ISHA ANNUAL AWARDS

The recorded history of skiing is found in academic papers, books, filmed documentaries, and skiing history web sites that have been created by a worldwide community of dedicated researchers, historians, writers, and videographers who have focused their time and expertise on a wide range of historical topics.

Since 1994, ISHA has annually recognized the very best of skiing history that results from these efforts.

Through 2009, ISHA has given 107 awards to the individuals who, in aggregate, are responsible for documenting and communicating the history of the sport. The individuals and their output are, within the world of skiing history, akin to Oscar, Emmy, or Pulitzer winners who are honored in the film, television, and print worlds.

ISHA’s Annual Awards Gala - - - which is held during the annual Skiing Heritage Week - - - is the event where these prestigious awards are presented.

ISHA Awards have been given in the following categories:

Lifetime Achievement Award: given for career contributions over a substantial period of time to ski history, ski journalism, ski photography or ski film including digital formats.

Ullr Award: given for a single outstanding contribution or several contributions to the historical record in book form.

Skade Award: given for one outstanding book on regional ski history or for an outstanding work focused only in part on ski history.

Film Award: given for one outstanding contribution to the historical record in filmmaking including digital formats such as Video, CD or DVD.

Photography Award: given for an outstanding contribution to the historical record in photography, in film or digital form.

Curatorial Award: given for an outstanding work in mounting excellent exhibitions on the history of skiing for a nationally recognized museum.

Special Award: given for outstanding contribution to the historical record outside the above categories. Special Awards have been given in traditional ski song and in ski book publishing.

Cyber Award: given for designing and maintaining a website that contributes substantially to the preservation, spread, and expansion of the ski history record.

Beginning in 1994, ISHA has given awards to 104 recipients.

1992 First Annual Gathering Whistler BC
No awards given

1993 Second Annual Gathering Sun Valley. Idaho
Sir Arnold Lunn Lifetime Achievement Award for History
John Henry Auran Lifetime Achievement Award for Journalism

1994 Third Annual Gathering Park City, Utah
William Banks Berry Lifetime Achievement Award for Journalism
James Laughlin Lifetime Achievement Award for Journalism
Peter Miller Lifetime Achievement Award for Journalism
John B. Allen Ullr Award for From Skisport to Skiing
David Goodman Ullr Award for Classic Backcountry Skiing
Rick Richards Ullr Award for Ski Pioneers

1995 Fourth Annual Gathering Aspen, Colorado
Bill Dunaway Lifetime Achievement Award for Journalism
Dr. Jacob Vaage Lifetime Achievement Award for History
James Sloan Allen Ullr Award for Romance of Commerce and Culture
Dolores LaChapelle Ullr Award for Deep Powder Snow
Friedl Pfeifer Ullr Award for Nice Goin’, My Life on Skis
Marty Sterling Ullr Award for Days of Stein and Roses

1996 Fifth Annual Gathering Stowe, Vermont
John Fry Lifetime Achievement Award for Journalism
Roland Palmedo Lifetime Achievement Award for Journalism
Allen Adler Ullr Award for New England and Thereabouts—A Ski Tracing
Miggs and Dick Durrance Ullr Award for The Man on the Medal
Beth and George Gage Ullr Award for Fire on the Mountain
Otto Lang Ullr Award for A Bird of Passage
Glenn Parkinson Ullr Award for First Tracks

1997 Sixth Annual Gathering Aspen, Colorado
John C. Jay Lifetime Achievement Award for Film Making
Gretchen Besser Ullr Award for The National Ski Patrol, Samaritans of the Snow
Mary E. Hayes Ullr Award for The Story of Aspen
Luanne Pfeiffer Ullr Award for Gretchan’s Gold
Dick Barrymore Lifetime Achievement Award for Film Making

1998 Seventh Annual Gathering Squaw Valley, California
Roger Brown Lifetime Achievement Award for Film Making
Barry Corbet Lifetime Achievement Award for Film Making
Bill Tanler Lifetime Achievement Award in Journalism
Louis Dawson Ullr Award for Wild Snow
Robert Frohlich Ullr Ward for Mountain Dreamers
Edna Berg &Anna Cicale Skade Award for Cold Smoke
Joy Lucas Skade Award for It Started in the Mountains

1999 Eighth Annual Gathering Mont Tremblant, Quebec
David Rowan Lifetime Achievement Award in Journalism
Doug Pfeiffer Lifetime Achievement Award in Journalism
Frankie O’Rear Ullr Award for Chateau Bon Vivant, The Aspen Story, The Mont Tremblant Story
Ewendolyn Holland Ullr Award for Sun Valley, An Extraordinary History
Danielle Soucy Skade Award for La Vallée de la Diable (The Devil’s River Valley)
Blais Arbique Skade Award for Mont Tremblant: Following
and Marc Blais the Dream

2000 Ninth Annual Gathering Banff, Alberta
William Oscar Johnson Lifetime Achievement Award in Journalism
Morten Lund Lifetime Achievement Award In Journalism
Gene Rose Ullr Award for Magic Yosemite Winters
Alan Engen Ullr Award for For the Love of Skiing
Stan Cohen Ullr Award for Downhill Skiing; The Games of ’36
Rodney Touche Skade Award for Brown Cows, Sacred Cows

2001 Tenth Annual Gathering Sun Valley, Idaho
Dick Dorworth Lifetime Achievement Award in Journalism
Peter Seibert Ullr Award for Vail, Triumph of a Dream
Dick Hauserman Ullr Award for The Inventors of Vail
Dan Wendkin Special Award for Publishing
and Ellie Huggins
Bill Wilson Skade Award for Challenging the Mountain, The Life and Times of Wendell Robie

2002 Eleventh Annual Gathering Vail, Colorado
Charley Meyers Lifetime Achievement Award in Journalism
Mary Hayes Ullr Award for The Aspen Story
The Red Birds Ski Club Ullr Award for The Trail Breakers
Bernard Mergen Skade Award for Snow In America
Catharine McKenty Skade Award for Skiing Legends and the
and George Neil Laurentian Ski Club

2003 Twelfth Annual Gathering Deer Valley, Utah
Bill Grout Lifetime Achievement Award in Publishing
Mike Korologos Lifetime Achievement Award for Journalism
Alf Engen and Ullr Award for First Tracks: 100 Years of Utah Greg Thompson Ski History
Alex Kelner Ullr Award for Skiing in Utah
Michel Beaudry Ullr Award for Against All Odds: Whistler
David Gonzales Ullr Award for Jackson Hole: On a Grand Scale
Tom Bie Ullr Award for Steamboat Springs: Ski Town USA
Ingrid Wicken Skade Award for Pray for Snow

2004 Thirteenth Gathering Mammoth Mt., California
Warren Miller Lifetime Achievement Award in Journalism
Carson White Lifetime Achievement Award in Journalism
Martin Forstnzer Ullr Award for Mammoth, the Sierra Legend
Gary Schwartz Ullr Award for Skiing Literature and The Art of Skiing.
Sonja Stallions Ullr Award for A Rough Way to Ride Between Sky and Earth
Peter Shelton Ullr Award for Climb to Conquer
Seth Masia Cyber Award for skiinghistory.org

2005 Fourteenth Gathering Stowe, Vermont
Dick Needham Lifetime Achievement Award
Henry Yaple Ullr Award for Ski Bibliography
Peter Oliver Ullr Award for Stowe: A New England Classic
Charles Sanders Ullr Award for The Boys of Winter
Irv Naylor Skade Award for Ski Roundtop—40 Years of Excellence
Rick Moulton Film Award for Legacy: Austrian Ambassadors
and Ian Scully

2006 Fifteenth Skiing Heritage Week Vail, Colorado
Nick Howe Lifetime Achievement in Ski Journalism
Karen Lorentz Lifetime Achievement Award in Ski Journalism
Bill Briggs Special Award in Traditional Ski Song
Bob Parker Ullr Award for “What Did You Do in the War. Dad?”
Roger Brown Ullr Award for Requiem for the West
Jack McEnany Ullr Award for Ski Fast, Be Good, Have Fun
David Rowan ISHA Service Award
Lisa Olken Film Award for Ski! A Century of Colorado Skiing

2007 Sixteenth Skiing Heritage Week Vail. Colorado
Joe Jay Jalbert Lifetime Achievement Award in Film
John Fry Ullr Award The Story of Modern Skiing
Cal Conniff Skade Award Skiing In Massachusetts
Jeff Leich Curatorial Award New England Ski Museum
Morten Lund ISHA Service Award

2008 Seventeenth Skiing Heritage Week, Aspen, Colorado
E. John B. Allen Ullr Award for The Culture and Sport of Skiing
From Antiquity to World War II
Byron Rempel Ullr Award for No Limits: the Amazing Life of Rhoda and Rhona Wurtele, Canada’s Olympian Skiing Pioneers
Rick Moulton ISHA Film Award for Ski Sentinels: the Story of the National
Ski Patrol
Ingrid Wicken Skade Award for Skiing in Southern California
FIS/Gunter Witt ISHA Service Award for Skiing in the Fine Arts
Bill Kerig ISHA Film Award for Steep
Greg Stump ISHA Film Award, Lifetime Achievement
John Christie Skade Award for The Story of Sugarloaf

2009 Eighteenth Annual Skiing Heritage Week, Mammoth, California
E. John B Allen Lifetime Achievement Award for Ski History
Dick Barrymore Lifetime Achievement Award for Film
Paul Ryan Lifetime Achievement Award for Film and Photography
Mary Kerr Skade Award for A Mountain Love Affair; The Story of Mad River Glen.
Nils Larsen ISHA Film Award for Skiing in the Shadow of Genghis Kahn
Robin Morning Skade Award for Tracks of Passion: Eastern Sierra Skiing,
Dave McCoy, and Mammoth Mountain.
Jeremy Davis Cyber Award for The New England Lost Ski Areas Project
Roland Huntford Ullr Award for Two Planks and a Passion

ISHA SKIING PIONEER AWARD

ISHA established this award program to posthumously honor 1-2 individuals per year.

Honoree are intended to be significant, long-time ski industry persons who had a deep commitment to and made contributions to the sport over many years of industry service. Further, a Pioneer awardee is intended to be someone whose great spirit and presence caused them to have industry wide friendships which embody the “comaraderie” and spirit that Mason Beekley felt should be an essential element of ISHA. The honoree should be a person whose “life story” is an inspiration to skiers and historians, and whose personality is a significant element of the very colorful backdrop of the sport.

ISHA has made two Skiing Pioneer awards:

George Bauer (2008) - George Bauer, the late publisher of Ski Magazine (Remembering, September issue), personified what was exciting and fun about skiing. George organized the annual Streeter Cup, which brought together past Olympic, World Cup, and U.S. Ski Team racers. He was also responsible for the creation of Ski Industry Week, the Ski Business Hall of Fame, and the Sun Valley/Ski Magazine 50th Anniversary Celebration. And he kept the Legends of American Skiing alive and thriving.

Stu Campbell (2009) - Stu Campbell ranks as one of America’s most influential ski teachers. He was a profound thinker about technique and ski equipment testing. He was a terrific teacher and innovator, a patient mentor, a man of wisdom and humility, generous a kind hearted , and because of his passion for the sport, had a legion of like minded friends, colleagues and admirers in the sport. His spirit is captured in a quote attributed to him, “Every turn you make is good for the soul.”

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