PSIA-AASI

8.3.2010

Allard, Albright Retire from Board

The June 2010 board meeting served as a coda, of sorts, for two board members who have served the association with distinction for many years: Ray Allard and Craig Albright.

After two terms as PSIA-AASI president and chairman of the board, Allard chose not to run for reelection and will be succeeded by former executive vice president Eric Sheckleton. From 1985 to 1999—and again in 2001—Allard was executive director of Eastern Division, becoming that division’s representative to the PSIA-AASI Board of Directors in 1997. During his 13 years on the board, he served on the Executive Committee as communications vice president and operations vice president before becoming president and chairman in 2006.Over the years Allard also led several committees and task forces, including the PSIA Certification Committee (1979–84), the PSIA-AASI Publications and Technology Task Force (1999–2003), and the PSIA-AASI Education Advisory Council (2003).
Allard, who has been skiing since the age of four, began teaching the sport in 1960. Within eight years he’d attained Level III certification, then became a PSIA Eastern Division examiner in 1973. Now claiming to be “semi-retired,” Allard works as an instructor/trainer at Vermont’s Killington Resort.  Although no longer in a presiding position on the board, Allard will continue to serve for two years in the role of past president. 

The June 2010 board meeting marked Craig Albright’s last official meeting as the association’s operations vice president, a position he has held since 2006. Albright has been a member of the board, serving as Western Division’s representative, since 2002. At the national level he has also served on the association’s education and certification  committees, the Presidents’ Council, the Teams Task Force, and the Educational Advisory Committee. His service at the division level has included roles as president, certification vice president, and education vice president. The managing director of California’s Mammoth Mountain Ski Area since 2007, Albright began teaching in 1982 and has attained Level III instructor certification in alpine, snowboard, and telemark. During his long career in snowsports instruction, he has served Western Division as an alpine and snowboard examiner, and from 1991–93 was the division’s chief snowboard examiner.