Hugh Barber – 1968
Hugh has distinguished himself as a superb two-sport athlete in the sports of golf and ski jumping. At BUHS Hugh was the Vermont Ski Jumping State Champion in 1967 and 1968. Hugh attended and graduated from Middlebury College where he won four winter carnivals and placed in the top five of the NCAA events.
In 1971 Hugh was an NCAA Ski Jumping All-American and was the only American named. In 1972 he was named to the Eastern Ski Association Ski Team and competed in the 1972 Olympic Tryouts. Most famously in Hugh’s ski jumping career are his accomplishments at the famed Harris Hill Ski Jump. Hugh won the 1972, 1973, and 1974 Fred H. Harris Memorial Ski jump thus retiring the famous Winged Ski Trophy in 1974. Hugh was only the fourth jumper at that time to retire the trophy. Hugh set hill records at Rosendale, NY., Williams College, St. Lawrence University, and Brattleboro, VT.
Hugh is a tremendous career golfer. Among his accomplishments – he was named MVP at Northfield Mt Hermon School in 1969 in a post-graduate year after BUHS; runner up – Vermont Amateur at the Kwiniaska Golf Club in Burlington, VT in 1975; runner up – Vermont Senior Amateur in Bennington, VT; two time winner of the very prestigious L.D. Pierce Memorial Golf Tournament in Rutland ,VT; winner of the Barber-Collins Golf Tourney at the Greenfield, MA Country Club.
Hugh has been the Brattleboro Country Club Jr. & Sr. Champion 10 times, the Brattleboro Country Club Champion 13 times – a total of 23 Championships over five decades.
Hugh has also served as President of the Brattleboro Country Club and Chairman of the Greens Committee and Tournaments Committee.
Hugh was an outstanding baseball player with excellent power, even being named an All-State third baseman in the American Legion State Tournament in 1966. Hugh switched to golf from baseball late in his high School career.