the Association shall be fifteen (15) as provided for in the Articles of Incorporation. Each Director shall hold office for a term of three (3) years and until his successor is elected and qualif-ied, and shall be eligible for re-election. The terms of the Directors shall be arranged so that five (5) Directors shall be elected to a three (3) year term each year. Any member of this Association who is an Assoc-iate or Certified Ski Instructor in good standing with this Association shall be eligible and qualified to become a member of the Board of Directors, providing that not more than twenty-five (25) percent of the Board of Directors at anyone time may be Associate Ski Instructors. Directors shall be elected by the members that are eligible to vote as determined by these By-laws. ~ection 3. Vacancies. A vacancy in the Board of Directors shall be deemed to exist in the case of death, resignation, or the re-moval for cause of any Director. Such vacancies, occurring between (5) the annual meetings shall be filled by a vote of the ~f the Board in a special meeting called for the purpose of filling the vac-ancy. ~ Section 4. Regular Meetings. A regular meeting of the Board of Directors shall be held- with;~t';;r~ot"i~e:,4ithin two days~~l the same ? place as the annual meeting of the members. The Board of Directors may provide by resolution the time and place for the holding of additional regular meetings without other notice than this resolution. Section 5. Special Meetings. Special meetings of the Board of Directors may be called by the order of the President, or by one-third (1/3) of the Directors. -Notice of the time, place and purpose or purposes of each special meeting shall be given by the Administrative Vice President by mailing the same, ~r by(telephoning)or telegraphing the same at least fjye (5) days before which the meeting is to be held. Notice need not be given if waived by the Board members in writing, or if he be present at the meeting. Section 6. Quorum. A majority of the members of the Board of Directors shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, but less than a quorum may adjourn any meeting from time to time until a quorum shall be present whereupon, the meeting shall be held as ad­journed without further notice. At any meeting at which every Director shall be present, even though without any notice, any business may be transacted. ~ Section 7. Manner of Acting. At all meetings of the Board of Directors, each Director shall have one vote. The act of a majority (6) present at the meeting shall be an act of the Board of Directors, unless provided otherwise by these By-laws, provided a quorum is present. Section 8. Removals. Directors may be removed for cause only at any time by a vote of two-thirds (2/32 majoritg of the Board of Dir­ectors. Such vacancy shall be filled by the Directors then in office, to hold office until the next annual meeting or until his successor is duly elected and qualified. The Board shall also have the authority to remove any of -the other officers that it has the authority to elect or appoint upon sufficient cause as determined by a -majority of the Board. Section 9. Compensation. By resolution of the Board of Dir-ectors, the Directors and other officers as determined by the Board, may be paid their expenses, if any, for attendance at each meeting of the Board of Directors. Section 10. Chairman. The President of the Association shall serve as Chairman of the Board of Directors, and shall preside at all meetings of the Board of Directors, and shall perform such other duties as may be prescribed at time to time by the Board of Directors. As Chairman, the President may only vote in the event of a tie. ARTICLE IV EXECUTIVE OFFICERS Section I. Number. The officers of the Association shall be a President, a Certification Vice President, a Technical Vice President, an Administrative Vice President, and a Communications Vice President. Such other officers as deemed necessary may be elected or appointed by (7) the Board of Directors. In its discretion, the Board of Directors may leave unfilled, for any such period as it may determine, any office ex­cept those of President and Certification Vice President. Section 2. Election and Term of Office. The officers of the Association shall serve for terms of one (1) year. Officers may succeed themselves in office, however, the President shall be limited to three (3) consecutive one (1) year terms. The President shall be elected by the Board of Directors, and the elected President shall nominate and the Board approve other officers of the Association. Each officer thus elected shall hold office until his successor shall have been duly elec­ted and shall have qualified, or until his death, or until he shall re-sign, or shall have been removed in any manner herein provided. Section 3. President. The President who shall be a fully Certified Ski Instructor and a member of the Board of Directors shall be • the Chief Executive Officer of the Association. He shall preside at all meetings of the Association, and he shall be the Chairman of the Board of Directors. The President shall be responsible to the Board of Dir­ectors for the management of the Association and shall be deemed to have those executive powers necessary to effect that management. Section 4. Certification Vice President. The Certification Vice President shall be a fully (ertified member- of the Association, and it shall be his duty to direct the Associations' certification policy. Section 5. Technical Vice President. The Technical Vice President shall be a fully certified member of the Association, and it shall be his responsibility to direct the Associations' technical func-tions. (8) Section 6. Administrative Vice President. The Administrative Vice President shall assume all the duties of the President when the President is absent, incapacitated or ineligible for the office, and shall serve as the acting President until the President returns or un-til the vacancy is filled as provided in the By-laws. The Administrative Vice President shall also be responsible for the general administration of the Association. The Administrative Vice President shall supervise the office of the Executive Secretary which shall be responsible for the logistic support of the Associations' functions. Section 7. Communications Vice President. It shall be the responsibility of the Communications Vice President to direct the Assoc-iations' communications. Section 8. Advisory Councils. A. Ski School Directors. All member Ski School Direc- ..t ors within the territorial limits of I.S.I.A. shall have membership on this council. It shall be the duty of this council to advise the Board of Directors on matters concerning the Association as they relate to the various ski schools. The Directors shall appoint from their membership, a Chairman who shall serve at the pleasure of the council. B. Past Presidents. Every past President of I.S.I.A. shall be a member of the Past Presidents' Council. It shall be the duty of this council to advise the Board of Directors on policy consideration. The members shall appoint from their membership a Chairman who shall serve at the pleasure of the council. Section 9. Division Functions. Each of the aforementioned (9) four divisions of I.S.I.A., Certification, Technical, Administrative and Communications shall have those functions assigned to said division as determined by the Board of Directors. Each Division Vice President shall have the responsibility to nominate for Board approval the Com-mittee Chairmen or Department Heads necessary to accomplish the assign-ments delegated to him by the President. Each Chairman or Department Head thus approved by the Board shall have the responsibility to select those individuals that will be required to accomplish his assigned task. Said selections by Chairmen and Department Heads are subject to approval of appropriate Division Vice Presidents. ARTICLE V CERTIFICATION The Association shall have the power, and it shall be the duty of the Certification Vice President to organize and administer a system for the certification and examination of ski instructors. Said system shall be approved by the Board of Directors. Any changes in said sys-tern must be approved by the Board. From time to time the Certification Vice President shall report to the nlembers of the Association and to the Board on the operation of the system, and he shall in any event make such report to each annual meeting of the Association. The Certification Vice President or his designee shall from time to time appoint an ex-amining Board to conduct certification examinations. No examiner shall use or permit the use of the fact that he is or has been appointed in connection with the advertising or publicity of any merchandise or any (10) service whatsoever. It is understood that the decision of the examiners appointed as herein provided shall be final with reference to any cer­tification, and that the certificates issued pursuant thereto will be granted and issued by the authority of the Intermountain Ski Instructors Association. The Association under the direction of the Certification Vice President shall have the power to own, operate, manage or conduct schools for the training and instruction of ski instructors. ARTICLE VI ETHICS Section I. Rights and Privileges. The rights and privileges of members in this Association pursuant to Article 6 of the Articles of Incorporation shall be subject to the procedures herein set forth. Section 2. Expulsion. Any member who is alleged to have intentionally deviated from the Code of Ethics set forth in sub-para­graph C of Article VI of the Articles of Incorporation shall be subject to expulsion from membership in this Association. Section 3. Procedure. An allegation of any members violation of the Code of Ethics shall be submitted to a member of the Ethics Com­mittee in writing, subscribed by a member making such allegation. There­upon, the Ethics Committee shall be called to regular session, and upon resolution of the majority of said committee, duly constituted, that there is good cause to proceed with a hearing, then a formal charge shall be made in the name of the organization, stating with particularity the alleged violation, and the written charge shall be served upon the (11) ~ember concerned by certified mail at his record address. The written charge shall set a time for hearing, not less than five or more than ten days after service aforesaid, stating the time and place for such hearing, and informing the charged member that he has the right to ap­pear and defend the allegations made. At the time designated for hearing aforesaid, the Ethics Com­mittee, duly constituted, shall hear and determine the merit of the allegations made, with due opportunity for the defending member to be heard; and the said Ethics Committee shall likewise hear and determine any allegation of prejudice within their committee, and provide for substitution upon the committee as may be necessary to maintain itself duly constituted. The Ethics Committee, upon due deliberation shall determine the merit of the allegations, and shall refer their finding, together with recommended disposition to the Governing Board in writing. The Governing Board, upon receiving the findings and recommen-dations aforesaid of the Ethics Committee, shall be authorized to invoke such discipline as the case shall warrant provided, however, that upon a recommendation of the Ethics Committee that the matter be ~.·mm issed, ~-~¥t~ then the Governing Board shall relnstate the accused member to his full rigbt~_~+lLiyileges. The overning Board, duly consti- ----..------ -...-~-~"'-- tuted, shall by majority vote determine any expUlsion, and the member shall be advised in writing of such determination. No member subjected to expUlsion in the manner herein provided shall be eligible for reapplication to membership without the express approval of the Governing Board, duly constituted by majority resolution. (12) ARTICLE VII WAIVER OF NOTICE Whenever any notice is required to be given to any member or Director of the corporation under the provisions of the By-laws, or under the provisions of the Articles of Incorporation, or under the provisions of the Utah Non-profit Corporations Act, a waiver thereof in writing signed by the person or persons entitled to such notice, whether before or after the time stated therein, shall be deemed equiv­alent to the giving of such notice. Attendance at any meeting shall constitute a waiver of notice of such meetings, except where attendance is for the express purpose of objecting to the legality of that meeting. ARTICLE VIII AMENDMENTS These By-laws may be altered, amended, repealed, or new By-laws adopted by a majority of the entire Board of Directors at any regular or special meeting. Any By-law adopted by the Board may be repealed or changed by action of the members. ARTICLE IX FISCAL YEAR The fiscal year of the Association shall be fixed and may be varied by resolution of the Board of Directors. At present the fiscal year of the Association shall run from July 1st to June 30th. (13) ARTICLE X DUES Dues, fees and fines will be fixed by the Board of Directors as the need arises. If any member of the Association shall become thirty (30) days delinquent in the payment of his dues or other charges, he shall notified by the Administrative Vice President. If the account is not paid within sixty days of such notice, upon order of the Governing Board, his membership in the Association may be terminated and he shall be so notified. ARTICLE XI CONTRACTS, LOANS, CHECKS AND DEPOSITS Section I. Contracts. The Board of Directors may authorize any officer or officers, agent or agents, to enter into any contract or execute and deliver any instrument in the name of and on behalf of the Association, and such authority may be general or confined to spec­ific instances. Section 2. Loans. No loan or advances shall be contracted on behalf of the Association, no negotiable paper or other evidence of its obligation under any loan or advance shall be issued in its name, and no property of the Association shall be mortgaged, pledged, hypoth­ecated or transferred as security for the payment of any loan, advance, indebtedness of liability of the Association unless and except as auth­orized by the Board of Directors. Any such authorization may be general (14) or confined to specific instances. Section 3. Deposits. All funds of the Association not other­wise employed shall be deposited from time to time to the credit of the Association in such banks, trust companies or other depositories as the Board of Directors may select, or as may be selected by any officer or agent authorized to do so by the Board of Directors • . Section 4. Checks and Drafts. All notes, drafts, acceptances, checks, endorsements and evidences of indebtedness of the Association shall be signed by such officer or officers or such agent or agents of the Association and in such manner as the Board of Directors from time to time may determine. Endorsements for deposit to the credit of the Association in any of its duly authorized depositories shall be made in such manner as the Board of Directors from time to time may determine. PROFESSIONAL SKI INSTRUCTORS OF AMERICA April 12-18 - Vail, Colorado Tentative Committee Meeting Schedule - Vail Lodge Note: All committees are urged to have as many meetings as possible and perhaps a preliminary meeting on Monday or Tuesday -- all meetings are planned at Vail Lodge -- any changes in dates and times will be issued upon registration at Vail. (Registration is at the new Vail Lions Head base operations.) Monday, April 12 2:00 p.m. - Bio-Mechanics - Juris Vagners, ch. 7:00 p.m. - Office Committee 8:00 p.m. - Directors' Meeting Tuesday, April 13 2:00 p.m. - Budget - Hank Emery, ch. 2:00 p.m. - Division Presidents - Otto Hollaus, ch. Wednesday, April 14 2:00 p.m. - Ski Area Operation - Woody Anderson, ch. 2:00 p.m. - Division Secretaries - Stan Heidenreich, ch. 8:00 p.m. - Planning - Jon Putnam, ch. 8:00 p.m. - Methods - Junior Bounous, ch. 8:00 p.m. - Coaching - Phil Clark, ch. Thursday, April 15 2:00 p.m. - Public Relations & Promotion - Fred Nelson, ch. 2:00 p.m. - Handicapped-Amputee - Lee Perry, ch. 8:00 p.m. - Technical - Horst Abraham, ch. 8:00 p.m. - Ski Industry - Phil Peterson, ch. 8:00 p.m. - Ski School Operation - Kerr Sparks, ch. Friday, April 16 2:00 p.m. - Communications & Publication - Mark Addison, ch. 2:00 p.m. - International - Paul Valar, ch. 8:00 p.m. - Certification - Jim Weiss, ch. 8:00 p.m. - Demonstration Team & Interski Planning - Jon Putnam, ch. Saturday, April 17 3:30 p.m. - General Meeting - Lions Head Sunday, April 18 10:00 a.m. - Directors' Meeting I 1 .I, ' ... , 'IT: RvCKY rlCUI:'r!II1J SKI IIl~)TmJC:rOns J\SS{JCIIlTIOU ANNUAL C!Lill)1IJjI'J.' ~ .. ~)CJIu()~ ~dllJ ~·jlU - f'i'JPiTi1JCiFuH LXAMiNATrON scrrFDULE OF F,XAH Tuesday, April 15: HORNING: 9:00 to 11:00 - Roelstrntion & Orientation of Candidates Examiners Clinio 11:00 to 12:00 Lunch J\.PTERNOON: 12:00 to 4:00 - Group skiing wi th :I!ixrunlne rs Wednesday, April 16: wmrrnm: 9:30 to 11:30 to 12:30 to 2:30 to T!.lursda:t:2 AEl'il 11: HORNING: 9:30 to 12:30 to 1:30 to Fr:tdaII i\Eril 18: l10R NI 1m: ·9:30 to 12:3° to 1:30 to 11:30 12:3° 2:3° 4:00 12:30 1:30 L~: 30 Po.okod anO\-1 n11d favorable oonditione - Group sklinl3 with Examiners Deep snow and diffioult oonditions - Lunch ... Group skl tng wi th EXllminers Doop snow and 41ffioult oonditions ... Course setting and raoing turns Clinio and praotical work - Group A & B, Praotioal exam_ teachinr, t"Orul Group a & D, Practical exam, class handlinr - Lunch - Gr~mp l\ & 13, Praotical exam, ClasB Handllnr Oroup C ():; D, Prnotlonl OXLUn, teaohing teoh}1 12:30 ... Continue Practical Exam 1:30 .. Lunoh 3:00 - Domonstrations by te runs .from various Ski Schools Friday~ May 15. 7 Following lunch at A-Basin shelter, .! ,ash ~ntroduced George Engle of Winter Park, president of SRMSIA, Warren Taylor, Executive Secretary NSA; and Hank Tiedeman, Regional Supervisor of Arapahoe National Forest. Taylor offered to open himself to suggestions as to how the NSA office could be of assistance to the Instructors Association and ask instructors to please take advantage of the office when it could be of help. Tiedeman welcomed the Instructors Association ;;l.nd introduced other forest service p' sonnel. Bob Gardiner, Richard Pragnell, George Goresuch, and Dale Gallagher. Friday, May 15, 2:00 P. M. General Meeting of Committees and School Directors. Faculty Club of A-Basin. Lash called the meeting to order. SKI SCHOOL RATES. LAS!i: First, let's get an idea of what ski school rates arc. SPARKS: Our rates at Stowe are $3 for 1/2 day lesson, 4 lessons for $9, 8 for $18. Most books of tickets do not have to be used within a certain period. Private lessons are $10 for one person, $12.50 for two, $15 for 3. 1/2 day private lessons are $20 $25, and $30 (1/2 or 3 persons and full day is $40,45,50. SCHNEIDER: North Conway. Our rates are the same as Stowe. Private lessons are $6, $9, and $12. Half day 1 person $20 and full day 1 person $40. VALAR: Franconia. $ 3. eachj 5 lessons for $18 nO limit in time. Private $ 7, plus $2 for each additional person. We have no all day private lessons. as we do not take private students during school time. PFIEFFER: FWSA Snow Summit, $ 2 for one hour, $3.50 for 2 hours sold in conjun. ion with rope two ticket. General rates run about $ 3. for two hours and $5 for all d, Private lessons from $6.50 to $8.50 average $7.50. $3. per person per hour addition JOHNSTON: Cussa. $2.50 to $3 for' two hour class. Private from $ 6 to $8. WINDISH: A-Basin. Ctas s $ 3 -$5. all day. Private $8.50 , $3 for each additional person. $ 25 for book of 10 lessons. ASPEN: We discourage half day instruction Half day, $ 5, all day, $ 6. 3 days $15. Private, $10 hour, $,4 for each additional person, limit of 3. SPARKS: What is the Forest Service's stand when instructors wish to raise rates? TIEDEMAN: The Forest Service has a clause which states that they can regulate ski school rates, but has no criteria as to when rates are reasonable. They feel that the public will control the situation, that if an area is changing to much they will not go there. Perhaps eventually they will have an accounting formula as to where rates are reasonable. Probably they would approve any raise in rate. Q: Are rates set by region? A: Within the Rocky Mountain region it shouldbe uniform. LASH: If the ski school director has a sublease from the area operator he has little to say about the rate structure. SPARKS: We are faced with the rising cost of salaries, We took the private lesson t $10 instead of raising salaries ( the instructor gets half 'of private lesson). This releaved the overhead which faces ski schools, especially in the east where it might not snow and you are stuck with a tremendous overhead. BOUNOUS: Then weren't your boys late for class time? SPARKS: We only give private lessons outside of class time. 8:45 to 9:45 and 12: 00 to 1: 00. They are kept within controlled area so instructors will be there for clas s. PFIEFFER: Has the percentage of private lessons remained the same? Friday, May 15, Meeting 01 ~ .. oIllJl1ittcc and Scl,r'll/ Directors - l SPARKS: It keeps going up. .~ JOHNSTON: Price does not determine how many will take lessons. only interested in a ski school because he knows he has to have.on-e. does riot have a salary; The area operator is Usually the director Q. What should be the stand of intructors with regard to agreements How much should the operator take from the reven~ of the school? SPARKS: According to contract, in the East. BOUNOUS: We have no written contract excepf when the operator has director. with operators? trouble keeping a LASH: Do we have more demand for private lessons than you can handle? VALAR: Yes, people want to cut time. SCHNEIDER: People who can afford it want private lessions. If classes were smaller it would be easier: SPARKS: At our school private le s sons do not usc a private gate. They usc elas s gate. I They do not get free tow tickets this year. We used to have a private gate but quit it and it didn't affect the demand even when we went up in rates. This had nothing to do with crowded classes. People just want to learn as fast as they can. A ski instructor is worth $ 10 an hour, . same as in golf or tennis. ENGEL: Is there any problem with people wanting to turn in books of clas s le ssons for private Ie ssons ? SPARKS: Very few, and we donh do it. To ~uch bookkeeping. LASH: What about schools and learn-to -ski weeks? VALAR: I make more on learn-to - ski week. It depends on how it is set up. For 5 days, $20 minimum through Friday you can take 8 lessons. I get $2 per person-per lesson. You can take lessons or Hft rides. Most people use the school rates. LASH: Ski schools are competing in ski weeks in the West. Will this affect instructor rate s ? SPARKS: The instructor is getting paid anyway. LASH: This is a problem in areas that pay commissions. K. SMITH: People won't repeat if theydo not ski enough in class. TIEDEMAN: What percentage of slope do you do instruction on? LASH: That depends on the size of the school. fI'IEDEMAN: What is most popular? LASH: Beginner then intermediate. SPARKS: The qreatest mistake we ever made was not spending more time on the beginner's slope. WAGE AND SALARY RATES IN SKI SCHOOLS: LASH: What about wages and salary for instructors: PFIEFFER: In the Far West we have a ,com.;mittee that has done a great deal of work gathering data and this might be continlted. Could we have information on areas repres­ented here. VALAR: Our instructors get $ 8, $10, $15. a day, depending all pr-ivate lessons out of school time, free room and board. WINDISCH: Most of the week-end instructors get 60%. Full time instructors get $250. to $300 month and 60-70% from private lessons when they teach more than 3 hours a day. SCHNEIDER: $ 7 a day, $10 for week-ends and 70 %of private lessons outside of ski school. TONY: ~&PAe~J $15 a day, 50% of private lessons. Six day week, not paid for day off. SPARKS! W~ pay on a graduate salary basis. We have 8 girls for children starting at $65 week. Certified boys get $75 week and 50% privates. 1£ he lives in company units J 1 :1 1 Friday, May 15, Meeting, COlllllliltt~C ;]1 School Directors; -3 we deduct $11 week. We have boys who g-:::t o1fer $100 and assistant directors who would go to $125 and go into a bonus set up, to Iransfer risk of no snow to' directors. Our private lesson set up is run by an index instread of a true 50% meaning a percentage of the average, to. stop sniping. The index is run once a week •. Everybody is guaranteed at least $5 per private lesson. CHASE: (aspen) We have a couple of different situations. We have three basic salaries $14, $16, $18 a day and these slide up to $16, $18 and $22 when the total school business goes over 300 people in school. Instructors get 2/3 of privates on Sunday or anything over 4 hours a day during the week. SPARKS: My guarantee is if it doenlt snow they will be carried for two weeks, and some will be dropped after tha-tc CHASE: The snow gamble is offset when instructors participate in SOme kind of a bonus system. BLAKE: (Taos, N. M. ) No guarantee at all. Instructors get 60% of the total school take divided by the number of instructors teaching. Senior instructors get 70%. K. SMITH: Instructors take 50% if he is week-end or temporary up to $12.50 60% up to $25,. andover tha.t 900/0 Regulars and full timers get 50% up to $20,90% after. BOUNOUS: Full time instructors are on salary which varies according to seniority begging with $225, month with room and board for 6 days to highest of $350 with room an board for 6 day week. All inst.ructors receive 50% from private lessons outside school time. Week-end instructors receive free room and board regardless of whether or not they work. They only work when necessary to use them. If they work they receive $6 day and 50% of privates. They also get a bonus at the end of the seasono JOHNSTON: It is hard to give an average for Central. Most of the instructors are on percentage basis because of uncertain snow. The area operators take from 15% to 25% and the rest goes to the director and instructors. BoYlle Mt. Pays on a contract basis with the top man getting $2500. We have quite a few Austrians who are paid to get over here and the red tape is taken care of, plus room and board and salary (3 to 4 $ hour) Plus an hour for travel time. PFIEFFER: Do instructors feel that perhaps Boine Mt. is violating the State Employmcl act by importing foreigners. We have to see if we can hire a home grown person. JOHNSTON: This is not true in the midwest. PFIEFFER: In California if you want aman you tell the goverment clerk that it is very important to .get him and they note "Special Qualifications II and there is no trouble. If someone wanted to lodge a protest they could louse up the whole deal. GRANT: (Wildcat, N. H.) $10, $12, day and 50% of their private lessons. ENGEL: Our instructors are paid a straight monthly salary according to seniority. Thi year we broke down the monthly basis to a daily basis and put it On a graduated scale based on how many people were in school on a given day. For example, if the school h<' 45-60 people teachers got $15 ($2 day less if less that 45) If there were from 66-85 people teachers got $2 more. From 86-150, $5 more and over 150 $9 more. On private lessons we split with them 50% after they taught 25 private .lessons for the school. Last year four out of eight taught 25 private lessons before Xmas and the top 3 men taught ov. 80 privates in the first month. The salary structure per day could vary. This has work ed out for us. The reason for changing was the gaet that if a guy was on a flat monthly salary he could discourage bURiness to get in some free skiing. This makes them fight for business. School picked up 35-40 percent this year. JOHNSTON: Is this based on class lessons? A: Yes. JOHNSTON: Is there a guaranteed daily rate for the season? Fdd<ly, MolY 1';, Meeting, Cummitkc and Sci': 1 Directurs _. 4 ENGEL: Yes, We got extra inr:;tructors for w!'c'k ends and they get $ 10-$16 a day .. LASH: Do instructors get any other fringe be!!dits" ',.- SPARKS; All the food they can eat. BLAKE: All equipment at cost except Head skis. VALAR: Special seas.on tickets for wife and kids. SPARKS: Lift privileges for whole family. Scimeone from the Far West said £-ill time boys get $250-$400 a month with $50 deducted for rOom and board. It is pretty rough /0 to give any quarantees where snow is not to good. Howev_er. most schools have a good sense of loyalty. Many areas pay on an hourly basis. Hourly rate s go from $ 2 -$5 hour. Privates are $ 5 roughly. They get lift and discount priv·ilegas. All areas give full timers free skiing except Mamouth which allows only fully certified men on week days. 50% discount on week ·ends. SPARKS: We give instructors 50% chop in lodges or bars. JOHNSTON: What about visiting instructors? SPARKS. They get passes except during Christmas week. Sometimes we get instructors from other divisions who are no longer teaching and want passes. They can't have them during Christmas week. Usually I try to hire them. I get it from my lift operators, like the day the lift made $27 and 950 ski instructors ride s. JOHNSTON: In Central we would like toexpress our thanks for the men who have been issued passes. I hope that if it is over done you will let us know about it. SPARKS: If any instructor brings a letter from his school director it will be ok otherwise I don 't know if a guy is current. JOHNSTON: This is a problem that should go on the list. LASH: Some Divisions do not issue cards every year but not all divisions do this. SPARKS: Canada now has a very nice credential book which is a good {~. . ~.specially since all Canadian instructors come down afte r their schools close. BLAKE: This is also useful when instructors move to other Divisions. PFIEFFER: In the Far West the question has come up regarding wages and rates. should the't'e be a guild, I feel instructor s co uld help raise their status if we had control and eliminate the threat of unions. SPARKS: My boys do modeling and have to be paid $80 day, no matter how long they are outside. That is an easy way out, as they have to be paid that rate. K. SMITH: Classifications of students in classes is another problem. SPARKS: Every school has the same problem. We are fortunate because we teach in two areas. One is strictly for beginners. If a mistake is made you can tranfer them. The advanced section of the school is broken up into sections stead of separate classes. A class goes up with three instructors and then they are broken up. We always have a floating instructor in addition because a big class may have to be made into two classes.It helps to know other areas so if people tell you where and what runs they have been on you can classify them. MAX DERCUM: (Arapahoe) Another problem is how you can pay one teacher with 10 people and another with three the same rate. BOUNOUS: We were paid on a percentage bases between 50% -700/0 at Alta. The top instructors got the advanced classes which were generally the smallest. INSURANCE TRENDS: JOHNSTON: In central nO instructolhas been insured for his negligence. However, there is a risk involved. Maf,lY times area coverage will include instructors. I have a letter from Paul Copello ( insurance broker). Please inform the Insturctors that we are interest ed in prO/' i ding liability coverage for ski instructors. Single policy $25, 000 liability will be $25 year per man. For full participation about $ 10 a man, half participation at $15 or small .participation about $20. We can also insure a ski school on a percentage basis ),;;'] " c'h;;:': :1: ~.' Fdday, May 15, Meeting, COlllllli\.tce iW.1 School Dirccil)I's - S. /1 ~, of 1% of gross receipts, subject to audit ( same method as area operators.) Also we can provide private medical insurance, rate to be based on percentage of participation. SPARKS: A good lawyer will try to forget the instructor as much as possible. BOUNOUS: In Sugar Bowl we are covered with all employees and personnel in .the area, it is an 'area policy. A percentage is taken from the gross and ranges according to accidents over past years. At present it is 6% but it has· been as high at 12% and as low as 3%. PFIEFFER: Winthrop encouraged an insurance company to question all instructors and area men so they can come up with rate s de signed for skiing. At Squaw Valley, all accidents, left, avalanche or anything, are attributed to the ski school so that 16% of the gross of the ski school is paid on insurance. We have no statistics and that is what w' need. SPARKS: There are insurance companies who arc in the ski business and have these statistics. JOHNSTON: In Central the large insurance company is Continental Casualty. Many insurance companies have gone out of the ski writing business recently. ENGEL: Does the Forest Service require ski schools to carry insurance? TEIDEMAN: No, but areas must be. Some areas cover all employees. SPARKS: A lawyer in a courtroom can make a fool out of you. Ski instructors ought not comment on things that need to be fixed around areas in pre sence of witne s s. JOHNSTON: People have become more claim conscious and we may well be more on the hook next year. $ 10 for peace of mind as an instructor is definitely worthwhile. K. SMITH: In the last 3 years, much more recognition has been given to the hazards which the person assumes when they engage in winter activity. Therefore the instructor should say II If it is alright with you we will do this ". This is a new tack, but given in the definite opinion. The court doe sn 't place the whole share of re sponsibility on the defendent. When you put skis on you know you have taken on ce rtain risks. SPARKS: In the East, we think that but we have no opinion from a Federal court. LASH: What if a man takes a student into closed area? K. SMITH: Why that is definitely negligence. JOHNSTON: Even the cost of hiring alawyer is expensive. whether or not you win. K. SMITH: One percent is certainly a nice price, with all insurance rates becoming rediculous. With workman's compensation, social security, unemployment, our school pays 8 1/2 percent on ~very dollar the school take sin. SPARKS: I recommend that Jimmy Johnston follow this up and that anyone interested see him. JOHNSTON: How many would be interested in instructor liability of $25, 000 for between $10-$12 a year per man based on ski school basis. (NO COUNT) BOUNOUS: At Alta the ski school has to pay its percentage of insurance. However, it is a blanket policy for the area. The percentage if 4% at present. Each instructor pays3%. on gross receipts. I myself have paid 2 or 3 hundred follaJ;"s for coverage. JOHNSTON: How many would be interested in a blanket policy, not accident, single limit policy for each instructor? (8) LASH: Should we go into liability in sooth? ? ? SPARKS: I'll talk to our lawyer and see what rates we can get. Se were spread around and finally we give it to AIU and the savings were unbelievable. JOHNSTON: Would it be only for certif ied instructors and would it be for anyone teachinf in a certified school? i ' •. >l l) i '" (. (. t () '" 8- (). LASH; now can we TH()Vent: liability suits? ~; SPARKS: That; is the directors job and aver' ;,1 job. I prefer not to put anything in. wrHing" A lawyer can make too mnch of it. They can subpeona anything in black and whitc" Each dl c·('cfor should td.l h.isinstrllctors to be l<lrdul what. he saYB. If yOll!' own lawyer is not a skier he can't protect yo\:; In Galifornia eveD. the statute of limitations is considered to start when the injury starts to hurt. JOHNSTON: If anyone asks about an injury, tell him you .are not insured. SPARKS: We demand a report of any injury even a twisted finger, and this IS inour file s. SPECIAL USE PERMITS AND CONTRACTS: SPARKS: in a F':nest Se rvice contract when the Director of the School must certify, you get a special permit for one year. Within that year you have to renew that permit or take a ce rtified eN.am. TIED MAN: Tb::y vary. Eac~ r.ew area is P'l.t up for bid and one thing we look at is per­centage of fee bi.d. A flat fee is part of the percentage bid. If they bid 2% over and above the fee say $ 500, it i.s pa.rt of the ·percentage. If your annual fee is 'less that $ 300' it would probably be a flat fee. Most areas are over that and go on a percentage basis. Schools are only on a flatfE·e. In A-·Basin and also Loveland fees from the ski school go right in with the area. PFIEFFER: In the Far West, the percentage varies from 1. 8 to 3.2 which is submitted by bid. The school pays its 2% to the area which passes it on to the Forest Service. LASH: No gripe about schoolsmust hire only certified instructors? PFIEFFER: By implication but there aren't that many instructors. Even if the Director is not certified, sometimes the men in the school are certified, there have been situations like that. But the Divisional Association now requires them to be certified. HINDERMAN: In Northern Rocky they must be certifi,ed- if someone is available who is ce rtified. LASH: Then there i8 a difference in policy regarding the certification problem. TrEDEMAN: That may be due to timing. When the older permits were issued we did not know how much about skHng, Now at least the ma.in instructor must be certified, but underlings need not be. LASH: In Sun Yaney last yea.r the question came up why there is no certification program there. That is when all the inetructorfl at Sur VaUey become certifed, We have over lapping of Divisions and Fore'3t Service areas in the certification program. ENGEL: It: is offidally rp.quired that any instructor o~ rating on Forest Service land must be certified. Withoi]t; chaT'1ging the National Manual they changed the usage sense and now only Directors must be certifed. TIEDEMAN: If the National Manual states thifl Vile would have to abide by it. We could have had a change since you checked. ENGEL: We have just two claSSf'8, Associate and Certifed, but we issue a permit until the instructor takes his examination. HINDERMAN: I fed Like the monp,y I pay into t.he Fo.re:gt . Service is my contribution to my prote ction aga.i.nst. others opera!jpg in my an~a. " TIEDEMAN: There' is another point we wanted to discuss, but it so long that I don't want to start it no w. ENGEL: You have ~p mi.nd charging of sreciat u:::e permits so that ski instructors and Forest Service meet wHh each other and discuss as to whether there should be changes in special use permits. If anYOlie 1S interested maybe we could meet with Hank and discuss this ( 4: ) PFIEFFER: Supposing the Forest Service wou!.d like to have competing schools? F1UDAY. May 15, M.cetillg, CO/1llllitt.ce ;\.,,: ,school Directors - 1. /7 CHASE: Doesn't the special usc permit ilpply merely to the operator and not to the ski .~, school? ENGEL: But the area feels that it is up to the Forest Service to enforce the rules regard·­ing the school. LASH: K has his own special use permit. All the Divisions except Eastern have only two types of classification, Associate and Certified. PFIEFFER: In Far West the Forest Service doesn't state what kind of classification can handle a ski school, but the Certified Instructors Association Requires their standards. LASH: We feel the.r~ are differences in the standard·s of certification inthe different divisions. The determining factor is the divisional certificational group. Some divison­have a tough standard and others are easier. The Forest Service is not aware of this. Th' brings to mind the reciprocity of certificates, in other words, transfer. ENGEL: The only way we could have a standard examination would be to have an examinin board go from area to area and do all examining. This is not feasible financially at the present, or how could we get enough examiners who could do this? If we could standardiz< procedures in all examinations then we would come closer. At the present time this is already happening. The way to bring this about will be through going to the examinations of other areas and gathering data and then making changes in your own. If enough of us can do this it will come about that we will have like standards of teaching methods. LASH: I think we are very close right now. People want to know what program the NSA has for certification and where the information is available. The economy with within each Division, but the basic procedures are pretty much the same. If we can get these through the National office it would solve the administrative problem. We need an outline of what examinations cover in different divisions, SCHOEK: The procedures may be the same but what about the standards? ENGEL: Within a division the level of skiing may not be the same. This is a difficult problem. ALBOUY: Tlle presence of one examiner for another division would be a help in setting standards. This is a problem of funds. ENGLE: There is a time factor too, as well as funds. ALBOUY: Perhaps there could be a floating examiner. LASH: When we go to another division and observe we always learn something. By getting together we could at least simplify the thing. ENGEL: I want to ask at least One .member of each division to contact your secretary of your division and give the dates of your examination and if he has the papers send several copies to the NSA headquarters so that when someone writes them about how to become certified in the area, it doesn't have to circulate around. If Warren has all this info available in the NSA office, we could write and tell them what and when the examination was and the material necessary. If they need more information he could tell them to writ. the As sociation in que stion. LASH: In divisions where examiners are paid, the fee is a problem, what are the exam­ination fee s ? PFIEFFER: The first time $ 25. If he doen 'tmakc it he gets· nothing back but can try 3 years on that same $ 25. If he passes it includes his pin, dues for one year, examination fee, and membership in the Association. SPARKS: We charge $ 2.0 for the pre-course and $ 2.0 for examination, If he flops he gets $ 15 back. Next time he pays $ 2.0 again and if a waiver has been signed he can skip the first three days of the pre-course and pay only $ 5 for the fourth day. The waivering is very small. We make a point of either running a pre-r::ourse or sent them to the pre­course which helps polish them l1p. We use as many examiners as necessary sometimes6 ~ F I' ill .1 y, tvl .1 Y J'" tv1 '" \ I i II ~~ "I I; 11111111 i I II- I' .111 II " h () () I IJ i r,' I I. (J r I' The Examiners arc paid for their expenses,' :ilvel including. (4 HINDEH.MAN: Wc havc a flat fcc of $ 10. 1) he flunks hc can take one other examination. Examiners are not paid. You have to attend ()inictevery second year tohold your certification. No charge for the clinic. WOODY; In ISA it is $ 15 for the first and $ 10 for cach additional exam. They pay the examiners $ 15 a day. Th~ $ 15covers pin and first year's dues. CHASE: Up to this year our fee was $ 15 whether or not they passed. The second time the fee was reduced. We expect the ski school to train instructors. Those that passed had to buy their pin and pay initiation fee and first year dues. We just raised the fee to $ 25. and all this is now included. We still have a reduc~d rate for an associate. Clinic is run for certified instructors only. Examiners are paid $ 10 a day for five days ( one day off, four days duty. ) K. SMITH: How many examiners are there. California has 15. CHASE. Last year we had 14 for 60 candidates. This year 10 examiners for 40 cand­iates. But it would still take 10 for only 20 candidates. Tcn is a minimum. JOHNSTON:. In Central we have sub-division. Lake Michigan is a problem so we 'have examinations in two locations. We have a 3 day pre -course and 2 days examination, , and 2 day clinic for certified instructors. It takes a lot of time. Ordinarily it is Monday through Wednesday ( precQurse, Thursday and Friday, (exam) and Saturday and Sunday Clinic. lL,ast year we had 32 applicants and instituted program of Associate and Certified ( on Michigan side). There were 26 on Wisconsin side. We hope the pre­course will increase fhe number of instructors. F~es are $ 10 for the pre-course and examination. No refund. Dues are $ 5 adqitional. This year it has been increased to $ 10 dues., He has to buy the pin $ 3, and that is all. We recognize the Assiciate but give him a badge instead of a pin which also says certified although he is associate. We may go to another pin since we are being stiffer in our requirements. Therefore we would like to eliminate pins given out years ago. I think there is an advantage in having the examiner see candidatesciuring the pr~-course. We pay examiners $ 10 a day and use 10 examiners, 5 on each side. LASH: What are your By-Laws regardin~ transfer; PFIEFFER: Its a matter of decision for the Board of Directors. The aplicant applies to F. W. and we contact his SOurce of ce rtification to send his credentials. If he is an Associate he can take Our examinations and is graded on his ability to perform. If his records are not accepted he may be asked to take an examination. LASH: I' feel it is degrading to ask a good man to take an examination. PFIEFFER: I would feel like it was presumption to ask for certification without an exam. VALAR: The membership doesn't ,know'what kind of a skier a man is. In Europe I can teach in another state but not as a certified instructor of that state. ALBOUY; The Division has a responsibility to find out. CHASE: Our By-Laws says that a certification can be accepted by 100% vote on the Board, but this doesn't happen. I believe I could teach in the Far West with My Southe rn Rocky pin, but if I illtended to teach ther for the rest of my life. I would want to pass my examination there. We can't know everybody. There are to many of them. I don't see any real need for direct reciprocity. K. SMITH: We seem to be half astride the fence. Since precudures are not standard there can be no question of accepting a teacher until we find out how good he is. Since we do not have standard ization now we would want to be able to show our ware s. Also every division has its own problems, terrain, snow peoples temperament. There­fore we might ask' for an orientation course to be taught upon date on their approach. SPARKS: Reciprocity is contingent upon standardization. It will be a natural process afte r standardization is achieved. Until examinations are brought up to a mean calibre it is irnpossjbJe. 1.n every assoe: ,tion there are sorne slobs. CURT: If you agree to consider reciptr(),ity depending On type of records then you make it a question of somebody 's jLldgement. 1t it is a matter of course to take an examination it doe sn 't depend on anybody's judgement. Standardizing procedure s is not gOlllg to standardize the quality. JOHNSTON: We have some fellows camP. into Central. We have applicant meet with B of Exam. at the time of the examination and ski with them and then the B. of Exam. 'vote whether or not he should be asked to go through the ,examination. BOUNOUS; We are still missing one' point. A person can be transferred but also he has to be hired by someone. The Director who is going to hire him will certainly have to judge his skiing. Examination procedures are relatively the same but teaching may be very different. Therefore the director has to judge whether this man can teach for him. K. SMITH: I took on an Associate from the Far West, a nice guy and seemingly he could teach. I had my hand on him. He turned out to be a dead bead, went off without paying his debts. This brings up the need for an association wide file to be kept on each man which would follow him whereever he goes. BOUNOUS:If there had been more correspondence and cooperation there would have been better understanding of this person. SPARKS:' Do you keep a personal file., Could you produce a letter. K. SMITH: Just up in my head. But I could tell you something about him. ALBOUY: The human point of view should not be forgotten. If each member of an association wants to respect his own pin he wants to feel that in another division it is just as good. SPARKS: Maybe if an examination was set up in conjunction with a meeting like this it would be the easiest way to get a criteria to bring back all divisions. It would give us a little cross opinion. How many here are on examining Boards? ( 10-12). If an 'exam were set up in the spring somewhere where there is snow it would be a conbination that would kill two'birds with one stone. The amount of money that would be spent in two more days would not be much. LASH: I feel that we should at least leave the door open to transfer. We are a professil' and should respect one another. BLAKE. Could we make this meeting of the Ce rtifing Committee in a three year cycle and then have one nationat pin. If the eifferences are too big to do it in two brackets add a third bracket like an apprentice. LASH: This has all been done in 1952- 53. SPARKS: Even pins have been designed. LASH:: You have to take some kind of policy. Some people you do know and some you don't. ENGE\...: A letter doesn't necessarily bear much weight. K. SMITH: I am not an associationist. BLlt competition is a mother of progress. Comp­etition will produce an initiative t,hat would be lost with a national program. LASH: Especially now that some divisional pins are a trade mark. WINDISCH: Not if you have 8(}. 90% from out of your division. SPARKS: I would recommend that transfers be thoroughly investigated by the requested parties before they are finalized. LASH; I would like to recommend that the divisions at least hold the door open. EARLL: We do not have a division that flatly refueses. The big problem is getting a standard as slose together as pos sible. LASH: Far West has had the beggestproblem. PFIEFFER: We have had quite a few requests for transfers. But we are getting an exct hang of ideas and getting to know each othe r bette r. Firday, May 15, Meeting of Committee and School Directors -10 • LASH: I also recommend that the division send an ()bserver every now arid then to find out what is going on. We should try to incorporate this into our examination program. PFIEFFER. The situation is now such that there is very little problem for any instructor to transfe r if he knows what to do~ We instruct the guy to have his source of original certification write us a '.copfidention letter of recommendation. LASH: We hsve people whom we didn't recommend. SPARKS: We do too. LASH: How many people have seen the report on school skiing by Dr. Russell. Shall we re£e r it to the committee / SPARKS: I want to state that I disagree violently with the first sentance. Yes, defin­itely refer it to committee. LASH: A lot of divisions are doing advertising and promotion and there is a possiblity of pooling our advertising and showing all pins. This will be discussed later. ALBOU:r': If we could havE; a grouping of present advertising problems of ski instructors in general On the basis of the whose group we could get set up for much more advert­ising, showing manufacturers that for skiing on a big level it would be good for them. LASH: When the SCA gets active this may be a way of coo.perating with it. Urtil it gets going we should push it ourselves. ENGEL: In this respect, we ran an ad paid for bu the association with seven ski schools listed. Each school was billed for 1/8 and the as sociation paid for 1/8. SPAKRS: On a national l~vel we would pay for it on an association level. ENGEL: It could be pass~d on to ski schools in some areas. SPAKRS: I don't like to pass it one. They can't be that broke. ENGEL: They are that broke. PFIEFFER: In this busine s s of advertising there are some very big pitfalls. It is the biggest racket in the world. The question in my mind is which kind of advertising do we want, prestige advertising or selling advertising. Are we paying too high a price for this type of advertising? However, there is one advantage to this, free editorial space in the magazine where you buy space. But how about the gobs of people who never read a ski magazine / The meeting was adjourned at 4:45. The social hour was sponsored by Larry Jumr, Puma- Lifts, and Roby Albouy. Head Ski Company at the Ski Tip Ranch. Movie on the History of Ski Teaching was presented by and Narrated by Erich Windisch. A. Basin. SJ\TU1UJA Y, MA Y 1 b. !~ort of Paul. V:litl.::.~y • Director of the J 'anconia, Mittcrsill, and Sunapee Ski School Franconia, N. H., who represented the \hitedl' States and the NSA ~ertified Ski Instructors Committee at the 5th International Ski School Congress at Zakapone, Poland. April 6-12. 1959. This is the first time the United States has had an official representative.' Previously there were observers. Hannes Schneider at Davos, Switzerland and Otto Steiner at Storlein, Sweden. Poland received the 5th Congre ss because of a strange Internatioral situation. The Germans had applied, but certain countries would not vote for Germany, causing the Germans to pull out and Poland got it. When a Congress is held, it should be organized so that accredited delegates would have no difficulties in getting there. 15 nations were represented. 3 Scandinavian countries, 6 Iron Curtain countries, 5 Alpine countries, and the United States. Austria 15 Ferdinand Kottek Stefan Kruckenhauscr Bulgaria 3 Peter Kowaczew Czechoslovakia 5 Jiri Goetz Finlam.d 3 Tauno Juurtala France 5 Pierre Guillot Jugoslavia 3 Milko Mejovsek Eastern Germany 7 Fritz Reichert West Germany 21 Artur Kraus Norway 3 Odd Gulbrandsen Rumania 2 Petre Foe sencanu Switzerland 4 Cristian Rubi Sweden 5 Gosta Frohm Italy 4 Fabio Conci USA 1 Paul Valar Poland 1 Stanislaw Ziobrazynski The congress operates as a working committee. There are no dues involved. Every group or person representing a national association immediately sits in and has a vote like any other country. Every country has a Chief of the Delegates who sits in the working committee. The official languages is German and French, and unless you knew both fairly well it was hard to follow the procedures. Translations were not made into English, but into German, French, and of course Polish. It was quite a complicated operation and we had to give the Poles credit for organizing it so well. They were ready to put us up as well as they could. We were dependant upon an aerial tramway. In the beginning there was a tremendous storm and in all we had only 2 1/2 days of demonstrations on snow. High Tatra is a mountain range similar to Mt. Washington. It is a tremendous range and when storms hit it the change of termper­ature is like high Alpine mountaineering. On top of the mountain is a huge bowl with a chair lift where the demonstrations took place. The Ski School Congress is run in the times when we do not have an FIS Congress. So far the Congress has been every two years, but from now on they will be every three years. Some countries could not afford it, and didn't have enough time to put new programs into definite form, which caused a lot of controversy. So on the ~ ! 1 I ~' H,',;urt (If j);IIJi V;'l~ • .$~' /.. of[ time we have a prcsidum with a pt·csidcl:'. vice prcsident, secretary and two special assignment people. A rather human thing il:-' 11 1at the Austrians were upset wh<1n ~y saw a m.an wit~ a Swis s Mountain Guide pin ~'\~pre~enting the United States, until they. saw me ski. Two of the delegation wert( forlDet teachers and two were former raCing pals of mine. Representatlon of different couhtries was of different strength; Swiss 4, Italy 4 French, 4, West ermans - 25, Austrians - 16, Scandiaavians 2 - 3, Checks very strong. It was very interesting the interest they took in different countries and their problems. In general the picture looks like this: Thy Austrians are strong in the lead with their approach to ski teaching. Th~ Swiss missed the boat but they do take the thinking habit. Very'hice balance. The one that took the thing hands down in the < ' I I Alpine demonstrations was an Italian, because h~ just skied. The point is do not ski so stylized that you look like a frozen pancake. Furtl\er did quite a bit better than any body in parallel and wedeln where he won it hands down. First I will show ybu a few differences the Franch have gone into They do it their own way and I give them' credit for it. 1£ we do not have these factions in these countries keeping experimenting and trying new' ways and approache's, we will get stale. It is a young sport and changes will come. I am against unnatural positions but for progress, but which does not necessarily mean improvement. A good solid stem cristie is fine for the average r'ecreatidnal skIer) and he tan get muth enjoyment from the sport from it. ' The French theory is to,drop very quickly and as the body rebounds of the snow they can turn the ski. They do not come completely up, does not look to well because they don't seem to r..tax. They do not come out of the knee. Use the pole at the same time, rotation at th~ beginning, reverse at the end. Approach turn in highly rei axed position, sink down very rapidly, plq,nt pole and turn. Rotation ends there and they come out in a reverse. One big argument about rotation is that in a traverse you are looking the wrong way. Now I want to quickly transmit the attitupe in the Alpin~ countries as far as rotation and reverse shoulder is concerned. Advantages. Reverse shoulder using hips to propel the first motiOn, the force is closer to the ski, skis react quickly. But we displace them more and in teaching we will see offen rough performance. Ro'tation: We can ski into a turn mOre srhoothly and evenly o~ the teaching level. There are not terrific arguments about it bacause they realize that in free skiing we use both, with one or the other or a combinatiOn. So a definition is hard to achieve and would leave the arguments without conclusions. One thing was apparent, when they want to settle a technical argument they try to settle it using the physical laws, Eiorrit::!thing which is established and cannot change. I think it is the only way w'ithout getting too complicated. We should keep in mind the major forces and factors that apply to skiing. This will pr'event us from going over­board in anyone execution. When you go against physical laws you have to replace physical laws with muscle power. This is something that we should use in teaching people to ski. . Progressive thinking thM came out of the Congress is the followirg: The Austrians added to their teaching the word II Fersendrehschub" They db not use a heel thrust for a christy down hill. In a traverse the weight is in the center of the skis in comma position, but in a traverse you c~n\,ot start a turn with heel thrust bacause you cannot push your heels up in the mountain. So what happ~ns, is this; I can get exactly the same thing, or unweight th~ ski, with k.n up motion and sink. He'el thrust d.oes not start the turn. This helps this kind of teaching a lot if we can pass this On to the public. , ) I ! Itcpu d oj' l'aul Val11l"~ - \ II How can you get from the traverse tl) lhe fall line when you can 't push the heels?" instructors are akcd. It is a technical !!npossibility. This is very important becaus' thert has been a confusion and it was only done by translating. If I read a French, Austrian, Italian or German book they are terrific if you can read the language. But translation cheats because they do not translate the meaning but only the literal sense. That is why I want to teach it at my s.chool. Tb Fersendrehschub has a practical application. If I change the direction of the skis by going low out over the skis into the fall line I can again push it. It can be done as a heel thrust exercise or as a fhythmical exercise which is a christy up hill to start the y:;edelVi. You have got to get the fall line before you can start the heel thrust. Another thing which is a personal impression, but which i think I saw comingl may be that the turn approach is less up and down motion and mOre horizontal rotation created by the shoulder or hop. Less and less up and down, and stem christies with practically no lift at all. Very little knee action to get over the fall line. Horizontal motion ( Maybe in the finished product) with Ie s s unweighting. Q; Under what sno,w conditions: A: That is the problem. The more you move up and down the more the weight is going to come back. When you land with pressure you get into balance trouble. Your definition of wedeln is only II turn" As long as the body is in a turn motion it is wedely turn ( not wiggling. ) You can start wedely at a very slow motion. As long as I keep my body in motion it is wedelO. the minute I ski a traverse with body in traverse position, it is parallel. Even short turns can be made a lots of different spee,· and motions. Q: Is there a difference between short swing and wedeln: A: As long as the body is in motion you wedelN. There is much disagreement and discussion about this. Wedelrt cannot be squeezed into one box. It is simply a series 0 1 short parallel turns. Q: Is the body in motion or the skis in motion? A: The body itself. There are schools that do not teach straight parallel turns any more. Not one nation skied parallel turns without a christie up hill. They approach the turn, check up hill, and then turn down, no matter what speed they have. When we did four lengthened parallel turns on a steep slope, not one turned without a. pole or without a check. This was the biggest surpize in the whole show. They swing up hill, they turn down. Q: I do not be lieve it. A: I was surprized too. Q: Is this a counte rpart of the French Rouade ? A; No. The reason, I think is to achieve the proper lenght on the end of the wedeln turn. Q: Is it called wedeln without this? A: You can, of course, make parallel turns without it. Q: Couldn't this be achieved by edge shifting before the turn. Q; Could it be an exercise to get into wedeln? A: 1 think that is why they are doing it. They want to have a traverse and want each turn started as a parallel turn, not using the rhythm from one turn to get into the next. The definition of a parallel turn is that each turn is started individually. What we missed on the translation of the Fersendreischub is defined as hip rotation. The problem of turning skis across the fall line is simple. The minute we move skis out of the traverse the friction will take over the ski and will turn itself. So the actual thing is to get the ski off the traverse. Change of edge alone won't do it, H.cpurt oJ Paul Villa Af. - IJ The motion has to come out of a body action, make body weight less so you can do it. In powder snow the one difficult thing is that Ii I;;t motion. 1£ you can 8et skis to turn you are o. k. If you hang on you get off balance. But primarily we must get skis to turn, therefore we unweight. We must unweight. One Austrian boy I saw goes into the turn without any 11 £t at all. This can be methodically built up in tc::aching aild must be built up gradually. . . Q: There are ways to teach people to unweight with very little lift. A; . The less I unweight the more friction I will have on the skis and the more muscle power I will need. You cannot rotate a leg. The only thing you can rotate are the joints built the right way. Knees can be used a little for slight change of edge so the ski will pull over just a' hair but this has no practical value. To approach turn you have to have a certain force not just a heel push. Today we also recognize a combination of pull and push, pulling tips down, at the same time forcing ends up ( definitely hip rotation) The dead center position encourages this execution., RotaUon and torsion are considered the same thing. In wcLlcln On the fall line, fast, very often tIll) upper part of the body does not move much except for the pole action. The upper part is used as a stablizer so the body is wound up and you can come up and relieve the torsion. A; Like blocking. A. Primarily what brought the thing much closer together is that all motion originates in the center of the body. You cannot move a limb without its originating in the center. Q; This is not true. A: Primarily, it will. We should always use total motion. In free and isolated motions you can start at the extreme but it will affect the center and originate in the center. They agreed on this. You do not have to move the center. Q: In the approach to the student we do not have the student think about what turns the ski. If we think about a foot turning the skis there is an involuntary motion and he doesn't have to think about it. A: The whole theoretical approach has one possible use. The classlfication of mistakes. Also we have students with photographic minds, Most kinds, and with intellectual minds. Grown ups are less photographic minded and more intellectual. On top of coaching our instructors will sooner or later have to give them some theoretical know how. The days are over when the instructor could say. II follow me I. It is part of our profession to have a certain background. We will answer no more than the guy asking us. It might be a foolish question, but if we have a scientific answer this is the only thing he wil understand. Theoretical knowledge is not detrimental to our profess­ion. In our approach to teaching we may simply know what does it. Another thing we worked on was the problem of stem christie s. Because we teach two stem christies, slow and fast. These are hard to ski at the same rhythm. We first hold the stem to the fall line and then finish turn. Whereas to stem the ski out you ski faster and easily get onto the steming ski. using a condensed motion, and c lose the skis way before thefall line. Le s s unweighting, horizontal unweighting with little up and down. The body is more or le s s high. The positions are getting higher, more relaxed and one thing is definite that those extreme positions are still evident but are disappearing fast. They still use normal traverse position but I saw no extremes. When reverse should started three years ago I said it might not last because it will be overdone. It is good, but if exeggerated brings bad results, it is more difficult than a natural position. I lean;'ed in Zakapane and saw demonstrations from some of the best instructors, keep the position natural. Mthodically it might not be wrong to ove "13 xeggerate to let the student see it. but technically letls not do it. Separ atEthese t '. things, tecL )'.'e and method. If you ( l.i. '\. .. , .• .! ~ •• .,: 4 ... ,"" .; ,~I~"';"~ G , . ~",--_ .../ ............... ~L~ ....._ _ ...._ _. mix these two up you call discllss it f01 y,~ars and never get to first base. If we want to get togeth on technique we have to have . theoretical back bone, ski mechanics. Also let's try to keep it natural Keep bod y in motion, try to <u.void static positions and have continuity in Ollr exercises, 3-4 christies at a Lime. JVlethodic:ally lets leave it wide open" Ski teaching dof's not depend on how many exercises we drop or in what sequence we ski. These depend on conditions. But ingenuity and imag­ination of the ins tructor is what good teaching depencis 0):1, You cannot make S hart cut. it will take so much time and so much practice. The only thing we can do better at is . better teaching. Q~ What is the word angulation? A; Same as our comma position. Sf VAL/\K. Q; What is Fersendrcheschaub~ (FE'RSEW1:>REHSc.I-IU8) A; Part of the body rotation and this can only be by hip. Q. How do they dist::in<1uish between heel pushing into the hill and starting the turn? A; You cannot push a heel up. What they call. a fersenschub actually only can be done if you take the ski camp J.etely off the ground. Always refers to turn off slope. Q; How about rePC1sing the edges? A; That is diffe rent. The re is only one thing about the comma position today. I have had to tell students let the ankles alone. Maybe I could do it but students can not. But by just straightening up the knee the angle straightened out and he will move. It is bette I to come up and release side slip. We have to accept both and we use both methodically. Q; Heel thurst or rotation of heel thurst is the same as long as you know what you mean by it. Because heel thrust will inevitably turn my skis. A; Do it the other way ( up hill) You have got to move in your hips. I told you once before. a good skier does not have to wait till he hits the fall line to thrust because he has enough momentum" You start turn by coming up and supplying hip rotation which turns shoulders backward, Q; WhC;l.t started the turn? A; Once the skis change direction 1 do not have to do anything. You make a long turn but you turn, Q; What makes the size of the turn? A; Hee 1 push on the finish and angulation, Q; How do you teach your students to get to the fall line on a short turn. A; First teaching a christy into the hilL Then get to fall line, unweight slightly, hip rotationp then heel thrust. Q; How do you get to the next turn'l A; Same way, Heel thrust is not heel rotation. Heel rotation comes from the hips. What we are after :is to free the body and 1hen the lower parts go one way and the upper part turns the other way, I think a committee should be formed to work on the stand-ardization of of ski terms. (Note: There already is such. ) Q; And do you pick up tips to get into traverse positions ll ? A; We will turn skis around the skis. We used to turn aro~nd the tips with the weight forward. Now we can turn skis under the body ( AXL.E) and keep turning out directly under the body. One Bavarian I saw over exagerated, I was glad no one listened. The one I liked best of the Austrians was Matt. Pla:in and practical; just what is needed, no one over emphasis or twisting yourself clean out of shape. Wedeln brings a lot of accidents in heavy snows because the geginning teaching of Wedehl is very tough. Kids have got the idea that Wede./ n is the only way to ski. They do not accept the idea of compensating for vary:ing conditions. They buildup enough torsion in the body to break b.one's even before they fall down. Therefore, we should Report of Paul Valal{_ - 6 perhaps try to teach a smoother approach wiliell: might ba safer. Linkltd pai"allel turns rathe r than rough approach; poles in exaggerated positions don't make ;:t 'llVcclehl turn without lifting a ski ( looks like rabbits). Couldn't we build this· down from linked parallel turns? In bad snow this is very unsafe. Sometimeil a nice stem christie is the best way to ski. Is Wedein that important? Aren't we catering as a whole to the recreational skier? Let them have fun. Let's also be careful that we choose the right theory, the right snow and the right ..,rcise. How did wed~in come into being? We used it for slalom mainly in the old days. Meanwhile the average recreational skier got better and. created a new . .business possibility. These people could go to parallel and something higher. It took years and a lot of controversey and hard feelings to develope a method, but it is here because it created business. But it is not one technique, it is part of a technique. Q; Regarding use of the poles, is there any analysis of this? A; With the exception of the Germans, no one would stem ski and move poles around in a way to cramp the hips. When you move the upper ski some pole action is natural but no complete reversal where they would be frozen. Q; What about swing mOl" ement of arms and poles. Is there any achnowledgement of this: A; No, The motion of reverse is the equal to the turn of the skis in the other direction. Q; I think there is a decieded swing of the arms. A; I do not think so. A skier going full blast uses his arms more as stabilizers than for propelling. However, all skiing today is a combination of tllchniques. And the better the individual skier, the more likely he is to use some trick of his own. 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REMITTANCE ADVICE DATE INVOICE NO. 2/14/71 213 212 INTERMOUNTAIN SKI INSTRUCTORS ASSOCIATION SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH DESCRIPTION GROSS AMOUNT Examiners fee Solitude exam 30.00 Food 17.30 DETACH BEFORE DEPOSITING DEDUCTIONS NET AMOUNT 47.30 REMITTANCE ADVICE DATE INVOICE NIJ. INTERMOUNTAIN SKI INSTRUCTORS ASSOCIATION SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH DESCRIPTIIJN GRIJSS AMIJUNT President's Reimbursement for entertainment .... DETACH BEFORE DEPIJSITING DEDUCTlIJNS NETAMIJUNT $20.55 , REMITTANCE ADVICE ------ DATE INV[]ICE N[]. INTERMOUNTAIN SKI INSTRUCTORS ASSOCIATION SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH ------ -- DESCRIPTI[]N GR[]SS AM[]UNT /Z~.~dLdJ 1~ 9.71 6(7. 70 DETACH BEF[]RE DEP[]SITING - DEDUCTI[]NS NETAM[]UNT 3'/,~! 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Check Cod 1/18 223 1/22 222 January 204 206 2/1 221 INTERMOUNTAIN SKI INSTRUCTORS ASS,OCIATION SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH DESCRIPTION GROSS AMOUNT Lunch Elections Committee 6.70 Beaver Mtn. trip (motel) 7.50 Postage 8.04 Xerox printing 18.20 Executive Comm. dinner 47.79 DETACH BEFORE DEPOSITING DEDUCTIONS NET AMOUNT $88.23 ----_ .. _.- REMITTANCE ADVICE ----- DATE INVOICE NO. 1/26/71 -- INTERMOUNTAIN SKI INSTRUCTORS ASSOCIATION SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH ----_ ... _-- -- DESCRIPTION GROSS AMOUNT for Clinic XX Beaver Mtn. KKK at Park City Fee 30.00 Food 1.00 Gas 50 mi @.07 3.50 - (' r'lt"l <> • ? 1 c; DETACH BEF"O'RE DEPOSITING --------------- ---- --- ---- DEDUCTIONS NET AMOUNT 34.50 CLARK PARKINSON TOTAL HOURS DATE REGULAR EARNINGS OVERTIME I GROSS PAY I F.O.A B. 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BILL LASH ISlA MEMBER INSTRUMENTAL IN BRINGING INTERSKI TO U.S. probably the most significant aspect of the forthcoming 8th Interski, as far as I.S.I.A. members are concerned, is the fact that one of our members and past presidents was probably the most important figure in influencing the Directors of Interski at the 7th International Ski School Congress to hold their 8th Interski in the United States. Bill Lash, President of P.S.I.A. and one of the founders of I.S.I.A., made a dramatic proposal to the Directors of Interski at Badgastein, Austria, in 1965, that the 8th Interski be held in the U. S. The bid was accepted and with the help of Willy Schaef­fler and Paul Valar, the initial impetus for the United States first Interski was underway. Bill is no stranger to Interski. He was a strong force in getting America's first demon­stration team to the 6th Interski and as Pres­ident of P.S.I.A. was chief delegate at Bad­gastein. Bill Lash's background in organized skiing re­veals a dedication to skiing and it is no sur­prise that he has emerged as one of the moving forces in the ski teaching profession in the United States. He became President of ISlA in 1951 and served until 1953. After two years in the service, he was again elected President in 1955 and served until 1961. During his presidency, he served as Certification Chair­man and from 1958 to 1961, served as national certification chairman. He also served on the ISlA Board of Directors for a number of years. In 1958 Bill organized the first national meet-ing of all the ski instructors associations divisions. This meeting was a prelude to a national organization which developed later into P.S.I.A. A uniform standard of certi­fication was initiated at this national gathering and shortly after, Bill published his ski manual "Outline Ski Methods," which was widely read by instructors everywhere. In 1961 the Professional Ski Instructors of America was formed with Bill Lash as President. Bill was instrumental in the organization of PSIA and has remained President ever since. During his tenure, PSIA has grown from the original six members to over 1,200 certified instructors. The American Ski Technique has developed and two editions of the manual "The Official American Ski Technique" have been printed. Of course, PSIA is the host of Inter­ski. Many individuals have contributed greatly to the development of organized skiing, PSIA, Interski and the ski teaching profession in the U. S. We as a ski instructors association are proud to have as one of our members an in­dividual such as Bill Lash who has devoted his time and energy to organized skiing. From these tireless activities we all directly bene­fit through a standardized teaching technique and international recognition of the American ski instructor, to name only two. The fact that 8th Interski is to be held in the United States is a tribute to Bill and the PSIA Board of Directors and officers. We should all sup­port it and attend it. LOU'S LINES On January 22, 1968, the Deseret News, Salt Lake City, Utah, published an editorial by Mr. Hack Miller, titled, "Is Everyone the Same?" The first paragraph states as follows: "Over in Colorado come April 19-28 there will be 'Interski.' That's an interna­tional meeting of ski experts who will determine what is the one best way to ski. Its big name is the 'International Congress for Ski Instruction. '" The remainder of the article is an editor's opinion of why he thinks this is not right. In the process of expressing his opinion, Mr. Miller manages to insult the American Ski Technique, the ski teaching profession's past, present and future, as well as personally in­sulting Willy Schaeffler, Woody Anderson and Alf Engen. This article, clearly based on an inaccurate, casual observation could be to a beginning or an about-to-begin skier the difference between taking ski lessons or not. To the individual who regards what he reads in the newspaper as fact, ski school is the last place that he wodld go or send his children. The result to the in­structor and the ski school need not be explained. Mr. Miller's editorial is, of course, only one of a few critical articles that we occasionally see among the many good on~s that are published. The critical ones are the outstanding ones, and of course, the closer to home that they orig­inate, the more glaring. It is the association's purpose and obligation to present a professional image to both its mem~ bers and the skiing public. The profession needs the support of the news medias. At least it can do without their negative support in the form of inaccurate reporting. . The Association, its officers and Board of Dir­ectors should and will make all possible effort to cooperate with and maintain cordial relations with the news media by circulating information and reports of our activities. Hopefully, each individual member will assist by doing the same. We all know that we are on the right course; let's spend more time telling the skiing pub­lic what we are doing. Lou Lorenz President, I.S.I.A. CERTIFIED SKI TEACHER I. S. I. A. 2 Would you like to contribute to your News­letter? There is still need for more area representatives from each ski school in the I.S.I.A. If you have any news items or photographs to submit, please send them to: I.S.I.A. Newsletter 136 East South Temple Salt Lake City, Utah is coming to America april 19 to 28, 1968 Aspen (\ ~1J-\1 NOTICE! There will be a final examination of the season at Alta, Utah, on April 6th and 7th. Applications must be to the Executive Sec­retary by March 23rd. Woodv lonrl .... "nn OUR STAFF EDITOR EDITORIAL ADVISOR CONTRIBUTING EDITOR PHOTOGRAPHER ART WORK AND IAYOUT TYPIST David Chaplin Lou Lorenz Clark Parkinson Leon Dean David Chap lin Mary Ellen Parkinson MOVING? Please attach the label from your ISlA News­letter in this space. Indicate your new address below and mail this form to: Clark Parkinson 2245 Oneida Street Salt Lake City, Utah 84109 NAME: ____________________________ ___ ADDRESS: ________________ _ CITY _______ _ STATE ____ ZIP_ MID-SEASON CLINIC TO BE HELD March 16th and 17th have been picked as the days for a special mid-season clinic. The Skyline Ski Area wi 11 hos t the two-day event which will be conducted by Phil Jones, the ISlA Demonstration Team coach, and the team members. Each of the ISlA members have been mailed a letter outlining the agenda and registration procedure. Briefly it will consist of review­ing the American Ski Technique in five dif­ferent stations run by one member of the demon­stration team. The registration fee is $10. if the pre-registration form is used, $15. if not for all ISlA members. The non-member fee will be $15. This clinic is not mandatory for membership requirements. The annual spring clinic was waived this year due to the conflict with 8th Interski. However, the 1969 Spring Clinic will be mandatory and if a member missed the last clinic -- Spring of 1967 - attendance at this special clinic can be used to satisfy the man­datory clinic attendance requirement that a clinic be attended at least once every two years. If a member did miss the 1967 Clinic and didn't attend the special clinic, the 1969 Spring Clinic would have to be attended. Considerable preparation and planning has gone into the clinic format and it should be one of the very best ever held. Your attendance is encou raged. ARE YOU 'CURRENT'? Have you paid your 1967-68 dues? As of this writing, 56 members haven't. In addition, 14 haven't paid 1966-67 dues, putting them two years behind. According to the Secretary's office, approxi­mately 85% of the membership is current. For those who are not current, the dues were pay­able July 1, 1967. According to our By-laws, a member who does not remit his dues by August 1st is delinquent and if not paid within sixty days - October 1st - his membership may be ter­minated. A new program will be initiated this year by the Secretary, whereby each delinquent member will be notified by registered mail that they are, according to the Secretary's records, delinquent. A deadline date will be set for a reply and if no word is forthcoming, the mem­bers name will be presented to the Board of Directors for consideration. For the current fiscal year, July 1, 1967 to June 30, 1968, these letters will be sent out May 1st. If no reply is received by June 30, the member's name will be submitted to the Board of Directors at their November Annual Meeting. It is hoped that this procedure will,first of all, eliminate any discrepencies between the Secretary's records and the indi-viduals records and secondly, eliminate any possibility that due to not being notified a member becomes,inadvertently, two years behind and lastly, it will keep the records current and will eliminate those members who are for one reason or another not interested in main­taining their membership in the Association. CLINICS CONDUCTED At Pomerelle Ski Area near Burley, Idaho, on February 11, Phil Jones and Roger Roche con­ducted a ski instruction clinic. Those who attended this clinic were: Holly Adams, Sydney Rehn, Jack.Wilson, Elaine Wilson, Charlie Norbie, Fete Weir, Corky Hilliard, Bob Brock, Jay Nickols, Harold Stranger, Norva Stranger, Steve Aton, Bob Adams, Bob Hilliard, Ann Frahm and Jim Olson. The week following, on February 18th, Phil head­ed another instructors' clinic at Magic Mtn., near Twin Falls. Attending this clinic were: Claude Jones, Don Molesworth, Vince Cook, Carol Cook, Jim Olson, Bonnie Jones, Pete Link, Irene Link, Ron Leirman, Nancy Leirman, Jack Person­ius and Merle Leirman. Phil Jones COUNTER ROTATION IN STEM CHRISTIE? 4 STEM CHRISTIE ••••• I feel an important part of the stem christie is being overlooked ••• counter rotation. As the ski is stemmed, it is placed on a natural edge. As the skier comes up and forward there is unweighting. It is my feeling that if ~ounter rotation is not applied there, there ~s a loss of the natural edge, created by the stem. The reason is that the stem christie is done on steeper and faster slopes. In other stem turns, the skier needs to close his skis quickly to begin angulation immediately to produce a smooth, fluid turn from traverse to traverse. If counter rotation is not used as the skis are closed, the skier is not in a position to angulate. The result can be sideslip and loss of control. In the American Ski Technique, there is no counter rotation in the stem christie. How­ever, in teaching the student, counter rota­tion is taught in the uphill christie to snow­plow christie, beginning stem christie, and stem christie. In the method section of the book, Class D, the use of counter rotation in the snowplow christie, beginning stem christie, and stem christie is advocated. This follows proper sequence with the up-hill christie and the parallel turns. I realize that the teaching method often has no place in the finished form but I feel strongly that any time a basic principle is taught in the finished form or method of learning, it should be used in the finished form from that time. Even though it is realized that stemming of the ski deflects the ski in a stem christie, I feel counter rotation is very important in order to do the turn correctly. It also helps to pro­gress a student faster towards parallel turns. DICK LYON, Director Snowhomish Ski School Snowhomish, Washington STEM CHRISTIE Response to Dick Lyon Counter rotation, as defined in the Se~ cond Edition, Official American Ski Technique, is definitely not needed to ski a perfect stem christie. Our-first edition, and this is what the question is obviously based upon, was in error in that respect. I recognized that fact, and so did the Swiss expert, Hugo Brandenberger, during our demon­stration at the INTERSKI in Badgastein, Austria. Since the outside ski is moved to a new direc­tion, and its edge is changed in the process, all that is needed is proper weighting and maintaining of the edge to continue the skis in an arc. That arc can be changed at will by lever,age (forward or back lean). The change in body position between traverses (change of angulation) should not be construed to mean counter rotation. If counter rotation as defined would be applied at the up-forward motion of the skier's body, the outside ski would be visibly deflected and the unweighted inside ski being brought by at the same time would react in the opposite direction leading to continuous crossing of the ski tips. The movement of the skier's body opposite to the skis should therefore be called counter motion and not counter rotation. Counter ro­tation is used in all parallel turns and should be introduced commencing with the christie up­hill. PAUL VALAR Franconia, New Hampshire Reprinted through the courtesy of P.S.I.A. Skipro. • • INTERSKI ~ • »~ ~ HATS OFF TO EARL Now the ski season is well under way. By the middle of March, the I.SoIoAo will have examined nearly 100 candidates. I would like to express my appreciation to one of our ski school dir­ectors, Mr. Earl Miller, of Snow Basin for the excellent job he has done in preparin~ his ski instructors for not only the examination but to teach skiing to the general public. In a recent exam at Snow Basin, Earl had seven can­didates out of nine pass the rigorous require­ments of the IoSoIoA. It certainly is an easy job for the examiners when such a well prepared group takes the exam. Earl has had night training meetings since Aug­ust, and also has been working out on the snow since the beginning of ski season with his people, and they are well prepared to teach. Hats off to Earl Miller. , Woody Anderson Certification Chairman DOINGS AT BURLEY Burley, Idaho February 1968 The first year of the Burley Ski School was completed the last Saturday of January with an enrollment of 297. The school is spon­sored by the City of Burley and the Reminder Morning News. Lex Kunau, director of the school, said this is the most successful school ever conducted here and he gave special praise to the 58 volunteer instructors who have worked with the various classes ranging from youthful beginners to adults who wanted to brush up on their ski­ing abilities. The sessions included all day instruction with lift privileges and transpor­tation to and from the area for 4 Saturdays. CERTIFIE-ID. S .S KI. I AT. EACHER 5 EXAM RESULTS Snow Basin Exam D. Scott Evans Faith Fessenden Sofie Hamilton Gary Iverson Tad Lathrop Dale Miller Frank Rounds Brent Ward Park CitX Exam Richard Conley Ken Perkins Dave Prudence Allen Titensor Matt Vokelich Brighton Exam John W. Jenkins Fredrick Keller Marlene Larsen Duane G. Vigos Beaver Mountain Grant Beagley Kristi Cooper Dwight Peterson Thomas J. Pratt Kem Williamson Snow Basin Exam Patricia Ireton James R. Nye Ernest Underwood Robert G. Wall Pomerelle Exam James M. Olson Full Associate Associate Full Full Full Associate Full Full Associate Full Associate Associate Full Associate Associate Associate Exam Full Associate Associate Associate Full Associate Full Associate Associate Associate Among those who were associated with Kunau in the direction of the school's activities were Jack Holland, Lewis Sands, Jack Keen of the City of Burley Recreation Department, and Herb Hollinger of the Reminder Morning News. Instructor Carolyn Holland giving certificate to young student at Burley Ski SChool. CERTIFIED SKI TEACHER -I. S. I. A. I. S. I. A. NEWSLETTER 136 East South remp1e Salt Lake City, Utah 84111 LOU LOH[Nl PRES. 2010 WEST NO, T[tPlE Sf. SALT LAKE CITY, UTA~ 84116 PROFESSIONAL SKI INSTRUCTORS OF AHERICA April 12-18 - Vail, Colorado Tentative Committee Meeting Schedule - Vail Lodge Note: All committees are urged to have as many meetings as possible and perhap~ . a preliminary meeting on Monday or Tuesday -- ~11 meetings are planned at Vail Lodge - - any changes in dates and times will be issued upon registration at Vail. (Registration is at the new Vail Lions Head base operations. ).~, Monday, April 12 2!OO p.m. - Bio-Mechanics - Juris Vagners, ch. 7:00 p.m. - Office Com~ittee 8:00 p.m. - Directors' Meeting Tuesday, April 13 2;00 H.m. - Budget - Hank Emery, ch. Q:OO p.m:> Division Presidents - Otto Ho1laus, ch. \.J'ednesday, A£ril 14 2:00 p.m. - Ski Area Operation - Woody Anderson, ch. 2:00 p.m. - Division Secretaries - Stan Heidenreich, <;4a::'2"""~~"• • ""O " ;;J IOX): :pt:;mJ;::::r-=.-iJ P lann in g - ' Jon· Pu tnam , c h • ~ p.m. - Methods - Junior Bounous, ch. 8:00 p.m. - Coaching - Phil Clark, ch. Thursday, April 15 ch. 2:00 p.m. - Public Relations & Promotion - Fred Nelson, ch. 2:00 p.m. - Handicapped-Amputee - Lee Perry, ch. 8:00 p.m. - Technical - Horst Abraham, ch. 8:00 p.m. - Ski Industry - Phil Peterson, ch. 8:00 p.m. - Ski School Operation - Kerr Sparks, ch. Friday, April 16 2:00 p.m. - Communications & Publication - Mark Addison, ch. 2:00 p.m. - International - Paul Va1ar, ch. 8:00 p.m. - Certification - Jim Weiss, ch. 8:00 p.m. - Demonstration Team & lnterski Planning - Jon Putnam, ch. Saturday, April 17 3:30 p.m. - General Heeting - Lions Head Sunday, "April 18 10:00 a.m. - Directors' Meeting I N T E R M 0 U N T A I N S 1<. I INS T R U C TOR S ASS 0 C I A T ION COMMITTEE OUTLINE ORGANIZATION: "Each committee will consist of at least three members of the corporation, at least one of whom shall be either an Officer or a member of the Board. t1--Bylaws, Section IV. Each committee will have a Chairman and Assistant Chairman. The Chairman will delegate responsibility to his Assistant at his discretion, and the Assistant in the absence of the Chairman will conduct the business meetings of the committee. The committees of the Association which require continuity--Certification, Technical, Clinic, and Demonstration Team--the Assistant Chairman would serve as an apprentice or "in training" for the chairmanship at the time the Chairman retires. PURPOSE, FUNCTION, AND ACTIVITIES: t1EETINGS: Each Committee Chairman with the assistance of the President will outline the committee's purpose, function, and activities in writing. This outline will serve as the Committee Policy. Each committee will meet regularly at appropriate times to consider business and determine its activities. Each Committee Chairman will be responsible for recording the nlinutes of each meeting, delivery to the Executive Secretary, and distribution to the appropriate parties. COMMUNICATION: Minutes of committee meetings must be submitted to the Executive Secretary within 10 days of a meeting. The Executive Secretary will transcribe and distribute the minutes within 15 days of the meeting. The minutes will be distributed as follows: 1. Board of Directors and Officers 2 2. Ski School Directors 3. Committee Chai~an The Co~nittee Chairman will also be responsible for reporting the activities of his committee to the Newsletter Editor. This info~ation would be in the fo~ of an article for publication in the Newsletter. Each Chai~an will be required to submit the activities of his committee each time the Newsletter is published. ANNOUNCEMENTS: BUDGET: Any announcements to the general membership from the committees which require a "general mailing" will be submitted by the Committee Chai~an to the Secretary. The Secretary will be responsible for all announcements to the general membership. The Committee Chairman, Secretary, and President will dete~ine if a mailing is required and the date and content, etc. A copy of all correspondence from the committees should be sent to the Secretary. The Secretary will maintain the permanent file for each committee. At the beginning of each fiscal year, the Committee Chairman will be required to submit a budget request to the Budget Committee Chairman. Accurate records should be maintained of expenses of the committee, and once a budget for a particular committee is set, it will be the Chairman's responsibility to attempt to live within the budget. ANNUAL MEETING: At the Association's Annual Meeting, the Committee Chairman will be required to submit in writing and give orally to those in attendance his "Committee Report." This report should outline the activities of the committee the past year and any recommenda­tions for change, improvement, etc. in the committee. PROFESSIONAL MARCH VOL. .1 - NO. 1 SKI INSTRUCTOR OF AMERICA I' Teaching Ti",es Yes, it's new. Our first edition of the Teaching Times. We've all heard it before. A plaintive cry in the wilder­ness for better ways to get through to our students. So, as an experiment, a trial balloon, a pre-meeting special, let's "run it up the flag pole and see who salutes." It has been designed as a teaching aid to ski pros and we hope it will prove helpful to you. Creating this insert was a direct result of feedback from ski teachers nation wide. The story went something like this: "Every time I go to an exam, or pre-course or ski school clinic, we spend a lot of time on demonstrations and damn little time on teaching. I know it's hard to teach teaching but I sure wish someone would give it a try." One more thing. This page has been punched so you can keep it with your PSIA manual for future reference. We hope you will consult it often and keep us in mind when you come up with ideas you want to share. *snow Warm spring sun brings out brightly colored flowers, brightly colored song birds and brightly burned first-time skiers. As instructors, we have a responsibility to protect our students and aid in their pleasure and comfort. So, when the sun is high and the ski school bell is tolling, here are some things to think about: - Do all students have dark glasses or goggles? They must be tinted enough to protect the eyes. If not, you might be doing them a big favor sending them to the ski shop or lost and found to get some. Sun Tan Cream. Very important, particularly when applied to the end of tender noses. Cream or opaque sun screen should be carried and shared with your students. Even with good sun tan cream, some people will still burn. Expect this and try to have your class face away from the sun. (You face the sun so ybur handsome. bronze tan gets even deeper.) Clothing. Someone once said, "If it's cold enough to ski, it's cold enough to wear long underwear." Don't be fooled by warm temps. Spring weather can change quickly. You and your students should dress for the chairlift. Being slightly overdressed is better than freezing when the sun slips behind a cloud. Speaking of clothing. Light wind shirts and water repellent ski pants can keep your class high and dry. There is nothing colder than wet blue jeans in late afternoon. Same with gloves. Dry hands, warm skier. Spring Fever. Ever notice how tired you feel when the weather is warm. Your students feel it too. Plan on easing up as they wear down. Remember, you've been at it all season and many of them have just started. Dehydration caused by warm weather, sun and exercises dries out the student. Keep it in mind and plan refreshment breaks. One nice idea is to carry an orange or two and share it with the class. Good way to pick up tips, too! • sun .' Spring m€ans highly changeable snow conditions which will effect the way you teach certain manuevers. Start with sharp edges. Frozen conditions in early morning are tough enough without the hassle of fighting dull or burred edges. Carry plenty of wax. Most students don't understand the reasons for waxing so explain that it makes the skis run faster, makes it easier to turn (less friction) and "smooths out" varying snow conditions. In short, it's easier to ski changeable snow when you and the class are properly waxed. - Warm weather means on any given run, your students may encounter ice, slush, wind pack, heavy powder and bare ground. Teach "positioning" on skis. Student should be loose and expect to accelerate or decelerate. Compensate by showing how to "rock" forward or back to compensate. Soft or rotten snow and slush may be easier to ski if ankles are held tightly together. Like powder, teach longer turns without abrupt movements that may cause loss of balance. Sometimes, helpful to use smooth but powerful unweighting motions. Picking the line. Have your students keep looking ahead so they can avoid ice or bad snow. Explain the effects of sun and wind on the slope . (Shaded areas may be icy, etc.) - Point out the color difference of various conditions. Slush is darker, wind blown snow is pure white. - Effects of sun can change mogels. They may be soft on top and icy in lhe valley. Again~ picking a line is very important. Students may have to turn higher or lower to avoid the bad snow. , etceteras Many ski schools notice a dramatic drop in the number of students in the spring. The weather is so nice that everyone wants to play hooky. This can mean a drastic drop in your income and should be avoided. How? The key is to start "selling" your services and not relying on the people who walk into ski school. Here are some ideas: (Continued on Page 2) Don't teach skiing···· ~ .. .. teach people ETCETERAS (Cont.) In the spring, get on the PA system and "sell" the advantages of taking lessons. (Learn to ski the soft snow ... Finish up the season doing it right ... etc.) Set up some entertaining, colorful and highly visible fun races for ski school classes only. Be sure they are on a hill where the race will be seen by many skiers. Maybe even put up some signs announcing the "ABC Ski School Weekly Spring Flings." Work hard on selling private lessons. Visit with skiers during lunch, in the ticket line or the bars after the lifts close (if you sell a lesson, the drinks might be deductible). And when you're away from the area (parties, etc.) keep selling. Spring is a great time for people to be introduced to our sport and the warm weather and bright sun are two compelling reasons for them to try it. Sell them a lift ticket that comes with an introductory lesson. Finally, the live one that's in school is a good prospect to come back if he has had a good time and if you urge him to do so. Maybe he'd like to spend next Saturday with you in a private lesson. It's worth a try. The best way to become an effective teacher is by watching, listening and attending the Spring Congress. You'll meet fellow instructors from across the country and everyone will have plenty of time to exchange hints and ideas. We'll see you in Vail. I BYLINE By Horst Abraham A Technical committee meeting was held in Vail, Colorado, February 14-17, 1972. An agreement to follow the new PSIA system guildelines was reached, as a result of the meetings held on and off the snow. The importance of the wedge and widetrack posi