CMP State Directors Announce Retirement and
Minnesota Juniors Get New Coats
By Steve Cooper, CMP Writer
CAMP PERRY, OHIO – Three original CMP State Directors (formerly known as State Junior Directors) announced their retirement after serving the Civilian Marksmanship Program and countless junior shooters since the state director program began in 1999.
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Joe Mucelli retired as CMP State Director of California, 1 December, 2010. His legacy of support of junior shooting sports in his home state will be a lasting one. |
Joe Mucelli, of San Francisco, announced his retirement, effective 1 December and Marlene and Jack Duncan, of Arizona, shared their plans to retire in October.
In addition to his duties as a state director and mentor to California’s junior ROTC shooters, he is a retired U.S. Army Major, Vietnam War veteran and is also known for his study of amphibious reptiles. Mucelli was a Master Junior Instructor and his home station was Lowell High School Army JROTC.
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Jack Duncan, former co-State Director of Arizona with his wife, Marlene, is looking forward to less time in meetings and more time reloading at their Lake Havasu City home. Photo Courtesy of PT103.com. |
“We just got plain old!” said Jack Duncan in a note to CMP, referring to himself and his wife Marlene, both Master Junior Instructors, who served as the Arizona co-directors for more than a decade.
“It wasn’t the desolate miles that got to us, it was the hours and hours on the podium and firing line that did us in,” he said. “Our gun room no longer will be set aside for the Monday night dinner meetings … perhaps we can get on with some reloading chores.”
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Marlene and her husband, Jack, announced their retirement as co-State Directors of Arizona in October 2010. Here Marlene is show receiving the 2009 Marion P. Hammer, Woman of Distinction Award from the NRA in honor of her pioneering spirit. Photo courtesy of NRA. |
Marlene is the immediate past president of the Lake Havasu City Sportsman Club and has earned a life membership and may now be able to go out and just shoot, Jack said.
“We hoped to have addressed more than 20,000 students this school year, being a little short of that goal now (as of October), with 18,567 and counting.”
A seasoned Master Chief in the U.S. Navy, Jack has written several short stories about his military career and many of them can be found on the Web at
http://www.pt103.com/PT_Boat_Veteran_Stories.html.
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Junior shooters display three of the four shooting coats Steve Knutson, State Director of Minnesota, donated to the Long Range Precision Shooting Club of Andover-St. Francis, Minnesota to help the team excel. |
The Long Rangers Precision Shooting Club, located in the Andover-St. Francis area due north of Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota, recently received four new shooting coats from State Director Steve Knutson to help give the club a boost in competitive shooting.
The Long Rangers club presented Knutson a certificate of appreciation for his generous contribution. In part, the certificate says “The Long Rangers Precision Shooting club would like to thank CMP Rep. Steve Knutson for the donation of club shooting jackets. The donation will go a long ways in the promotion of shooting sports with the youth of our community.”
The certificate was signed by John West, president, Chris Hazelton, vice president and Mark Johnson, treasurer.
The CMP congratulates Steve Knutson and the Long Rangers club for working together for the promotion of firearms safety and marksmanship, with an emphasis on youth.
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CMP also wishes to thank Joe Mucelli and the Duncans, Marlene
and Jack for their many years of dedicated service to youth
shooters of their respective states and to the shooting
community at-large.
