USMA CLASS OF 1959 SKI REUNION
Park City, Utah 22-28 February 2003
PREFACE:
(First of all, beware of anything beginning with a
preface. It promises heavy going.) It was my intent to record our ski reunion while
memories were still fresh and before “senior moments” overtook me. Furthermore,
I snapped about 100 photos with my ubiquitous little digital camera and I
wanted to put these into the record, too. So, what you get is lots of photos
(but far less than 100) interspersed with some of my personal observations.
The photos don’t approach Annie Leibovitz’s studio
quality; rather, they’re paparazzi shots. I discarded most of them, and cropped
and edited the ones retained. If there were multiple shots in which I was a
subject, I kept the one that made me look best. Of course.
My hope was produce something that would evoke
pleasant memories in years to come, like popping a disc by Ella or Sinatra into
the stereo and sitting back to enjoy it. So that in years to come you can say,
“That’s the way it was in Park City back in 2003, when we were young and could
still ski like hell.”
Munich, in March 2003
Steve Klein
PARTICIPANTS:
18 classmates; 37 overall
Company |
Class participants, family and friends |
Number of class participants |
E1 |
Lee
Bell and sister Flo Bell |
1 |
G1 |
Benny
Carr Al
and Gigi Goodpasture John
and Elaine Guthrie Steve
and Christa Klein Tim
Matthes Byron
(a.k.a. Butch) Marsh Howard
and Eileen (a.k.a. Doc) Stiles Rush
Yelverton |
8 |
K1 |
Bob
and Karen Croteau |
1 |
M1 |
Bill
and Bobbie Fitzgerald Guy
and Donna Heath |
2 |
D2 |
Gary
and Nadine Beech Paul Sper |
2 |
E2 |
Frank
Campbell; friend Valentina Coulter; and her son Robert (a Ph.D. college
professor) |
1 |
G2 |
John
and Karla Moellering Tom and Karen Seybold; their sons Tom, David and
Matt; daughters-in-law Karen and Jacque; and 9-year old grandson John (a
delight!) |
2 |
H2 |
John
McNerney |
1 |
VENUE:
Most of us stayed in Park City, in condominiums
located immediately at the base of the main Payday lift. It was very
convenient. We skied there and also at the Deer Valley resort, a few miles
away, but officially within the Park City municipal limits. There was a third
Park City ski area called the Canyons. To the best of my knowledge, only Howard
and Eileen Stiles, Gigi Goodpasture and the Seybolds skied there. The Stiles
thought it was so good that they swore they’d never go back.
We all preferred Deer Valley for skiing. The slopes
were better groomed, the restaurants were classier and (best of all) no
snowboarders were tolerated. The Canyons, on the other hand, was something of a
snowboarder’s paradise -- but a skier’s hell.
It snowed on Sunday -- our first skiing day – and
again on Tuesday. Some occasional squalls refreshed the snow during the week.
But other than that, the weather was generally good. Broken clouds, with
sunshine. Nor did it ever get uncomfortably cold.
I’d heard all these rumors about effervescent Utah
powder, but, frankly, didn’t find the snow any different than that in the Alps.
In fact, I thought the snow I encountered in Colorado two years earlier to be
much lighter.
CONTENTS:
I’ve
organized the photos in the following sequence:
·
Ski pix
·
G1
Let’s
go.