New Ski Instructors Arrive

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30826, 11 August 1965, Page 19

New Ski Instructors Arrive

HTHREE ski instructors 1 have been brought from Australia to coach members of the Christchurch Ski Club at Temple Basin during the school holidays; Hans Porchell, Billy Dittmar and Rosalyn Meredith.

All three are experienced instructors. Mr Porchell set the courses for the South Island championships last week-end. Mr Porchell, a 36-year-old Swiss, will be the chief instructor. He has been ski-ing for 30 years and was an Olympic competitor in 1948. He skied in every major European race between 1948 and 1952, winning the Parsenn Trail Cup in 1950, the Mengen Alpine race in 1951, and the Kandahar race in 1952. Turning professional in 1953, he coached at the Mengen Ski School in the same year. He has coached the United States University team at Cedars, Lebanon, and has recently been instructing his own schools in Victoria and New South Wales (Perisher Valley). Apart from his prowess as a skier, Mr Porchell also flies his own aircraft. Mr Dittmar, a 24-year-old German from Bayern, has been ski-ing for 19 years. He raced as a junior with some success before turning professional last year and has been coaching with Mr Porchell in Australia. Miss Meredith, a 20-year-old Australian, has been certified as a grade A children’s instructress by the Kiandra Ski Council (New

South Wales), where she coached at Perisher Valley. She has recently attended a course of lectures by Professor Dr. S. Krukhenhausen, the internationallyreputed Austrian authority on ski-ing, in Australia. Mr Porchell was one of the judges at this course.