RICHARD COWELL

Dick Cowell represents a continuing presence in
the sport of water skiing as almost no one now
living does. He skied in the first World
Championships in Juan les Pins in 1949, and he
has attended all but one of the World Tournaments
ever since,

As the Secretary General of the Pan American
Region from 1963 to 1971, Dick was actively
involved during the emergence of the sport on an
international level, but he regards his greatest
achievement as the development, in that period,
of organized water skiing in Bermuda, the
Bahamas, and the West Indies.

Although he has never been much concerned with
technical details, if there is something to be
remembered or to be celebrated in the sport of
water skiing, Dick is there to reminisce or to
organize the party.

I am pleased to announce the induction into the
International Hall of Fame of a man who has been
around water skiing longer than any of us and
who, unfairly, does not look it: Richard Cowell.