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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 22, 1963)
Non-Sponsored Skiers Gaining Prestige Leading Team In Northwest By LARRY GRAVES Emerald Sport* Editor A little* loss than five years ago, the University had an official ski team that was sponsored by the Athletic Department. In the win ter of 1858, however, the team lost that support after a trip to the Reno Winter Carnival for "conduct unbecoming to a Uni versity ski team." There was a two year lapse af ter that incident when the Univer sity did not have a ski team. Then a freshman named John Beer de cided that Oregon should be rep resented in Northwest ski compe tition and proceeded to form the Ski Quacks and a ski team BEER WAS elected the first president of the organization and served for two and a half years in this capacity In that time he built tin- group up to a membership of well over two hundred students and it became one of the most popular clubs on the campus. At the same time, with Beer acting as organizer, coach and a top performer, the ski team be gan to improve to a point of high stature among other colleges and universities in the Pacific North west. Deer relinquished the presiden cy this fall and one of the early members, John Seaman, assumed the office Seaman has followed in Beer’s footsteps and the team is. this year, the finest intercolleg iate ski team in the area A I.THOUGH the team still hasn’t regained sponsorship from the University yet, it is on the road to getting it by virtue of its brilliant record. The Duck skiers can boast that they have six racers who are classified as Class A skiers by the Pacific Northwest Ski Associa tion This is more than any other Northwest school with the possi hie exception of the University of Washington. There is also a very likely pos sibility that several members of the team will qualify to partici pate in the United States Olympic tryouts that will select America's entries to the 1964 Olympic (lames Two of the meets in which the team will race this winter are considered qualifying meets for the Games with the winners able to enter the eliminations. AMONG THE team members this year are three of the first six winners in the slalom at last year’s Winter Carnival. Also, there are four of the first six in both the giant slalom and the downhill. The equipment owned by the ski team racers is impressive. The top ten men have skis, poles, boots and bindings that have a retail value of over five thousand dollars. Ski Schedule Jan. 26 Schwaegler Cup," White Pass. Feb. 2 3 Oregon Ski Team Tryouts; Ore gon Collegiate Ski Meet, Hoodoo Ski Bowl. Feb. 9 10 Nevada Winter Carnival; Keno, Nevada. Feb. 22 23-24 Oregon Winter Carnival; Mt. Bachelor, Oregon. .March 2-3 l’NSA Championships,’ Stev ens Pass, Washington ^Olympic Qualifying Races ABOVE IS THE pi'ture oi the University of Oregon Ski team. The girls Irom lift to riiiht, are: Judy fioudie, Roberta Kalis, Suzie Pat terson Carle I aw on, Sharon Williams and (‘indy Howerton. The men from left to right, are- Skip Sloan, Doug Taylor, John Seaman, Mike Shepherd, John Eeer, Larry Decker, Mike Holt and Pete StraRnoIa. Mistin'- due to participation in the Sun Valley Open are .'like Moore, Denny Ree^e and Clark Guening. Emerald photo by Don David Worsen Skiers Top Gov't Cee»p Field Three Oregon woman skiers copped high honors in the As so ciated Women Skiers Silver Cup races Sunday at Government Camp'; Multorpor Mountain Cindy Howerton topped the field in the C class slalom with a time of 35 8 while Carla Lawson and Mary Kay Norman went one two in the class B race with times of :3l 4 and 33 6 The best representation by the University in the men's divisions were a fourth place in class B slalom by Doug Taylor and a fifth by Richard brown in the class C event. Pete Stragnoia turned in a com mendahlc effort in the B class when he finished his race on one ski and his time was still high enough to capture tenth place. JFK Wants Strike End WASHINGTON (UP1) — Presi dent Kennedy has asked the spec ial three-man board he appointed to end the dock strike to keep after both sides today by under scoring what he calls "The Im perative Public Interest" in get ting the month old walkout set tied. 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