Officers & Directors

Officers

• President

  Mark Chiodini

• Vice President

  Bill Boyd

  Wall of Honor Recipient

  Bill lives in Milton, WI, and is the Owner of Boyd Consulting, a multi-state employee benefits company. Bill has been working in the insurance industry for 40 years. He’s also been involved with the club for over 25 years, serving on the board numerous times, holding the Treasurer’s position from the mid-1990s to 2001, and holding the President’s position in 2006 and 2007. Bill modernized the club’s office functions by migrating the paper books and records to Quicken and then QuickBooks. In 2000, he spearheaded the research and purchase of JCC’s current trap houses and Pat Traps, and along with Bob Laukant, did all the wiring to get them working. Bill and his wife, Barb, also ran the clubhouse kitchen for 4 years. He is a lifetime member of the ATA, and holds ATA, NRA, and Hunter Safety certifications. Bill helps teach the four Hunter Safety classes the club offers each year. His hobbies include shooting, golf, and fishing. Bill and Barb have four children—Kim, Kurt, Kelly, and Troy.

• Secretary

  Open

• Treasurer

  Al Arner
  oldarnie43@gmail.com
  608-201-5192

  Wall of Honor Recipient – 2012

  Al lives in Janesville, WI, and is a retired Carpenter from the General Motors plant in town. He has been with the club and shooting in the ATA for 30 years. Al is currently serving as the club Treasurer, a position he’s held since December, 2002. He’s also been running our leagues since 2005. Al designed the current club logo in 2006, and in the same year crafted the large wooden version of it hanging in the clubhouse. Al is a certified NRA Shotgun Coach and a certified Hunter Safety Instructor. He helps teach the four Hunter Safety classes the club offers each year. Al has been active in the NWTF since 1991, and he is a lifetime ATA, NRA, and SASS member. He is also a member of the Delavan Sportsmen’s Club and the Stoughton Conservation Club. Most recently, Al was instrumental in moving the club to a modern web platform so that JCC could revamp its website and gain more visibility with local businesses. His hobbies include woodworking and helping out at the club. Al has three daughters and five grandchildren.

Directors

• Bill Boyd

  wjboyd@boydcg.com
  608-289-3883

  Wall of Honor Recipient – 2012

  Bill lives in Milton, WI, and is the Owner of Boyd Consulting, a multi-state employee benefits company. Bill has been working in the insurance industry for 40 years. He’s also been involved with the club for over 25 years, serving on the board numerous times, holding the Treasurer’s position from the mid-1990s to 2001, and holding the President’s position in 2006 and 2007. Bill modernized the club’s office functions by migrating the paper books and records to Quicken and then QuickBooks. In 2000, he spearheaded the research and purchase of JCC’s current trap houses and Pat Traps, and along with Bob Laukant, did all the wiring to get them working. Bill and his wife, Barb, also ran the clubhouse kitchen for 4 years. He is a lifetime member of the ATA, and holds ATA, NRA, and Hunter Safety certifications. Bill helps teach the four Hunter Safety classes the club offers each year. His hobbies include shooting, golf, and fishing. Bill and Barb have four children—Kim, Kurt, Kelly, and Troy.

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• Dave Hanson

  Wall of Honor Recipient

  Dave lives in Janesville, WI. In 2003, he retired from the General Motors plant in town after 30 years as a Forklift Operator on the medium-duty truck line. He has been shooting at the club since 1971 and has served on the Board of Directors for so long that we’ve lost count of the years. During that time, Dave has been involved in the expansion of the clubhouse and in the ongoing grounds-keeping and maintenance of the facilities. Many shooters who visit comment on the park-like appearance of the Janesville Conservation Club, and Dave—along with Al Arner—is responsible for making it look that way. His hobbies include trapshooting, pistol and rifle shooting, reloading, and hunting ducks, geese, and deer. Dave and his wife, Terri, have two children—Heidi and David—and five grandchildren.

• Don Larson

  Don lives in Janesville, WI, and worked as an electrician at Gilman’s for 5 years, Dana Corporation for 7 years, and General Motors for 30 years. While at GM, he serviced machine tools, machine controls, and building construction equipment. Don has been involved with the club since 1962, and some of his early jobs included grounds maintenance, and loading, setting, pulling, and scoring targets. He continues to help with general club maintainence to this day. Don has also served several terms on our Board. For the last few years, he and Randy Bleiler have handled the charity shoot live auction—an entertaining event for all. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Don managed the trap kids at JCC and often shuttled them to the Brodhead club to work there as well. Don and his wife, Bonnie, have 3 daughters (Sigrid, Aleshia, and Mandi) and 6 grandchildren—all of whom have learned to shoot.

• Don VanDeBogert

  Don lives in Lake Geneva, WI, and for the last 15 years has been working for Koja Construction, where he is currently a Carpenter Supervisor. Prior to that, he worked for Mid-States Construction for 29 years. Don was introduced to trapshooting in 1969 by JCC’s president at the time, Jack Lang. Don has been a member here since 1993, and he’s also a member of the Delavan Sportsman’s Club. His hobbies include target shooting and hunting ruffed grouse with his German shorthaired pointers. Don and his wife, Jackie, have two children—Tricia and Donald—and six grandchildren.

• Ed Kelly

  815-218-6858

  Ed lives in Caledonia, IL. He worked at Rockford Power Train for 30 years in various financial analysis positions, and completed his career as a Cost Accounting Manager before retiring in 2002. Ed now farms corn and soybeans to stay active. He has been shooting since the mid-1970s. As of 2014, Ed has over 390,000 registered targets to his credit, and has been named once to the Illinois All State Men’s Team. He has served on the Board at JCC since 2005. At our registered shoots, Ed helps with squadding and classifying duties. His hobbies include trapshooting and farming. He and his wife, Vicki, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in 2014.

• Valerie Rogers

• John Reeb

  John lives in Whitewater, WI, where he and his wife have been farming since 1979. He started shooting in 2001 and is a member of both the Jefferson Sportsmen’s Club and the Janesville Conservation Club He has served on the Board at Janesville since 2012. John and his wife, Jean, donated to the Jefferson club’s new facility in 2008. In 2013, he hauled 14 new prefab trap houses to the Wisconsin home grounds facility in Rome. His hobbies include trapshooting, prairie dog shooting, and farming. In 2014, John and Jean celebrated 45 years of marriage. They have two daughters and three grandchildren.

• Loren Rippentrop

  Loren lives in Cherry Valley, IL. He retired in 2011 after working as an Electrician with various contractors for 21 years and with Northern Illinois University for another 23 years. Loren started shooting at JCC in the early 1990s, and he has served on the board since 2009. Some career highlights include earning his AA27AA pin during the 1998 season, and finishing 3rd in the Grand American class singles championship in 2008 by shooting 200 straight in the main event and then another 274 straight in the shoot-offs. Loren was also the Out of State Singles Champion in 2002 at the Iowa State Shoot, and the Illinois Veterans Singles Champion in 2013. To date, he has six 200-straights to his credit, six appearances on the Illinois All State Men’s Team, and one appearance on the Illinois All State Veteran’s Team. In 2013, Loren also won the club Wobble championship for the second consecutive year. In addition to trapshooting, he enjoys reloading, gardening, and traveling. Loren and his wife, Iren, have three daughters—Kim, Debby, and Linn—and two grandchildren.

• Paul Rogers

• Randy Bleiler

  Wall of Honor Recipient

  Randy lives in Fort Atkinson, WI. He currently works at Jones Dairy Farm in his home town. Prior to that, Randy worked 14 years for Mann Brothers, Inc. as a Heavy Equipment Operator and Mechanic, and 26 years at Beloit Corporation as a Machinist. He has been shooting at the Janesville Conservation Club since 1982, and has been on the Board of Directors every year except one since 1984. Randy helps score the Winter Jackpots, load the trap houses, set the targets, and maintain the trap machines. He was also in demand for many years by Illinois and Wisconsin clubs that needed repair work done on their hand-set traps. In 2011, Randy was named to the Wisconsin All State Men’s Team. His hobbies include pheasant hunting and training setters. In his younger days, Randy enjoyed building the motorcycles he used for motocross, flat track, ice racing, and sidehack racing. He and his wife, Mary, have one child—a setter named Geordie.

• Dale Miller

• Roger Schnabel

  rjschnabel39@live.com

  Roger lives in Evansville, WI. He worked at VP/BlueScope Buildings for 52 years holding various positions, but for the last 32 years Roger served as the QA Manager before retiring in June of 2010. He became a member of the Janesville Conservation Club in 2000 and has served on the Board of Directors for approximately 8 years since then. Roger is a lifetime member of the ATA, a lifetime member of the Brooklyn Sportsman Club, and a member of the Evansville Lions Club. His hobbies include trapshooting, fishing, hunting, boating, bowling, pitching horseshoes, and riding motorcycles, four wheelers, and snowmobiles. Roger and his wife, Jolene, have six children (four sons, two daughters) and ten grandchildren.

• Steve Keeley

  Steve lives in Waterloo, WI. During his career, he worked for 35 years at Perry Printing, serving in many capacities and finishing his stint there as a Customer Service Representative. After that, he was employed by Kolar Arms as Marketing Director for 3 years, and then worked for 10 years at Recob’s before retiring. Steve has been on JCC’s Board of Directors since 2002. Often, when he is not on the line, you will find him helping a fellow shooter with a gun issue. In 2011, Steve was featured in Trap and Field magazine in a piece submitted by a friend who wanted to recognize his selfless nature and willingness to help other trapshooters. He has a storied trapshooting career, culminating in 2001 with the most prestigious award a trapshooter can earn—Grand American Clay Target Champion. After shooting 200 straight in the championship event that year, Steve went on to break another 200 straight in the shoot offs to claim the title. He was also the Wisconsin State Handicap Champion in 2003. As of 2013, Steve has been named to the Wisconsin All State Team 14 times. His other hobbies, besides shooting, include fishing and ice-fishing. Steve and his wife, Carol, have 1 son, Kris, 3 grandchildren, and 1 great-grandchild.

• Open

Alternate Directors

• Brad Davis

  Brad lives in Genoa City, WI, and works as a Technical Writer for Siemens Building Technologies at their Software House in Chicago, IL. He taught writing courses part-time for 20 years at various colleges in Illinois, and has also taught 4-H Shooting Sports near home and downhill skiing at Devil’s Head Resort in Merrimac, WI.  Brad has been a member at the Janesville Conservation Club since 2012, and was the Director of the Youth Shooting Program from 2012 to 2016. In 2013, Brad designed the new club website and also volunteered to serve as its webmaster. He enjoys hiking, skiing, cycling, reading, pistol & rifle shooting, and spending time with family and friends. Brad is a certified Double-Goal Coach and a certified NRA Shotgun Coach.

• Carol Keeley

  Bio coming soon.

• Jackie VanDeBogert

  Bio coming soon.

• Ron Syverson

  Ron lives in Janesville, WI. He worked for the General Motors plant in town for 34 years as a Forklift Operator, delivering parts to the assembly line before retiring in 1993. Ron has been shooting at JCC since the late 1990s. Trapshooting is now his main hobby, but when he was younger, he enjoyed deer hunting—and also pheasant, duck, and goose hunting with his Labs and his English Setter. Ron use to build flat track motorcycles and worked as a motorcycle mechanic at races all over the country. As of 2014, Ron and his wife, Ferne, have been married 54 years. They have two children, Scott and Todd, five grandchildren, and one great-grandchild.