March 25, 2004

Four Vermonters elected to ISHA board

Jim Spring succeeds John Fry as ISHA president

Mammoth Lakes, Calif. -- Chuck Perkins, Hugh Harley, Milly Merril, Mary Kerr, Alan Baker, Frida Waara and T.J. Chase have been elected to ISHA's board of directors, and Jim Spring has stepped in to replace retiring ISHA president John Fry.

Spring is president of Leisure Trends, a market research firm in Boulder, Colo., and joined the board a year ago. His three-year term expires in 2006.

The new members take the place of Gretchen Besser, John Fry, Gene Rose, Wolfgang Lert, Doug Pfeiffer, Donn Mosser and Jerry Groswold, whose terms expired this month. Board member Evan Russell, president of the Mammoth Lakes Foundation, has resigned from the board due to time constraints, and his unexpired term will be completed by T.J. Chase, director of the new Mammoth Lakes Ski Museum.

Chuck Perkins, a retired ski retailer from Burlington, Vt., has served on the Vermont Ski Museum board since 1988. Hugh Harley is president of the Rossignol Ski Co. in Williston, Vt. Milly Merril is the founder and owner of Turtle Fur, a ski hat company, in Stowe, Vt. Mary Kerr is a journalist based in Vergennes, Vt. Frida Waara is development director (and a board member) at the US National Ski Hall of Fame in Ishpeming, Mich. Alan Baker is a newspaper publisher from Gorham, Maine.

The board also includes Eddy Ancinas, Glenn Parkinson, Morten Lund, Lisa-Lee Kremer, Bernie Weichsel, Dick Goetzman, Kirby Gilbert, Einar Sunde, Rigo Thurmer, and Dean Ericson.

The new board promptly accepted an invitation to hold ISHA's 2005 Gathering at the Trapp Family Lodge in Stowe, Vt.