VOLUME 35, NO 1 JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2023

Football star and broadcaster turned ski-school director and promoter.

Joe C. Jones grew up in Vallejo, California, participating in school sports in his youth. After two successful years on a conference championship football team at Vallejo Junior College, he was recruited by the University of Washington to play fullback on the Jim Owens–led Huskies squad. Jones accepted the challenge and helped the Huskies win back-to-back Rose Bowl games in 1960 and 1961.

The Hotel St. Bernard came down last summer. For 64 years, it served as the center of social life in Taos Ski Valley. The new, larger version, scheduled to open in 2025, will contain a reconstruction of the original dining room, with architect Malcom Brown’s central hearth and the same sun-drenched view to the south.

Veteran whaler John Bertoncini, known as Johnny the Painter, brought the rigors of the Arctic and the whaling industry to life in his art work. Here, ice-bound crews exit their whaling ships in the Beaufort Sea in the Arctic Ocean.

Your article “Dusty Passion: Books on Skiing” (November-December 2022) delighted this old librarian/bibliographer’s heart. To think that you and possibly other collectors of skiing books may use Yaple numbers to order their shelves gives me an altogether superior thrill. Abundant thanks! In the 10 years spent discovering ski book citations, it never crossed my mind that Ski Bibliography might be utilized to order collections of ski books.. However, the professional librarian’s first duty is to “organize information so it can be found.”

Lindsey Vonn is the latest addition to ISHA's Presidential Circle. Bode Miller, also a member of the Presidential Circle, will be a featured speaker at the annual John Fry Lecture during Skiing History Week at Big Sky Resort, Montana, in March.