Andrea Mead Lawrence a 12-Year Old Skier in 1944 Vintage Ski PhotoDecorate your home or office with our archival photo reproductions of Andrea Mead Lawrence. Looking like a Bogner model and known as Andy, competed in her first slalom at 10. The next year she was named to the Women's Eastern Ski Team, captained by her mother, and placed eighth in a slalom race. At 14, she qualified for the Olympic tryouts, and at 15 she was on the American team. Born Andrea Bario Mead in Rutland on April 19, 1932, to Bradford and Janet Mead, owners of the Pico Peak ski resort, she was introduced her to skiing at the age of 3. Annual spring trips to Switzerland were family musts, and Andrea learned by imitating a Swiss ski professional whom her parents brought to Vermont when she was 6. She had no formal lessons. Her parents reared Andrea and her brother, Peter, under a principle the children heartily supported: "If the weather's good, you ski; if it's bad, you go to school." She then raced in the Cortina Winter Olympic Games with the US Ski Team. Each piece is printed on our state-of-the-art Epson printers, and shipped within 24 hours in a 3 inch tube to avoid compression.
