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Legends of Showdown · The Ski Club years, 1936–1956
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John Rice

A director when the ski club incorporated in 1938, and treasurer of Ski Lift, Inc. from 1956

Legend of Showdown
Born
1910 or 1911, Connellsville, Pennsylvania
First skied at Showdown
First worked here
25 November 1938, on the Great Falls Ski Club's ski lifts and transportation committees
Years at Showdown
1938–1973
Positions
  • Ski lifts and transportation committees, Great Falls Ski Club, November 1938
  • Director, Great Falls Ski Club, from its incorporation in December 1938 through the 1940 season
  • Membership chairman, and transportation chairman for the ski train, Great Falls Ski Club, February 1939
  • Executive board, Great Falls Ski Club, September 1939
  • Special events chairman, Great Falls Ski Club, September 1939 to 1940
  • Treasurer, Ski Lift, Inc., from its incorporation in July 1956 to at least January 1962
  • Stockholder, Ski Lift, Inc., until the sale of April 1973

What they did

20 entries
  1. 25 November 1938Named to the Great Falls Ski Club's ski lifts committee, with Charles Anderson, and to its transportation committee
  2. 16 December 1938One of the seven first directors named in the Great Falls Ski Club's Articles of Incorporation, which he signed
  3. 15 January 1939On the club's board of directors, with Jane Barker, Floyd S. Weimer and Fred Kennedy, when the club had about eighty members
  4. 4 February 1939Named the club's membership chairman, with Bill Morris as vice-chairman
  5. February 1939Transportation chairman for the club's ski train
  6. 10 August 1939Married Mary Martha Curran at Holy Family church in Great Falls, with his brother Bill as best man
  7. 1 September 1939Named to the club's executive board when Eddie Schenck was elected president, with Sid Bachelder and Charles Bovey
  8. 14 September 1939Made the club's special events chairman, with his brother, Bill Rice, as finance chairman
  9. 12 December 1939Showed skiing motion pictures at the Junior Chamber of Commerce dinner
  10. 21 January 1940Chairman of the special events committee in charge of the program for the dedication of the club's Kings Hill course; more than five hundred skiers and spectators came
  11. 26 January 1940On a committee with Eddie Schenck and Bill Morris to press the state highway commissioner, Lee Ford, about the Monarch–Neihart canyon road
  12. March 1940Chairman of the special events committee for the club's city ski championship at Kings Hill
  13. Subscribed for a $25 class B share in Ski Tow Incorporated, the stock drive for a lift up Porphyry Peak, and his eldest son, Mike, subscribed for one too
  14. July 1956Treasurer of Ski Lift, Inc. when it was formed to build a lift up Porphyry Peak, with Dr. Earl Hall president and Senator Charles Bovey vice president
  15. 3 August 1956Photographed by the Tribune in the front row of Ski Lift, Inc.'s directors as they signed the contract for a $19,040 platter lift
  16. 1 November 1956Named as treasurer, one of the four officers to see about buying stock, as the Poma lift was shipped from France
  17. 28 January 1962Still treasurer of Ski Lift, Inc., named in the Montana Parade as one of the early Ski Club members among its officers
  18. 4 April 1973Named among the larger stockholders of Ski Lift, Inc. when Edward B. Cogswell Jr. and George Willett bought the Kings Hill facilities
  19. Named, with his brother Bill, in the Tribune's histories of the club in 1947 and 1962 among the early skiers who first organized it
  20. Named by Jack Throckmorton in 1984, with Henry Sheffels and Joe Charteris, among the Great Falls businessmen without whose support the hill would not have been finished

In the papers

4 documents

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Also

  • Built the Pomalift, 1957 — treasurer of Ski Lift, Inc., the company formed in 1956 to build it

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