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2015
Where most people
saw snow, they envisioned
mountains of opportunity.
Let’s toast 8 amazing skiers & visionaries
who made Maine the way skiing should be.
Class of 2015 Induction
Maine Ski Hall of Fame
Saturday, October 24, 2015
Grand Summit Hotel
Sunday River Ski Resort
Newry, Maine
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PROGRAM
Masters of Ceremonies
Greg Sweetser • Dave Irons • Russ Murley • John Christie
Class of 2015
Tom Kendall
Luba Lowery
Peter Davis
John Diller
Bruce Chalmers
Jill Sickels Matlock
MISSION
Megan Roberts
John Ritzo
S TAT E M E N T
The mission of the Maine Ski Hall of Fame is to recognize those skiers, who through their efforts and achievements have brought
distinction to Maine skiing. Some of these skiers made their mark in competition. Others were founders who built the sport into a way of
life for so many Mainers. Still more were teachers who led countless skiers and competitors into our sport. Some had an intense impact
on local skiers while others gained prominence on an international scale. Thanks to these skiers Maine has an industry that is a vital
part of the economy, not only in the mountains, but throughout the state.
It is to recognize the importance of skiing to Maine and its citizens that the Maine Ski Hall of Fame has been formed. By enshrining
those men and women who founded and built the sport in Maine, competitors who brought prominence to Maine skiing, their coaches and
mentors, and others who have made significant contributions, we shall create a permanent record of their endeavors and achievements.
By doing this we shall preserve this history for those to follow, that they may understand the great achievements of these individuals.
Congratulations!
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Jill Sickels Matlock
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Class of 2003:
Wendell “Chummy” Broomhall, Aurele
Legere, Robert “Bunny” Bass, Amos
Winter, John Bower, Otto Wallingford,
Al Merrill, Wes Marco, Doc Des Roches,
Russ Haggett
Class of 2004:
Greg Stump, Robert “Stub” Taylor,
Linwood “Zeke” Dwelley, Donald Cross,
Paul Kailey, Roger Page, Tom “Coach”
Reynolds, Sam Ouellet, Jean Luce, Birger
Adolph Olsen
Class of 2005:
Theo Johnson, James. C. Jones, Dick &
Mary Kendall, Richard S. “Dick” Osgood,
Richard “Pat” Murphy, Robert Pidacks,
Franklin “FC” Emery, Robert Remington,
Karl Anderson, Robert MacGregor Morse
Class of 2006:
Charles Akers, Norm Cummings, Ray
Broomhall, Jack Lufkin, George Ouellette,
Richard Gould, Irving Kagan, Peter Webber, Fletcher Brown, John Christie
Class of 2007:
Charles “Slim” Broomhall, Jim Miller,
Galen Sayward, Winston “Win” Robbins,
Murray “Mike” Thurston, Bob Flynn, Tom
Upham, Richard “Dick” Bell, Dave Irons
Class of 2008:
H. King Cummings, Bill Cummings, Leslie
Bancroft, Hans Jenni, Robert C. Kendall,
Julie Parisien, Dan Simoneau, Tim LaVallee, Pat Miller
MAINE SKI HALL OF FAME
Class of 2009:
Tom Bennett, Byron “Bud” Dow, Ted
Curtis, John Roderick,
Herbert L. “Herb” Adams, John Litchfield, Sarah Billmeier, Les Otten
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Class of 2010:
John Atwood, Marcus Nash, Morten
Lund, Kirsten Clark-Rickenbach,
Joan McWilliams Dolan, Bernard Paradis, Bob Harkins
Class of 2011:
Werner Rothbacher, Edmund MacDonald, John Greene, Horace Chapman,
Chip Crothers, Carla Marcus, Owen
Wells, David Farrar
Class of 2012:
Andre Benoit, Bruce Fenn, Erlon
“Bucky” Broomhall, Frank Howell,
L.L. Bean, Natalie Terry, Philip Hussey,
Walter Stadig
Class of 2013:
Rand Stowell, Will Farnham, Greg Poirier, Howard Paradis, Bruce Cole,
Gail Blackburn, Craig Gray, Randy Kerr
Class of 2014:
David Carter, Tom Gyger, Anna Parisien
Levins, Bill Briggs, Nikkie PilavakisDavoren, Rob Parisien, Brud Folger,
Carl Burnett
Dave Irons
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Scott Andrews
Dan Cassidy
John Christie
Nikki Pilacakis-Davoren
Dick Doucette
Will Farnham
Bob Flynn
Tom Hanson
Peter Hussey
Connie King
Tim Lavallee
Bruce Miles
Julie Parisien Nuce
Dick Osgood
Glenn Parkinson
Gail Platts
Tom Reynolds
Andy Shepard
Carl Soderberg
Greg Sweetser
John Williams
Rebecca Woods
Gail Blackburn
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Tom Kendall
Born into a skiing family it would seem Tom Kendall had
little choice other than becoming a skier. His parents put him
on skis at the age of four and by ten he was skiing competitively.
Like his parents and siblings Tom took to skiing and soon the
trophies and awards were piling up from ski events both alpine
and Nordic throughout New England. At Edward Little he was a
member of two Maine State High School Championship teams
and a New England Championship team earning a spot on the
1968 Jr. National Alpine Team. That year he was also New
England Skimeister. The Auburn native continued his success
at Dartmouth where he captained the Freshman ski Team,
competed in two NCAA ski championships and won the Donald
Cooke Award for excellence in four event skiing.
Following graduation from Dartmouth Tom served as
Nordic Program Director for the U. S. Eastern Amateur Ski
Association, a position he held until 1975. During his tenure
Kendall developed and oversaw the Travelers PEP program
to promote XC skiing throughout New England, organized
the public TV broadcast of the U. S. Jumping Championships
in Brattleboro, VT and was team leader for three Jr. National
Teams that had several future Olympians as members. He
also played a key role along with Avery Caldwell and Joe Pete
Wilson in forming the first Professional Nordic Ski Instructors
Association.
During those years Kendall got his first experience as part
of ski competition that would become his career, when he was
the timer for the Washington’s Birthday XC races in Putney,
VT and tried to bring real time results to the event before
the days of portable computers. Leaving USEASA in 1975
with his XC, NC, and Jumping
Technical Director credentials
Tom returned to Maine to start
his family. He wasn’t away from
skiing competition for long as
his former Dartmouth Coach Al
Merrill called him to serve as XC
Assistant Chief of Protocol at the
1980 Olympics.
In the meantime he pursued
his fascination with computers
and when his children began skiing competitively he shared
the frustration that everyone involved in ski competition
experienced, endless waiting for results. Unlike the rest he did
something about it. As a Digital Equipment Corp. computer
dealer he took their new DecMate model and developed a
program to compile and print results at Black Mountain for the
Chisholm ski Club.
That was the beginning of a career that has seen Kendall
time HS and MS alpine and Nordic events, several junior
nationals, XC as well as Jumping and Nordic combined, a pair
of North American Biathlon Championships, and a World Cup,
along with serving as Chief of Timing at the 2002 Salt Lake
Olympics for all the events at Soldier Hollow.
Now as a full time timekeeper the Auburn native works
more than 40 weekends year traveling in his van filled with
timing equipment. This devotion to skiing combined with
solving a major problem for the sport has earned Tom Kendall
a place in the Maine Ski Hall of Fame.
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John Diller
That season Joan McWilliams
(Now Dolan) won her first National
Overall Title at Wildcat, a feat she
would repeat in 1977 and 1978.
Frank Howell won the men’s overall
in 1977 and in 1978 Maine was the
team to beat and Peter Young, Greg
Stump, Doug Rand and Geoff Stump
all won titles in their age group. The
tutorial program eventually led to the
founding of CVA.
John’s leadership in raising the level of Maine freestyle was seen
by higher ups at Sugarloaf and he was tapped by operations manager
Hazen McMullen to be his assistant, taking over as Operations VP in
1980 and as general manager of Sugarloaf in 1998.
Since becoming GM at Sugarloaf, Diller has managed both Sunday
River and Sugarloaf at the same time and under the ownership of Boyne
been in charge of all three Eastern resorts, Loon, Sugarloaf and Sunday
River. Boyne owner Steve Kircher called Diller the best operations
manager in the entire Boyne USA company.
From the time he joined the Sugarloaf Ski School he has served
laying the groundwork for national freestyle, found time to serve on the
board of the Sugarloaf Ski Club, and the Board of Trustees at CVA. This
long career totally devoted to every aspect of skiing has earned John
Diller a place in the Maine Ski all of Fame.
John Diller first skied in 1959 at Sunday River when his uncle Howard
Cole, one of the area’s founders took him skiing over Christmas vacation.
That introduction led to his skiing whenever possible at Sugarloaf and
racing with the ski team at Skowhegan High School and at Northland
College in Wisconsin.
Returning to Maine after college in 1970, John became an instructor
in the Sugarloaf Ski School, earned his PSIA certification and within a
couple of years took over the Masters Program. At that time the program
was about final forms as taught by PSIA with competitions consisting of
demonstrating mastery of snowplow, stem turns, parallel turns, short
swing and galundesprung. As various tricks were added to make the
runs more exciting the Masters competition evolved into freestyle. John
Diller was right in the middle of this new form of skiing competition,
attending every meeting of the rules committee as they defined the
scoring and judging of this new form of alpine ski competition.
The first National Freestyle Championships were held at Killington
in 1975, and while the Maine kids did very well, the kids from Vermont
were very strong coming from programs that allowed them to ski every
day. Recognizing the need for more concentrated coaching and skiing,
John started a tutorial program at Sugarloaf for the 1975-76 season.
The program consisted of one week a month through the winter with
the kids skiing in the morning and doing homework provided by their
schools in the basement of the chapel in the afternoon. It started with
just kids in the Sugarloaf program but expanded to included kids from
all over the state, and soon the best skiers in the state were training
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Megan Roberts
Megan Roberts started skiing at age five in the Farmington
Ski Club Saturday Ski School at Titcomb Mountain. Living next
to Alden Mitchell a Titcomb patroller she was able to hitch rides
with his family every weekend. She was soon racing in the Buddy
Werner weekly races which prepared her for the Mount Blue High
School Ski team. At Mount Blue her team won the State Class
A Championship. Racing in USSA events under the Farmington
Ski Club Megan made the Maine Team that competed in the
Eastern Championships. This experience also helped her develop
into a Division 1 racer at Plymouth State College where she cocaptained the ski team. Her performance led to her being the
first female named “Athlete of the Week” at the school, opening
the door for other female athletes to be recognized.
After college Megan headed west to the Rockies where she
coached in the Breckenridge race program. She also started a
technique class for the Moms of the kids in the race program, the
first of its kind at Breckenridge.
Returning to Maine in the mid eighties Megan moved to
Camden and became an administrative assistant for the Snow
Bowl race program where she also coached and taught a class
called “Women’s Way”. Under the ski club she helped get the
“Mainely Masters” race circuit going for skiers 25 and older.
After a stint at Taos in New Mexico as a PSIA ski instructor,
Roberts again returned to Maine and in her hometown of
Farmington volunteered as secretary of the Farmington Ski Club
serving as a ski instructor, race coach, fund raiser and general
helper. In 2000 she was hired as Titcomb Mountain’s first female
general manager. She was a key
figure in reintegrating the UMF ski
program with Titcomb. Among
her other achievements as GM
was fund raising to install at new
beginner lift. During her tenure
membership was increased,
bringing in more revenue,
boosting morale and making
possible other improvements
to the area. Her dedication was
rewarded with a life membership at Titcomb Mountain.
Constantly volunteering on and off the slopes, Megan
joined the board of directors of the Ski Museum of Maine and
was instrumental in locating a physical space to move the many
artifacts and documents out of storage and into displays. She
served as the first curator of the museum and under the current
management created an online store for the museum.
During the past year, Megan has returned to her roots, once
again taking on the position of General Manager at Titcomb
Mountain for the Farmington Ski Club. Under her direction the
ski club is looking forward to further growth in ski school with an
emphasis on bringing ever more young skiers into the programs
along with the continuation of the area’s strong commitment
to racing, both alpine and Nordic. This lifelong devotion to the
sport of skiing in every aspect has earned Megan Roberts a place
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Luba Lowery
Luba Lowery spent the first four years of her life in a Russian
orphanage outside Moscow before being adopted by an American
family and joining them in Cumberland at age four. Having been
born with a disorder without hip sockets, a year later she began
skiing in the Maine Handicapped Skiing (Now Maine Adaptive
Sports) program at Sunday River. At age 8, she lost a leg to that
congenital bone defect but continued skiing as a sit skier. At
age 11, Luba joined the MHS race team and received the Diana
Golden Cup at the end of her first two years. Those early races
caught the attention of US Ski Team coaches and by the time she
was on the 9th grade ski team at Greely HS she was the Junior
Disabled National Champion.
That success led to a switch to Gould Academy to allow
more time on snow and her results improved. Lowery was
Junior National Disabled Champion in 2003-2004 and repeated in
2004-2005. After losing the 2005-2006 season due to injury she
returned to competition for the 2006-2007 season and continued
piling up impressive results, 4th in GS at the Ski Spectacular in
Breckenridge, CO, 3rd in GS at the Meridian Cup at Winter Park,
and 2nd and 3rd in SL, and 3rd and 4th in GS at the US Disabled
Championships at Waterville Valley.
The next three seasons were equally successful for Luba
as most of her races ended with her on the podium. In the US
National Disabled Championships in 2008 at Big Sky, she finished
second in downhill, and Super G and won the Slalom Gold. This
was followed by a pair of Gold Medals on her home mountain,
Sunday River in SG and SL. In 2009 Luba finished 4th in SL, 3rd
in GS, 4th in SG and 5th in DH, at the Nationals adding to her
reputation as an all around alpine
racer. She matched that success
in 2009-2010 adding top fives
and podiums on her way to the
US Disabled Olympic team and
the Vancouver Winter Olympics
where she finished 7th in GS
and 9th in SL against the finest
disabled skiers in the World.
Through her career as a disabled ski racer, Luba has won
numerous awards including the 2006 Head of School Award at
Gould Academy, the Stephen Ricci Award for Leadership in 2010
from the National Sports Center for the disabled and she was
a finalist for the Pioneer Award for Leadership at University of
Denver in 2010.
After the Olympics and completion of college at Denver U.
Luba returned to New England to earn her Master’s Degree in
Social Work at Boston College, and do some recreational skiing.
During the 2014-2015 season, she returned to Maine Adaptive
Sports and Recreation as a race coach with plans to continue.
Luba also serves on the board of the organization.
This record of success in competition and a continuing
contribution as a race coach of other handicapped skiers has
earned Luba Lowery a place in the Maine ski Hall of Fame.
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Bruce Chalmers
lodge. The youngsters came
from the entire area of Western
Maine, Fryeburg, Lovell, Sebago,
Denmark, Naples, and Harrison
to join the group from Bridgton.
Pleasant Mountain under Russ
Haggett agreed to provide special
rates, free lunches at times and
in many cases would provide
equipment either free or at a
reduced rate.
Bruce, along with his wife Laurie ran the program into the
mid 80’s which had ballooned to 400 kids, from elementary
through high school and took 75 volunteers to run. The program
was so successful that Pleasant Mountain reached out to other
areas and ski programs from as far away as Cape Elizabeth began
running junior ski programs with the same format.
At the end of each season the program has a race day and
sets up courses on the entire mountain with each course based
on the skier’s ability, so many of the students were introduced to
racing and some went on to race for their schools.
The program is still going strong to this day, (Now Shawnee
Peak) 50 years later. Over those years thousands of youngsters
have been introduced to the sport of skiing. This lifelong devotion
to skiing has earned Bruce Chalmers a place in the Maine Ski Hall
of Fame.
Bruce Chalmers started skiing at Pleasant Mountain at the
age of 12 when his family moved to Bridgton. He actually bought
the first ever season pass at the mountain, then only a year
younger than he was. In 1950 as a freshman Bruce started a ski
team at Bridgton High School and was one of only seven boys
from New England invited to a Junior Olympic Camp at Mount
Cranmore. He was among the skiers who raced every year in
the annual Sugarloaf Schuss, the biggest ski race in Maine at the
time. In college he again took the initiative and rejuvenated the
Bowdoin Ski Team which he went on to coach and captain and
was Ski Meister in his junior year when the team won the Maine
Inter-Collegiate Championship.
After graduating from Bowdoin, Bruce Chalmers returned to
his home town of Bridgton and took on the task of promoting
junior skiing in his area and in particular at Pleasant Mountain
where the junior program had about six kids.
As a volunteer coach of the Bridgton High Girls ski team Bruce
wanted to make sure that as many kids as possible had a chance
to learn skiing. He got involved with the Pleasant Mountain Ski
Club which ran the junior program serving as president for many
years.
In that capacity he contacted the various schools in the area
and convinced the towns to bus the kids to Pleasant Mountain
for an afternoon of skiing with lessons. This opened a whole new
wave of children in skiing. Bruce recruited dozens of volunteers
as instructors and as helpers with the buses and in the base
CONGRATULATIONS TO BRUCE, HUSBAND, DAD & GRANDPA
For all you have contributed to the Maine ski industry and for instilling passion for the
outdoors in each of us. We are proud of you!
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The Chalmers Family
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John Ritzo
With his father stationed in Germany with the U. S. Army,
John Ritzo got his start on skis at age three. The early start was
a natural for the son of a skier who had patrolled at Cannon
Mountain in 1938 and Garmisch-Partenkirchen, a center of
recreation for U.S. GIs in Germany, was the perfect place to
learn. Returning to the U.S. the family settled in Leominster,
MA where his father helped in getting Mt. Waschusett up and
running. With his father instructing and patrolling John had
the run of the mountain developing the skills that would lead
to his making the University of New Hampshire ski team in his
freshman year.
During his college years he skied at Cannon, Wildcat and
Tuckerman Ravine. Following graduation he moved with his
new bride, to her home town of Franconia where he taught
and directed the outdoor program at White Mountain School.
He eventually became Assistant Headmaster preparing him for
being named Headmaster at Carrabassett Valley Academy.
In 1986, John was appointed as Headmaster of the three
year old Carrabassett Valley Academy, a school with just
54 students operating out of the former Capricorn Lodge
on Rte. 27. The mission was to “foster focused individual
student-athlete development by providing the optimum
balance between outstanding college preparatory academics,
responsible community living and world class athletic training
in competitive skiing and snowboarding”.
John wasted no time in the quest to achieve the goal of
making CVA the “best snowsports academy in the World”, with
a special focus on academics. He recruited highly qualified
teachers and coaches and spread the focus beyond just
alpine ski racing to include programs for freestyle, moguls,
ballet, freeride, snowboard
racing, halfpipe, slopestyle,
boardercross and Alpine
Leadership Pursuits for Skiing
and Snowboarding (ALPS).
The success of Ritzo’s
leadership is best borne out by
results. Today CVA has over
115 students living and working
on a brand new King Cummings
Campus, fully accredited
since 1991 by the New England Association of Schools and
Colleges. The list of advanced education institutions gratefully
accepting CVA grads includes the finest in the country, Harvard,
Dartmouth, Stanford and Cal Tech to name just a few. CVA
grads not only get into these schools, they excel.
Naturally Sugarloaf has provided the ideal training mountain
and John always fostered the relationship with the mountain
and along with the Sugarloaf Ski Club developed the CVA
weekend program to expand the reach of both the school and
the mountain.
Of course, the headline component of CVA’s achievements
in his 26 years is the number of CVA athletes who have gone
on to achieve at the highest levels of competition winning in
both World Cup and Olympics, the likes of Bode Miller, Kirsten
Clark and Seth Wescott. This total devotion to CVA, Sugarloaf
and Maine skiers in building successful athletes, students and
exceptional citizens has made Carrabassett Valley Academy
the leader in such schools, and has earned John Ritzo a rightful
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Peter Davis
Growing up in Auburn, Peter Davis was exposed early to
skiing and by the time he entered Edward Little High School
he was a budding cross country ski racer. As a member of his
high school Nordic ski team he won the Maine State Junior
Nordic Championships in 1964 and won the Ted Liberty Award
for the most improved skier at ELHS. The following year as
a student at New England College he addressed the school’s
lack of a ski team by competing on his own as a self coached
independent on the Eastern Ski Circuit. In 1967 Davis was
named to the Eastern Nordic Ski Team and began to compete
at the collegiate level when NEC introduced four event
competition.
During the 68-69 season the Auburn athlete qualified for
the NCAA Ski Championships as an individual competitor
(top five overall eastern results), earning a spot on the US
Nordic Ski Team. He was named to the Eastern SR. Nordic
Team that traveled to and competed in the U. S. Nationals in
Durango, CO. IN 1970 Peter was selected as part of a seven
man team for the World Ski Championships in Vysoke Tatra,
Czecchoslovakia. While in Europe he raced in a Swedish
Vasaloppett 85 K race and finished 210thout of 12,000 skiers.
On graduation from New England College Davis received the
George C. Parmenter Award for leadership through sports,
and in 1971 was named to the U.S. Cross Country Training
Team where he raced on the Central European Tour
A year later he retired from the U.S. Team to take over
as Director and Head Coach of the Lyndon Nordic Training
Center in Lyndon, VT. There Davis recruited and trained many
young athletes that competed
on the national and Olympic
levels, including three individual
champions at the 1975 U. S.
Nordic Junior Nationals.
From 1977 to 1980 he
founded and directed Telemark
Academy, Telemark, WI
training dozens more young
cross country skiers developing
National Junior and Senior
Champions as well as three Olympic Team Members.
In 1978 Davis served as assistant U. S. Coach at the World
Nordic Championships in Lahti, Finland, in 1979 as head
Coach of the U.S. World Junior Nordic team in Switzerland,
and in 1980 as Assistant U.S. Coach at the Lake Placid
Olympic Games. Through his coaching career the Auburn
native continued to compete winning gold medals at the U.S.
Masters Nordic Championships at Telemark, WI in 15 and 30
K in 1983-84, another gold medal in the 1988 Classic Grand
Prix 30 K at Mont Ste. Anne, Quebec and a bronze medal the
following year at the World Masters Nordic Championships 15
and 30 K at the same Canadian resort.
Since 1990 he has continued to compete winning
numerous masters races and in 1993 was inducted into
the New England College Sports Hall of Fame. This lifelong
devotion to Nordic Skiing has earned Peter Davis a place in
the Maine Ski Hall of Fame.
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Jill Sickels Matlock
In 1993 the Maine skier
moved to Crested Butte to
teach for the ski school, where
in 2000 she was selected to the
PSIA National Alpine Team and
was able to attend the Interski
event in Crans Montana,
Switzerland in 2003. At Crested
Butte Jill was in one of the
hotbeds of Extreme Skiing and
won four U.S. Extreme Skiing
Championships on the North Face at her home mountain.
She was also a top five finisher in five World Extreme Skiing
Championships along with winning the New Zealand Extreme
Skiing title and finishing second in the event in Las Lenas,
Argentina and 3rd in Chamonix, France.
In three decades Jill has taught, coached, and competed
around the globe against many of the World’s finest skiers.
She is a Level III PSIA instructor and National Team Alumnus
and Examiner. On the coaching side she is a Level II USSCA
coach. Her achievements have led to plenty of recognition,
named one of the Top 100 Ski Instructors in America by Ski
Magazine, awarded Colorado Ski Country USA’s Ski Instructor
of the Year and named one of Powder Magazine’s Best Skiers
in North America. This career of skiing, coaching and teaching
at the highest levels has earned Jill Sickels Matlock a rightful
place in the Maine Ski Hall of Fame.
When her family moved to Farmington in 1969 Jill Sickels
(Now Matlock) started taking ski lessons and soon was racing
in the Buddy Werner League at Titcomb Mountain. Her first
USSA race was at Mount Hermon when she was in 3rd grade,
picking up her first trophy for 3rd place, the beginning of
standout junior racing career.
In junior high and through her freshman year, Jill was a
three event skier, XC, SL and GS on the Wilton Academy Mt.
Blue Jr. High Ski Team and the Mt. Blue High School team.
In 1978, as a sophomore, she decided to focus on alpine
ski racing and she credits Coach Tom Reynolds who was
heavily involved in starting the Farmington Ski Education
Foundation with getting her on the road to success. Jill raced
out of Farmington until her senior year when she switched
to Green Mountain Valley School and continued there for a
post graduate year to race in the more competitive Vermont
environment to prepare for college racing.
At the University of New Hampshire she skied on the
school’s Division I team and competed in four NCAA National
Championships, resulting in her being selected as a member
of the U. S. team to the FISU World University Games in Sofia,
Bulgaria.
After college Jill embarked on a skiing career in coaching,
teaching and competing, 2 years as a coach at GMVS and 4
years at CVA. While at CVA she began some USSA coaching
training and also some PSIA instructor training with the
Sugarloaf Ski School, achieving full PSIA certification.
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Maine Ski Hall of Fame - Year Thirteen
When we started the Maine Ski Hall of fame in 2003 we knew
of many Maine skiers who had achieved greatly in our sport. The
ones who had represented their country in every Winter Olympics
since 1948 were easy to identify. Coming up with the names of
skiers who had skied on the U.S. Ski Team but had not been on
the team in the highly publicized Olympic years was not quite as
easy, but a number have been recognized. Coaches, officials,
ski instructors, volunteers who are so vital to the any kind of ski
competition also frequently fly under the radar, performing in the
background.
In any athletic Hall of Fame competitors are the first to come
to mind. They are highly visible and garner a lot of press. But ours
is sport that is contested not in arenas but on mountain sides,
woodland trails and hills specifically designed for jumping. The
pioneers who built these lifts and trails so they could ski and race
also created an industry that provides over $300 million annually
to the Maine economy. The first trail on Sugarloaf was created
by volunteers with the idea of being able to host major races
to compete with famous trails at Stowe and Cannon. Did those
skiers envision a ski resort that would one day host World Cup
Downhills including one that had to be moved from Austria due
to lack of snow in Europe? Or a place that would host numerous
U.S. Alpine Championships, the latest being last February?
Did the skiers who talked a farmer into letting them use his
mountainside pastures for skiing see into the future that Pleasant
Mountain (Now Shawnee Peak) would become the largest night
skiing operation in New England? Or Sunday River one of the very
largest ski resorts in the Northeast?
From the early competitors and pioneers who got things
started to those who kept things moving and built a sport that
has become a way of life to so many here in Maine, these skiers
deserve recognition. It is vital that their stories be recorded and
kept alive for generations of skiers yet to come. And that is what
the Maine Ski Hall of Fame is all about. It was only natural that
the Hall of Fame became a division of the Ski Museum of Maine.
Both are about preserving the history, both past and present of
the sport and both need your help.
The Maine Ski Hall of Fame is indebted to the advertisers
in this program who each support this endeavor. Also critical
is the Hall of Fame Committee and selection Committee
Chairman Bob Flynn whose hard work results in a class of worthy
inductees each year. If you know a skier who is deserving of
enshrinement go to www.skimusuemofmaine.org. Under Hall of
Fame you will find the nomination form and from past inductees
biographies examples of those who are qualified. With your help
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Russ Murley presenting to Brud Folger
Dave Irons presenting to Nikki Pilavakis-Davoren
About the Fireside Chats Program
The Ski Museum of Maine’s principal
education and outreach program is a
series of Fireside Chats—narrated digital
slideshows that illustrate various aspects
of the history of skiing in Maine. Fireside
Chats are created and presented by Scott
Andrews, the Museum’s research director
and longtime snowsports journalist. Since
2008, they have been given in more than
70 different communities across Maine
and over 4,000 people have seen at least
one of the seven programs currently
available.
Each Fireside Chat is a fascinating and
entertaining experience based on 100-plus
vintage photographs collected from the
Museum’s own archives plus several dozen
collaborating clubs, organizations and
private individuals. Typically hosted by ski
clubs, ski resorts, civic organizations and
historical societies, the programs are each
about 50 minutes in length and audience
participation is highly encouraged.
1. Down-Mountain and CrossCountry: 140 Years of Skiing in Maine.
This slideshow is an overview that covers
all facets of skiing over the entire time
period, from the arrival of Scandinavian
immigrants in 1870 to the present. It
represents the broadest possible approach
2. An Avalanche of Interest: The
First 75 Years of Skiing in Maine. This
presentation is more narrowly focused
on the earliest period, from 1870 through
World War II, and includes more detailed
coverage of the early 20th century.
3. Schuss-Boom and Schuss-Bust:
Fast-Paced Growth and Face-Plants in
Maine Skiing 1946-1980s. This program
focuses on the boom times following
World War II. For most viewers under 80
years old, this period covers their personal
experiences. A real trip down Memory
Lane!
4. Made in Maine: 100-Plus Years
of Craftsmanship in Skiing. This Fireside
Chat looks at skis, boots and other skiing
products that were made in Maine from
the late 1800s to the present. Maine was
once an important manufacturer of skis,
boots and other gear.
5. Maine’s Nordic Skiing Heritage:
1870-Present. Cross-country skiing and
jumping were Maine’s first ski formats
140 years ago, and Nordic continues to be
important. This Fireside Chat looks at the
entire timespan of Maine skiing from the
Nordic point of view.
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6. Getting Organized: How Ski Clubs,
Colleges, Carnival Committees and Other
Organizations Built the Sport and Culture
of Skiing in Maine. Back when skiing was
morphing from winter transportation
into a popular form of recreation and
competition, myriad clubs, colleges and
carnival committees promoted winter
sports. This Fireside Chat traces these
developments from the beginnings.
7. The History of Ski and Snowboard
Competition in Maine: From Winter
Carnivals to World Cups. Maine’s long
heritage of snow sports competition
began with a flurry of winter carnivals
in the 1920s. Maine has hosted seven
competitions at the World Cup/World
Championship level. This newest Fireside
Chat traces these developments from the
beginnings to the present.
To book a Fireside Chat, contact the
Museum’s Executive Director Bruce Miles
at 207-265-2023 and by email at info@
skimuseumofmaine.org or Scott Andrews
at 207-773-9609 and by email at schuss@
yahoo.com.
Hall of Famers Nikki Pilavakis Davoren and Julie Parisien Nuce with Nikki’s
daughters Aslin Mary Doon (8) and Kadin Kalliope Rose (9)
Bill Briggs not only accepted, but entertained.
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Clockwise from top left.
One of several display cases with pins,
patches, books and other memorabilia.
Paris Manufacturing one of the nation’s
leading ski makers in the early days of sking
and into the sixties. A display of Tubbs
skis, a ski and snowshoe maker in Norway,
Maine. A display of skis and other winter
products from Paris Manufacturing. A
display of Bass Boots and Cross Country
Skis from the famous shoe and boot maker
in Wilton, Maine. Both Paris and Bass
were major suppliers of the 10th Mountain
Division in World War II.
A display at the entrance of the museum
with a bib from the Sugarloaf Heavyweight
Race in the center.
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In the early years a number of clothing stores added ski equipment and Dunham’s was one of the first.
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Congratulations
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Maine
Ski Hall of Fame!
Celebrating
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Mr. Bruce Chalmers!
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Ski Museum of Maine - Letter from the President
“The history of the world is but the
biography of great men”
Maine to carry out its mission
of celebrating and preserving
Maine’s skiing history and
heritage. Members serve
on the museum’s board of
directors, contribute to our
annual fund, volunteer or
participate in all our events
and donate their ski collections
and records. This year, I’d
particularly like to recognize, Bob
“Rem” Remington of the Class of 2005,
who with co-author brother Tom, has written and published “We
Jumped”, a chronicle of ski jumping in Western Maine from the
1950s-1980’s. All proceeds from sale of the book benefit The Ski
Museum of Maine. I’d like to close with another famous quote that
describes all our Maine Ski Hall of Fame members:
- Scottish philosopher and historian Thomas Carlyle
As we celebrate the Maine Ski Fall of Fame Class of 2015
inductees, I’d like to edit this famous quote to “The history of
Maine skiing is but the biography of great men and women.” For
thirteen years, the Maine Ski Hall of fame has honored the great
men and women who have made Maine skiing history. This year
we recognize a businessman and program developer, a male and
female ski area manager, a ski race timing developer, Nordic racer,
Ski academy headmaster, extreme skier and paralympian.
As the English writer Virginia Woolf said “Nothing has really
happened until it has been recorded.” We would not know these
great men and women if it weren’t for the establishment of the
Maine Ski Hall of Fame by its founder, Dave Irons, and dedicated
committee members (see page 3). The Maine Ski Hall of Fame
records the history of Maine skiing through the biographies
produced for each class. They include competitors, coaches,
instructors, ski patrollers, ski area builders, managers, volunteers,
inventors and business people. Since 2003, over 52,000 words have
been written about 113 men and women who have distinguished
themselves and our state through alpine and cross country skiing,
snowboarding and ski jumping. Their biographies, published in the
annual programs, are archived in the museum and on our website,
www.skimuseumofmaine.org.
I would like to thank all the Maine Ski Hall of Fame members
who have donated their time and treasure to the Ski Museum of
“The measure of who we are is
what we do with what we have”
Coach Vince Lombardi
Wende Gray
President, Ski Museum of Maine
Upcoming Museum Events
October 29
Ski Season Launch Party
Portland
Dimillo’s Restaurant
Free parking for attendees
December 4th
Museum Open House and
Kingfield Art Walk
3-8pm
Refreshments served
Our Mission:
February 10
Camden Snowbowl
Camden Celebrates
Sonny Goodwin
February 13
Sugarloaf inn
9th annual
Maine Ski Heritage
Classic
June 6
Val Halla Golf Course
Cumberland
“To celebrate and preserve the heritage and
history of Maine skiing”
4th annual Ski Maine
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Throughout the year
Visit the New England Ski Museum’s exhibit
“Skiing in the Pine Tree State”
A history of Maine skiing
Come visit the Ski Museum of Maine!
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Kingfield, ME 04947
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