Charles Proctor
| File:Charles N. Proctor, 1928 Boston Globe photo.jpg | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | January 4, 1906 Columbia, Missouri, United States |
| Died | February 1, 1996 (aged 90) Scotts Valley, California, United States |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Skiing |
Charles Nancrede Proctor (January 4, 1906 – February 1, 1996) was an American skier. He competed at the 1928 Winter Olympics.[1]
Proctor attended Dartmouth College and was the son of a Dartmouth professor, Charles A. Proctor.[2] Charles Proctor senior was a physics professor who advised the Dartmouth Ski Team and pioneered alpine skiing, establishing one of the first slalom races in 1925.[3]
His son Charles Nancrede Proctor was captain of the 1927 Dartmouth ski team[2] and the following year he competed in the 1928 Winter Olympics in Sankt Moritz, Switzerland. He became a proficient slalom skier, and with John Carleton was the first to climb and ski the headwall at Tuckerman’s Ravine in New Hampshire.[4]
Proctor worked with the U.S. National Forest Service designing ski trails, and later coached the Harvard Ski Team. From 1938 he relocated to California as director of ski operations at Yosemite National Park. In 1936 Averell Harriman asked him to design many of the trails and lifts at Sun Valley in Idaho.[3] He was elected to the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame in 1959.[2]
Books
[edit | edit source]- The Art of Skiing (with Rockwell R. Stephens), Harcourt, Brace & Co (1933)
- Skiing: Fundamentals, Equipment and Advanced Technique, Harcourt, Brace & Co (1936)
References
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- 1906 births
- 1996 deaths
- American male cross-country skiers
- American male Nordic combined skiers
- American male ski jumpers
- Olympic cross-country skiers for the United States
- Olympic Nordic combined skiers for the United States
- Olympic ski jumpers for the United States
- Cross-country skiers at the 1928 Winter Olympics
- Nordic combined skiers at the 1928 Winter Olympics
- Ski jumpers at the 1928 Winter Olympics
- Sportspeople from Columbia, Missouri
- 20th-century American sportsmen
- Dartmouth College alumni
- Dartmouth Big Green skiers