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Maryann Kindschy

Treasurer of the Great Falls Ski Club, 1951–53

Legend of Showdown
Born
1927 or 1928, Montana
First skied at Showdown
racing at Kings Hill by March 1952
First worked here
April 1951, overall chairman of the Great Falls Ski Club's annual dance, and within days its treasurer
Years at Showdown
1951–1953
Positions
  • Overall dance chairman, Great Falls Ski Club annual banquet and dance, April 1951
  • Treasurer, Great Falls Ski Club, 1951–52 and 1952–53
  • Entertainment chairman, Great Falls Ski Club, 1951–52
  • Chairman of the membership and tow-ticket drive, Great Falls Ski Club, December 1952 – January 1953
  • Committee, the Skier's Spring Fling, the club's dinner dance, April 1953

What they did


10 entries
  1. 14 April 1951Named overall chairman of the Great Falls Ski Club's annual banquet and dance at the Rainbow
  2. April 1951Elected treasurer of the Great Falls Ski Club, with Bill Reynolds president
  3. October 1951Put in charge of the club's entertainment by president Bill Reynolds
  4. 23 March 1952Third in the women's slalom at the club championship at Kings Hill, run in a blinding snowstorm, in 3:55.4
  5. 30 March 1952Third in the women's downhill at the club championship at Kings Hill, on a course about a mile long, in 6:46
  6. 14 April 1952Re-elected treasurer, with Bill Casey president
  7. December 1952Launched the club's membership and tow-ticket drive as its chairman, when the club had 200 members and wanted 300
  8. 8 March 1953Photographed in that morning's Tribune with club president Bill Casey and the club's two emblems, both of them wearing Old Fogey Day tickets. She holds the round club patch and he the GFSC shield
  9. 18 April 1953Handed over as treasurer, to Joan Larson, at the Skier's Spring Fling, the club's dinner dance, which she helped put on
  10. 17 May 1953Married Kenneth A. (Ken) Rathbone at the First Presbyterian Church in Havre, with Betty Johnson, the club's new secretary, helping at the reception. They lived at Glasgow, and by 1965 at Lander, Wyoming

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