Mary Jane Svab Lyman
The shooting community suffered its third loss in less than two weeks with the passing of Mary Jane Svab Lyman on April 14, 2012.
Janie was an accomplished shooter with Joe Carten’s Stratford Police Athletic League program in the late 1950s and 60s. In those days the Stratford PAL and the Middlefield Rifle Club were the Connecticut shooting equivalent of Verona’s Montagues and the Capulets. The Connecticut story had a happier ending when Stratford’s Jane Svab married Middlefield’s Wally Lyman. They enjoyed 45 years a marriage and had three children and two grandchildren.
Jane was a frequent competitor at Camp Perry and was twice a member of the US Randle Team, in 1962 and 1965. She served as an NRA referee and was an early and an ardent supporter of the Connecticut Junior High Power Program. For many years she edited the Connecticut State Rifle and Revolver Association’s newsletter. Jane was a member of the Connecticut Shooters Hall of Fame.
About Hap Rocketto
Hap Rocketto is a Distinguished Rifleman with service and smallbore rifle, member of The Presidents Hundred, and the National Guard’s Chief’s 50. He is a National Smallbore Record holder, a member of the 1600 Club and the Connecticut Shooters’ Hall Of Fame. He was the 2002 Intermediate Senior Three Position National Smallbore Rifle Champion, the 2012 Senior Three Position National Smallbore Rifle Champion a member of the 2007 and 2012 National Four Position Indoor Championship team, coach and captain of the US Drew Cup Team, and adjutant of the United States 2009 Roberts and 2013 Pershing Teams. Rocketto is very active in coaching juniors. He is, along with his brother Steve, a cofounder of the Corporal Digby Hand Schützenverein. A historian of the shooting sports, his work appears in Shooting Sports USA, the late Precision Shooting Magazine, The Outdoor Message, the American Rifleman, the Civilian Marksmanship Program’s website, and most recently, the apogee of his literary career, pronematch.com.
