2008

On September 11, 2008 at 7pm, the Museum will presented Stu Campbell with the first Paul Robbins Ski Journalism Award. Campbell is a born and raised Vermonter, who has dedicated his life to skiing. He grew up in Bennington, attended Middlebury College, taught and coached at Harwood Union High School and at the Valley Junior Racing Club, and finally settled in Stowe as the Technical Director of the Sepp Ruschp Ski School. He has served as the Technical Editor and Instruction Editor of Ski Magazine, examiner for the Eastern Professional Ski Instructors Association, co-chairman of the PSIA Technical Committee then executive vice president, US Demo team member, and Technical Director at Keystone and Heavenly Valley. His love of skiing carried through a varied writing career, including the books Ski with the Big Boys and The Way to Ski. Through his many articles, he has been highly successful at being able to convey the critical qualities that made his style so distinctive and pleasurable to watch. Because of his articles and ski tips, countless skiers have unknowingly imitated his style. Campbell has worked with the biggest names in ski racing – Bode Miller, Donna Weinbrecht, and the Mahre brothers to name a few – but has also passed along his love of the sport to the every day skier who took a lesson with him or read his column.

2009

The Museum will presented Hubert Schriebl with this award at the 8th Annual Vermont Ski Museum Hall of Fame Induction October 24, 2009.

For the past four decades, Stratton's photographer has covered four winter Olympics Games and has had his photographs featured in Ski, Skiing, GEO, Time, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated, and Vermont Life. His work can also be seen on many Stratton walls and on every trail map, brochure, and printed piece. His portfolio is vast and covers a wide range of subjects from Olympic Downhillers and majestic mountain peaks, to apples growing on the trees and feeding porcupines in his front yard.

Schriebl finds inspiration on his hikes up Stratton Mountain. A few times per week and probably more than 700 times throughout his long career at the mountain, Hubert Schriebl hikes to the top of Stratton, southern Vermont's highest peak at 3,750 feet. While this is not a Himalayan Peak, the accomplishment is lofty and a huge reason why Schriebl seems so young and fit. As a tribute, the Hubert Haus stands at the Stratton summit, aptly named after its favorite son.

2010

The Vermont Ski Museum recognizeed long time ski writer Hank McKee with the Paul Robbins Ski Journalism Award on October 24, 2010 at its Annual Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony.

McKee grew up in Fredonia, NY. His mother taught first grade and college seniors and his father was an editor of the local paper. It is not surprising that, as he said in an interview, Writing was always the one thing in school I could do and not feeling self conscious.” He skied at a small local area of 100 vertical feet and a rope tow, but that was enough to get him hooked.

He started the high school ski team, and at his first professional writing position at the Dunkirk-Fredonia Evening Observer, he initiated a ski column. He started at the Evening Observer working summers while in college. After he graduated, the position opened and he “wrote the history of [his] hometown for four or five years.”

From 1977-1980, he handled the now United Ski and Snowboard Associations (USSA) publications from its Brattleboro, VT, headquarters. In 1980 he took a job with Ski Racing, and has worked there on and off for these 30 years.

In those 30 years, McKee has covered primarily men’s and women’s alpine racing and also Nordic, freestyle, and pro racing. He has adjusted his time and style to accommodate the evolution of reporting from manual typewriters and telex numbers to mainframe computers to reporting within 20 minutes on races watched live on the internet. His extensive stories on racers have often been their first in national press. Beginning in 1988, he has covered the Olympics; he served on the press committee for the Salt Lake games.

A competitor himself, McKee participates in barbeque competitions and in the St. Divot’s Annual Golf Tournament run on his property for the last 20 years, plus continues to play with his high school rock and roll band. McKee described his life: “We eat well, we keep busy, and I love what I do, so what more is there to life, that is perfect.”