Utah Ski Archives Newsletter: 1992 (Autumn), no. 1

Ski Archives Update

Jack Reddish, Dev Jennings, and Dick Movitz look forward to St. Moritz Update The Utah Ski Archives was estab- lished in 1989 as part of the Manu- scripts Division of Special Collections in the University of Utah Marriott Library. Now, three years young, the ski archives is quickly becoming a model for other organizations seeking to document skiing history. The archives has grown to include dozens of oral histories of past and present prominent members of Utah's ski industry, as well as several significant collections. Through a cooperative effort between the College of Health and Special Collections, Joe Arave was hired in 1989 as a ski archivist to con- duct oral histories and obtain collec- tions for the archives. Through the efforts of the Special Collections staff, the Utah Ski Archives is well on its way to realizing its mission as a resource for ski history research. And the word is spreading. This past year Joe was asked by Snow News, the journal of the International Skiing History Association, to write an article on conducting oral histories. It was published in the Winter 1992 issue. The ski archives includes interviews with owners and operators such as Zane Doyle, Cal McPhie, Luella Seeholzer, Alvin Cobabe, Ray Stewart, Phil Jones, and Kent Hoopergarner. Also part of the collection are the his- tories of ski school personnel, ski patrol, and competitors including K. Smith, Bill Lash, Junior Bounous, Earl Miller, Lou Lorenz, Dick Movitz, Jack Reddish, Suzy Rytting, Margo McDonald, Jack Walters, Jim Gaddis, Jim Shane, and Harold Goodro. Addi- tionally, the archives seeks to docu- ment the Olympic bid process and was recently named as the repository for the records of Utah's Winter Olympic Bid Committee.