People

: Frieda (Miller) Weaver; She was born in Grand Junction, Colorado to Eben McKean "Mac" Miller, a rancher, and Emelia Marie Barth Miller, a German immigrant and homemaker. She attended the Palisade School 1916-18, the Lowell School 1918-22, the Hawthorne School 1922-23, and Grand Junction High School from 1923-27. She also attended the Ross Business College 1927-28, where she took a complete secretarial course in place of her last year of high school. She went back to Grand Junction High School from 1928-29 and took her last year of high school as post-graduate work. She married Claude Henning Suth in 1935. They had two children together, but divorced on March 27, 1941. She married George David Weaver, a farmer and carpenter, in Grand Junction on March 27, 1941. They had five children. She worked in dramatic studios in both Grand Junction and Denver from 1932 to 1934. She worked as the Assistant Postmaster in Elk Springs, Colorado during Octobers from 1958-1963. She wrote poetry for much of her life, a hobby she acquired in high school. She also dabbled in painting. In the 1950's, she became a vegetarian and also taught courses on vegetarianism. *Photograph from the 1928 Grand Junction High School yearbook.

: Friedl Pfeifer; Friedl was born in Austria and skied to and from school in his hometown of St. Anton am Arlberg and joined the staff of Hannes Schneider's famous ski school there at the age of 14. A certified climbing guide at 18 and a member of the Austrian FIS team at 22, he became the first of his countrymen to win the Kandahar, considered in 1936 to represent the world championships. Friedl left Austria in 1938. At that time he became a US citizen, winner of a national ski championship and the Harriman Cup, and director of the ski school at Sun Valley. While training with the 10th Mountain Division at Camp Hale, during WW II, he was introduced to Aspen. He returned in 1945 to operate the ski school and helped to develop both Aspen (Ajax) and Buttermilk Mountains. During this period he organized professional racing and originated the popular dual slalom courses. —Colorado Ski Hall of Fame, Photo: Aspen Historical Society