THE
GAMES OF 1984
Has it
really been 25 years? It seems as if it was only yesterday.
I have always
had a great infatuation with the Olympic Games which started at very young age.
I have great memories from many of them, but none as great as the 1984 Games. I
remember the day when it was announced that Los Angles had been awarded the
Games, I think I said something like “That’s neat to have the Games back in the
United States”.
Little did I know at that time that is a few years I would be part of a great
bunch of volunteers that would be conducting those very Games.
Prior to the
Games I became a member of the NRA Competition Committee and through updates to
the committee I heard of the very troublesome times for our shooting sport. The
Los Angles Organizing Committee (LAOC) did not want shooting in their Games and
it took direct intervention by the President of the IOC, to convince them
otherwise.
Mike Tipa was named “Competition
Director and Sport Manager” which was the tuff job of working with the LAOC to
obtain what was required to run the shooting events. Col. Bill Deneke was named “Venue Manager” whose primary job was to
build facilities on which to conduct the competition once the site was
selected.
There were
several sites considered for the shooting venue including Caesar’s Place in Las Vegas, Nevada
and the Seal Beach Naval Weapons Station in Orange Country, California. A privately financed facility
was selected at Coal
Canyon in Orange County,
but was terminated when construction and permit delays jeopardized the timely
completion of the venue. Some believed the LAOC was doing this in the hope that
there would not be enough time to complete the venue. Finally the Prado Recreation
Area located in Chino
was selected on 21 June 1983
which left very little time to build the facility. The ground breaking occurred
and under the guidance of Col. Deneke
the venue was completed by April 1984 when a successful test event was
conducted.
Both of
these men proved to be the correct choices as they both were very successful in
performing their assignments..
Another one of
Mike’s responsibilities was to select and train the volunteers required to
conduct the competition. His first selections were David .I. Boyd and Mike Opsitnik
as Assistant Competition Directors and with the aid of Ted Oakey who was assigned as Personnel Coordinator begin to select
volunteers and put together a training plan. This was no small task as the
entire rifle and pistol events were conducted on paper targets which were very
labor intensive. This all required 404 volunteers to support the competition
and an additional 126 to support venue operations. When you add the other
extraneous operations such as food vendors, souvenir sales and the support of
companies like IBM, ATT and others the total number of on site personnel was
stated at 728 to support 459 competitors. A number of the volunteers were
selected from the ranks of the NRA and others were provided by the LACO. Ted
was aided by Wilfred Oakey,
Assistant Personnel Coordinator and Ilse
Scheffer.
I was
selected to work on the Running Game Target (RGT) event. We started training at
the National Championships which were held at Fort Benning, Georgia.
The other disciplines were held at the Black Canyon
Range in Phoenix, Arizona.
We all came together during the test event in April. At that time the facility
was functional but not much to look at. It was just a bunch of brown metal
building setting on grayish fill of Prado. Setting in the middle of the complex
was a long line of these buildings with the 25 meter range on the left, in the
middle the 50 meter running target range and the 50 meter range on the right.
Across the parking lot was the indoor 10 meter range. Behind all of this were
the clay target fields. Also in this area was the very important statistical
office where the target scoring operation was conducted to determine the medal
winners.
What a
difference when we came back in July. There were trees and flowers and many
multi colored banners. Yes we can not forget that large fuchsia colored monkey
bars with all of the flags of the countries hanging from it. It was all very
festive and upbeat.
There was a
lot of work to be done. Volunteers had to be assigned to do their duties and
trained to perform at a very high level. The training was the responsibility of
Polly Bordas and she was very good
at it. One of her major jobs was to train 80 to 100 individuals called Resistor
Keepers to set behind the shooters and using telescopes score the fired shots and
record them on a large score card so the spectators could follow the
competition. This was all unofficial but the scorers had great pride in being
very accurate and having their score being close to the final score that came
out of the stat. room. Some of the many Resistor Keepers were Marie Craig, Richard Carlson, Tarri Carver, Evelyn Clark, Joe D’Hippolito, Clifford
Grasman, Gerald Hayler, Jack Lester,
Ed Lozano, Julia Lund, David Malmad, Carl Masnec, Lauren McFarlan, Maria
Paramo, Heather Parrish, Elvira Perez, Judy Pomykata, Jack Selle, Steven
Setlak, Mary Sinwich, David Snyder, Janice Spurgin, Kim Spurgin, Mary Takanabe,
Lynda Vilagi, and Henry Zoetemelk.
Each of the
ranges and what happen on them became the responsibility of the Chief Range
Officer (CRO). In addition the International Federation (UIT) became part of
the team. This included the UIT President Olegario
Vazquez Rana (MEX), UIT Secretary General Horst G. Schreiber (GER), Technical Delegates Gary Anderson
(USA) and Andreas Hartinger (FRA)
and Head Medical Commission Dr. Heinz Losel. Assigned from the LAOC
was the Competition Commissioner Robert
Petersen of Petersen Press. On his staff were Galeta Carleton, John DeMille and Joyce Nunn. The UIT assigned a jury made up of individuals from
all over the world to each range and the stat office. They also established a
Jury of Appeal. The Chairman was Prof.
Gavrila Barani (ROM) USA Jury Member was Edward B. Crossman who was a member of the 1932 Games volunteer’s staff.
The 1984
Games had an important first in the history of Olympic Games as it was the
first in which women had their own shooting events. It also so meant that
certain events were designed as men only events. It was also the Games in which
China
returned to the Olympic Games.
Chief of Equipment Inspection was Bob Grego. One of the first major
activities that is required to be performed is equipment inspection. Each
discipline had a different set of requirements that had to be checked. This
included both firearms and clothing. Bob and his crew, which included Neal Johnson, Margaret Murdock (who was a Silver Medalist in 1976) and Loyd Crow
successfully, processed 459 competitors. There are times when one sees some
interesting equipment being used by other nations. I remember observing the
Chinese running target shooters using what appeared to be German made Anschutz
rifles. I mentioned this to Loyd Crow,
who was working with Bob and he told me what was really interesting was that
all of their rifles had the same serial numbers.
On the first
day of record fire the gates were opened and the spectators came streaming in.
Yes spectators at a shooting event. So many came that they ran out of tickets
and Mike Tipa gave the word to take
cash. He was able to turn in thousands of dollars to the LAOC.
The first
shooting event of the Games was 50 meter Free Pistol which won by the Chinese.
It became the first medal to be awarded in the 1984 Olympic Games.
50 Meter Range CRO was Adrian Meyers. UIT Rifle Jury Chairman David Parish (GBR). USA Jury member was
William “Bill” Krilling. This range
was equipped with machines that feed the targets one at a time from a packet
that was placed in the back of the machine. To the crew that worked in the pits
and serviced these machines they became known as the”carnivious target machine”
as on occasions they would eat a target which caused every one heart burn. With
the assigned volunteers the operation of the 50 meter range went very well. Tom Moore
Assistant Range
Officer called the line from the CRO table. The Block Officers were, Don
Armstrong, Gene Bordas, James
Corcoran, James Kennedy, William Rabenstein and. Lee Spurgin. The shooter would fire,
the recorder would make their call using scopes at the firing line and mark the
large score sheet. The shooter would press their button to drop the fired
target and bring a new one into place and prepare to fire the next shot. The
pit crew would snag the fired target from the bottom of the target box and
place them into a box which would be locked and sent off to the stat office for
scoring. The Chief Pit Officer was Fred
Keifer and the Assistant CPO was Mike
Banosky. The Pit Officers were Tom
Armstrong, Breet Davison, Robert Griffith, Dennis Harris, Tom Hawes, Ray Hoem,
Rod J. Kauble, Ralph Norwood, Peter Preston, Desider Simcoe, and Raleigh
Vermillion.
Also this
was the range on which Ed Etzel won
the Gold Medal in the English Match and Wanda
Jewell won the Bronze Medal in
Standard Rifle for the United
States.
25 Meter
Range CRO was Roger Hawkins. UIT
Jury Chairman Paul Glesner (DEN).
USA Jury Member was Harry Reeves. Chirf
Pit Officer Don Poorboy. This range was
built with eight bays with five turning targets in each bay. A Block Officer
was assigned to each bay. Some of the block officers were Susan Abbott, Dennis Duffy, John Boyd II, Raymond Hoem, Irwin Hollander, Rod Kauble, Mike Machuca, Walter
Portenier, and Frank Rutter. A Pit
Team was assigned to each bay and at the conclusion of a string of fire they
would spring into action. A door would open at the target line and they would
proceed to the targets. One person with a wan would indicate the location of
the shot and loudly call out the value. A second person would write the shot
value on the score card and a third would place a marker in the shot hole. When
the five targets were scored the markers were removed and a fourth person would
put a paster over the bullet hole and they all would smartly exit. This was all
observed by a member of the range jury. Volunteers assigned as Marker/Pasters
were Erwin Anderson, Randall Carroll, Greg Dunkerson, Heath Haggerty, Marcia Hardisty Suzanne
Schindler, Phillip Smith and William
Toney, Jr.. Behind the seasons were volunteers who worked on preparing new
targets to be placed on the target racks. They were Dennison Curtiss, Ethel Deese, Richard Downs, Elizabeth Fadden, Katie
Fadden, Howard Hakanson, William Stephens, Brian Vincent and John Wallace.
The first
event held on this range was the Women’s Sport Pistol where Linda Thom of Canada won the
Gold Medal in a shoot-off with Ruby Fox
of the USA
who was awarded the Silver Medal. The Bronze Medal was won by Patricia Dench which was the first
shooting medal ever won by Australia.
10 Meter Range CRO was Jack Baker. The jury members and
volunteers that supported this range were the same individuals that supported
the rifle and pistol events on the other ranges.
The first
event on this range was Women’s Air Rifle. It required 40 shots fired off hand
at a bull-eye the size of the head of a pin. I will never forget the thrill and
pride that I felt when the announcement came over my radio that Pat Spurgin won the Gold Medal for the United States.
She became the first women to win a Gold Metal for the United States.
Running Game
Target CRO was Willis L. Platt. UIT
Jurry Chairman Enrique Rebora (ARG).
USA Jury Member was Loyd Crow. Chief Pit Officer was John Doolin. This venue had two ranges
which was over seen by Block Officers. Block Officers included Robert Dickens, Bill Gibson, and Charles
Hathaway, Winfred Hathaway. Running Game Target was and interesting event.
A target which was the image of a Russian Boar moved between two walls and the
competitor had to shot as the target moved. After the target disappeared behind
the wall a volunteer had to point to the shot so the shooter and spectators
could see the location on close circuit TV. They than had to paste the shot and
flip the target so the boar would be running in the opposite direction. Than using
a clock system which was visible to the firing line indicate the value and
location of the shot. The pit crew included Vern, Berryman, Doug Black,
Nathan Block, The score was recorded
on a card to aid the stat office. Winifred
Glaser was one to perform this task. When the hands of the clock came down
to the six O’clock position,
the shooter had to come to the ready position. Once the shooter reached this
position a volunteer would press a button to release the target for the next
run. This was performed by Floyd Glaser,
Helen Gonzalez, Janet Thompson. This was the one event in which the
volunteers became an active part of the competition as they had to establish a
constant rhythm for the shooter both in the pit operation and when the button
was pushed to release the target.
Skeet and
Trap Fields Chief Referee was Larry
Giaudrone. UIT Jury Chairman Severino
Rosa-Clot (ITA). USA Jury Member was John
Hunt. Two events were fired on these fields. One was skeet where the clay
targets were ejected from a low house and a high house. The other was trap
where 15 target machines ejected the clay targets from a long house in front of
the shooters, it was called the “bunker”. Both were very exciting events for
the spectators. When the shooter called for their target a volunteer called a
Puller would release the target. George
Chesleigh, William Melson, Albert
Schindler worked at doing this operation. A volunteer known as a referees had to call whether the target
was hit or not. The target was declared hit (or dead) even if a very small chip
came off. Some of the referees were Billy
Guerin, Pat McNamara, Laura Mozingo, Al Topham (Chief Referee), and Willie
Whitley. They were aided in their duties by Susan Charlton, William Hendrick, William Hayness, Emma Hunt,
Charles Parrish and Jeanne Topham who were Flankers. When
the call was made a volunteer would indicate the results on a scoreboard which
was called the “Flipper” board. Blocks of wood would be turned “White “ for a
hit, or “Red” for a lost target. Julie
Aldersebaes, Tim Baumgardner, Jerry Crossett and Frances Strodtman worked this area.
Douglas Arellanes, Milton Harrison, William Kim, Victor Maestro and Lester Sharon loaded the traps.
Matt Dryke won the Gold Medal in
Skeet and Dan Carlisle the Bronze
Medal in Trap for the United
States.
I guess no
will forget that on the morning of the first event the button was pushed for
the first target and nothing happened. The maintenance crew went quickly into
action and found that some rodent had decided to have breakfast on some of the
wires. This left such of an impression on people that in 1996 in Atlanta Mr. Horst Schreiber asked me if the
shotgun fields were rodent proof.
Classification
Office Chief of Classification was Lou
Roninger. UIT Jury Chairman was Hans
Kowar. USA Jury Member was Stanley
Mate. Assistant Chief of Classification was Robert Orr. This is the area where it all came together. This venue
was set up is a very large double wide trailer manned by a very large number of
volunteers.
Locked boxes
came in the room containing the targets of many competitors. They had to be
separated into competitor numbers and placed in consecutive number order. Let’s
looked at the activity it took to support the English match which was one of
the biggest matches in the number of targets that had to be processed. There
were 71 competitors that fired 60 shots each. That means 4260 targets had to be
placed into 71 individual piles in consecutive number order that were then sent
to the scoring tables. This was performed by Erick Venola. When the targets reached the tables they were scored
by two individuals and another individual wrote down the value of the shot.
Some of these Score/Recorders were Ida
Armstrong, Clarice (Sue) Corcoran, Albert Davidson, Dorothea Davidson, Barbara
Ellerbrock, Philip Fisher, Elva Hoem, Rosalie Hollander, Lowell Jackson, Sandra
Rabenstein, Phyllis Rutter, Lucille Smith, Stanley Spencer, Janice Spurgin,
Kimberley Spurgin Marvin Thompson, Eugene Turner Bonita Wulf, Catherine Yeager,
and Paul Yeager. The score card was than given to a volunteer whose job was
to calculate the score. This operation was called Computation and was done by John Coombes Florence Orr, and Ann O’Daly.
A fourth volunteer called a tabulator had to check the calculation. Toni Ann Williams performed this duty. The
top ten final aggregate score file had to be maintained and this was done by Frank Wilhelm. The top scores had to be
rescored by the jury to verify the medal winners.
This was
done for each discipline. A total of 19,800
rifle and airgun targets were processed in this manner without loosing or miss
placing a single target.
Also Helga Edmondson scored 92 Running Game
targets which had 1,380 shots
in them. These were difficult targets to score as there were 15 record shots
and two sighters on each target often on top of each other.
In addition 5.200 shots were scored on the
rack (on the range) for women’s sport pistol and men’s rapid fire pistol.
Last but not
least there were 27,000 “Lost
/ Dead” calls made by the referees on the skeet and trap fields.
When all of
the results were compiled they went to the Results Control Operators like Tom Alexander to prepare them for
publishing. The results bulletin had to be prepared which Winfield Spurlock and Herman
Thorne worked on. Part of this operation was to post the scores on a very
large score board for everyone to see. This was performed by Manuel Villalobos.
There were
other support operations which were manned by volunteers such as the armory
operation where the firearms were kept. Robert
Beckel, Ronald Blume Robert Dix,Herman Kreller and Mark Schultenrich worked in this area..
There was a
need for secretary support which was performed by Doris Colby and Lois Deneke,
Suzanne Ellis and Audrey Gibson.
Data Entry was performed by Tony Hayes,
Keith Maddox and Susan Maloney. Lets
us not forget the Runners, Mary Cassil,
Jenifer Baumgardner-Fuher who was
the youngest volunteer at the age of 15, Victor
Herrera, Janet Luna, and Diana Quirk. Eric Edwards Wade Medrud
were Maintenance Assistant Coordinators. Eugene
Jones was Sport Equipment Maintenance Coord. Col. Bill Pullum, chairman of the NRA’s ICC committee also
volunteered. The Announcer was Anneliese
Goldman.
We received
assistance from corporations like ATT which Harry Grimshaw represented. The computers were made by IBM and
built in Endicott where I worked and I was surprised when I ran into Jim Brown a good friend of mine who was
there in case the computers needed service.
I only ask
please, please forgive me if I missed listing your name I did the best that my
old memory could do. BUT I promise if you send me your greatest memory of 1984
I will put in next year’s letter.
I have many
found memories of 1984, but one has really stuck with me over the years. It
happened on the Running
Target Range
and involved a volunteer that was assigned to us by the LAOC and during the
week of training prior to the Games. It was evident that she was not a happy
camper. One day I asked her what was the problem and she told me that she was
anti-gun. This somewhat surprised me as she was working on a shooting range and
I asked her how did this come about. She told me that this was the Olympic
Games and wanted very badly to be a part of it. She went through the volunteer process
and this was the only position open. I asked her if she wanted me to attempt to
get her transferred to another venue. She said no as she was told it was this
assignment or nothing and she so much wanted to be part of the games and
she would stick it out in order to full fill her dream. At the
conclusion of the Games it appeared she had a good time and admitted that
shooters were not all bad. BUT I believe her desire, her dream to
be part of the Games that she so patiently spoke about was really what was felt
in the heart of 530 volunteers that summer of 1984.
The core of
the volunteers that worked to make the 1984 Olympic Shooting Events so highly
successful went on to help run many events which included Pan American Games,
World Cups and National Championships and even the 1996 Olympic Games.
ALUMNI
NEWS
I appreciated the letters in response to
our mailing last year. Please keep them coming as without them I have nothing
to report.
CLASS OF 1984
I heard from
Jan Spurgin recently. Jan and the love of her life, Lee
(Lelon) celebrated their 50th wedding university on December 27, 2008.
Al Topham said to say
hello, at the age of 88 he is still scaring those skeet targets. He was pleased
to see our shotgun team do so well at the Olympics in Beijing.
CLASS OF 1996
I have received word from Gary Anderson
that on 31 December he will be retiring as the DCM. He plans to continue to do
some special projects for the CMP, but will be stepping down from the
day-to-day operation.
Gary will still be very active in
the shooting world as he has recently been elected President of U.S.A. Shooting
and plans to spend more time working with the ISSF.
What Gary has accomplished as DCM has been
outstanding. The growth of the CMP under his leadership in new programs,
updating the championships, new facilities and junior development deserves a
great deal of gratitude and a big thank from the shooting community.
Gary, we all wish you the best in the
future.
Ruth Ann remains active in church, a
Red Hat group, a book club and working in their vegetable garden.
I have received word that Tom Bardenwerper is still actively
refereeing shotgun events for USA Shooting.
David Baskin, who worked with our
Paralympic
Staff has retired from the NRA. David
was inducted into the “Wheelchair Sports USA” Hall of Fame. He was inducted as
an “affiliate (non-athlete) member. Over nine years of coaching his teams
earned 253 medals, including 7 world and 16 Pan American records. He was
involved with four Paralmpic Games on different levels.
I had the surprise of my life when Joe Berry
dropped in at my birthday party in May. He said that there is no distantness to
far to have good BBQ. Joe is doing great and said to hello to one and all.
Judy
Boyd
and daughter Jenny made their annual pilgrimage to Camp Perry.
Judy worked in he volunteer office for the smallbore, highpower and the long
range events. Jenny just worked the highpower event calling the line from the Rod Tower.
Judy is planning to move back to
Quantico in the future and is presently working on her Georgia home getting it
ready to sell and is also doing some remodeling of her home in Quantico. After
all of this work she will be qualified to start a construction company.
Al
Coots is still working with the fullbore rifle shooters. He is proud to announce that the
America Fullbore Rifle Championships has been recognized as a National
Championship by the NRA.
Jennifier Coots has been very successful in
starting her own business, “Combat Veterans Voicewriters”. You check out
Jennifier’s web site at www.combatveteranvoicewriters.com.
Earle Darby dropped me a note. In October
he celebrated his 78th birthday and got a “Pacemaker” for a present,
but all is well now. Earle first volunteered in 1996 and work 28 clay target
events until retired in 2006.He is still active referee at his local gun club.
Allen
Henry has been very busy working
with the ISSF. He was elected to the Rifle Committee and has attended World
Cups in Korea,
China
and Munich. He
is also in the photo business and has a web site; www.allens-photography.com.
While working as the Chief Referee at a
shotgun event at Kerrville,
TX Rod Jenneiahn fell and broke his hip and round up having a heart
operation. We are pleased that Kris
reports all is well and he is doing fine.
Hollis
Kosco has been working hard on the upcoming Olympic
Winter Games in Vancouver. She will be working with venue
management at the bobsled venue in Whistler.
I recently learned that Leigh Kosco graduated from West Point in 2006. She recently returned from a tour in Iraq and was
married this summer at West
Point.
Norene Hilden is back being a snowbird and
is wintering in Yuma.
Last September she took a trip to Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania and Russia.
Randy, Ann and Maddy Moeller are still living and working in Sidney, Nebraska.
Randy has appeared on TV with Corey Cogdell, Olympic Bronze Medal winner in Beijing, on a pheasant
hunt. If you saw the show you could see why she medaled, the pheasants didn’t
have a chance. Maddy is now in 10th
grade and Ann can’t wait for Dove
season to start.
Tom and Margaret Moore is still traveling about the world. They spent the
spring in Dubai
and Oman.
In September Tom took a trip to Iceland.
They spent the summer traveling about with their family. On November 4th
Tom celebrated his 80th birthday. Happy Birthday Tom.
Sylvia & Jack Horner are still traveling a bit and attended the USAMU’s
reunion.
B.G. Morse has retired from “BASS/ESPN
and is now enjoying the good life.
Marc
Orvin
having retiring 19 months ago has put 138,000 miles on a Peterbilt hauling freight
all over the Rocky
Mountain region. Some
days Debbie rides shotgun to take in
the sites. He also does the bookkeeping at a gun shop. He said now it seams
that he is busier than when he was working, but loving life more each day.
Pauline
Pilkington has taking an extended vacation traveling through Europe with her daughter. She is still working with the
ISSF.
Duane Tallman has been volunteering at Camp Perry
which he says is a lot of fun.
I talked to Mike and Helen Tipa on Mike’s 88th
birthday and I am happy to report they are doing just great. They wanted me to
say hello to all of their shooting friends.
Spencer
Tweedie is
still very involved with shooting in Australia and served on the Jury of
Appeals for the Oceania Games.
After having retired from the Post
Office Dave Valachovic is part
timing it at BOCES in Poughkeepsie.
Don Williams traveled to Australia to
compete in the 2009 World Master Games. He won a Bronze Medal in the 10 meter
air rifle event.
Lloyd Williams is now retired and is traveling
a lot on motorcycle. He is still shooting locally and has been to Camp Perry
to compete. He says that his scores have gone opposite of his age but the
enjoyment level of “hanging out with shooters” is as high as ever.
Phil Williams he has now retired working 40
years and is restoring old houses in an endangered historic area of his city.
He brought a big old Victorian that was built in 1880 and completely gutted it.
It took about 3 years to finish it and he is now presently living in it. Phil
continues to train NRA Instructors and coach a high school rifle team.
Roger Withrow dropped me line to say hello
and wish everyone a Merry Christmas.
RETIRED
VOLUNTEERS
I’m saddened to have to report the
passing of:
CLASS OF 1984
On June 6th
Stanley C. Spencer passed away. In his note to me his son Larry said
that his dad was very proud to have served in the 1984 Games and spoke many
times of what a great experience it was.
CLASS OF 1984-1996
On May 2nd
Dennis Duffy passed away. I first met Dennis in 1984 went we were
getting ready for the Olympic Games. He was a member of the renowned 25 meter
gang headed up by Roger Hawkins. Dennis was one of those guys that worked the
tunnel and ran out every few minutes to score, disk, paste the shot holes and
scramble back into the tunnel to wait for the next string to be fired. Over the
years he worked many events moving to the block officer position and in 1996
was the Chief Range Officer at the Atlanta Games. Dennis always worked the 25
meter events. After awhile I started to hang out in the tunnels myself besides
being with a lot of good people like Dennis they also had some great food
there.
Dennis was
always there when you needed him and he will be greatly missed.
HONOREE MEMBERS:
On February 25th
Lothar Schriever passed away. Lothar
was the UIT (ISSF) Official for Running Target at the 1996 Atlanta Games. I
first met Lothar at Fort Benning,
Georgia when he
was the coach of the German Running Target Team. I served with him for several
years on the UIT Running Target Committee where he worked extremely hard to
promote the sport.
On March 18th
Olavi Varoma passed away. I am sure
that just about every one of you are now saying WHO as he was not a member of
our team. To most of us he was the little old man from Finland that
hung around the shooting venue. Mr. Varoma had a great career in the shooting
sport as a competitor and an organizer, but I knew him as a reporter. He
attended many events and wrote about the sport he loved. I am happy that I was
able to spend time with him. He celebrated his 100th birthday in the
summer of 2008.
On March 12th
we lost Jesus Elizondo Najera. Jesus
served at many events as a representative of the ISSF (UIT). He was one of our
Technical Delegates at the 1996 Atlanta Games. I had the pleasure of working
with Jesus at many events and he always treated everyone with great dignitary
and respect. Jesus Elizondo Najera was a true gentleman of the sport.
NEWSLETTER
I have really
enjoyed reading your letters and emails and without them the newsletter would
be very short.
The newsletter
is a means of sharing news with your fellow volunteers. We can only print what
you provide. So please drop me a line by mid November or any time.
Willis L. Platt
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Conklin, NY
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Phone 607-723-2658
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Susan Abbott, Jeffery Abel, Kevin Adamson, Patricia Afentakis,
Louise Aguirre, Julie Aldersebaes, Josephine Ambrosio, Theodore Ambrosio,
Theresa Ambrosio, Erwin Anderson, Gary Anderson,
Trudy Anliker, Edward Antuna, Laura Arbiso, Michelle Arceneaux, Douglas
Arellanes, Don Armstrong, Ida Armstrong, Thomas Armstrong, Kenneth Artherton,
Henry Bainbridge, Jack Baker, Randy Balmer, Michasel Banosky, Gavrila Barani,
Christine Barber, Lawrence Barstow, Jenifer Baumgardner, Timothy Baumgardner,
Michael Baxter, John Beasley, Robert Beckel, Richard Behan, Margaret Beltran,
Verne Berryman, Douglas Black, Nathan Block, Ronald Blume, Pauline Bordas,
Eugene Bordas Jr, David I. Boyd II, John Boyd II, Diana Bradley, Daniel
Brandolino, Lena Briano, Gloria Bridges, Amelia Bristow, James Bristow, Craig
Broberg, Dorothy Brubaker, Lorrane Buchheit, Michelle Burton, Galeta Gigi
Carleton, Graig Carlson, Richard Carlson, Fain Carnes, Timothy Carney, Neil
Carroll, Randall Carroll, Terri Carver, Mary Cassil, Maurice Cavahaugh, Barbara
Ceballos, Clark Chacon, Edwin Chapman, Susan Charlton, George Chesleigh, Evelyn
Clark, Walter Clark, Joseph Clary, Doris Colby, John Commbes, Walter Cooms,
Clarice Corcoran, James Corcoran, Michele Cornejo, Sandra Cox, Maria Craig,
Howard Critchell, Mark Cromer, Jerry Crossett, Edward B. Crossman, Loyd Crow, Maria Cueva, Robert Cullum, Dennison
Curtiss, Joseph D’Hippolito, Albert Davidson, Brett Davidson, Dorothea
Davidson, Laurie DeBoer, Mary DeRouen, Ethel Deese, John Demille, Col. Bill
Deneke, Lois Deneke, Hugo de Sa Campello, Robert Dickens, Sherree Dieterich,
Charles Dietl, Sandra Dietl, Robert Dix, John Doolin, Lois Downs, Richard
Downs, Dennis Duffy, Greg Dunkerson, Robert Ebbert, Helga Edmondson, Eric
Edwards, Jesus Elizondo, Barbara Ellerbrock, Kenneth Elliott, Lloyd Ellis,
Suzanne Ellis, Diane Erwin, Joan Evans, Elizabeth Fadden, Katie Fadden, Joan
Fennell, Robert Fennell, Bernhard Fischer, Philip Fisher, Jerry Fitz-Randolph,
Roderick Fitz-Randolph, Rosa Flamenco, Christine Fowler, Bobby Fox, Lori Fox,
Marilyn Friedemann, Stanislaw Frydrych, Gary Gabibi, Richard Gause, Larry
Giaudrone, Audrey Gibson, Michelle Gibson, William Gibson,
Floyd Glaser, Winifred Glaser, Poul Glesner, Anneliese Goldman, Tibor Gonczol,
Richard Gonser, Hellen Gonzalez, Mary Goodlad, Antonia Goshorn, Cellia Goshorn,
Sal Goshorn, Clifford Grasman, Hugh Gray, Florence Green, George Green, Pearl
Greenwood, Dorina Grego, Robert Grego, Robert Griffith, Harry Grimshaw, Billy
Guerin, Francis Guerra, Hugo Garcia Guerrero, Anthony Guzman, Iris Gwinn,
Richard Hackett, Heath Haggerty, Howard Hakanson, Matthew Hannan, Marcia
Hardisty, William Harrington, Dennis Harris, Milton Harrison, Andreas
Hartinger, Charles Hathaway, Winfred Hathaway, Thomas Hawes, Roger Hawkins,
Renee Hayden, Tony Hayes, Gerald Hayler,
William Hayness, William Hendrick Jr, Alfaro Hernahdez, Teresa Hernahdez,
Victor Herrera, Martin Hildreth, Juanita Hobson, Elva Hoem, Raymond Hoem, Irwin
Hollander, Rosalie Hollander, Lester Hollar, Margaret Hollar, Robert Holmes,
Thomas Honabach, Kurtis Hudson, Leslie Hunsaker, Emma Hunt, John Hunt, David
Hutchison, Lowell Jackson, William Jacobsen, Christopher Jasper, Honh Jewhurst
Jr, Christian Johnson, Marjorie Johnson, Neal Johnson, Roger Johnson, Wayne
Johnson, Eugene Jones, Roderick Kauble, Frederick Keifer, Shirley Kelley, James
Kennedy, Maizie Kennedy, William Kern, Michael Keys, William Kim, Rosa Klotz,
Cary Kocher, Linda Koning, Ralph Konoske, Garbrielle Kosterman, Hans Kowar,
Herman Kreller, William Krilling, Gloria Laffey, Thomas Laffey, Chi Lai, Hans
Ernst Lang, Patricia Lang. Sharon Lange, Jerry Lasher, Karen Laskey, George
Lemire, Jack Lester, Harold Lewis, Denver Liming, Karl Loescher, Virgil Logue,
Andrea Lopez, Olivia Lopez, Dr. Heinz Losel, Sarah Lowry, Edward Lozano, Janet
Luna, Julia Luna, Amy Ma, Santiago
Machuca, Keith Maddox, David Malmad, Susan Maloney, Frank Mandelson, William
Manning, Walter Mansell, Terrell Manyak, John Marcikese, Howard Markham, Peggy
Martin, Velia Martinez, Carl Masnec Jr, Victor Mastro, Lia Mate, Stanley Mate,
Rick Mathews, Joseph McClintock, Lauren McFarlen, Laurence McKenna, Kenneth
McKenzie, Patrick McNamara, Wade Medrud, William Melson, Charles Middleton,
Daniel Miller, Sharon Miller, Dennis Montanez, Thomas Moore, Emily Moreth,
Peter Morris, Laura Mozingo, Margaret Murdock, Genie Murry, Adrian Myers,
Stephen Myers, Allan Nelson, Yordan Nenov, Carmen Nevarez, Ralph Norwood Jr,
Joyce Nunn, Ted Oakey, Wilford Oakey, Ann O’Daly, Mark O’Dell, James O’Neal,
Michael Opsitnik, Jose Orbegozo, Jim Ornelas, Florence Orr, Helen Orr, Robert
Orr, Duane Otis, Maria Paroma, David Parish, Charles Parrish, Heather Parrish,
Donald Parker, Anne Perez, Elvira Perez, Margaret Petersen, Robert Petersen,
Donald Peterson, Pauline Pilkington,
Willis L. Platt, Evgeni Polikanin, Judy Pomykata, Donald Poorboy, Walter
Portenier, Valerij Postoianov, Peter Preston, Mitchell Preus, Noel Price,
William Pullum, Charles Quinzel, Diana Quirk, Mike Quiroz, Sanada Rabenstein,
William Rabenstein, Julie Rakich, Jeffy Randolph, Samuel Rangel, Everett Ready,
Paula Ready, Enrique Rebora, Frederick Reed, Harry Reeves, Kathy Reimer, Mario
Ribeiro, Kennith Rice, Daune Richardson, James Riley, Mona Risch, Judith
Ritner, Judith Rockewbach, Carmen Romig, Louis Roninger, Severino Rosa-Clot,
Eugene Ross, Barbara Rouleau, Ruth Russo, Frank Rutter, Phyllis Rutter, Linda
Saddlemire, Lucia Salchak, Charlene Sampson, Dorothy Sanborn, Harry Sanborn,
Hiran Sandoval, Marlin Scarborough, Fritz Schattleitner, Ilse Scheffer, Albert
Schindler, Suzanne Schindler, Connie Schnase, Donald Schnase, Wendell Schroll,
Bjorn Schullstrom, Mark Schultenrich, Donnie Schulz, Charles Scott, Dawn Seaton,
Seminara Sebastiano, Jack Selle, Arlene Senko, Steven Setlak, Lester Sharon,
Diana Sherwood, Peter Shirajian, James Shoemaker, Keith Shuck, Stella
Sifuentes, Donald Silva, Desider Simcoe III, Mary Sinkwich, Norman Skarpness,
Thomas Slatos, Glenn Smith, Judith Smith, Lucille Smith, Phillip Smith, David
Snyder, Carol Soza, Standley Spencer,
Janice Spurgin, Kimberley Spurgin, Lelon Spurgin, Winfield Spurlock, Leilani
St. John, Karen Steffanus, Kenneth Stephens, William Stephens, Frances
Strodtman, Walter Swarthout, Tom Syrdahl, Mary Takanabe, Betty Tallent, James
Tanaka, William Tanking, Jeanette Thomas, Janet Thompson, Marvin Thompson,
Victor Thompson, Herman Thorne, Clyde Timmerman, Michael Tipa, William Toney
Jr, Albert Topham, Jeanne Topham, Eugene Turner, Heinz Ullmann, Arthur Valle
Jr, Kathy Van Leeuwen, Helena Vander Tuig, Lineke Veenstra, Annette Vela,
William Velrostek, Erick Venola, Raleigh Vermillion, Lynda Vilagi, Manuel
Villalobos, Brian Vincent, Maria Vivas, Michael Wagner, James Walker, John Wallace,
Terence Weatherl, Stanley Welch, Willie Whitley, Samuel Wiggins, Warren Wiley,
Frank Wilhelm, Toni Ann Williams, Van Williams, Micky Winstead, Daniel Woolf,
Bonita Wulf, Catherine Yeager, Paul Yeager, Randy Young, Gideon Zeedijk, Henry
Zoetemelk, Steffanie Zubia, Anthony Zummo.