Vermont Hall of Fame, Class of 2024
Each year, the Vermont Ski and Snowboard Museum welcomes new Hall of Fame inductees. Their accomplishments are part of the museum's permanent Hall of Fame exhibit. The class of 2024 includes:
Kelly Clark, a five-time Olympian and three-time Olympic medalist, grew up snowboarding at Mount Snow, Vermont, and trained at the Mount Snow Academy. She started snowboarding at seven years old, began competing in 1999 and became a member of the U.S. Snowboard Team in 2000. With more than 200 starts in international competition, Clark achieved 137 podiums and 78 wins, making her the winningest competitor in snowboarding history.
Career highlights include winning gold in halfpipe at the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics and bronze in halfpipe at the 2010 Vancouver Games. In the 2007 season, Clark reached eight podiums out of 12 competitions on the pro snowboarding tour, winning five events. The following season, she finished as the World Snowboard Tour champion. Clark won the 2010 superpipe competition at the X Games. In 2015, Clark won the ESPY Award for Best Female Action Sports Athlete. She retired in 2019. Clark started the Kelly Clark Foundation in 2010 and Kelly Clark Snowboarding in 2022 to help kids get involved in snowboarding.
Carl Ettlinger discovered methods to reduce ski injuries that led to the production of testing devices, training workshops and videos to make skiing a safer sport. His collaborative research and resulting innovations have saved the skiing public from tibial fractures costing an estimated hundreds of millions of dollars annually.
After serving as a second lieutenant in the U.S. army during the Vietnam War, he returned to the University of Vermont and wrote his master thesis, “On the Prevention of Ski Injuries.” This resulted in the development of the first successful anti-friction device. He went on to found Vermont Ski Safety Equipment and created the world’s leading laboratory for testing, designing and analyzing snowsports equipment.
He co-authored more than 70 peer-reviewed articles—most of them in collaboration with his longtime friends and colleagues, Dr. Robert Johnson and Dr. Jasper Shealy. Many of these papers served to guide and inform the International Society for Skiing Safety. Along with Shealy and Johnson, Ettlinger established America’s first formalized snowsports injury research program in Vermont, called the Sugarbush Study.
Peter Graves, a Bennington native, raced at Fort Lewis College in Colorado under Olympic coach Dolph Kuss. Graves later went on to serve four years as an assistant U.S. Ski Team cross-country coach under head coach Mike Gallagher. Today, Graves is known as the voice of skiing in America. For more than 40 years he’s worked as a television sportscaster and race announcer for Alpine, cross-country, snowboarding and freestyle skiing. He has also covered skiing as a writer, reporter and broadcaster, contributing to numerous national publications and also working on-air for ABC and ESPN, where he was one of the network’s first skiing color commentators.From narrating the closest cross-country ski race in Olympic history at the 1980 Lake Placid Games and anchoring the post–9/11 Olympic opening ceremonies at the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics to his work at the Vancouver 2010, Sochi 2014 and Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Games, Graves has provided the soundtrack to some of the sport’s biggest occasions. He has also helped direct cross-country events for the Special Olympics.
Hank Lunde has been a pioneering contributor to the Vermont ski industry and the sport of skiing throughout his career at Killington Ski Area (1969–1996) and Stowe Mountain Resort (1997-2008), until his retirement in 2009.
Born in Barre, Vermont, Lunde started skiing at Barre Skyline and Mt. Mansfield ski areas in 1950. He graduated from Norwich University in civil engineering. After spending time with the U.S. army and later working for Penn Central Railroad, he accepted a position as construction manager at Killington Ski Area. Lunde directed comprehensive upgrades to Killington’s lift system, including high-speed lifts and an increase in uphill capacity. He helped develop loading/unloading systems, covered detachable chairs and heated gondola cabins, which have become industry standards. Lunde used his engineering background to innovate “top-to-bottom” snowmaking techniques. Lunde eventually became president at Killington and then the Mt. Mansfield Company.