The 2005 Hall of Fame Inductees

Frederick Henry Harris (1887-1961)

Founder of the Brattleboro Outing Club (1921) and the Dartmouth College Outing Club (1909); Pioneer of ski jumping - designer of Harris Hill and organizer of the Harris Hill Jumping Tournament (1922); co-founder of USEASA (1922); Lifelong advocate for the improvement of winter sports.

"The Man Who Put America on Skis"

Question asked by Harris as founding Dartmouth Outing Club 1909 - "'What is there to do at Dartmouth in the winter?" Purpose of the outing club: 1. to stimulate interest in the out of door winter sports 2. to have sort cross country runs weekly and one long excursion each season (say Mooselac). 3 to build a ski jump and to hold ski jumping contests. 4. to hold a meet or field day during February at which a program of event similar to the following may be contested: 100 yard dash on snowshoes, cross country run on snowshoes, obstacle course run on snowshoes, 100 yard dash on skis, cross country fun on skis, ski jumping contests, and other events that may be suggested. By taking the initiative on this matter, Dartmouth might well become the originator of a branch of college organized sports hitherto undeveloped by American colleges."

• Born 9/8/1887 Charles and Elizabeth Harris in Brattleboro, VT
• Investment securities for Baker, Young, and Co. Boston
• Co-founder of USEASA, officer in the National Ski Association, 3 time official at the Winter Olympics (1932 and 1960)
• Tennis - New England intercollegiate champ 3x, all New England champ 4x, 30 state titles
• Sailor - organized the Lake Spofford Yacht Club
• 1910 - Winter Carnival at Dartmouth - help from Vermont Academy who had begun Winter Carnival in Vermont in 1909 by James Pop Taylor
• Dartmouth class of 1911. From David Bradley, Ski January 1959 "No, there was already small but lively tradition of winter sports at Dartmouth - What the tradition needed most was a dominant figure, an organizer, and this was Fred Harris."
• Fred Harris, Ensign US Naval Reserve Flying Corps, With his own plane: Volume 27, 1922, The Vermonter: Author :Aviation in Southern Vermont part of the first NY to Vermont flight May 10, 1920
• Harris Hill $2000 to build in 1921: ".He financed, designed and built Brattleboro's ski jump, new this year, on which all New England, Eastern US, and Eastern Canadian ski records were broken with a jump of 1581/2 feet."
• Feb 4 1922 1 st Vermont State Championship Ski Jump at Harris Hill 3000 spectators
• Feb 21 1922 - elected president of the new USEASA; first annual meeting Jan 19, 1923
• 1929 Vice Pres of the National Ski Association
• 1930 US FIS rep in Oslo
• USEASA funded 1938 Olympic team, started individual record cards, report sheets for tournaments, and registration card system, FH helped divided country into regional divisions
• National ski jump championships at Harris Hill 1924, 20, 38, 42, 51
• Married Helen M. Choate Feb 25, 1950
• Sandra Kathryn born March 21, 1952

Warren "Winger" Chivers (1914-2006)

1937 National and 1938 Intercollegiate Nordic Combined Champion; 1937 Dartmouth Ski Team Captain; 1936, 1940 Nordic Combined Olympian, Alternate to Alpine Team; Vermont Academy Ski Coach- four events 1939-1980.

• Born Hanover, NH Dec. 12, 1914 - all four boys four event skiers
• Father Arthur H Chivers '02 is Dartmouth professor
• Competed first in the Dartmouth Children's Carnival at age 12
• Played hockey, football and baseball at Hanover High. In 1932 he went to Deerfield Academy where he played football, hockey, skiing, and track.
• Skiing career started when Dartmouth ski coach Otto Schniebs challenged him to run cross country due to his shoulder and general strength, so he entered the Dartmouth-Lebanon dual meet, which was practice for choosing the Carnival Team - he won and his skiing career changed.
• 1936, 1940 Olympian, DOC Racer - 4 event skier
• Coach for the Vermont Academy - 4 events, focus on developing Nordic program, ski lodge named for him there
• 1971 Inductee into the US Ski Hall of Fame
• 1935 sick at Olympic tryouts and finishing in 4 th for combined and langlauf
• 1935 won Michael Fosch Jumping Trophy at Lake Placid
• 1936 Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen he finished with the best time of any American on the relay team; named captain of the Dartmouth ski team
• 1937 Pan American championships in 1937
• 1936-37 winning the US National Championships in cross country and combined
• in Minneapolis and the inter-collegiate event in St. Marguerite, Canada
• Represented the American downhill-slalom team which went to Chile (1937)
• 1938 he won the international intercollegiate combined championship.
• Won the 1940 Olympic try outs in jumping and cross country
• 1939 teach at Vermont Academy
• 1941-1946 navy air force
• 1940 American International Team
• Marry Jeanne stubs 9/3/46, return to VA and remained there since
• Faculty advisor to clubs including outing club with 100% participation
• Starts building a new jump in 1949 thanks to Don Cutter '41 and others

Jim Caldwell

1952 Nordic Combined Olympian; Cross country coach - Putney School 1953-1988, US Olympic and FIS teams 1966-1988; Author - eight editions of The Cross Country Ski Book ; Founder - New England Nordic Ski Association, president first six years.

"The father of cross-country skiing"

• 1952 XC/NC Olympian
• Wrote Cross Country Ski, first published 1964, 8 printings
• Ski coach to athletes such as Ned Gillette, Mike Gallagher, Bob Gray, and Larry Damon
• Class of '46 then math teacher and ski coach at the Putney School (mid 50s-1989)
• 4 event competitor at Dartmouth
• US Ski Team Coach 1960-1972, coach of three Olympic teams - Grenoble 1968, Sapporo 1974, Sarajevo 1984; coach of Australian team 1980 Olympics
• US Ski Hall of Fame Inductee 1983
• President of the New England Nordic Ski Association, stepped down 2002