The History of Dartmouth Skiing

Fall (14 hours or more) | This course has been canceled

10 Hilton Field Road Hanover, NH 03755 United States

Pond Room

Repeat

10/3/2017-11/14/2017

9:00 AM-11:00 AM EDT on Tue

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$80.00

7 sessions, 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM
Tuesdays, October 3 through November 14, 2017
DOC House - Hanover, NH
Course Fee: $80

This course will encompass the journey of the Dartmouth Outing Club, including its start when it was formed by Fred Harris at the turn of the last century. We will follow the interesting people involved in its history, from Walter Prager, Al Merrill, Jim Page, John Morton, John Caldwell and the like to the present day. Dartmouth has put more athletes on the USA Olympic Winter Skiing squads than any other college. We will examine the how and the why.

If it’s skiing traditions you hold dear, come and enjoy this informative course, meet special people from Dartmouth’s storied past as we learn about Big Green skiers who went on to change the landscape of skiing, not only in the United States, but around the world.

  • There will be a reading packet for this course.
Graves, Peter

Peter Graves has played a prominent role in the sport of skiing since his racing days in the ‘60s and ‘70s. He also was a U.S. Team coach and an administrator for USSA. His broadcasting career began with ABC Sports at the 1980 Olympic Winter Games, and he was most recently an alpine skiing announcer at the 2018 Games. In total, he was a broadcaster at 11 Olympic Games. He was head Nordic skiing coach at Harvard from 2002-2008 and was elected as the FIS Ski Journalist of the Year in 2016.