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 Sigrid Noack,
Past President
The
Unrecables Family became a major part of Sigrid’s
life about 14 years ago, when she was still very
active with Single Ski Club. At Ski Dazzle John
Wiley was finally successful at convincing her to
attend an Unrecables meeting. Sigrid did come to the
next meeting, and has never left! Since then she
has served as Winter Trips Director, Vice President,
L.A. Council Rep., Public Relations Director,
Fundraising Director, Out-of-State Ski Trip Director
and now for the third time around, as President.
She loves everything about her Unrecables family and
tries to go on as many of the Mammoth Ski Trips as
possible. She enjoys tethering bi-skis and blind
guiding the most. She learned most of the blind
guiding from skiing with Gordon Chan. The two of
them spent a week skiing Big Sky, Montana a few
years ago with LAC. What a fantastic experience
that was for both of them, thanks to the sponsorship
of L.A. Council Ski Clubs and Sunshine Village,
Banff.
Before
becoming active with our Unrecables Ski Club family,
Sigrid had been actively involved with L.A. Council,
ROKKA Race League, the Far West Ski Association, and
the Single Ski Club, holding leadership positions in
all of those organizations. She served as LAC
president for 2 years, and then volunteered to be
the overall Chairperson of the 1999 FWSA Convention
in Manhattan Beach. This was a huge job, and Sigrid
did a tremendous job with a very hard working
committee. This convention turned out to be one of
the most successful in FWSA history! Sigrid also
served on the Board of Trustees of USARC, which runs
the Adaptive Ski Program at Big Bear.
Sigrid
was born and grew up in Germany, coming to the U.S.
with her family at age 13. She attended New Trier
High School in Winnetka, Illinois, where most of her
time was spent learning English! After that she
went on to the University of Iowa and then graduated
from the University of Illinois with a degree in
education. Later she studied at Princeton
University and at the University of Washington in
Seattle, where she received her MA degree. Besides
spending her childhood in Germany, Sigrid has also
lived in Chicago, Seattle, Portland, and Istanbul,
Turkey. She loved living and teaching in Turkey and
has been back to visit many times! While most
people spend about four years in high school, Sigrid
has been in high school most of her life! After
being Activity Director and teaching German, French,
and ESL most of her life, she finally "graduated"
(retired) a few years ago! Since then, she worked
at the Computer Access Center and has been
substituting in Adult as well as High Schools in LAUSD.
Besides
all the ski club related involvement, Sigrid has
also been volunteering at UCLA as a Patient Liaison
in the Emergency Department and also helped to set
up a support group program in the Kidney Transplant
Department. She has also spent many years visiting
Hospice patients.
You
probably already figured out that Sigrid thrives on
being active. Besides skiing she also enjoys scuba
diving, traveling, water skiing, playing tennis,
swimming, dancing, walking, and flying. She used to
spend much of her free time flying to Baja, around
and across the U.S. with Unrecables’ member Chris
Hargreaves, who was able to fly his Comanche with
hand controls! They even took some of the other
Unrecables flying in the Comanche as well as in
their friend’s Tri-Motor airplane! What a treat
that was!
Sigrid
just returned from a year in Germany and
Turkey. |
