If ski instruction pioneers such as Alf, Sverre and Corey Engen, Bill Lash, Junior Bounous, Earl Miller and K. Smith set the tone for ski instruction in the region, the lyrics were written by Woody Anderson, Bill Butterfield, Bill Briggs, Norm Burton, Mel Fletcher, Keith Lange, Lou Lorenz, Gene Palmer, Clark Parkinson and Dean Roberts. If the previous were the founders of instruction, the latter are their disciples - spreading the word about the glories of skiing through their teachings.

You can call them the Second Generation of ski instructors in the Intermountain West - Gen. II or Version 2.0, in the vernacular. They taught with great gusto and gumption, as witnessed by the quantum leap the world of snow sport has taken during their tenure as guardians of the flock: Over the past 50 years skiing has evolved into a multi-billion dollar industry that transcends recreation, health, the environment and economic development for millions of residents in the region.

For most history makers, the high-profile contributions are in ski instruction. But the more significant mark they've etched into the annals of skiing history rests in the innumerable hours - nay, years - they have contributed as leaders in the less glamorous side - administration, organization and standardization of the ski industry..

Their too-brief bios, on the next few pages, offer a thumbnail peek at their countless contributions and accomplishments in the area of ski instruction - and beyond.

WOODY ANDERSON - (a.k.a. Alexander Woodruff Anderson), Albion, ID, 1954-1963; lifetime member, Professional Ski Instructors of America/Intermountain; member, National Ski Areas Assn. One of the founders of the Intermountain Ski Instructors Assn., 1952, its secretary in 1952-53 and its president in 1961-63; assistant ski school director, Brighton Ski Resort, Instructor, Deseret News Ski School, 1947-50; national certification chairman, PSIA, 1962-64; general manager, Park City Resort, 1965-71; president, Utah Ski Assn., 1968-71; president/director, Park City Ski School, 1964-71; liaison chairman of PSIA with the National Ski Areas Operators, 1966-1970; chairman, Idaho Travel Council; Intermountain Ski Areas Assn., vice resident 1974-77; currently president/owner of Anderwood Inc./Pomerelle Ski Resort, Albion, ID

BILL BRIGGS - Late this year, Bill will cap an illustrious ski career in grand style: by producing a CD of himself performing traditional ski songs and alpine yodels. He has showcased his musical talents through most of his 64 years of skiing, 51 as a ski instructor, 48 of them certified and 40 of them as ski school director (Sugarloaf, ME, Suicide Six, VT, and Snow King, WY.) The ski area manager at Snow King in 1980, he has served as an Exum Mountain Guide at Grand Teton National Park for 22 years. Among his other exploits: serving as technical contributor to Willi Schaeffler's ski series in Sports Illustrated in the 1950; to Georges Joubert's book "Ski Wedeln" in 1958; Mort Lund's book "The Skiers' Bible" in the 1960s and numerous articles for "Ski Magazine." He made the first descents on skis of the Middle Teton and South Teton in 1967, Mt. Moran in 1968, Grand Teton in 1971 and Mt. Owen in 1974. All that despite the fact that the native of Augusta, Maine, was born with a congenital hip dislocation.

NORM BURTON - At age five, Norm's father made him a pair of skis for Christmas and his sister bought him a ski lesson from Corey Engen at Snow Basin where there was only a rope tow on City Hill. He was smitten with skiing for life, as in: teaching for Earl Miller at Snow Basin in1968; joining ISIA in 1972; becoming fully certified in 1974; presiding over the Intermountain Ski Instructors Association in 1979 and board directors of PSIA and officiating as vice president of operations and its president in 1982. In 1981, Norm became affiliated with the new Deer Valley Resort as instructor and supervisor, posts he held until 1989 when he became ski school director at Snow Basin. He returned to the Deer Valley Resort in 1997. On March 13, 2002, Norm experienced a serious skiing accident and is recovering in a rehabilitation center.

BILL BUTTERFIELD - A native of Manchester, Vermont, Bill skied as a youngster and later taught skiing at nearby Big Bromley and Snow Valley. In the summer he earned skiing money by being a caddy at the city's two golf courses. His early mentors, Fred Islin and Woody Meyer at Snow Valley, encouraged him to teach the sport so he certified as an instructor with the Eastern Ski Instructors Association at age 16. At the time, he was the youngest certified ski teacher on the Eastern Seaboard. After a four-year stint in the U.S. Navy, he returned to Manchester where he met Otto Lange, the Sun Valley, Idaho, ski school Director, who offered him a contract to teach at the storied resort, which he did in 1948. He served as assistant director there for 38 years meeting, teaching and socializing with Sun Valley's famous clientele. Throughout his career his guiding philosophy has been: "Guest services is the most important element in serving the skiing public."

MEL FLETCHER - Ask anybody who knows anything about Utah ski history and the name Mel Fletcher will be recognized as one who has "been there" and "done that". Born in 1918, the lifelong resident of Park City has not only had a front row seat for everything that happened to skiing in Park City during the 20th century, he has helped make it happen. Mel took to skiing in the late 1920s after watching Park City miners ski jumping on Creole Hill. It wasn't long before Mel joined the fun and eventually became an accomplished jumper competing at Creole Hill, Rasmussen's Ranch, and world renowned Ecker Hill. Mel and friends used to tour on skis from Park City to Brighton. In the 40s when friends Otto Carpenter and Bob Burns started Snow Park, Mel founded and served as president of the Snow Park Ski Club. He became a certified instructor in the early 50s, founded and served as the director of the Snow Park Ski School from 1952 - 1964. Mel conducted group lessons for Park City's children as part of a city recreation program and served as director of the Park City Ski Patrol from 1965 -1972. Mel has competed in ski races well into his senior years and has made significant contributions to the preservation of Utah ski history. In 1986, Mel worked hard to secure a spot on the Utah Historical Register for Ecker Hill, the site of world-record ski jumps.

KEITH LANGE - 50 years and counting...that's what Keith is doing with his tenure as an active instructor at Alta. But that's just a fraction of his contributions to skiing. He held 13 leadership positions for the Intermountain Ski Instructors Assn. (ISIA), including president; and 10 positions for the Professional Ski Instructors Association Intermountain, including president. He is trained in ski patrol and avalanche control and has also been a race coach and movie star in productions by such notables as Sverre Engen, Warren Miller and John Jay. As a member of the U.S. Army 10th Mountain Division, he trained all levels of military personnel on high mountain survival techniques (summer and winter). He was a member of the President's Council on Fitness and bestowed upon President Ford an Honorary Ski Instructor status. On the competitive scene, he won first in the Pro Division of the First National Gelande Championship that he help establish at Alta. He has competed on jumps at Ecker Hill; was a competitor and course-setter for the Snow Cup; and raced in Alpine, Nordic, and cross-country events. For 37 years he directed the children's ski program at Salt Lake City's Cottonwood Country Club, and coached the U.S. demonstration team that competed in the first Interski held behind the Iron Curtain. Keith is a charter member of the Ski Archives Board.

LOU LORENZ - Lou has been active in the organization and administration of professional ski instruction for more than 50 years. He served on the Intermountain Ski Instructors Association (ISIA) board for 17 years, was its president for three, a member of its certification committee for 10 and was its chairman for three. He started skiing in 1946 and began teaching for the Deseret News Ski School in 1950. He obtained his ISIA certification in 1956, after beginning his professional teaching career at Alta three years prior. While teaching at Alta for 10 years, was also the director of the ski school at Little Mountain. Later he co-founded the Greater Salt Lake Ski School that contracted ski teaching at Solitude and Gorgoza. In 1971, he was named a lifetime member of the PSIA. In 1996, he became the seventh inductee into the PSIA-I Hall of Fame. Lou is a charter member of the Ski Archives Board.

GENE PALMER - In the 1960s when the Teton Valley community dreamed of having a world-class ski resort, Gene was a driving force in helping to facilitate that dream. He served on the first board of Directors for Grand Targhee Resort and only resigned in 1969 to become the director of skiing and the ski school in 1969. When Big Valley Corporation purchased the resort in 1975, Gene was asked by the new owners to remain as the director. He held that position until his semi-retirement in 1995. This winter, Gene begins his 36th season as a ski teacher, educator and role model at Grand Targhee. He is infamous for driving the 100 mile plus round-trip drive from his farm in Rexburg, Idaho, to Alta,Wyoming, each day since 1969. It is obviously his love of skiing that motivates him to do so. Gene has been a member of PSIA since 1961 and has held posts as divisional president, divisional education vice president, divisional co-education vice president, national board member and as a PSIA examiner for 20 years. Gene's contributions to the ski industry are legendary and his abilities as mentor, educator and cheerleader for all aspiring snow sport teachers are truly inspiring.

CLARK PARKINSON - With the title of "Instructor Emeritus," Clark is the longest tenured employee at Park City Mountain Resort. And that's no surprise considering that he began teaching in 1962 when the resort opened. Clark obtained his ISIA certification in 1966 and immediately became involved in the organization and administration of the Intermountain Division. He subsequently became secretary, board member and, in 1970, president. He was named a Lifetime Member of PSIA in 1979, a member of the PSIA Past Presidents' Advisory Committee and Chairman of its Hall of Fame Committee. He is a charter member of the J. Willard Marriott Library Ski Archives Advisory Board, past finance chair, chair and past chair. He was one of the first staff volunteers for the Salt Lake Organizing Committee of the 2002 Olympic Winter Games, signing on in 1998 when he assisted SLOC's volunteer recruitment and selection process. During the Games his volunteer duties found him at the Olympic Village in the National Olympic Service Center.

DEAN ROBERTS - His introduction to a magnificent skiing career simply by jumping into it. Early on Dean skied at Lead Draw, near Pocatello, Idaho where a rope tow led to a 40-meter jump. While in grade school, he and his pals took their skis to school so they could "fly" off of the 12-15 ski jumps they would build between their homes and school. In 1944, while an eighth grader, his family moved to Ogden where he headed for Snow Basin. His first day on those ski slopes startled him, "Everyone was turning on their skis and that was the objective," he recalls. Not only could he not turn his skis, but he had never been exposed to skiing where turning was necessary. Once he learned that skill, his skiing talents skyrocketed: Weber College and University of Utah Ski Teams; ski instructor at Snow Basin 1957-60; at Brighton in 1960-63; and at Solitude Mountain Resort, where he was co-director of the Mt. Empire Ski School. He directed the Solitude Ski School from 1969-94. He's a lifetime member of PSIA and PSIAI and among the first 100 to join the PSIA. He currently is director of skiing at Solitude.

• Zane Doyle

On February 17, 1916, Zane A. Doyle was born to Michael and Zepher Smith Doyle in Ogden, Utah. The family moved to Salt Lake City, were Zane attended Columbus Elementary, Irving Junior High and then Granite High School. In 1937, he married Thelma Jensen. Two years later he began skiing with friends in Lambs Canyon.

In 1943, Zane convinced Thelma to let him purchase a T-bar from Kay Smith. This was quite a change of occupation from butcher at Hill Field to T-bar operator on weekends throughout World War II. The early years at Brighton were a struggle, Zane worked nights at Hill Field and days at Brighton. The road up Big Cottonwood Canyon was plowed only as far as the Brighton store. When the United States Special Forces began to train in the area, they plowed the road all the way to the T-bar. The cost to ski? Ten cents per ride.

Zane began adding and changing things at Brighton in 1947. He extended the T-bar to the top of the current Majestic Lift and built a second T-bar to the top of the second face of Majestic in 1948 which increased uphill capacity to 750 people per hour.

The Intermountain West had its first double chair lift thanks to Zane Doyle when he built the Majestic chair in 1948. He then built a roller and began to pack the slopes. Zane added a second double chair in 1958, the Mary Chairlift. In 1963, the purchase of Brighton Recreation gave him a single chair left running up Mt. Millicent. In 1968, Evergreen was added and in 1974 the Millicent single chair was replaced and extended with a double chair. 1959 brought night skiing to Brighton and three years later the Majestic lift was rebuilt. In 1984 he oversaw the completion of Snake Creek triple chair.

Zane retired as head of Brighton Ski Bowl in1984 when Brighton Resort was purchased by Boyle USA Resorts. Zane's stubbornness gave Brighton Ski Resort to the Intermountain Region. His vision and his love of skiing has endured at the head of Big Cottonwood Canyon. While outwardly gruff, he takes people to his heart and treats them as family. This welcoming family feeling remains at Brighton Resort. Not one to seek glory for all of his achievements, Zane is reluctant to list his ski accolades. The best way to appreciate Zane Doyle's work is to go up to Brighton and look at his legacy.

• Mike Korologos

Each year the Ski Archives honors an individual who demonstrates extraordinary efforts to help make the Ski Archives a success. This years recipient has shown tremendous volunteerism and excitement toward the Ski Archives and for that reason, this years recipient is well deserving of the Sue Raemer Memorial Award.

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