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February 9, 2020 Q 1 Quarterly Newsletter of the Dallas Bridge Association, Vol. 26 Q 1
Table Talk Table Talk Unit 176
Inside this issue
Out & About; Fall Sect. Results; Highpoint Winners p 2-5
Around the Tables; Dec STaC results; 2020 Unit Board;
”Young Blood” article p 6-9
Tournaments; President’s Message; I/N News p 10-11
Master Points Races; In Memoriam; Clubs; January Elec-
tion Sectional Winners p 12-15
Texas Star Award Unit 176
Mary Jane McGinnis is Dallas' own Jill of all trades. If it was there to do, she has done it with enthusiasm and Southern charm. She has served several terms on the board of directors, has
written our Score Card article for years, and chaired several sectional tournaments. If you want a great party, MJ is your go-to per-son. She has been at the helm of the unit Christmas party and has made it an event – from the wonderful food, to the exciting door prizes and to her own specially-designed contribution boxes – she does it all. Mary Jane is our steel magnolia, and we are proud to honor her with this year's Texas Star Award.
Goodwill Award Unit 176 What makes Vi stand out is her willing-ness to always help. She recently served on the Unit 176 Board. While on the board, she took on many duties including coordinating club visitations by the board and new unit member welcome letters. Even more im-pressive is the fact that she kept these du-ties for a couple of years following her term on the board. Coordinating club visitations can be a complicated task. Welcoming new members is a constant task. Each month Unit 176 welcomes between 9 and 15 new members. Did you know we greet each new member and transferee into the unit with a letter and a Unit Game free play? Vi not only is a per-son behind the scene, she is frequently present at the bridge table, always smiling and friendly. Unit 176 is proud to award Vi Ganeles the Goodwill Award. Well Deserved Retirement:
After 13 years of operating her own bridge stu-dio in Richardson, Dorsey Shaw sold her studio in January to Jim Harp. She wants to enjoy the pleasure of playing bridge with her friends with-out all the responsibilities of club ownership. She will have more time to travel to visit her children as well as take some days off to do whatever strikes her fancy. The best thing is that we all get to see her around the tables since she isn’t moving to a place with warmer weather like Florida or Aruba.
A Timely Reminder: Putting your
phone away and paying attention to
those talking to you….there’s an APP
for that. It’s called “RESPECT”.
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McKinney DBC’s 7th Anniversary On Thursday September 19, 2019, the McKinney Duplicate Bridge Club celebrated its 7th year anniversary. We celebrated with a free play day and free anniversary cake com-plete with balloons! Our club had plenty to celebrate. Our membership has continued to grow reaching 156 members in 2019. The club has expanded to two well attended games per week and in 2019, according to ACBL, we had a total of 1,019 tables. ACBL also indicates we are ranked 515 in North America club size. We hope to continue growing by offering a friendly well managed game. Guests are always welcome. ~reported by John Harrelson
A Game for the Record Books
We all play bridge looking for that game that really clicks. On Thursday Septem-ber 10, 2019 Adrianne Feuer and Jack Rollier had such a game. They accomplished a 76.39% game which is the highest game we have record-ed in our McKinney game. Congratulations to Adrianne and Jack! ~reported by John Harrelson
Bridge Superstar! Bob Bender achieved the level of Bronze Life Master in August 2019. Let’s flashback to how it all started at the University of Delaware during the late 1960's. He played a lot of bridge, but he was also on the Tennis team. It is amazing that he found time to study. But, he did and graduated from the University of Delaware in 1970. Due to attending graduate school and raising a family he did not play any bridge for the next 47 years. In 2017 he found bridge again. He took beginner les-sons at BAND and played at Dorsey’s. He read many bridge books, took lessons, and played a lot of bridge. Needless to say, he came back to the game with a venge-
ance. He eventually added playing at the McKinney Du-
plicate Bridge Club where we have adopted him. He won the Mini-McKinney and the Ace of Clubs for his point level in 2017, 2018, and 2019. He became a Life Master in November 2018 and a Bronze Life Master in August 2019. Bob commented that "he is not yet a strong player, but he is getting better". I would say he qualifies as a strong player. Bob shared finding bridge was like "finding something wonderful that had been lost". He enjoys the mental challenge of playing bridge and also making new friends. He also feels the key to playing good bridge is having great partners and men-tors. Congratulations to Bob for his successful return to Bridge! ~reported by John Harrelson
Special Unit Game Friday, Nov 15 Dorsey’s Open 20 tables: ABC Stan Hsu, Khalifa Ahmed
BAND Open 8 tables:
A Randolph Worsham, Marion Gebhardt B Barry & Lynn Cooper
C Joel Cane, Hilton Israelson BAND 499er 12 tables:
A Margie Portela, Marcia Messinger B Beverly & Chester Winchester
C Harenda & Geeta Desai BAND 49er 8 tables:
AB Len Bourland, Joan Clark C Margaret Cooley, D Lane Mueller
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Dallas Fall Sectional November 7-10 There were 2,528.16 master points earned by 509 players at this
551 table tournament. The highest master points won was 38.73. About 405 Unit 176 players won master points.
Unit 176’s top ten players were: Nagy Kamel, 38.73; Milton Neher, 36.73; Petra Hamman, 34.49; Bob Friz, 31.84;
Tom Edwards, 31.54; Michael Hout, 29.15; Marion Gebhardt, 25.72; Eric Diamond, 23.71; Hemant Lall, 23.32;
Michael Schreiber, 21.53
Th AM Open Pairs Flt A Michael Schreiber,
Milt Neher
Th Aft Open Pairs Flt B Nancy Fellman, Marilyn Florin
Th Swiss Bkt 2 Cheryl Rider, Randy
Worsham (NP), Fonse Ragland, Jim Rider
Th AM Open Pairs Flt BC Vivian & Jun Li
Th AM 499 Pairs Flt AB Anita & John Everhart
Th Aft 499 Flt ABC Carol & Tony Arthur
Th AM 499 Pairs Flt C Susan Henchal, Bub Blackstone
Th Swiss Bkt 3 Fred Carver, Robert Kayser,
Martha & Sharon Ward Th & Fri Swiss Bkt 1
Pat Cassidy (Arlington), Nancy Kornegay (N. Richland Hills),
Nagy Kamel, Steve
Kornegay (N. Richland Hills)
Fri Swiss Bkt 2 Linda Harley, Stan Hsu, Khalifa
Ahmed, Janet Borg
Fri Swiss Bkt 3 Ping Wen, Bonnie Shea,
Jin Chu, Tom Lang
Fri Swiss Bkt 4 Gerry Urbach, Charles
Golenternek, Joni Antwell, Janet Trombello
Fri AM Open Pairs Flt B Mark Hatkoff, Lee Huber
Fri AM 499 Flt AB Nancie Wagner,
Val Lawler
Sat AM Open Pairs Flt AB Leigh Ann & Thomas Schmidt
Fri AM 499 Flt C Kathy Russler,
Judy Berg Sat AM Open Pairs Flt C David Greims, Fred Curtis
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Dallas Fall Sectional cont.
Sat Swiss Bkt 2 Paul Taylor, Bob Scrimale,
Chris Myers (AZ), Jim Harp
Sat Swiss Bkt 3 Carol Murray, Laura
Onsgard, Carol Casey, Ros Miller
Sun AM Open Pairs Flt C Wright Barnebey,
Pat Marchman
Sat AM 499 Pairs Flt AB Anne Goodman,
Gano Ehlers
Sun Aft Open Pairs Flt A Nancy Stanton,
Lynn Wood
Sat AM 499 Flt AB Feza Buyukdura,
Frank La Cava
Sat Swiss Bkt 4 Lynda Bradley
(Corinth), Gool Castleberry, Roger & Linda Farish (Lewisville)
Sat Swiss Bkt 1 Kristen Onsgard, Petra Hamman,
Phillip Grothus (Houston),
Hemant Lall
Sat AM Open Pairs Flt A Milt Neher,
Marion Gebhardt
Sun Swiss A & X Bob Friz, Eric Diamond,
Gerry McKim, Mike Hout Nov 28-Dec 8 Fall NABC
There were 90,815.42 master points earned by 4,458
players at this 10,374 table tournament. The highest
master points won was 400. About 30 players from
Unit 176 earned master points. The top 6 Unit 176
players were: Bob Hamman, 262.64; Mike Passell,
112.60; Phil Clayton, 111.92; Hemant Lall, 94.28;
Petra Hamman, 62.51; Justin Lall, 60.60.
Some highlight games:
Fri Day Open Pairs: 41 tables
Flt A Nancy Passell, Petra Hamman
Mitchell B-a-M: 56 tables 140 MP won by
Bob Hamman; H. Weinstein, CA; M. Becker, FL;
P. Weichsel, CA; L.Milne & A. Hung, Australia.
Wed Brkt B Teams 10: 12 tables 7.17 mp won by
Anne Curry, Molly Hamilton; D. Soshnick & C. Yokota, MO.
Harvey Brody KO—1: 14 tables 58.89 MP won by
Mike Passell; M.Levine, Fl; E.Wold, Houston; S. DeWijs,
Doorn; B. Muller, Zwaag 16; M. Jacobus, Las Vegas.
Mini-Blue Ribbon Pairs: 18 tables Phil Clayton; J. Cohn,
NY won with a score of 530.74.
NEW Intermediate Level Lessons Where: Harp’s Bridge Club
When: Thursdays at 4:30 pm
Instructor: Mark Bumgardner, Bridge Professional & ACBL Certified Instructor/Director
214-223-5219 bumgardner.mark@gmail.com
Random Thoughts that Popped into My Mind If my body is ever found on a jogging trail; just
know that I was murdered somewhere else and dumped there.
I’ve decided I’m not old, I’m 25….plus shipping & handling.
In my defense, I WAS left unsupervised.
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77% Dec Lesson Game
Jill Bach Ilene Bierman
80% Dec 299 Pairs Barbara Willard, Michael Conner
74% Dec Open Pairs Michael Schreiber
Milton Neher
74% Dec Open Pairs Barbara & Bob
Hamman
72% Dec Open Pairs Anita Platt
Michael Schreiber 72% Dec 49 Pairs Laura Nagy
Carolyn Joost
73% Jan 299 Pairs Cecily Hutchison
Lynda Pillan
McKinney DBC’s High Point Winners
November 5th 67.82% November 14th 68.75%
Karen Roland, Connie Van Patter Jerry Frankel, Jon Brown
November 26th 66.67% December 10th 68.43%
Mary Pennington, Ray Clark Bonnie Shea, Nancy Morse
~shared by John Harrelson
75% Jan Open Pairs Bill Osborn
Rosalind Smith
87% Jan Fun Game B K Sloan
Linda Robertson
January 8th 68.64%
Bob Bender, Stu Nelan
BAND 70 % Dec & Jan Winners
A Favorite Picture Michael Schreiber, a
recent newlywed, enjoys playing
bridge with his wife, Amy Downing.
Their 70% Open Handicap Pairs Oct.
game picture didn’t make the deadline for the
Nov Table Talk. Instead of using that October
game picture, he wanted to share his favorite
picture of Amy with all of you in this issue.
74% Jan Open Pairs Jerry Frankel Milt Neher
BAND 70 % continued
80% Jan 299 Pairs Kim & Jon Paul
Temple
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Around the tables 299 BAND
Nov 3 1st ABC Melissa & David Gordon
11.5 tables
Jan 5 1st ABC Jon Paul & Kim Temple
14 tables
OPEN DORSEY’S Nov 3 1st AB Rich Page, Steve Birnbaum
12 tables 1st C Janet Borg, Maria Gregorat
Unit Pairs Game Winners
OPEN BAND Nov 3 1st A Amy Downing, Michael Schreiber
10 tables 1st BC Allan Chernov, Paulette Armstrong
Jan 5 1st A Nancy Latner, Rosalind Smith
11 tables 1st BC Cheryl Bradford, Linda Appel
Dec 8 Holiday Party Thank you to the 302 peo-
ple who played at 75.5 tables in 3 different flights. A huge thank you for your generosity resulting in over $4,000 being donated to the North Texas Food Bank. Congratulations to these winners: Open Pairs - 29.5 tables
A S. Kohan, Linda Spangler B Joe Gill, Adrianne Feuer
C Jennifer Rao, Mary Lynn Genovesi 1500 Pairs - 25.5 tables AB William Driscoll, J. Terrence Wolfe C Pat Glaser, Mavis Wallace 299 Pairs - 20.5 tables
A Feza Buyukdura, Frank La Cava BC Jon Paul & Kim Temple
99 BAND Nov 3 1st A Tanis Weiss, Sherill Black
5.5 tables 1st BC Bonnie Sweat, Richard Adin
Jan 5 1st AB Brian & Jean McAulay
6 tables 1st C Charles Pavlue, George Conant
“PASS IT FORWARD”
Courtesy
Unit 176 Games: 1:30 pm
Feb 9 March 8 April 12 May 10
June 14 July 5 Aug 9 Sept 13 Oct 11
Nov 15 Dec 6 Unit Game/Holiday Party
OPEN HARP’S Jan 5 1st A Petra Hamman, Hemant Lall
10 tables 1st B Michael & Karen Hout
1st C Xiaoqi Zhou, Chuck Eastin
Unit 176 Team Games: 6:30 pm
Feb 13 BAND May 14 HARP’S
Aug 13 BAND Oct 15 HARP’S
Unit 176 Special Day Unit Games:
March 19 Thursday Unit Pairs
April 20 Monday Unit Pairs
July 14 Tuesday Unit Pairs
September 16 Wednesday Unit Pairs
November 13 Friday Unit Pairs Game
STaC Dec 9 - Dec 15 -continues on p 7
Mon AM 2000: 7 tables
AB 62.20% Billee Brooks, Jo Ann Truitt, DBS
Mon AM Open: 21.5 tables
A 63.86% Mark Bumgardner, Eric Diamond, FBC
BC 58.20% Dan Kahn, Charles Interdonato, FBC
A Special Wow to these Winners: Wed Aft 49: 3.5 tables AB 72.12% Carolyn Joost, Laura Nagy, BAND Th Aft 299: 13 tables ABC 69.72% Tony & Carol Arthur, BAND
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STaC Dec 9 - Dec 15- continued
Mon Aft 499: 14 tables
C 58.85% Darlene West, Bev Morrow, V V BC
B 61.25% Nancy Latner, Kathleen Carr, BAND
Mon Aft Side: 16 tables
ABC 59.52% Jim & Cheryl Rider, BAND
Mon Aft Limited Side: 5 tables
A 61.25% Janet Sheppard, Jana Mueller, BAND
BC 57.50% Judy Brow, Kathy Russler, BAND
Mon Aft Novice: 3.5 tables
A 64.42% TIE William & Julia Cantrell BAND
TIE Bonnie Keene, Carol Dixon, BAND
B 64.42% William & Julia Cantrell, BAND
Tues AM Open: 18 tables
AB 68.43% Nancy Morse, Bonnie Shea, MDBC
C 54.47% Bob Bender, Stuart Nelan, MDBC
Tues Aft Side: 15 tables
AB 67.26% Clint Schuhmacher, Roslyn Miller, BAND
C 60.12% Robert Kayser, Fred Carver, BAND
Tues AFT Limited: 14.5 tables
AB 64.99% Marsha Murray, Sherill Baack, BAND
C 53.64% Steven Rait, Cindy McIntyre, BAND
Tues Eve Side: 4 tables
AB 62.74% Scott Nason, Stephen Birnbaum, BAND
C 53.38% Jon Paul Temple, Hellen Revelle, BAND
Wed AFT Open : 54.5 tables
AB 66.55% Elda Kay Hampton, Bob Butterfield,V V BC
Wed Aft 499: 15 tables
A 63.81% Judy Duval, Pat Glaser, V V BC
BC 62.14% Gini Hines, Becky Venhaus, V V BC
Wed Aft 299: 7 tables
A 65.94% Amy Adams, Ron Day, BAND
BC 62.37% Paul Therriault, Karen Degraffenreid,
BAND
Wed Aft 49: 3.5 tables
C 53.85% Billye Jones, Madge Cruse, BAND
Wed Eve Open: 5 tables
A 64.50% Milton Neher, Rosalind Smith, BAND
BC 60.50% Jeff Karpeles, Dale Remmers, BAND
Wed Eve 299: 6 tables
A 65.00% Richard & Sue Schleier, BAND
BC 54.38% Becky Hopkins, Mary Lok, BAND
Th AM Open: 26 tables
AB 67.24% Raymond Clark, Truett Cates, MDBC
C 60.21% Judy Bouska, Judy Duval, FBC
Th AFT Open: 57 tables
A 67.43% Michael Schreiber, Milton Neher, BAND
BC 62.98% Robert Kayser, Brian Heaphy, BAND
Fri AM Open: 11 tables
AB 58.77% Rich Page, Mark Zeitlin, DBS
C 60.00% Charles Thomas, Anna De La Rosa, BAND
Fri Aft 499: 12 tables
ABC 67.05% B K Sloan, Cassie Stern, BAND
Fri Aft 99: 5.5 tables
A 62.57% Doug & Gloria Pierce, BAND
BC 59.59% David La Cava, Charles Pavlue, BAND
Sat AM Open: 20 tables
AB 66.88% Anita Platt, Jo England, BAND
C 58.79% Martha Ward, Linda Lindley, BAND
~continued on page 8
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STaC Dec 9 - Dec 15 continued
Sat AM 2499: 7.5 tables
A 59.94% Nancy & Charles Morse, DBS
BC 57.14% Robert Holliday, Bob Bender, DBS
Sat AM 299: 7 tables
A 63.10% Jinny Smith, Mary Lee Duda, BAND
BC 56.75% Lawrence Brennan, Steven Buholz, BAND
Sun Aft Open: 22 tables
C 55.95% Leonard Epstein, Hellen Revelle, BAND
Sun Aft 299: 20.5 tables
AB 67.78% Timothy Murphy, Frank Gill, BAND
Sun Aft Small Games: 3 tables
A 62.00% Jim Harp, Mary Jane McGinnis, DBS
Congratulations to the winners of the Board Election: Board members reelected were Joe Gill
and Jim Rider. New to the Board is Debrah Chockley. Unit 176 Committee Assignments of Officers & Members are: President Joe Gill: Member Communi-cation, Electronic Contact Vice President Stuart Nelan: Charity Chair; NAP & GNT Coordinator
Secretary Rich Brandenburg: Equipment Liaison
Treasurer Martha Young: Unit Game Coordinator Members: Debrah Chockley: Membership Eileen Davidoff: Tournament Coordinator; Publicity
James Rider: STaC Coordinator; Education Liaison;
Alice Ogle: IN Coordinator; Scott Nason: District 16 GNT/NAP Coordinator Non-voting: Ed Yetter: Business
Manager; Webmaster Pat Measley: Hospitality Chair
Jim Bauer: District 16 Representative
San Antonio District 16 NAP Finals Jan. 18-19 There
were 995.50 master points won by 146 players at 181
tables. About 26 Unit 176 players won master points.
Two of the NAP Flights were won by Unit
176 players as follows:
Flight A: 36 mp Chris Compton
& Venkatrao Koneru, San Antonio
Flight B: 24 mp Pawel Hanus, Ari Sippola
MDBC Makes a Difference
In December 2019 the McKinney Duplicate Bridge Club made a $1000 donation to the McKin-ney Salvation Army. This donation was to help in the Salvation Army's partnership with a local group to
sponsor the "HOMELESS WARM SHELTER" program. When the tem-perature dips below freezing, the Salvation Army will open its gymna-sium doors to provide a meal and will house the homeless for the night. The McKinney Salvation Army continues to do an excellent job in supporting our Bridge games. We value our relationship with them.
Pictured above: Major Louise Feeser, Salvation Army McKinney Ray Nelson, President McKinney Duplicate Bridge Club ~reported by John Harrelson
San Antonio Sectional January 16-19
There were 1,266.51 master points won by 291 players
at 288 tables. About ten Unit 176 players won points at
this tournament.
Austin College Bridge Class Picture to the right:
Truett Cates, second from the right, requires his students to play at bridge clubs as part of their course credit require-ments. They are pictured at McKinney DBC with Ray Nel-son, white shirt front row, President of MDBC. For more information about this amazing effort to bring younger people into the bridge playing world, see article “Young Blood” on page 9.
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YOUNG BLOOD A girl with pink hair, a boy with pink hair, a pre-med student, a chiseled muscular 320 pound football player; this is a cross section of an Austin College class learning to play bridge for college credit (I can only dream of any color hair). Oh, to be a Freshman in college again. So many of us rabid bridge players are always bemoaning the lack of young bridge players in our games. We have Dr. Truett Cates to thank for originating a college class at Austin College, located in Sher-man, Tx, to help pump Young Blood into our bridge arena. Truett, as he has his students call him, designed this class way back in 1994. Dr. Cates has taught this almost every year since, except for 5 or 6 years when he took a sabbatical from teaching. During those years, our dear departed friend Charlie Price, pinch hit for him. Literally hundreds of young folks have been introduced to this marvelous game. The class is currently offered during Jan term. Just in the month of January, Austin College offers students the chance to take one class compressed into an accelerated schedule whereby students can complete the entire course for four semester hours in a single month. The current class has 17 students, and they meet daily for a one hour lecture and two plus hours of supervised play. They also are assigned 3 labs which include 15-18 hands that point out proper tech-niques of bidding and playing. Unfortunately, of course there are tests, three of them. I’ve been told many of us would find these tests difficult to pass. The course fees include ACBL membership, the first three Audrey Grant books from her teaching series along with special decks of cards for staging demo hands. Perhaps the highlight of the class is taking to the road to play in sanctioned games in several of our local clubs. They played club games at Harp’s and McKinney bridge clubs, two sessions at the NLM tournament in Denton, and my favorite, a “Pro Am” session (I use the Pro term rather liberally) at Harp’s. The students were anxious at first, but gained confidence as the game progressed. After playing a difficult 5C game to perfection, the glee on Gabe’s face was priceless. Gabe was my “rookie”.
I would like to make a special call out to Dr. Cates for doing so much to enrich our beloved game. In addition, several members of our Unit have been very instrumental in helping to grow our game. Jim and Cheryl Rider did an outstanding job promoting and co-chairing last year’s extremely successful I/N Regional and will be chairing the I/N Regional in November. Ed Yetter does a fantastic job of scheduling and arrang-ing these tournaments along with making sure the funds are available to put them on. Stu Nelan and Robbie Ogle do so much on the I/N committee to help make the game more attractive for our newer play-ers. Jim, Stu, and Robbie are all on the Board of Directors, and Ed serves as a non voting member, but he probably is one of the hardest workers in Unit 176. Lastly, Donna Compton has done an unbelievable job of recruiting newcomers. The gist of this story is trying to keep our game viable. It is incumbent on all of us to recruit newcom-ers, particularly Young Blood. Scour the highways and gutters, get your friends, kids and grandchildren interested to keep this game going for future generations. ~ reported by Rich Brandenburg
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Tournaments Forth Worth
Sectional &
I/N Regional
Feb 21-23 CERA Recrea-
tion Complex,
Ft. Worth
Oklahoma City Regional
March 2-8 Radisson Hotel,
Oklahoma City
Spring NABC March 19-
29
Hyatt/Hilton/CC, Columbus,
Ohio
NAP Finals Flt A March 18-
19
Columbus
Ohio
NAP Finals
Flt B &C
March 28-
29
Columbus,
Ohio
BAND 99
Sectional
March 27-
29
BAND
Houston Sectional
GNT District Finals
Flt B
Flt A & C
April
3-5
4-5
Marriott
Westchase,
Houston
DFW Regional April 13-19 Hyatt Regency,
DFW
Unit 176 Board Update:
2020 Unit 176 Board
President: Joe Gill
Vice President: Stuart Nelan
Treasurer: Martha Young
Secretary: Rich Brandenburg
Board Members: Deborah Chockley, Eileen
Davidoff, Scott Nason, Robbie Ogle, Jim
Rider
Business Manager: Ed Yetter
The Unit 176 Board serves the members of Unit 176. We want to provide effective leadership in making bridge an enjoyable activity. If you have
any ideas, please let us know.
For More Tournament information: www.dallasbridge.org
Make Plans NOW to Attend:
March 12-15 Dallas Spring Sectional
Richardson Civic Center
Tournament Co-Chairs:
Rich Brandenburg brandylot@verizon.net & Bob Holliday jbholliday@gmail.com Partnership Desk:
Adrianne Feuer feueradrianne@yahoo.com & Ann Parker Annnelsonparker@gmail.com Tournament Director: Scott Humphrey Tournament Schedule is available at www.dallasbridge.org
Message from the President Our Election Sectional was held in January (as usual) and 3 board members were elected. We welcome Debrah Chockley as a new member; she is replacing Mary Jane McGinnis who completed a 3-year term and has served previous terms on the board. We thank Mary Jane for all the hard work she has performed as a board member. Jim Rider and Joe Gill were re-elected. We also thank all those who ran for the board. We have a couple of new items this year. One is a special offer for new players with 0-5 master points. Play 5 club games and earn a free play (up to $10). This isn’t actually new, since it has been done before, but we are bringing it back. For more information contact Robbie Ogle (robbieogle@aol.com). Something that is new for us is an Ambassador Program for the Labor Day Regional. The idea is that anyone who shows up is guaranteed a partner. Players who volunteer as ambassadors for a specific day and time will receive two free plays, even if they are not needed to play. If you want to volunteer as an ambassador, or just get more information, contact Stu Nelan (stu.nelan@gmail.com). GNT qualifiers continue through March. Only flights B and C need qualify for the district. A club qualifier is one or two sessions. For more information contact Scott Nason (sdnason@sbcglobal.net) or Stu Nelan (stu.nelan@gmail.com). The Dallas Spring Sectional is scheduled for March 12-15. As usual the venue is the Richardson Civic Center, and we follow the same event format we have used in the past. We hope to see you there. ~ Joe Gill
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Dallas Labor Day Regional Ambassador Program The Dallas Labor Day Regional (Sep 1-7) will be here soon, and we are already preparing for it! Ed Yetter and Sheri Gautier are the Co-Chairs for the Tournament, and Stu Nelan is the Partnership Chair. We are establishing an Ambassador Program for the Regional. This program will provide a local volunteer (the Ambassador) to be onsite, ready to play for each session, in case there is someone who needs a partner and none is available. Our goal is to provide all people who want to play with a part-ner; our hope is that they will go back home and tell their bridge-playing friends about their wonderful experience, and return with those friends next year! The Ambassador will only play if needed. If the Ambassador plays, he/she will play for free. And whether or not the Ambassador plays, he/she will get two free plays for use at this or another Dallas Tournament or Unit Games. These Ambassadors will represent our Dallas bridge community to our out-of-town guests, so your participation is greatly needed. Please contact Stu Nelan at stu.nelan@gmail.com with your email ad-dress and cell phone number if you would like to be an Ambassador. And if you signed up at the Holi-day Party on Dec 8, please contact him again to ensure that he has your name, cell phone, and email correct. ~Stu Nelan
ATTENTION I / N PLAYERS The ACBL states the “N” in I/N stands for Newcomers. I disagree, but I am not the ACBL ! Anyway, I want to make it clear, any Non Life Master is included at ALL I/N events. Your Unit 176 and District 16 are working on plans to make you feel more included. For instance at the March Sectional (March 12 -15), we will be removing the 0 - 49 and replacing it with 0 - 99 in the Stratified Pairs. In the past, the 0 - 49 games haven’t had enough players and sent novice players into 0 - 499. We’re hoping the 0 - 99 range will open up the game to more players who are comfortable playing with each other. (This is different from what is stated on the flyer). Below is a link to the first version of Intermediate/Newcomer material on our District 16 website. https://www.d16acbl.org/ In it you will find tabs for:
Back issues of Paul Cuneo's I/N Newsletter How to use the ACBL website to get a list of upcoming I/N Tournaments D16 Teaching Materials How to use the ACBL website to get results from D16 past I/N Tournaments Links to ACBL I/N information
So check out the link and please let us know what else we can add to the website to make it more use-ful. Please email me with any questions or comments: robbieogle@aol.com Please come and play as we want to see you at our events. ~Robbie Ogle
BAND 299 Silver Sectional Jan 31– Feb 2 There were 221.26 master points won by 131 players at 114 tables. Some highlight winners are:
Sat AM 99 AB; Sat Aft 99 ABC; Sun Aft 99 AB
Thomas Dickerson Roger Bean
Fri AM 99 BC & Sat AM 99 C Paige Allen, Joan Byers
Fri AM 299 C & Sat AM 299 ABC Sharon Walsh
Jim LaRose
Fri Aft 299 AB 72.16%
Beverly & Calvin Winchester
Sun AM 299 ABC 68.29%
Lisa & Kurt Smith
Sun Aft 299 A 73.52% Sharon Lux
Lacy Peterson
Sat Aft 299 ABC 65.87% & Overall Winners at 7.64 mp Kim & Jon Paul Temple
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2019 Helen Shanbrom Ace of Clubs
(updated 2/6/20; includes points won at club level only)
0-5 Gail Wingfield 50.49 Jon Paul Temple 39.51
5-20 Sherill Baack 68.41 Melissa Gordon 36.74
20-50 Feza Bayukdura 119.27 James Bishop 77.98
50-100 Burton Shepherd 101.05 Chuck Thomas 66.41
100-200 Robert Kayser 111.70 Judy Zipkes 79.78
200-300 Fred Carver 99.58 Mary Chaffin 92.43
300-500 Robert Bender 199.32 Ribs LaMothe 195.22
500-1000 Anita Platt 226.65 Jerry Frankel 163.03
1000-1500 Rosalind Smith 327.90 Joe Fletcher 154.75
1500-2500 Sidney Perutz 318.22 Jo England 267.00
2500-3500 Florence Beaird 194.60 Amy Downing 170.40
3500-5000 Milton Neher 392.60 David Nurenberg
185.62
5000-7500 Bill Osborn 395.22 Jack Borenstein 378.89
7500-10,000 Michael Murphy 112.84 Joan Jackson 52.75
Over 10,000 Marion Gebhardt 330.68 Michael Schreiber
311.38
Congratulations to Unit 176’s new-est Ruby Life Masters:
Chris Anderson, Kristen Onsgard, Jo Ann Truitt
Congratulations to Unit 176’s newest Life Masters: Daniel Butler, Allan Chernov, Robert Kayser, Neill Ray
Congratulations to Unit 176’s newest Gold Life Masters: Jon Browne, Pawel Hanus, Jane Kirby
Congratulations to Unit 176’s newest Silver Life Masters: Carol Casey, Susan Doe, William Higgins, James Moore, Sharon Ward, Richard Wittrup
Congratulations to Unit 176’s newest Sapphire Life Master: Amy Downing, Donna Garrard,
Phyllis Gravitz, Preston Morrow
2019 Mini-McKenney (updated 2/6/20)
0-5 Gail Wingfield 96.65 Jon Paul Temple 56.87
5-20 Sherill Baack 84.59 Mark Meiches 48.71
20-50 Feza Buyukdura 188.72 James Bishop 88.09
50-100 Burton Shepherd 131.51 Chuck Thomas 104.53
100-200 Allen Chernov 193.19 Robert Kayser 182.38
200-300 Terence Harley 175.42 Mary Chaffin 166.67
300-500 Robert Bender 294.51 Stuart Nelan 215.10
500-1000 Anita Platt 297.21 Ari Sippola 265.83
1000-1500 Rosalind Smith 442.42 Kristen Onsgard
259.41
1500-2500 Sidney Perutz 398.36 Scott Nason 387.99
2500-3500 Amy Downing 334.23 Florence Beaird
298.41
3500-5000 Milton Neher 601.98 Tomi Storey 442.45
5000-7500 Phil Clayton 491.16 Jack Borenstein 483.06
7500-10,000 Michael Murphy 220.77 Joan Jackson
206.81
Over 10,000 Chris Compton 1,659.88 Mike Passell
1,547.45
Just a Thought: SMILE,
you’ve still got your sense of
humor, haven’t you?
In Memoriam
Carol Eschelbrenner
Nita Kimball
Tina McKim
Leonard Schaen
Robert Van Lone
Congratulations to Unit 176’s newest Platinum Life Master: Michael Murphy
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CLUB NEWS
Harp’s Bridge Club 580 W. Arapaho Rd #433 Richardson, TX 972-808-0001
10:30 am games: Mon, Tues, Fri, & Sat 1:30 pm games: Sat & Sun
6:30 pm games: Mon, Tues, & Thurs - see the calen-dar for specific Thursday nights
Rockwall’s Duplicate Bridge Games: Monday at 10:00 am and Tuesday at 10:30 am. Carol Rieger is the Club
Manager and Director of the Monday game while Judy Jacoby is the Club Manager and Director of the Tuesday game.
The games are held in the Rockwall Center located at 108 E Washington Street (Goliad and Washington St)
Ennis Bridge Club: The club has 1 pm sanctioned games on the 2nd and 4th Friday of each month at the Ennis Public Library, 501 W. Ennis Ave, Ennis, TX 75119. Club Manager Barbara Fudge: bjfudge@yahoo.com
Friendly Bridge Club: New location: Disciples Christian Church, 2001 Independence Parkway, Plano, Texas
Open Pairs Games at 10 am on Monday & Thursdays Director: Mike Davis 214-632-7398
Note: For online sign-up for the daily games held weekly, go to www.friendlybridgeclub.org
Valley View Bridge Club: 1) Trinity Episcopal Church now called Church of the Incarnation 12727 Hillcrest, Dallas—just south of I-635. Wednesdays for a NOON game. (open and a separate 0-300 supervised). Come join us. All games at Valley View are $10. We give free plays to winners of all sections. For reservations to any game, you can
email us at valleyviewbridgeclub@gmail.com For game results, visit website at www.valleyviewbridgeclub.com Valley View Bridge Club’s new phone number is 469-534-3119
McKinney Duplicate Bridge Club Game: TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS at 10 am
Salvation Army, 600 Wilson Creek, McKinney, TX Club Manager: Connie Van Patter
Note: Sign up each week by emailing the director: k-roland@tx.rr.com
Looking for a Bridge Instructor The Unit 176 website at www.dallasbridge.org has a handy list
of instructors with each person’s contact information. The alphabetical list includes: Susan Bates, Mark Bumgardner, Truett Cates, Donna Compton, Mike Davis, Jay Gibson, Petra Hamman, Vernon Hodge, Jane Kirby, Ribs LaMothe, Preston Morrow, Kristen Onsgard, Bill Osborn, Gerrie Owen, Randy Patterson, John Pelletti, Stefanie Scott, Dorsey Shaw, and Jim Thurtell. Please contact Martha Young if you want to be added to this website list.
Lariat Bridge Club: 6:30 pm sanctioned game on Tuesdays at the Boy Scouts cabin at Chapman Park, 1139 Brown
St, Waxahachie, TX 75165. Club Manager Troy Dollar. Questions: contact Jim Bishop jbishvb46@gmail.com
Welcome to Unit 176 NEW: Leif Anderson, Marcia Bankhead, Ilene Bierman, John Bridgewater, Chris Brown, Brenda Carpenter, Sylvia Chavez, Lynn Clement, Hunter Couturier, Claudia Dossal, Anne Elmer, Jackson
Epes, Richard Eshelbrenner, Brandon Evans, Shannon, Fischer, Brinn Flores, Stephen Fulenchek,
Gustavo Goncalves, Kyra Goncalves, Anne Gopichand, Pamela Graham, Grace Hage, Samuel Harris, Elizabeth Hilbourn, Jacob Hoffman, Connie
Kee, Jonathan Lawrence, Elaine Lindh, Bradley Love, Bertie Lynch, Ian McAulay, Travis McSwain-Shaw, Carlene Merris, Lee Meyer, Anita Motard,
Mason Mullins, Adam Myers, Betty Neuman, Wyatt Novak, Cristian Olvera, John Peiser, Rosalind Perry,
Damien Peterson, Miguel Portillo, Anika Rajesh, Madeline Richard, Jonathan Russ, Ashton Skrine,
Lloyd Smith, Brian Stein, Stehen Suellentrop, Dillon Thompson, Eric Van Hal, Vicki Wallace, Shirley
Ware, Cameron Warta, Nancy Wechsler, Gregory Werbaneth, Lauren Zogg
TRANSFERS: Marilyn Florin, David Ginsburg, Connie Lowry, Nancy Moore, Walter Netschi, Judy
Rutherford
Bridge Academy of North Dallas (BAND) located at 12250 Inwood Rd Ste 8, Dallas, 972-960-6700. Check website for dates of games and lessons.
www.bridgeacademyofnorthdallas.com
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Dallas Election Sectional January 9-12 There were 2,645.76 master points earned by 544 players at this
564 table tournament. The highest master points won was 57.47. About 450 Unit 176 players won master points.
Unit 176’s top ten players were: Nancy Passell, 34.44; Gerry McKim, 32.31; Petra Hamman & Hemant Lall, 30.04;
Nagy Kamel, 27.70; Kim Brinkman, 27.13; Milton Neher, 26.86; Brady Allen & John Bromberg, 26.65.
Th AM Open Pairs Flt AB Mark Hatkoff Randy Smith
Th Swiss Bkt # 1 Nancy Passell, Petra
Hamman, Phillip Grothus -Houston, Hemant Lall
Fri AM 499 Pairs Flt ABC Nina Watkins, Ansel
Goldgar
Fri AM Open Pairs Flt AB Joe Gill, Adrianne Feuer
Th Swiss Bkt # 4 Ed Ducayet, Jan
Trombello, Pat Ducayet, Neill Ray (np)
Th & Fri Swiss Bkt # 3 Betty Sue Wheeler, Judy Etchison, Linda Zimmer-
man, Scott Etchison
Fri Aft Open Pairs Flt AB Jim McCommons,
Eileen Davidoff
Fri Swiss Bkt # 4 Nancy O’Fallon, Ted Bender (np), Jo Driscoll, Lynn Trentham
Sat Aft Open Pairs Flt B Hellen Revelle, Amy Downing
Th Aft Open Pairs Flt C Bill Driscoll Terry Wolfe
Th & Fri Swiss Bkt # 2 Rich Brandenburg,
Bob Bender, Stuart Nelan, Bob Holliday
Fri Swiss Bkt # 1 Nancy Kornegay– N Rich-
land Hills, Nagy Kamel, Steve Kornegay-N Richland
Hills, Dan Morse-Houston
Sat Swiss Bkt # 1 Nancy Kornegay– N Rich-
land Hills, John Bromberg, Steve Kornegay-N Richland
Hills, Barry Schaffer
Sat AM Open Pairs Flt A Bill Staats-Southlake, Hugh
Hillaker-Grand Prairie
Why don’t cats play
bridge in the jungle?
Too Many Cheetahs
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Classified Ads BRIDGE LESSONS: For group or private lessons with ACBL Certified instructor Mike Davis, contact him at 214-632-7398 or email davis_Michal@yahoo.com
Get a classified ad listed - FREE! If you own a bridge oriented business and would like to advertise
free, Email Sue at: greims@sbcglobal.net
A special thank you to the following people who contributed infor-mation/pictures/statistics/names which were used in this edition of Table
Talk: Rich Brandenburg, Cheryl Clark, Eileen Davidoff, Jay Gib-son, Joe Gill, David Greims, Scott Nason, Stuart Nelan, Robbie Ogle, Phyllis Savell, Dorsey Shaw, Ed Yetter, and Martha Young
Table Talk Editor & Publisher: Sue Greims Reporters: BAND: Donna Compton; Harp’s
Bridge Club: Jim Harp; McKinney DBC:
John Harrelson;
Other Unit Clubs: reporter positions open, anyone interested?
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bidding boxes, bidding cards, and duplicate boards. Locally owned and operated. Contact Jianbo Chen at 817.896.3709 for local discount.
We’re going digital with District 16 Scorecard:
Recall that Scorecard is a bi-monthly publication for District 16, of which our unit is a member. The first few pages have district news and most of the rest has news from specific units and advertisements. We have been given the option of receiving Scorecard in digital form and have elected to take that option. This will result in a significant savings to the unit since our costs for Scorecard are a notable part of our budget. In addition to saving money, there are certain ad-vantages to going digital. For an example, look at the latest scorecard by clicking on
http://www.d16acbl.org/Scorecard/2001.pdf (This may take 9 or 10 seconds to load.)
Note that using the bar at the top, you can change the font and picture size as desired. (“ctrl +” and “ctrl –“ also achieve this.) With most browsers, to search for text you just type “ctrl f” and a box will appear where you can type the text to search. This enables a fast way to find out about specific events or individu-als without having to read or scan through the entire document. Give it a try. ~Joe Gill
Highland Road Animal Hospital: Cat Puns Cat Puns Freak Meowt
Seriously, I’m not kitten
Frontier Veterinary Hospital Why was the cat sitting on the computer?
To keep an eye on the mouse
What is the cat wizard’s name? Hairy Pawter
January Election Sectional continued
Sat Aft Open Pairs Flt A Kimmel Jones-Euless, Hugh
Hillaker-Grand Prairie
Sun Aft Open Prs Flt ABC Dale & Valerie Remmers
Sat Swiss Bkt # 2 Adrianne Feuer, Bill Driscoll, Joe
Gill, Terry Wolfe
Sat Swiss Bkt # 3 Liane Tsai, Carol Adamek,
Chris Tsai, Ann Parker
Sat Swiss Bkt # 4 Bob Bender, Valerie
Remmers, Dale Remmers, Bob Holliday
Sun Swiss D Judi Mairs-Lewisville, Judy
Etchison, Tom Mairs-Lewisville, Scott Etchison
Sun Swiss A Sherri Gautier, Nancy
Kornegay–N Richland Hills, Mark Bumgardner, Steve Kornegay-N Richland Hills