A special publication of the Brattleboro Reformer Thursday, February 17, 2022
HARRIS HILL SKI JUMP DIRECTORS
Compiled by Dana Sprague
1922 - 1937 Fred Harris
1938 – 1947 RL Billings
1948 Donald Allen
1949 – 1953 Alan Sargent
1954 Charles Toms
1955 Francis Bement
1956 Tink Austin
1957 - 1977 Alan Sargent
1978 – 1984 Bernie Barrett
1985 – 1992 Dana Zelenakas
1993 Pat Howell
1994 – 2009 Pat Howell & Kate McGinn
2010 – 2015
2016 – 2022
Kate McGinn & Betsy Farley
Kate McGinn & Liz Richards
This year marks 100 years of ski jumping at Harris Hill, a milestone of extraordinary proportions by any standards. We’re celebrating this anniversary in grand style for everyone to enjoy. We’ve published a book, Harris Hill Ski Jump The First 100 Years, the colorful, engaging, history of the ski jump. We’ve erected a life-size ski jumper in flight at the head of Main Street, and installed lights on the ski jump hill so that we can, for first-time ever, have night jumping.
This weekend, the Retreat Farm’s field will once again be transformed into a 90-meter ski jumping event. It will come alive with excitement, breathtaking jumping, the ringing of cow bells, music, food and fun for spectators and jumpers from near and far, past and present.
On Friday night, the Brattleboro Outing Club joins us as they too celebrate 100 years. Together, we will host jumping and fireworks, a free evening of fun for the community. Our Saturday and Sunday tournaments will be jam-packed with competition as we cheer on jumpers from the U.S. and abroad.
All of this, almost without exception, is made possible by volunteers. An allvolunteer organizing committee works year-round on the competition and the jump facility. People in the community and beyond generously donate their time, talent, equipment, professional skills, expertise and financial support for a myriad of tasks. It all comes together on ski jump weekend. It has been that way for 100 years.
And so, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary, we’re dedicating this year’s ski jumping competition to the volunteers and ski jumpers past and present who have made Harris Hill Ski Jump such an iconic favorite.
We applaud the legions of volunteers—the planners and pluggers; snowmakers, packers, groomers and plowers; starters, scorekeepers and meter markers; ticket-takers and parkers; announcers and anthem singers; sponsors, photographers, donors, designers and publicists; EMT’s and everyone else not named, but always necessary, who give their time, energy and expertise to make Harris Hill the beloved Brattleboro tradition that it is. Bravo to all!
Fred Harris would be proud.
Kate McGinn & Liz Richards Co-Directors
PHOTOS: DANA SPRAGUE ARCHIVES
Fred Harris, Tournament Director 1922-1937
Tournament director Dana Zelenakas , 19851992, awards future Director of Competition Todd Einig, in 1991
Tournament Co-Directors Kate McGinn and Pat Howell, 1994-2009
Tournament directors Tink Austin 1956, and Alan Sargent 1949-1953
GOVERNOR’S PROCLAMATION
State of Vermont Executive Department
State of Vermont
A Proclamation
Executive Department
CURRENT COMMITTEE MEMBERS
WHEREAS, the Harris Hill Ski Jumping Competition is a celebrated Brattleboro, Vermont tradition that enjoys a rich history dating back to 1922; and
State of Vermont Executive Department A Proclamation
A Proclamation
WHEREAS, the Harris Hill Ski Jumping Competition is a celebrated Brattleboro, Vermont tradition that enjoys a rich history dating back to 1922; and
WHEREAS, Harris Hill Ski Jumping was the vision of Fred Harris of Brattleborowho founded the Brattleboro Outing Club and the Dartmouth Outing Club and, according to the Vermont Ski Museum, was responsible for “putting America on Skis; ” and
WHEREAS, Harris Hill Ski Jumping was the vision of Fred Harris of Brattleborowho founded the Brattleboro Outing Club and the Dartmouth Outing Club and, according to the Vermont Ski Museum, was responsible for “putting America on Skis; ” and
WHEREAS, Harris Hill has a reputation for organizing first-class tournaments that attract jumpers from the U.S. and the world to compete on its 90-meter hill; and
WHEREAS, Harris Hill has a reputation for organizing first-class tournaments that attract jumpers from the U.S. and the world to compete on its 90-meter hill; and
WHEREAS, Harris Hill has been the site of 18 national and regional championships, including the most recent in 1992 when it hosted theNational Championships; and
WHEREAS, Harris Hill has been the site of 18 national and regional championships, including the most recent in 1992 when it hosted theNational Championships; and
WHEREAS, Harris Hill Ski Jump is the only 90 -meter ski jump in New England and the newest Olympic size 90-meter jump in the country designedto International Ski Federation (FIS) specifications; and
WHEREAS, Harris Hill Ski Jump is the only 90-meter ski jump in New England and the newest Olympic size 90-meter jump in the country designedto International Ski Federation (FIS) specifications; and
WHEREAS, Harris Hill Ski Jumping Competition is the successful, first class, international winter sports event that it is, thanks in large part, to thegenerous support of its many sponsors and Friends of Harris Hill, Step Up & Soar supporters, and the Manton Foundation. Of special note is Leader Distribution Systems/Pepsi-Cola Brattleboro, whichhas been the Event Sponsor of the ski jumping competition since 1986; and
WHEREAS, Harris Hill Ski Jumping Competition is the successful, first class, international winter sports event that it is, thanks in large part, to thegenerous support of its many sponsors and Friends of Harris Hill, Step Up & Soar supporters, and the Manton Foundation. Of special note is Leader Distribution Systems/Pepsi-Cola Brattleboro, whichhas been the Event Sponsor of the ski jumping competition since 1986; and
Board of Trustees
Patricia Howell, President
Liz Richards, Vice President
Sandy Harris, Secretary
Gail Bourque, Treasurer
Tom Durkin
Todd Einig
Kate McGinn
Andrew Rome
Sally Seymour
Dana Sprague Photographer, Archivist Involved since 1967; committee member since 1994.
The Organizing Committee
WHEREAS, it is the legions of volunteers who give of their time, energy and expertise that make Harris Hill Ski Jump the iconic, beloved, long-standing tradition that it is. The twoday tournament is runentirely by a volunteer board and organizing committee, as well as by hundreds of community volunteers on ski jump weekend; and
WHEREAS, it is the legions of volunteers who give of their time, energy and expertise that make Harris Hill Ski Jump the iconic, beloved, long-standing tradition that it is. The twoday tournament is runentirely by a volunteer board and organizing committee, as well as by hundreds of community volunteers on ski jump weekend; and
WHEREAS, t he legacy of ski jumping in Brattleboro is preserved for past, current and future generations thanks to the commitment of the Brattleboro community and beyond; and
WHEREAS, t he legacy of ski jumping in Brattleboro is preserved for past, current and future generations thanks to the commitment of the Brattleboro community and beyond; and
WHEREAS, in 2022 Harris Hill Ski Jump celebrates 100 years of ski jumping in Brattleboro, Vermont.
WHEREAS, in 2022 Harris Hill Ski Jump celebrates 100 years of ski jumping in Brattleboro, Vermont.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Philip B. Scott, Governor, hereby proclaim February 19-20, 2022as HARRIS HILL SKI JUMP WEEKEND
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Philip B. Scott, Governor, hereby proclaim February 19-20, 2022as HARRIS HILL SKI JUMP WEEKEND in Vermont.
This all-volunteer group works year-round to put on this twoday winter sporting event. The committee is comprised of people who have a passion for ensuring that this extraordinary tradition continues. The group includes former jumpers, coaches, specialists in hill maintenance and grooming, people skilled in professional sports announcing, marketing, communications, and operations management.
Kate McGinn, Co-Director
Liz Richards, Co-Director
Gail Bourque
Jennifer Donovan
Tom Durkin
Kathryn Einig
Todd Einig
Jason Evans
Melissa Galanes
Sandy Harris
Given under my hand and the Great Seal of the State of
L. Wilson Secretary of Civil and Military Affairs
Given under my hand and the Great Seal of the State of Vermont on this 3rdday of February, A.D. 2022
Philip B. Scott Governor
Chris Lamb & Sandy Harris Committee member Sandy Harris with 2010 Hill Record Breaker, 2-Time Winner Chris Lamb
Spencer Knickerbocker Committee Member Nordic combined Director, and Competitor
Patricia Howell
Spencer Knickerbocker
Paul Nasuta
Amber Pillsbury
Dana Sprague
Sally Seymour
Karen Zelenakas
Special Projects
Mel Martin
Allan Seymour
Pat Howell Board President
PHOTO BY: DANA SPRAGUE
PHOTO BY: DANA SPRAGUE
PHOTO BY: ALLAN SEYMOUR
PHOTO BY: DOUG LEARNED
Brittney
Harris Hill Ski Jump Competitors: 2022
United States
Dylan Amy
Skylar Amy
Haley Brabec
Ian Carmack
Cooper Dodds
Hunter Gibson
Angelo Goodwin
Sawyer Graves
Estella Hassock
Austin Johnson
Rudger Klug
Spencer Knickerbocker
Jack Kroll
Nathan Krotz
Chris Lamb
Eli Larkin
2022 Schedule & Information
Competition Schedule
Friday, February 18, 2022:
6-8 p.m 100th anniversary joint celebration of Harris Hill Ski Jump and Brattleboro Outing Club
7:00 p.m Target Jump Competition
8:00 p.m Fireworks
Saturday, February 19, 2022: Pepsi Challenge and US Cup Competition
10:00 a.m Gates open / Jump training
11:30 a.m Opening ceremonies
12:15 p.m Trial round
1:00 p.m Round 1
1:45 p.m Round 2
2:30 p.m Target Jump
Award ceremonies immediately following event at the base of Harris Hill
Sunday, February 20, 2022: Fred Harris Memorial Tournament
10:00 a.m Gates open / Jump training
11:45 a.m Opening ceremonies
12:30 p.m Trial round
1:15 p.m Round 1
2;00 p.m Round 2
2:45 p.m Target Jump
Award ceremonies immediately following event at the base of Harris Hill
★ recycling & dismantling of old barns & re-assembly
★ tasteful remodeling of and additions to Period Homes
★ new foundations constructed under existing buildings
★ barn frames, timbers, barn board & antique Wood for sale
PHOTO BY: DANA SPRAGUE
Introduction of competitors
PHOTO BY: DANA SPRAGUE
Brattleboro resident Kristina Meima sings the National Anthem at opening ceremonies each year
THE FIRST 100 YEARS
Harris Hill, celebrating its centennial, boasts a high-flying history
(This essay by Brattleboro writer Kevin O’Connor is adapted from the book, “Harris Hill Ski Jump: The First 100 Years,” available at local stores and on harrishillskijump.com.)
Frederick Henry Harris was a young contemporary of the Wright brothers — inventors of the airplane in the dizzyingly heady days at the dawn of the 1900s — when the Brattleboro college student first strapped wooden slats to his feet and catapulted off a snow-covered ramp.
“Broke my skis all to pieces,” Harris penned in his diary.
But two more timbers brought two more tries.
“Fell twice,” he wrote.
But again, persistence.
“Tried jump several times, and at last made it,” Harris proclaimed. “Hurrah! twice Oh! ye! Gods!”
If only Harris could foresee what it all would snowball into.
When the Vermonter built what’s now the Harris Hill Ski Jump in his hometown in 1922, he needed only a few planks for a launchpad and two more to lash to his boots to leap off a peak 30 stories high at speeds of up to 60 miles per hour.
But to attract a current-day crowd of world-class athletes and several thousand spectators, a nonprofit volunteer committee had to raise nearly $600,000 upon the start of the new millennium to rebuild the venue — now the only Olympic-size ski jump in New England and one of a mere six of its height in the nation.
That’s just the latest wrinkle in a century-long history of rising
above seemingly insurmountable odds.
Neither “skiing” nor “ski jumping” were household words in the United States when Harris — a sportsman turned stockbroker who lived from 1887 to 1961 — “early saw the light and, gathering disciples to himself, began to preach a gospel,” the late historian Frederick Van de Water once wrote.
A pioneering “extreme skier,” Harris is credited with making the earliest slalom descents of Mount Washington in New Hampshire and Whiteface in New York. Harris founded the Dartmouth Outing Club — the first such organization of its kind in the country — in 1909, then created the Brattleboro Outing Club in 1922, the same year he built the ski jump with $2,200 of his own money.
Harris had eyed an ever-
green-laden hill on Cedar Street in December of 1921. In a month, workers cut trees, blasted rocks, smoothed the slope and constructed 350 steps up to a wood trestle for an inaugural jump that drew a crowd of 2,500 people Feb. 4, 1922.
Since its opening, Harris Hill has hosted nine national championships, starting in 1924 with
the first finals held in the East and continuing up — “aside from a few hardscrabble years when winter was barren and when World War II raged,” the tribute sign says — to the U.S. qualifiers for the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, France.
At its zenith in 1951, the jump set athlete and attendance
records with 168 sportsmen and 10,000 spectators — fittingly, on the day the facility was officially named “Harris Hill.”
Back before liability insurance and high school hockey, local teenagers considered the sport as common as football, basketball or baseball. Dana Sprague knows the jump both as a past athlete up
SANDY HARRIS COLLECTION
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on the launch and as its present historian and photographer down on the landing.
Sprague can tell you the hill’s Winged Ski Trophy has been retired by six jumpers who each won at least three times — Torger Tokle of Norway in 1942, his brother Arthur Tokle in 1951, Art Devlin of Lake Placid, N.Y., in 1957, Hugh Barber of Brattleboro in 1974, Vladimir Glyvka of Ukraine in 2000 and Blaz Pavlic of Slovenia in 2020.
(Another one of Sprague’s don’t-try-this-at-home tidbits: “In 1927,” his timeline reports, “Reginald and Carol Kendall of Norwich take a toboggan off Harris Hill and through a flaming hoop.”)
But natural tree-lined hills like the one Harris cleared by hand eventually gave way to metal towers with slick plastic ramps that don’t need help from Mother Nature. The local jump’s survival is due less to its storied past than to the ongoing support of its present caretakers.
Volunteers added a snowmaking system in 1985 (thanks to the Mount Snow ski area in West Dover) and a new $20,000 judging stand in 2003 (courtesy of the Brattleboro Rotary Club).
In 2005, as the late Harris was inducted into the Vermont Ski and Snowboard Museum’s Hall of Fame, a 16-year-old Slovenian
borrowed another jumper’s skis (an airline had lost and then broken his) to continue the founder’s tradition and fly off with that year’s annual tournament.
Soon after, the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association, concerned less with the hill’s history than its seemingly antique wooden takeoff, ruled the jump unsafe and refused to sanction any more competitions.
The venue sat unused for three winters as volunteers sought designs and dollars not only to replace the tower but also to add a steel launch ramp, peakto-parking lot staircase, required safety features and water and electrical fixtures for snowmaking.
Volunteers feared that funding 50 tons of steel and 160,000 pounds of cement was too big a leap, even with generous community giving. Miraculously, they received an unsolicited $130,000 from the New York-based Manton Foundation.
“How many times have rookies like us, who are doing this completely pro bono with little fundraising background, wished for one angel donor who would just rescue them?” volunteer Patricia Howell said upon receiving the gift in 2008.
Supporters would reap a total of nearly $600,000 to reopen the hill in 2009. Spencer Knickerbock-
er was a 16-year-old Brattleboro Union High School sophomore when he made history of sorts by being the first athlete to test out the 90-meter jump before its grand reopening.
“I think it was important to have a local do it,” Knickerbocker said after his successful flight, “because the whole community came together for the fundraising support.”
(For a moment, Knickerbocker’s inaugural leap was recordsetting, too: Because the renovated steel takeoff ramp is higher than its wooden predecessor, officials retired their old record book and opened a new one.)
Harris Hill, being a real slope rather than a ramp atop scaffolding, is one of the few venues in the country that allows spectators to climb it to eye athletes up close.
“We think it’s a great thing for people to get an appreciation of the speed and skill that’s required,” says Rex Bell, a former coach of the U.S. Olympic ski
LEWIS R. BROWN PHOTO, COURTESY BRATTLEBORO HISTORICAL SOCIETY
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jumping team who helps lead hill competitions.
Visitors also can see how snowmaking guns funnel and freeze gallon upon gallon of water before grooming machines smooth the result.
“If we get a foot of natural snow and compact that, it’s 2 inches,” says Jason Evans, a Dummerston contractor in charge of hill preparation. “And natural snow melts a lot quicker than man-made snow. No matter how much snow falls, we still make it.”
Because the jump is managed and maintained by volunteers, it opens only one weekend a year — traditionally for a two-day February competition capped by the annual Fred Harris Memorial Ski Jumping Tournament. Harris’ daughter, Sandy, presents the contest’s Winged Ski Trophy, just as her father and mother, Helen, did.
“I want to do this because of how much this community has honored my father,” she says. “It means a lot to me to think Brattleboro has carried on his vision, his passion, his legacy.”
And a history that continues to spark interest. In 2012, the hill celebrated its 90th anniversary with a new coaching tower and
RECORD BREAKERS
the first International Ski Federation cup competition ever held in the United States.
“When most ski jumpers climb to the summit of Harris Hill, they can see all the way to New Hampshire,” Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist Stan Grossfeld wrote in the Boston Globe that year. “But Karin Friberg, 22, who routinely trains with the U.S. women’s ski jumping team, can see Sochi, Russia.”
That’s because Brattleboro welcomed female athletes long before they competed in the Olympics — which began with male ski jumpers at the first Winter Games in 1924 but didn’t allow women until 2014.
As for the future? The hill is reaching out to new generations on its website, harrishillskijump. com. But it’s still grounded just above a cornfield as one of the few natural jumps on the continent.
“Everyone who has contributed to preserve the tradition of ski jumping in Brattleboro can be proud,” volunteer Liz Richards said upon the hill’s most recent restoration. “Proud that we did not let this amazing piece of local history become history.”
Slovenian Blaz Pavlic, winner of the 2017 Fred Harris Memorial Tournament and new hill record holder.
Sculpture Celebrates 100 Years
To help celebrate a century of support from the Brattleboro community, the Harris Hill Ski Jump Committee commissioned a sculpture that will reside on Main Street each December, January and February.
The all-metal sculpture was designed by Mel Martin of Newfane, who also managed its fabrication and installation. The sculpture offers up a more vibrant view at night thanks to 500 solar-powered LED lights.
Eleven months start to finish, the sculpture was installed in early January. The ski jumper was cut from solid aluminum plate by GS Precision of Brattleboro who generously donated time and material. The jumper is held aloft by a steel arch 17 feet high and 9-1/2 feet wide. The entire piece is covered by a metallic blue coating applied by Khameleon Koatings. All told, a dozen individuals and businesses from Chicago to Brattleboro were involved in the process, most of whom donated their services.
Thanks to the recent installation of lights on the ski jump and in the outrun, Harris Hill will be hosting its first ever, Friday night exhibition jumping. Jumpers will compete in a festive, fun Target Jump. The jumper who lands closest to the target painted on the Hill, is the winner.
Dummerston resident, Allan Seymour, designed and managed the lighting project. He built lights for the in-run and coaches’ stand, and Consolidated Communications donated two utility poles for lights on the hill and outrun. A San Diego firm conducted an engineering study and specified the LED lights. Allan worked closely with Director of Competition Todd Einig to ensure that the lighting would meet the jumpers’ needs.
Lighting the hill was inspired by the Organizing Committee’s idea to hold an anniversary celebration on Friday night, Feb. 18th of ski jump weekend. In addition to night jumping, the evening will include fireworks and a giant birthday cake. The evening is celebrated in conjunction with the Brattleboro Outing Club (BOC) which was also founded by Fred Harris, and is celebrating its own 100 year anniversary. The evening is free—a thank you to the community and the volunteers that make the ski jump possible. Festivities begin at 6 p.m. at Harris Hill.
Harris Hill Ski Jump – The First 100 Years chronicles the colorful history of the annual, winter competition that has attracted athletes from 17 countries around the globe and spectators for 100 years.
Starting with its namesake, Fred Harris, a Brattleboro native, the history unfolds through the decades – colossal challenges to triumphant moments in what’s become an iconic, annual event thanks to the support of local volunteers and sponsors who made it all happen. A tradition that continues to this day.
The 120-page soft cover book is narrated in a storytelling style by Brattleboro writer Kevin O’Connor. The opening sections are full of rare, black and white images from private collections and archives. There are stories about the Winged Ski Trophy and the evolution of jumping styles.
The book recently won the Skade Award from the International Skiing History Association. Copies can be purchased at local and regional bookstores, the Vermont Ski and Snowboard Museum in Stowe, Vermont, the New England Ski Museum in Franconia, NH and on-line at HarrisHillSkiJump.org
PHOTO BY: ALLAN SEYMOUR
Harris Hill Book Committee, L/R: Kevin O’Connor, Pat Howell, Lynn Barrett, Mel Martin, Dana Sprague, Sally Seymour
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PHOTO BY: MEL MARTIN
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LIGHTING THE HILL
UP & SOAR
“Own”
a Step STEP
In 2007, the Harris Hill Ski Jump launched the “Step Up & Soar” capital campaign to help raise money to rebuild the tower and in-run. The idea? For $1,000, donors could “own” one of the 209 numbered steps that climb along the side of the hill to the top, including 22 steps in the starting gate, all visibly numbered. Donors could choose their number and name or one of a family member, friend, pet, loved one, business and have it listed on the kiosk at the base of the hill.
This popular campaign continues today to support the year-round hill maintenance and improvements. To date, 133 steps have been sold and it is hoped that a sell-out of the remaining 76 steps can happen during this anniversary year.
To purchase a step, pick a number, indicate the name or names to appear next to the number, and send a check (payable to Harris Hill Ski Jump, Inc.) for $1,000.
Harris Hill Ski Jump PO Box 8284
Brattleboro, Vermont 05304
For more information go to harrishillskijump.com.
ABOVE PHOTO BY:DOUG LEARNED | BELOW PHOTO: DANA SPRAGUE ARCHIVE
PHOTO BY: KELLY FLETCHER
A History of its Own
When Fred Harris commissioned the famed jeweler Cartier to create a Winged Ski Trophy for anyone who won the ski jump three times, he didn’t know it would take 20 years before he’d have to call for another.
His original design delicately paired two skis and two ski poles to support the trophy above its base.
Norwegian Torger Tokle became the first competitor to retire the original trophy. Tokle’s brother Arthur would go on to retire its replacement in 1951.
Among changes to the second
design was the elimination of the skis and poles. U.S. Olympian Art Devlin would take this version home at Brattleboro’s first Winter Carnival in 1957. Local jumper Hugh Barber retired its replacement in 1974.
The third design took on a dramatically different look. It took 26 years before Ukrainian Vladimir Glyvka retired it in 2000. The most recent trophy, designed by Harris’ daughter Sandy, was made from butternut wood and Vermont marble, and went home with Slovenian Blaz Pavlic in 2020.
Harris Hill Ski Jump Winners
Compiled by Dana Sprague
1922 John Carleton, Dartmouth, USA
1922 Bing Anderson, Berlin, NH, USA
1923 Alf Jansen, Chicago, IL, USA
1924 Lars Haugen, Canton, SD, USA
1925 Norman Berger, Montreal
1926 Ole Jansen, Brooklyn, NY, USA
1927 Everett Davidson, Berlin, NH, USA
1928 Harlvor Bjorngaard, Redwing, MN, USA
1929 Strand Mikkelsen, Greenfield, MA, USA
1930 No Jump - No Snow
1931 Harold Sorensen, Brooklyn, NY, USA
1932 No Jump – No Snow
1933 Harold Sorensen, Brooklyn, NY, USA
1934 Rolf Munson, Lake Placid, NY, USA
1935 Sigurd Jorgensen, Norway
1936 Aurele LeGere, Rumford, ME, USA
1937 No Jump - No Snow
1938 Birger Rudd, Norway
1939 Merrill Barber, Brattleboro, VT, USA
1940 Torger Tokle, Norway
1941 Torger Tokle, Norway
1942 Torger Tokle, Norway
1943 No Jump – War
1944 No Jump - War
1945 No Jump - War
1946 Art Devlin, Lake Placid, NY, USA
1947 Merrill Barber, Brattleboro, VT, USA
1948 Arthur Tokle, Norway
1949 Arthur Tokle, Norway
1950 Art Devlin, Lake Placid, NY, USA
1951 Arthur Tokle, Norway
1952 Sigurd Sorensen, Norway
1953 Jon Riisnaes, Norway
1954 Art Devlin, Lake Placid, NY, USA
1955 Art Devlin, Lake Placid, NY, USA
1956 Roy Sherwood, Salisbury, CT, USA
1957 Art Devlin, Lake Placid, NY, USA
1958 Art Devlin, Lake Placid, NY, USA
1959 Bernie Dion, Lebanon, NH, USA
1960 Roy Sherwood, Salisbury, CT, USA
1961 Ansten Samuelstuen, Steamboat Spring, CO, USA
