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Honored Member Spotlight - Penny Pitou! Like many

Honored Member Spotlight - Penny Pitou!

Like many New England youngsters, Penny first put on skis at age four. She took to skiing “like a duck to water” and in no time was skiing circles around the other girls. By the time she was eight, she was racing the boys and defeating them. In 1955, at age sixteen, Penny astonished the ski world by winning the slalom, downhill and alpine combined championships at the Junior Alpine Championships at Whitefish, Montana. The next year Penny was named to the U.S. Ski Team for the Winter Olympics at Cortina d’ Ampezzo, Italy. Although she raced in all three events (downhill, slalom and giant slalom), she was inexperienced in world class skiing and did not place well. Few knew that she made the ski team using skis that were factory seconds.

Penny went to Europe as a U.S. Ski Team member for the F.I.S. World Championships at Badgastein, Austria in 1958. After the F.I.S. Championships, Penny made the big decision not to return to Middlebury College and stayed in Europe to gain experience by skiing with Europe’s best and prepared herself for the big events that lay ahead. Penny’s parents were of modest means and were unable to.

There was a great deal of pressure put on Penny by the ski scribes and the ski world in general for her to win a medal at the Squaw Valley games. She took the pressure like she had “ice water in her veins” but admitted privately that her “knees shook” and she had “butterflies in her stomach” before every race. No one, especially her competitors, would ever know it by looking at her. Here was a youngster that exuded confidence in her ability and never even considered not winning a medal at Squaw Valley. Although the gold medal eluded her, she won a pair of silver medals – one in the downhill and one in the giant slalom. With these wins in “her pocket”, Penny closed out her international skiing career.

Penny Pitou was elected to the U.S. National Ski Hall of Fame in Ishpeming, MI as a member of the “Class of 1976”. Penny Pitou ranks as one of the greatest female skiers this country has ever produced!

Honored Member Spotlight - David R.C. Brown! Born

Honored Member Spotlight - David R.C. Brown!

Born in 1913, Darcy Brown was the son of a very successful silver mining investor and developer. His father, the legendary David Robinson Crocker Brown, played a key role in the birth of Aspen.
In 1946 a fledgling company, the Aspen Ski Corporation, began to build chairlifts on Aspen Mountain. Darcy was an original investor. An avid skier from the age of 23, he claims he was tired of walking up is favorite slopes so decided to support the project. His role was significant as he arranged the leases on the thousands of acres required for the project that were under the patented claims held by his family.

By 1957, the company was sputtering with a mere 25 employees. Darcy came on board as full-time General Manager and President. Under his direction over the next 22 years, the Aspen Ski Corporation grew to become a powerhouse in the ski industry. It was the first ski area to receive over a million skier visits annually. It grew to 1200 employees. It also became the first to control several ski areas under one management.

Passionate about the sport, he skied until he was 90, making it a habit to be on the slopes every day to chat with customers and watch how things were going. He ran a tight ship and his tenure was not without controversy but he also developed an intensely loyal following. According to one of his employees, Sue Smedstad, “D.R.C. was the kind of person who made you want to do your best.” Darcy Brown played a substantial role in influencing the development of the entire U.S. winter resort industry. He built a nation-wide reputation of being on the highest level of ski resort presidents, a stalwart, highly skilled executive who ran one of the biggest operations in the business.
David R.C. “Darcy” Brown was elected into the U.S. National Ski Hall of Fame in 2005.

Final night of #dvworldcup and final night with #p

Final night of #dvworldcup and final night with #plugthepug #pugski Tricia Pugliese. Great to see Tom Kelly, Steve Tomlinson and Mike Ruzek. Also final day of 15-day roadshow for #skihall.

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