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Please help I.S.H.A. to fulfill its mission!

ISHA’s mission is to preserve and advance the knowledge of ski history, and to increase public awareness of the sport’s heritage.

To carry out this mission, ISHA for the past ten years has published the only national journal of ski history, the quarterly Skiing Heritage. It is now the official publication of the U.S. National Ski Hall of Fame.

We maintain the world’s most extensive website dedicated to the sport’s history, skiinghistory.org. We are presently working with the FIS to expand the website’s content by involving other countries, via the Internet.

ISHA is funding the publication of papers presented at the International Ski History Congress at Park City, Utah, last January, the first skiing history congress ever staged in the western hemisphere.

Through awards to authors, we encourage authentic writing about skiing’s past. We hope to create a program to ensure the preservation of early ski films. We want to create education programs that will stimulate interest among children, especially in ski communities.

These efforts are only part of ISHA’s mission. Unlike regional ski museums, we don’t house collections of equipment and clothing. Our goal is to preserve skiing history through carefully researched words and pictures, and to educate the public about the sport’s heritage. There’s an urgent need to preserve this heritage. Small ski areas are disappearing. Skiing pioneers are passing away. In the pages of Heritage and at our website, we preserve the vivid recollections of champion racers, pioneers who built resorts, inventors of equipment, and the great ski teachers and creators of technique. Not only from the era before World War II. . . but afterwards, when the sport grew astronomically in the 1950s and 1960s.

As a token of your affection for the sport’s heritage, you can make a valuable gift that will sustain our mission. . . and receive a benefit for yourself.

Have a look at the donor categories below for guidance. Your gift, less the value of any benefit received, is tax-deductible.

SUGGESTED GIVING

• Presidential Circle $15,000. The donor is rewarded with seven days of premier British Columbia helicopter skiing as the guest of CMH heli-skiing pioneer Hans Gmoser at his annual Nostalgia Week. The Presidential Circle, including Stein Eriksen, Billy Kidd and Nancy Greene Raine, will be published in each issue of Skiing Heritage.
• Heritage Conservator $7,500. Donor is a special guest at ISHA’s next annual Gathering. Includes six days of lodging at lift pass and receptions.
• History Patron $2,000
• Ski Meister $1,000
• ISHA Sponsor $500
• Gold Medalist $100 - $499
• Silver Medalist $50
• Bronze Medalist $25

With any contribution over $500, you become a lifetime ISHA associate and a member of the ski museum of your choice.

With any contribution of $100 or more, you will receive an exclusive, luxuriously printed poster of Ray Atkeson’s famous 1947 moonlit picture of Timberline Lodge and Mt. Hood (shown below).

Lesser amounts are welcome. A list of donors is published in Skiing Heritage.

"The sport's history unfolds in every issue . . . rich and colorful because skiing is several thousand years older than any other sport." --Billy Kidd

"We read our copies of Skiing Heritage cover-to-cover. Fascinating and entertaining information." --Nancy Greene Raine

"Every skier who appreciates the sport's past should join ISHA." --Stein Eriksen

To donate to ISHA using a secure credit card transaction, please select a giving level in the drop-down menu shown below. For larger donations, please phone Hugh Harley at (802) 238-2814, or simply send a check to ISHA, 530 Cheese Factory Rd., So. Burlington VT 05403.

THANK YOU!

One of the most famous ski scenes ever photographed. Ray Atkeson’s 1947 black and white moonlit scene of Timberline Lodge with Mt. Hood rising in the background. With a white border and suitable for framing, this special 22' wide by 18" high, digitally printed poster has been produced exclusively for the International Skiing History Association.

JOURNAL OF ISHA, THE INTERNATIONAL SKIING HISTORY ASSOCIATION
The International Skiing History Association is a not-for-profit corporation, whose mission is to preserve and advance the knowledge of ski history and to increase public awareness of the sport's heritage.

ISHA, 530 Cheese Factory Rd., So. Burlington VT 05403 802-985-1283
Skiing Heritage, 133 South Van Gordon St #300, Lakewood CO 80228 303-987-1111