Leon Black pictured at his home in the Hamptons in New York. Black is stepping down from running Apollo Global Management, the private equity firm he co-founded in the 1990s. Apollo was part of the group that took over majority ownership of Vail Associates in 1992.
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Leon Black, known locally as the founder of the company that would become the modern Vail Resorts, has been the subject of much national news in recent months.
Here’s the first sentences of a few stories from national news outlets on March 22:
CNN: “Leon Black will step down as CEO of Apollo Global Management, the investment firm said, as it also announced that an internal investigation into Black’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein found no wrongdoing.”
Dr. Jack Eck
Jack Eck isn’t going anywhere, but Vail’s third full-time doctor Tom Steinberg and Bill Holm were the first and second is retiring from nearly 50 years of service in the community.
Eck, 78, first came to Vail in 1971, fresh out of the U.S. Army, where he’d been a flight surgeon in both Vietnam and, later, in New Jersey.
A small-town guy from Pennsylvania, Eck was ready for something more peaceful than the jungles of that war-torn Asian country. Thanks to some friends, he found his landing spot in Vail in 1971.
He came to ski with friends in January of that year. At Donovan’s Copper Bar one night, Eck asked if there were any openings in the still-fledgling ski town. There wasn’t at the time, but Eck left his contact information with Steinberg and Holm. A few months later, a position opened up.