SIA President Receives NASJA
Bretton Woods, NH-March 29, 2008
The North American Snowsports
Journalists Association (NASJA) honored three notable persons who have made
significant contributions to winter sports endeavors and also bestowed their top
awards in the field of snow sports writing and photography for 2007. The awards,
this year presented at the Mt. Washington Hotel in BrettonWoods, New Hampshire,
were revealed at a banquet on March 29, 2008 that was climax of the
organization’s annual meeting.
The Carson White-Golden Quill Award, named after the group’s first
president, honors an individual who has made a significant contribution to snow
sports in North America. For 2008, the honor went to long-time SnowSports
Industries America (SIA) president David Ingemie. Starting out as a marketing
director in 1976 for SIA, he took over as president in 1981 and remains so to
this day. This native New Englander guides the non-profit winter sports trade
association from its McLean, Virginia headquarters.
NASJA’s 2008 Lifetime Achievement Award, honoring a lifetime of
snowsports-related innovation, competition, design and other endeavors, was
presented to Cecile Ryden Johnson, a well-known watercolor artist who created
lasting works of winter scenery, sports and imagery from countless resorts and
mountainsides. This nonagenarian, whose work has appeared in Skiing Magazine and
in many television specials, is still active in the art world from her
Washington D.C. home.
Bonnie MacPherson, the media relations director at Vermont’s Okemo
Resort, is the recipient of the 2008 Bob Gillen Memorial Award. This award,
named in honor of a former Ski Magazine editor and marketing wizard of Crested
Butte and Sugarbush ski resorts, honors an individual who exemplifies the
highest standards of professionalism in public relations and media
communications. Ms. MacPherson came to Okemo via stints at the Mt. Washington
Hotel, and Loon Mountain and Cranmore resorts.
The Harold S. Hirsch Awards, named after the ski clothing
pioneer-creator of the White Stag Company, honors the best writers in the
snowsports journalism fields of magazines, newspapers, columns and internet and
for winter sports photography. The awards were underwritten by prize grants from
the Head Ski Corp. and Sport Obermeyer, the ski clothing manufacturers.
In Magazine Writing, Chris Solomon of Seattle, freelance writing for
Ski, Skiing and the New York Times Magazines, captured the Hirsch trophy and
some Head skis for his 2007 stories. He was a double winner at last year’s
awards.
Claudia Carbone of Denver, Colorado, a former president of NASJA and
Hirsch winner, took home the Columns honors for 2007 with pieces on Colorado
destinations such as Wolf Creek, Keystone and Loveland.
Tops in Newspaper Writing for 2007 was freelancer Hilary Nangle, from
Waldoboro, in the Great State of Maine, writing for the Boston Globe about her
state’s ski destinations and equipment innovation. She is also a previous Hirsch
recipient.
Internet Writing honors for 2007 went to About dot com’s Skiing Guide
Mike Doyle, from Stillwater, New York. Doyle, who is a first-time recipient,
made the jump into cyberspace from stints as the IBEW union’s press secretary
and traditional print media.
In the category of Snowsports Photography, Karl Weatherly of Ketchum,
Idaho took top honors with attributes the judges describe as “the best sense of
light and composition, excellent action, shot by someone with obvious expert
skiing skills.” Karl’s photos appear on the Getty Images and Corbis websites and
in winter sports magazines.
About NASJA
The North American Snowsports Journalists Association,
founded in San Francisco, California in 1963, is the largest organization of its
type in the world. Please visit our website at www.nasja.org for more
information.
Friday, March 28th 2008 @ 12:00 PM.
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