New England Disabled Sports of Lincoln, N.H., was awarded $1000 to support the development of a website for the National Disabled Ski Hall of Fame (NDSHF), which is now housed in its Lincoln location. Originally located in Colorado, the NDSF dates from 1995. The planned webpage will showcase content on the history of disabled skiing, photos and biographies of the NDSHF inductees, and a virtual tour of the physical exhibit in Lincoln.
The Pulaski Middle School Ski and Snowboarding Club of New Britain, Conn., will be the recipient of $700 to assist with an annual club trip to Smuggler's Notch in Vermont. "Culturally, sporting activities involving snow are not typical in our students' experiences," noted advisor Joseph Body. "We at Pulaski support and value our students who are willing to explore the world outside their neighborhoods despite financial obstacles. We expose out students from the 6th grade onward to the idea of college attendance. They begin thinking of themselves as college material. Pulaski's Ski & Snowboarding Club is an extension of that belief - if students know what is out there in the world and available to them, they will strive for it."
The Damon O'Neal Scholarship Committee is in the process of raising $50,000 to endow a scholarship for Kennett High School of Conway, N.H., in memory of the promising ski racer who died in a tragic training accident in 1959. Damon O'Neal was by all accounts an outstanding high school ski racer, and many observers predicted a bright career in ski competition for him. The tragedy that took his life at Sugarloaf ski area in Carrabassett Valley, Maine, at the USEASA Junior Ski Championships left the local community shaken and saddened. The Damon O'Neal Scholarship Committee will receive $800 from the Cal Conniff Grant Program.
