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Box MS419.13

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Newspaper clipping and Periodical – Quickshots. Jean Foster. USA Shooting Nat’l Rifle Championships. Chino, CA, Sept.-Nov.,1996

 File — Box: MS419.13, Folder: MS419.13.900
Identifier: MS419.13.900
Scope and Contents

USA Shooting Nat’l Rifle Championships and Prado Olympic Shooting Park, Chino, CA. Sept. 14-20. Photo of Jean: caption; Jean foster 1996 Nat’l Champion Women’s Air Rifle and Women’s 3 X 20 – Air Rifle score 894.4 (out of possible 909 points) - 3 X 20 score 1258.7 out of 1309 possible points.

Dates: Sept.-Nov.,1996
Found in: McCracken Research Library / MS 419, MS 419 - John R. Foster Olympic Sharpshooter

Bulletin. Jean Foster. Wolf Creek Shooting Complex – venue for 1996 Olympics, July 20-27,1996

 File — Box: MS419.13, Folder: MS419.13.902
Identifier: MS419.13.902
Scope and Contents

Location, 20 Miles SW of downtown Atlanta. Seating capacity – 9,000 shooting. Four separate ranges. Electronic rifle – pistol targets. Spectator accommodations: 2,500-seat finals pavilion for rifle and pistol events. Cost (to construct), $21 million. Took its name from nearby Wolf Creek Trap and Skeet Club.

Dates: July 20-27,1996
Found in: McCracken Research Library / MS 419, MS 419 - John R. Foster Olympic Sharpshooter

Periodical – West Virginia Univ. Alumni Magazine. Jean Foster. Article about the Olympics , Fall, 1996

 File — Box: MS419.13, Folder: MS419.13.904
Identifier: MS419.13.904
Scope and Contents “Behind the Gold”. Pg.18. competing at major international events is nothing new to the WVU rifle contingent: Coach Marsha Beasley and Mountaineer shooter Jean Foster (’93), Eric Uptagrafft (’95) and Bruce Meredith (’62). Meredith is a 2-time Olympian, having won a silver medal at the 1968 games. Foster’s father Jack shot on the ’60 and ’68 U.S. teams. Her mother, Trish Kinsella Foster, shot on the Mountaineers’ 1966 Nat’l champion team and 3 World Championship teams in 1966, ’70 and...
Dates: Fall, 1996
Found in: McCracken Research Library / MS 419, MS 419 - John R. Foster Olympic Sharpshooter

Photos: P.419.2749 – P.419.2819. XXVI Summer Olympic – Centennial, Atlanta, GA. Jean Foster.

 File — Box: MS419.13, Folder: MS419.13.905
Identifier: MS419.13.905
Scope and Contents #2749 Jean Foster and Eric Uptagrafft, event portrait. #2750 and 2751 – Jean standing outdoors next to Olympic poster. #2752 – L-R, Marie Alkire (Margaret Murdock’s sister), Jean and Tricia Foster, standing by an Olympic poster. #2753 – Jean and Tricia sitting on a porch swing. #2754 – Jean sitting in a rocking chair on the porch of the Bed and Breakfast. #2755 – Jean and Tricia on the porch of B and B. #2756 – Back of the B and B, handicap ramp leading up to the wraparound porch. #2757 –...
Dates: Acquisition Date 2010?
Found in: McCracken Research Library / MS 419, MS 419 - John R. Foster Olympic Sharpshooter

Newspaper clipping. Unrelated to collection, June, 1996

 File — Box: MS419.13, Folder: MS419.13.907
Identifier: MS419.13.907
Scope and Contents

Picture of a 98-year-old woman from Australia, still pistol shooting.

Dates: June, 1996
Found in: McCracken Research Library / MS 419, MS 419 - John R. Foster Olympic Sharpshooter

Periodicals: Quickshot and USA shooting catalog. Jean Foster., 1998

 File — Box: MS419.13, Folder: MS419.13.910
Identifier: MS419.13.910
Scope and Contents

1.) Quickshot: “A Quick Shot with Jean Foster”. Discipline, events, guns used, ammo used. Special Techniques. Jean’s been a member of the Nat’l Team for 4 years. On the ’96 Olympic Team and was named USA Shooting’s Female Rifle Athlete of the year in 1997. 2.) Catalog: Jean is used as a model for T-shirts.

Dates: 1998
Found in: McCracken Research Library / MS 419, MS 419 - John R. Foster Olympic Sharpshooter

Award Certificates (3). NRA Nat’l Rifle and Pistol Championships, Camp Perry, OH. , 1970

 File — Box: MS419.13, Folder: MS419.13.800
Identifier: MS419.13.800
Scope and Contents NRA Nat’l Rifle and Pistol Championships, Camp Perry, OH. Awarded to John R. Foster: 1.) Second Place – Nat’l Smallbore Rifle Position Championship – Score, 3173-217X. 2.) Second Place – 4-Position, Metallic Sight Smallbore Rifle Match – Score, 795-54X. 3.) Third Place – 4-Position, Any Sight...
Dates: 1970
Found in: McCracken Research Library / MS 419, MS 419 - John R. Foster Olympic Sharpshooter

Award Certificates (2). Position Nat’l. Matches and Prone Nat’l. Matches at Camp Perry, OH. , 1970

 File — Box: MS419.13, Folder: MS419.13.802
Identifier: MS419.13.802
Scope and Contents 1.) NRA Smallbore Rifle Distinguished All Prone – Awarded to John Foster in recognition of having earned one of the steps required for this designation. Earned in competition during the Prone Nat’l Matches. 2.) NRA Smallbore Rifle Distinguished Four Position – Awarded to John Foster in recognition of having earned one of the steps...
Dates: 1970
Found in: McCracken Research Library / MS 419, MS 419 - John R. Foster Olympic Sharpshooter

Award Certificate. Texas State Int’l. Gallery Smallbore Rifle Championship., 1970

 File — Box: MS419.13, Folder: MS419.13.804
Identifier: MS419.13.804
Scope and Contents

. Certificate is awarded to John Foster in recognition of an outstanding performance in winning the Championship.

Dates: 1970
Found in: McCracken Research Library / MS 419, MS 419 - John R. Foster Olympic Sharpshooter

Award Certificates (2). Int’l Indoor Invitational Smallbore Rifle Tournament, Ft. Benning, GA. , Jan.19-22, 1970

 File — Box: MS419.13, Folder: MS419.13.805
Identifier: MS419.13.805
Dates: Jan.19-22, 1970
Found in: McCracken Research Library / MS 419, MS 419 - John R. Foster Olympic Sharpshooter

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