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Craig, Jim

  • US-OR-CJ001
  • Person
  • 1921 - October 25, 2017

Jim Craig was a mountaineer and skier from Oregon who belonged to the Mazamas mountaineering organization. He was born in 1921 and joined the Mazamas in 1954. He achieved many leadership awards in mountaineering including the Guardian Peak in 1955, the Oregon Cascades in 1957, and the 16 Major Northwest Peaks in 1959. He was a lecturer and instructor for the Mazama Basic Climbing School between 1959 and 1972. He climbed more than 150 peaks with his friends and children in over 140 areas of the US, Canada, and Europe. He passed away at the age of 96 on October 25, 2017.

Belge, Kathy

  • US-OR-BK001
  • Person
  • fl. 1980s-

Kathy Belge has been a freelance writer and journalist since 2003. With a magazine journalism degree from Syracuse University, she writes about travel, culture, politics, trends and the LGBTQ community. She was born and raised on the East Coast, but has since moved to Portland, OR. For 11 years, she penned one-half of the popular advice column Lipstick & Dipstick in Curve magazine. She is co-author of Lipstick & Dipstick's Essential Guide to Lesbian Relationships and Queer: The Ultimate LGBTQ Guide for Teens. In addition to writing books and magazine articles, Kathy has a number of business clients for whom she writes website content, guest blogs, staff biographies, informational articles, and all means of SEO friendly articles. She was Social Media Team Lead for Airbnb from 2013-2020. When she's not writing, she can be found hiking with her Alaskan malamute (Olive), biking, or traveling in her camper van, Squeaky.

Holmes, Katie Noelle

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  • Person
  • December 18, 1978 -

Katie Noelle Holmes is an American actress. She was born on December 18, 1978 in Toledo, Ohio. She is the youngest of five children born to Kathleen, a homemaker and philanthropist, and Martin Joseph Holmes Sr., an attorney who played basketball at Marquette University under coach Al McGuire. She has three sisters and one brother. Holmes was baptized a Roman Catholic and attended Christ the King Church in Toledo. At age 14, she began classes at a modeling school in Toledo which led her to the International Modeling and Talent Association (IMTA) Competition held in New York City in 1996. She graduated from the all-female Notre Dame Academy in Toledo. At St. John's Jesuit and St. Francis de Sales, nearby all-male high schools, Holmes appeared in school musicals, playing a waitress in Hello, Dolly! and Lola in Damn Yankees. She was accepted to Columbia University. Eventually, Holmes was signed to an agent after performing a monologue from To Kill a Mockingbird. An audition tape was sent to the casting director for the 1997 film The Ice Storm, directed by Ang Lee, and Holmes made her big-screen debut in the role of Libbets Casey in the film, opposite Kevin Kline and Sigourney Weaver. In January 1997, Holmes went to Los Angeles for pilot season, when producers cast and shoot new programs in the hopes of securing a spot on a network schedule. She was offered the lead in Buffy the Vampire Slayer but turned it down in order to finish high school. Columbia TriStar Television, producer of a new show named Dawson's Creek, asked her to come to Los Angeles to audition, but there was a conflict with play schedule in her high school. The producers permitted her to audition on videotape. Holmes read for the part of Joey Potter, the tomboy best friend of the title character Dawson, on a videotape shot in her basement, her mother reading Dawson's lines. Holmes won the part. While Dawson's Creek was met with mixed reviews, Holmes attained national attention and was soon on the covers of magazines such as Seventeen, TV Guide, and Rolling Stone. Holmes dated her Dawson's Creek co-star Joshua Jackson early in the show's run. During her time as a series regular on Dawson's Creek, Holmes's first leading role in a film came in 1998's Disturbing Behavior. Despite the fact that it received mixed reviews and was not a huge financial success, the actress won an MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Performance for the role and also received a Saturn Award nomination for the part. In 1999, she played a disaffected supermarket clerk in Doug Liman's ensemble piece Go. The film received excellent reviews and made a profit, and Holmes herself was liked by critics. The same year, in Kevin Williamson's Teaching Mrs. Tingle, which he wrote and directed, Holmes played a straight-A student whose vindictive teacher (Helen Mirren) threatens to keep her from a desperately needed scholarship. Also in 1999, she had an uncredited cameo with Dawson's Creek co-star Joshua Jackson in Muppets from Space, which was filmed in Wilmington, where Dawson's Creek also filmed. Holmes was annually named by both the British and American editions of FHM magazine as one of the sexiest women in the world from 1999 onward.

The year 2000 saw Holmes feature in two film roles. The first was in Wonder Boys, directed by Curtis Hanson from the novel by Michael Chabon. Holmes had a small role (six and one-half minutes of screen time) as Hannah Green. Many leading critics at the time took favorable notice to Holmes in the film. Her second feature film during 2000 was The Gift, a Southern Gothic story directed by Sam Raimi. Holmes did her first nude scene for the film, in a scene where her character was about to be murdered. Holmes hosted Saturday Night Live on February 24, 2001, participating in a send-up of Dawson's Creek where she falls madly in love with Chris Kattan's Mr. Peepers character and singing "Big Spender" from Sweet Charity. Katie met actor Chris Klein in 2000. They were engaged in late 2003 but in early 2005 ended their relationship. In the 2002 film Abandon, written by Oscar winner Stephen Gaghan, Holmes plays a delusional, homicidal college student named "Katie". During the final season of Dawson's Creek, Holmes played the mistress of the public relations flack played by Colin Farrell in Phone Booth, which was both critically and financially successful. She also appeared as Robert Downey, Jr.'s nurse in The Singing Detective (2003). Dawson's Creek ended its run in 2003, and Holmes was the only actor to appear in all 128 episodes. Holmes's first starring role post-Dawson's Creek was in 2003's Pieces of April, a gritty comedy about a dysfunctional family on Thanksgiving. Many critics and audiences agreed that Holmes had given her best performance in the film as April. Holmes also received a Satellite Award for Best Actress for the role. On the November 9, 2003 episode, she was Punk'd by Ashton Kutcher, and the next year, she was the subject of an episode of the MTV program Diary. She was named one of People's "50 Most Beautiful People" in 2003; its sibling Teen People declared her one of the "25 Hottest Stars Under 25" that year as well. Holmes was a contender for the role of Christine Daaé in 2004's The Phantom of the Opera, but lost the role to Emmy Rossum. That year, she starred as the US President's daughter in First Daughter, which was originally slated to be released in January 2004 on the same day as Chasing Liberty, another film about a president's daughter, but was ultimately released in September 2004, to negative reviews and low ticket sales. In the 2005 film Batman Begins she played Rachel Dawes, an attorney in the Gotham City district attorney's office and the childhood sweetheart of the title character. She was nominated for a Golden Raspberry for "worst supporting actress" for the film. She also appeared in the film version of Christopher Buckley's satirical novel Thank You for Smoking about a tobacco lobbyist played by Aaron Eckhart, whom Holmes's character, a Washington reporter, seduces. The film ended up a success, even earning a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy.

Holmes began dating actor Tom Cruise in April 2005. Holmes, who was raised a Catholic, began studying Scientology shortly after the couple began dating. They got engaged in June 2005, only seven weeks after meeting. Also in 2005, Holmes had agreed to play in Shame on You, a biopic about the country singer Spade Cooley written and directed by Dennis Quaid, as the wife whom Cooley (played by Quaid) stomps to death. But the picture, set to shoot in New Orleans, Louisiana, was delayed by Hurricane Katrina, and Holmes dropped out due to her pregnancy. On November 18, 2006, Holmes and Cruise were married in a Scientologist ceremony at the 15th-century Odescalchi Castle in Bracciano, Italy. After her daughter, Suri Cruise, was born in April 2006, Holmes took a hiatus from her acting career until 2008. After speculation about Holmes reprising her role in The Dark Knight, the sequel to Batman Begins, it was finally confirmed that she would not appear. Her role was later recast with Maggie Gyllenhaal in her place. Instead, Holmes decided to star in the comedy Mad Money, opposite Diane Keaton and Queen Latifah in 2008. The film flopped. Returning to television in 2008, Holmes appeared in an episode of Eli Stone as Grace, a lawyer, and her singing and dancing was praised by Tim Stack of Entertainment Weekly. Holmes made her Broadway debut in the revival of Arthur Miller's All My Sons in October 2008. She opened to mixed reviews. In November 2008, it was confirmed that she would be the new face of the spring 2009 campaign for the high-end fashion line Miu Miu. In 2008, Holmes started a high fashion clothing line called Holmes & Yang with longtime stylist Jeanne Yang. In July 2009, Holmes, Nigel Lythgoe, Adam Shankman, and Carrie Ann Inaba announced the launch of a dance scholarship fund called the Dizzy Feet Foundation. In 2009, Holmes appeared in the National Memorial Day Concert on the Mall in Washington, D.C. in a dialogue with Dianne Wiest celebrating the life of an American veteran seriously wounded in Iraq, José Pequeño. In 2009, Holmes began filming a remake of the 1970s ABC telemovie Don't Be Afraid of the Dark; the film was released in August 2011. Also in 2011, Holmes played the role of Jackie Kennedy in the TV miniseries The Kennedys. In October 2011, she also portrayed "Slutty Pumpkin" (Naomi), in the TV show How I Met Your Mother, episode "The Slutty Pumpkin Returns". In 2012, Holmes appeared in Theresa Rebeck's new comedy Dead Accounts on Broadway. Holmes and Chace Crawford were reportedly cast as the leads in the romantic comedy Responsible Adults, to begin shooting in Los Angeles in "Fall 2011". In June 2011, Holmes received the Women in Film Max Mara Face of the Future Award. Beginning January 2011, she became the new face of Ann Taylor Spring 11 collection. Holmes & Yang presented their fashion line at New York Fashion Week for the first time in September 2012. Holmes acted as the face for the Bobbi Brown Cosmetics brand in spring 2013 and Holmes had her own capsule collection of color cosmetics in fall of that year. In the late 2000s, Holmes was known to holiday in Whistler.

On June 29, 2012, Holmes filed for divorce from Cruise in New York after five and a half years of marriage. Following the announcement, those close to Holmes stated that she believed she had reason to fear that Cruise would abduct Suri, and was also apprehensive of intimidation by the Church of Scientology. In July 2012, attorneys announced that the couple had signed a divorce settlement, and Holmes retained custody of Suri. Following her divorce from Cruise, Holmes returned to the Catholic Church. In 2013, she appeared in an advertising campaign for IRIS Jewelry. In January 2013, Holmes was announced as the brand ambassador and co-owner of Alterna Haircare. In 2015, Holmes joined the third season of Ray Donovan. Holmes directed a short 2015 documentary for ESPN about Olympic gymnast Nadia Comăneci entitled "Eternal Princess" that premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. She directed her first feature film in 2016, All We Had, starring herself, Stefania LaVie Owen, Luke Wilson, Richard Kind, Mark Consuelos, Judy Greer, and Eve Lindley. In 2017, Holmes starred in the heist comedy Logan Lucky, directed by Steven Soderbergh. The film received positive reviews, with many critics praising the cast's performances and Soderbergh's direction, and grossed $48 million worldwide. In 2018, she appeared in the satirical comedy Dear Dictator, opposite Michael Caine. The same year, she made a cameo in the movie Ocean's 8. In 2019, she played in the independent film Coda alongside Patrick Stewart. The movie is acclaimed by critics and received 3 out of 4 stars. In 2020, she starred in the movie Brahms: The Boy II. The film was theatrically released in the United States on February 21, 2020 and grossed $20 million worldwide against a production budget of $10 million. The same year, she was the main character in the movie The Secret: Dare to Dream, which was released in the United States through video on demand, and theatrically in several countries, on July 31, 2020, by Roadside Attractions and Gravitas Ventures, following the COVID-19 pandemic. In its debut weekend, The Secret: Dare to Dream was the top-rented film on FandangoNow, second at Apple TV, seventh on the iTunes Store, and 10th on Spectrum. Holmes dated chef Emilio Vitolo Jr from 2020 to 2021. In 2022, she wrote and directed her second film, a romantic drama named Alone Together, starring herself, Jim Sturgess, Derek Luke, Melissa Leo, Zosia Mamet, and Becky Ann Baker. It premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival on July 14, 2022, and was released in the United States on July 22, 2022 by Vertical Entertainment. She has appeared in advertisements for Garnier Lumia hair color, Coach leather goods, and clothing retailer Gap.

Bonne Bell Cosmetics

  • US-OH-BBC-001
  • Corporate body
  • 1927-

Bonne Bell is a cosmetics company aimed for teens. The company was best known for its line of astringents and cleansers named "10-0-6." In the 1970s, they expanded into a popular range of lip balms called Lip Smackers which became the company's signature product. Bonne Bell was founded in 1927 in Lakewood, Ohio by cosmetics salesman Jesse Bell, who named it after his daughter. Bell made his products on a hot plate in his basement and then sold his skin care products door to door. In the 1950s, the company pursued the outdoor market and developed sunscreens, heavy-duty moisturizers, and lip protectors for skiers, hikers, and joggers. In the 1960s, Bonne Bell sponsored the US Ski Team and many other amateur and professional sports events. In 1972, the company sponsored 10K marathons in 15 cities and many charitable races. By 1985, the business had grown into a $50 million enterprise. In 2007, the company largely relocated to Australia, and reduced American domestic representation. The relocation was largely at the request of the Vice President of Ideation, Hilary Bell, to the then CMO, James Ward, in a bid to globalize the "Smackers" Brand. By 2009, the company had returned to the United States. In January 2015, the company announced that the Bonne Bell and Lip Smackers brands would be acquired by Markwins International, though Bonne Bell will continue to distribute other brands in Europe, Asia, and Australia under the name Bell Family Brands. In accordance, the company also announced the partial closure of its headquarters, effective March 2015

Bennett, Adele

  • US-OH-BAB001
  • Person
  • October 5, 1930 - October 5, 2016

Adele "Betsy" Bennett was a member of the Alta Lake District Ratepayers Association. Born in Cincinnati, OH, Betsy grew up in the center of the city and would spend her summer vacations at the family summer-house on St. Joseph Island, on Lake Huron in Ontario. She graduated from Miss Porters School, Farmington, Connecticut in 1948 and then attended McGill University and Mills College. Betsy married Winslow Bennett in 1951. They raised four children, hiked the Rockies, ranched near Twin Butte, Alberta, and travelled to all seven continents before settling in Vancouver. She volunteered for the Elizabeth Fry Society, the Vancouver Symphony, and the Vancouver Aquarium. She was an Aquarium volunteer for 44 years and served on the board for 20 years. She enjoyed skiing, biking, and hiking in the Whistler area.

Arnold Palmer Enterprises Inc.

  • US-OH-APEI001
  • Corporate body
  • 1960-

Founded in 1960 by professional golfer, Arnold Palmer, Arnold Palmer Enterprises Inc. is a design company that focuses on building and remolding golf courses. It is headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio.

National Ski Areas Association (NSAA)

  • US-NY-NAT-001
  • Corporate body
  • 1962-

The National Ski Areas Association (NSAA) is the American trade association for ski area owners and operators. It represents over 300 alpine resorts that account for more than 90% of the skier/snowboarder visits across the United States. Additionally, it has several hundred supplier members that provide equipment, goods, and services to the mountain resort industry. NSAA was established in 1962 and was originally headquartered in New York City, NY. In 1989, NSAA merged with SIA (Snowsports Industries America) and moved to McLean, VA. The merger was dissolved in 1992, and NSAA was relocated to Lakewood, CO because of its central geographic location. NSAA is located in the same office building as the Professional Ski Instructors of America (PSIA) and the National Ski Patrol. NSAA analyzes and distributes ski industry statistics; produces annual conferences and tradeshows; produces a bimonthly industry publication; and is active in state and federal government affairs. The association also provides educational programs and employee training materials on industry issues including OSHA, ADA, and NEPA regulations and compliance; environmental laws and regulations; state regulatory requirements; aerial tramway safety; and resort operations and guest services.

Mathews, Lynn Twigs

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  • Person
  • 1941-

Lynn Twigs Mathews is retired ski instructor, mountain office administrator, and a long-time Whistler resident. She was born in Staten Island, NY in 1941. Lynn worked in New York City, NY as a journalist for magazines, and also worked for a public relations firm in New York City. She then taught skiing at Gray Rocks, QC, which is where she met and (a year later) married her husband, Dave Mathews, who was involved in the ski resort business in the area. The couple moved to Vancouver and Lynn became a ski instructor at Grouse Mountain for a season and worked for a time as an executive editor of a magazine and publications. Dave planned to leave the ski business to work full-time for an irrigation company installing irrigation for golf courses, where he had previously worked summers. The irrigation business was slow in the winter, and so, for the season of 1966/1967, Dave and Lynn planned to spend their weekends teaching skiing in Whistler, a new ski area north of Vancouver that was just opening for its first season of full-time operation. Their first visit to Whistler was in August 1966, to check out the supposed new ski area development - there wasn't much to be found there yet. For about $125, Lynn and Dave rented one of the log cabins at Jordan's Lodge in Creekside for the season. Lynn chose the cabin "that tilted the least", and the self-described "city girl" prepared for a winter with no electricity, no plumbing, and a wood stove. Lynn recalled that in December, Franz Wilhelmsen, who was acting as a combination of general manager, CEO, and chairman of the board, got very sick with pneumonia, right when Whistler Mountain was heading into its first full season. Two managers were brought on board, Dave Mathews as operations manager and Jack Bright as mountain manager. According to Lynn, Dave was responsible for "anything that moved," and Jack was in charge of ticket sales, administration, image, publicity, and more. Lynn and Dave had their first child, a son, on November 25, 1967 in Squamish. In January 1968, Lynn’s mother-in-law traveled to the Whistler area from urban Montreal to meet her first grandchild. Lynn and Dave's second child, a daughter, was born in December 1969 in Squamish. In the late-1960s and 1970s, Lynn worked in the mountain's office as well. Though some ski passes were sold at the Garibaldi Lifts Ltd. offices in Vancouver, others were sold at Whistler Mountain and Lynn was in charge of making those passes. Without any computer systems, she used a polaroid camera and a hand-cranked laminating machine. Each person got two photos - one for their pass and one for the files - and a lift ticket to go skiing. At the end of the day they, could pick up their pass at the office. When the mountain was short ski instructors, however, Lynn would sometimes be asked to teach. Lynn also filled in to teach weekly school programs and, under special circumstances, was called on to coach at the summer ski camp on Whistler Mountain. With her background in editing publications and journalism, Lynn was also responsible for putting together editions of Garibaldi’s Whistler News to help spread the word of what was going on at Whistler Mountain. In 1967, Garibaldi Lifts Ltd. began publishing Garibaldi’s Whistler News (GWN) in November. Early editions of GWN were put together by Jack Bright and Lynn Mathews, who described the publication as a “good news” newspaper meant to promote Whistler Mountain. Lynn created editions of GWN until 1974. Lynn and Dave then moved to the Kananaskis, AB to help Hugh Smythe open Fortress Mountain there. They ran hotel accommodation, but moved back to Whistler in 1977, as the workload at Fortress was high and there was no school or other children for their children to engage with. Lynn Mathews was hired by the Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) to plan the grand opening of the Whistler Sewer Plant, which occurred on September 17, 1977.

Knapp, Malcolm

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  • Person
  • 1897-1989

F. Malcolm Knapp was a forester and forestry professor who taught at UBC for over forty years. He was born in 1897 in New York State. After completing degrees in forestry at the New York State College of Forestry in Syracuse, NY and the University of Washington in Seattle, WA, he came to the University of British Columbia in Vancouver in 1922 to work as a lecturer. At this time, the Department of Forestry had only been in existence for two years and its staff consisted of himself and H.R. Christie. Knapp taught courses on logging, wood technology, and forest products. In 1946, he was named Director of the University Research Forests which consisted of the Campus Forest (a narrow belt south west of the university) and the Research Forest (12,500 acres north of Haney, BC). In recognition of his contribution to the establishment of the forest, its name was changed in 1988 to the Malcolm Knapp/UBC Research Forest. In addition to his teaching, Knapp also helped to establish the Forestry Club in 1929 and, after the introduction of Spring Camp in 1948, he organized this annual event. Knapp was also the first Registered Professional Forester (RPF) in BC and held the post of Registrar of the Association of BC Professional Foresters for many years. Knapp retired in 1963 after completing forty-one years of service to the university. He passed away in 1989 at the age of 91.

Kitt, AJ

  • US-NY-KAJ001
  • Person
  • September 13, 1968 -

Alva Ross "AJ" Kitt IV is an American former World Cup alpine ski racer and member of the US Ski Team for over a decade. He was born on September 13, 1968 and raised in Rochester, NY. Kitt started skiing at two years of age at nearby Swain Resort, where his parents, Ross and Nancy, were part-time ski instructors. Kitt began ski racing at age 6 and raced in the Genesee Valley Ski Council until age 14. In 1983, he began attending a ski academy in Lake Placid, the Mountain House School. Two years later, as a high school junior, Kitt transferred to Green Mountain Valley School in Waitsfield, VT, where he graduated in 1986. During a post-graduate year training and racing as part of what is considered the first privateer ski team in US history, Kitt and many of his training team members were selected for the US Ski Team's National Training Group, the development team. Kitt specialized in the speed event of downhill, and also raced in Super-G and combined. In only his first full season of FIS World Cup racing, in 1988, Kitt made the US team at age 19 for the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary. He was the first American male alpine skier to compete in four Olympics, later passed by Bode Miller. He won his first World Cup race in Val d'Isere, France, on December 7, 1991. It was the first victory of any kind for an American male in seven years. He spent much of the 1992 season ranked in the top five in the downhill standings, and finished strong at the end of the season to take third overall, the best season for an American downhiller at the time. He finished ninth in the downhill at the 1992 Winter Olympics. In 1993, Kitt won the bronze medal at the World Championships in Morioka, Japan. He joined Doug Lewis as the only American men to win a World Championship medal in downhill. He was challenging for another medal in the combined, but missed a gate in the slalom's second run, hiked back up and finished 28th. During the 1990s, Kitt won four titles at the US Alpine Championships. Early in the 1996 season, he crashed hard in a downhill training run in early December at Val-d'Isère, the site of his only World Cup win four years earlier. He suffered a torn anterior cruciate ligament (ACL), along with other associated damage to his left knee, which ended his season. After surgery and six months of rehabilitation, Kitt returned for the 1997 season. The remainder of his career saw only one top-10 result, several top-20s and plenty of frustration. Kitt battled chronic back injuries in his final two seasons and retired in March 1998. AJ has been the national traveling Ambassador and Pacesetter for the NASTAR racing series since 1999. He is also a race coach for the Meadows Race Team, a youth ski racing program at Mt. Hood, OR. He is married, has three children (who also ski race), and lives in Boulder, CO. In his free time he enjoys flying, golf, water-skiing, speed-boating, and cars.

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