It is my pleasure to announce that the Maine Trapshooting Association, through the recent efforts of Tom Hartranft and Eric Adams, has actively establishing the MTA Hall of Fame which will be exhibited at the Maine ATA Home Grounds in Scarborough.
We will announce, in our State Championship program, the the Inductees who will be inducted at our Annual Hall of Fame Tournament to be held in May at Scarborough the following year.
Please refer to the HOF Standards and Guidelines
Eric
Adams will serve as the interim chair of the MTA HOF
Selection Committee. Any person/s desiring to nominate any
member for consideration for 2019 Induction should contact
Eric and proceed per the process as defined in the Standards
and Guidelines.
We are all pleased to
be taking the necessary steps to preserve the great legacy
of Trapshooting in
Maine.
On May 20th, 2018 the Maine
Trapshooting Association ( MTA ) held it’s first Annual Hall
of Fame Tournament and Induction ceremony on the grounds of
the Scarborough Fish & Game Assn premiere trap shooting
facility in Scarborough, Maine.
After a morning of singles shooting, MTA
President Thomas Hartranft presided over the Induction
ceremony where three distinguished Maine Shooters were
inducted to the newly established Maine Trapshooting Hall of
Fame. They are Calvin Stinson, Joe Hall and Alfred Wright.
The 2019 Inductees were announced. They
are Waldo Seavey, long deceased and dominant champion of the
1930’s and Leland Smith, a multiple time State Champion in
the 1970’s, who served MTA with distinction for many years.
Lee, at age 87, was present. It was nice to see so many
share conversation and memories with him.
Attendees were invited to view the new
MTA Hall of Fame exhibits in the loft of the main clubhouse.
A catered barbecue lunch was enjoyed by all with ample time
for old friends to leisurely chat prior to a call to the
line for an afternoon of handicap shooting.