In Memoriam: Jack Gilbert ’64

Jack Gilbert ’64 died Sept. 20, 2019, at age 78. He was born in Portland, Ore., on March 30, 1941, to Alice and Richard Gilbert. Much of his life was spent skiing, a skill passed down to him from his older brother, Richard. While skiing at Mt. Hood in 1965, he met Sandra Teed at Timberline Lodge. The couple married in Elko, Nev. and moved to Sun Valley, Idaho, where Gilbert became a member of the Sun Valley Ski Club and the National Guard as well as an employee at Scott USA.

By 1975, the couple moved back to Portland, were raising two children, and Gilbert worked as a manager at the Mountain Shop.

He passed his love of skiing on to his family with many years of trips to Mount Hood and Mount Bachelor for races and free skiing throughout the late 1970s and 80s, as well as trips to Sun Valley for skiing and summer vacations into the 1990s. As the years passed, he continued to work in the ski industry, eventually fulfilling a lifelong ambition of opening his own shop, ULLR Ski and Sport in the Gateway area of Portland.

Gilbert separated from his wife in the mid-1990s, and continued to work as a traveling sales representative for outdoor brands. He remarried Bonnie Baker in 2002 and moved to Napa, Calif. There, he worked as the tour guide for Schramsberg Vineyards before the couple retired in Lincoln, Calif., to be closer to grandchildren. The couple enjoyed traveling to Hawaii, Sun Valley and across the Northwest during their retirement.

Gilbert is survived by son, Andy (and JaNessa); daughter, Dinah; brother, Richard; stepdaughter, Cheryl McBeth (and Matt); and grandchildren, Cameron, Kelsey, Angus, and Olive.