A Little Ski Award

This year the United States Ski Association (USSA) initiated an award recognizing an individual who has contributed significantly to U.S. skiing interests through long-term in- volvement in the International Ski Fed- eration (FIS) or the Olympics. It was named the Bud and Mary Little Award and appropriately its first recipient is Dr. A.R. "Bud" Little '39.

Bud was a slalom specialist on Dart- mouth ski teams in the late thirties. During the war he served in the U.S. Air Force Rescue Service on para- chute duty, winning the Legion of Merit, Air Medal, and Army Com- mendation Medal. After med school Bud settled in Helena, Mont., where on more than one occasion he has gone on parachute rescue missions.

For more than three decades Bud has also served as a ski administrator on an international level. This has taken him on 86 trips outside North America—to six Winter Olympics, seven World Skiing Championships, to a meeting with the Pope, and lunch with kings, queens, and prime minis- ters. He has played a key role with the Ski Federation for 29 years, the last 22 as a vice president and board member. He was a member of the U. S. Olympic Ski Games Committee for seven dif- ferent Winter Olympics, and man- aged the alpine team at the 1960 Olym- pics and at the 1950 and 1962 World Championships. He served on the FIS alpine technical committee for seven years and was chairman of its medical committee from 1971-88. He was elected to the USSA Ski Flail of Fame in 1965.

Not surprisingly, Bud says, "I will ski until my joints don't let me any- more. That is what is great about the sport. It goes all your life."