Jerry Novotny
St. Paul, MN
Elected: 1976
Shooting Member
 Jerry
Novotny, St. Paul, shot his first targets at the White Bear Gun
Club when he was 12. He broke 17 X 25. He participated
in his first registered shoot in 1952 and wound up the season with
a mark of .8914 on 1200 clays. Jerry won five state
championships: the All-Around in 1959, 1962 and 1963 and the
Doubles in 1959 and 1963. He also won the ATA Central Zone
All-Around in 1958. In 1959 he headed Minnesota State high
average gunners with .9739 on 3,300 clays, 11th in the Nation in
the 3,000 to 4,000 class.
He also won the
handicap HA that year with .9010. Jerry Served as vice-president
of the Minnesota State Association before moving to Newark,
Delaware where he taught at the University of Delaware. He
completed in the Delaware State Shoot and won the Class A,
Singles. He then moved to South Bend, Indiana, where he was
mechanical engineer professor at Notre Dame University.
Not able to shoot as
much as he once did, in 1973 shooting out of Indiana he averaged
.9850 on 400 singles and .9333 on 300 handicap targets form 26½
yards. Novotny took part in two Grand Americans and was once a
member of the White Bear, St. Paul Rod and Gun Club, Omaha Rod and
Gun Club and the Sioux Indians.
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