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Show T THE PARK RECORD www.parkrecord.com SATSUNMONTUES, FEBRUARY 7-1 0, 2004 Biuduniess A' BUSINESS EDITOR: Monika Guendner 649-90 1 4 ext I businessparkrecordc Briefs PCMR's history started with Jack Galliyal I :rr ".A U 1 ' Barbara Kelley Kelley receives assoc. broker designation Barbara Kelley of World Class i: Realty recently obtained her associ-x associ-x ate brokers designation, r Kelley has been a real estate pro-; pro-; fessional in the Salt Lake and Park City markets for more than 20 years. She understands the importance of long term customer service, resulting i in more than 60 percent of her annual ; sales from satisfied, repeat clients. : Kelley is a 10-year resident of Park f City. Barbara Peters Peters receives assoc. brokers designation Barbara Peters of World Class Realty recently obtained her associate associ-ate brokers designation. For the last 10 years Peters, her husband' Richard and their son, Mathew, have lived in Kamas. She specializes in properties in Eastern Summit County. PCMR merchants to meet The next meeting of the Resort ; Center, Merchant Association will be i Wednesday Feb. 11 at 9 a.m. The . meeting will be held at the third floor i Calgary Room at The Lodges. r , The agenda includes updates from k the Park City .ChamberBureau and j Park City Mountain Resort as well as - elections. For more information, contact Patti ' Saccio at , 649-0396 or j moosesqwest.net. His answer to Kennedy's question in 1962 got the first RC ski resort started By MONIKA GUENDNER Of the Record staff What would you say if the President of the United States turned to you and asked if, there was anything he could do for you? John William "Jack" Gallivan knew the answer when President John F. Kennedy asked him: he could use $1.2 million to revitalize his home town. Forty-two years later, Jack Gallivan can say that his home town - Park City -is one of the richest per capita communities communi-ties in the mountain states. But in 1962, Park City was in dire straights - the mines were losing money and mine officials had completed a study that showed Park City had the prime ingredients for a ski resort. But they needed money to cut trails through the trees and to build a gondola that would take people up the mountain. United Park City Mines had sent an application to the Commerce Department for an Area Redevelopment Administration (ARA) loan in early 1962, but there hadn't been any answer for months. But after Gallivan answered Kennedy's question, UPCM had the full amount in about two weeks. "That's all there was to it," said Gallivan. Treasure Mountains Resort officially opened in December 1963 - seven months after construction started, but the Tack of snow meant real skiing didn't begin until a month later. Born at Holy Cross Hospital in Salt Lake City in 1915. Galliyan lived in Park City until he was five years old, when his mother died. After her death, Gallivan went to live with her half-sister, Jennie Judge Kearns, the widower of Senator 'Iliomas Kearns. owner of the Silver King Mine and The Salt Lake Tribune. For most of his life, Gallivan spent his summers in Park City, at the Ivers cabin (property of his future in-laws,) and the Baby Shoe Ranch. That connection, in addition to his father having been a miner in Park City, made it important to help the town when he could( T rrt 1 IV i .1 " el 1 i jiff '"rr 'r I '-V fV- V; - . V"-'';''" o . . .- GRAYSON WEST IPARK RECORD Jack Gallivan has been a consistent advocate for skiing in Park City and helped bring the Winter Olympics to Utah. est to my heart." said Gallivan. Gallivan was the publisher of The Salt of Notre Dame, and took his first job in 1937 at the Tribune. He first met John F. Kennedy at the Tribune IThfi 700? Mvmnir.sl was inst the offices. It was the late 1940s, ' r 1 Kennedy was in his first term icing on the cake. We already had as a congressman, and the tho rolto " Massachusetts representative ine CdKe. came to the newspaper to pay a visit to his father's old friend, then-publisher John Fitzpatrick. Fitzpatrick was out, but Gallivan was there to show Kennedy around the office, around Salt Lake City and to take him home for din- Jack Gallivan ner. Lake Tribune from 1960 to 1983. He began his career as a newspaper man in The politician and the newspaper When the young Kennedy took office as president, he began visiting with publishers pub-lishers of daily newspapers, going state by state. Since Utah begins with the 23rd letter of the alphabet, Gallivan didn't get his invitation for a while. By August 1962, however. Park City was poised for the kind of financial help only a president could offer. After the mine got the money to build the gondola, the trails and the beginnings begin-nings of a golf course, the snow didn't come for a few years, said Gallivan. "Park City was getting badly beaten in the winter sports business in the first two seasons." "Park City is always nearest and dear- prep school, Continued at the University man became friends and stayed in touch. : r J J : , ' Please see 40 years, A-11 Afern Greco moves up to Powdr Corp.'s COO position KUw nrranaomonf m rf c rtrmor nrcxiAc oarvxrxl mrmraoor Grec0 wil1 rePort directly to John Cireco was responsible for reposition- INCW drrdllKalieill UUU lUimer MtUWIUttnlCldl mdlldlier Cummine. chair, nresident and CEO of ine PCMR toward the voulh market bv of PCMR in charge of operations for Powdr s six resorts By MONIKA GUENDNER Of the Record staff Vern A. Greco, who saw the coming of the 2002 Winter Olympic Games and the departure of the America's Opening World Cup, has stepped aside as general manager and president of Park City Mountain Resort to take a promotion. Greco will now oversee all of Powdr Corporation's resorts as senior vice-presidentchief operating officer. In addition to PCMR, Powdr Corp owns Alpine Meadows, Boreal Ridge and Soda Springs in California, Mt. Bachelor in Oregon and, most recently, Lee Canyon outside Las Vegas, Nev. Powdr Corp also operates Gorgoza Tubing Park outside of Park City. ' All the presidents and general managers man-agers of the resorts will now report to Greco, said Krista Rowles, spokesperson for PCMR. "Vern will have operation responsibilities responsibil-ities at the corporate level at each resort," said Rowles. The COO position is new for the company, com-pany, and the decision to promote Greco was made by Powdr Corp.'s board of directors in a special meeting on Monday. The announcement was made Tuesday night. Greco has been in transition since then, said Rowles. Cumming, chair, president and CEO of Powdr Corp. Cumming cited three reasons for the change in the press release "announcing his new assignment. The first is to capitalize capital-ize on the success of the recent past, which was most apparent at PCMR, said Cumming. The second reason is to "evolve and refine" practices that differentiate differ-entiate Powdr Corp resorts from others. Third, Cumming noted that the company needs to develop leadership and management manage-ment structured for growth. Greco has been the president and general gen-eral manager of PCMR since 1998. Before that, Greco was president of CEO of Durango Mountain Resort, formerly known as Purgatory Resort. He spent 18 years at Steamboat Springs in Colorado, where he was president and CEO. ing PCMR toward the youth market by following Powdr Corps Mt. Bachelor and Boreal Ridge resorts' models and successfully fitting it to PCMR's situation, situa-tion, said Rowles. Greco brought on pro snowboarder and youth market expert Jim Mangan and his crew to help this process. As the COO, he will be responsible for creating a similar focus for the company's com-pany's remaining three resorts. Cireco will remain in the Park City area, only moving his office from the Team Building at the resort to the Powdr Corp. building on Main Street. A new presidentgeneral manager for PCMR will be announced shortly, said Rowles. No other new positions is planned for the resort, but restructuring will probably occur, she added. 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