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The Bridge Gazette

June, 2013 Kim Howard, Editor

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Vero Beach Bridge Center

1520 14th Avenue, Vero Beach, FL. 32960

772-562-3008

www.verobridge.com

From the Bridge Coordinator’s desk Our partnership volunteers, Holly Thomas

and Phyllis Carlson, do an awesome job of

finding partners and teammates for all of our

games. Jane Garr helps put teams together for

the 8-is-Enough Swiss team games each month,

and Kim creates sign-up sheets which are on the

table on the mezzanine. If you’d like to play 8-is-

Enough on June 30 and July 6, sign-up or get in

touch with Jane if you are looking for teammates

for those two games. There are five team games

this month, including the 0-499 Swiss on June

16, which award extra points and we’d like to

have a nice attendance for all of them. Thanks

very much Holly, Jane, and Phyllis!

June, July, and August are the months that we

are allowed to hold North American Pair games.

These games award 50% red and 50% black

masterpoints and are sectional rated.

Saturday, June 8, is the World Wide Bridge

Contest game. Hands will be played across the

world and players will receive a booklet with

hand analysis by Eric Kokish. Winners from

each district will be mentioned on the ACBL

website and in the Bulletin. Masterpoint awards

are 50% red and 50% black and are sectional

rated. Our new Bridgemates will be debuted at

this game and you will enjoy the new features.

One feature is that at the end of each round you

will see the results of all the boards played

during that round which allows you to review

them once more to see if results were entered

correctly. At game’s end, both N/S and E/W can

see their game percentage (at that point)

From the president’s desk Not many snowbirds left now, but congratulations

to the few that are remaining. In the last couple of

newsletters, I’ve been congratulating some of the

outstanding volunteers who help keep our bridge

club running smoothly. I’m going to continue with

these congratulations this month, and have picked

my wife, Gini Hauser for recognition. She spends

as much or more time in the VBBC kitchen as she

does in our home kitchen, but that’s all right

because I love to eat out. I do know from listening

to her that she along with Marge Desmery would

love to have more volunteers for the kitchen work

at the club. If you have any interest in helping,

contact either one of these ladies, and they will put

you in the training program to become a kitchen

helper. It’s a relatively short program consisting of

five or six days, four hours each day. The test at

the end of this training period is not difficult, and

anyone receiving a grade of C+ or better will be

allowed to begin kitchen duty. If you fail the test,

you will be allowed to take it a second time, even a

third time if your a male. Happy Summer, Merle Hauser

The Bridge Gazette Editor: Kim Howard Contributors for this issue: Toril Liapis, Leslie Phelps, Merle Hauser, Kim Howard

Jamie Portell, and Kim Howard

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June 1 MariAnne Doherty, Rosemary Wallach June 2 Betsy Freytag, Samuel Lacks, Bill Mannion, David Nocar, Ginger Paul, Vincent Soukup, Francis Wallach June 3 Karen Fox, June Koch, Dick Swartz, George Wallace, Ann Wheeler June 4 Ibby El-Raheb, Sherry Kristich, Janet VanDoren June 5 Lois MacLeod, Muriel Schaffer June 6 Mary Culumber, Steph Hampton, David Hiley June 7 Gay Bain, Douglas Booth, Linda Lemmon, James Migliore, Nancy Shepard, Sheldon Wander June 8 William Friesell

June 9 Jerry Galyean June 10 Tina Cole, Peggy Dennis June 11 Joe Burke, Janet Grant, Michael Hauser June 12 Fran Jaffee, Pamela Sailer, Judy Whittaker June 13 Bill Grealis June 14 Nece Buckle, Dora Churchill, Sara George June 15 Cliff Brackett, Peter Stoll June 16 Ann Barton, Brent Welch June 17 Nancy Marquardt, Emily McDonough, Nancy Meredith, Ann Oatwan, Betty Robinson June 18 Diane MacQueen, Shirley Wertz, Lee Woody June 20 Judy Calley, Linda Ferrari June 21 Elaine Hogarty June 22 John McClenathan, James McConnell June 23 Joan Cadden, Audrey Fetter, Neil Hockenhull, Harlley McKean June 24 Robert Colton, Carolyn Evers, Phyllis Mallory, Maureen Sipp, King Stubbs June 25 Linda Jennings June 26 Merle Hauser, Fred Nordstrom, Sid Stein June 27 Donna Pottle, MaryJane Schmidt June 28 David Garfield, Cynthia Wigton June 29 Karen Yellin June 30 Evelyn Gubitosi, Shirley Wilson

June Birthdays

May Birthday Photo

Celebrating May Birthdays from left to right are Tom Pierpont, Joanne Matchette, Jody Connors, Liz Cross and Beverly Arce.

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and a recap of all the North-South contracts and

scores is also listed.

Our June 21, the morning and afternoon games

will be charity games to benefit the Alzheimer’s

Association to support its care and research

programs. The ACBL is calling it “The Longest

Day,” and is a fundraiser to honor the passion,

dedication, and strength displayed by people

with Alzheimer’s and their caregivers every day.

Extra master-points will be awarded.

Many thanks to Marge Desmery, hospitality

chairwoman, for all the delicious snacks

served at the Club on June 4. Helen White,

Tom Pierpont, Ann & Dick Bottelli, Sally

Corcoran, and Melody Gabriel also donated

items. Speaking of hospitality, the Board voted

to reserve a parking space for the kitchen

volunteer of the day. I know everyone

appreciates the volunteers who help with our

daily hospitality in the kitchen, but we need

more volunteers to join in on this effort because

we all enjoy having a snack while playing bridge.

It’s very easy to be a kitchen volunteer. You can

choose your own day and then just come in

(after having parked in your reserved space!)

and use the foods that are in the cupboards or

refrigerator (thanks to our shopper, Jim

Greene) and put it out, then tidy up the kitchen

after the game. Please consider volunteering.

Even, once a month would be wonderful.

We will be having our Firecracker hot dog

lunch on July 4 and will appreciate donations of

side dishes or desserts. We’ll have sign-up

sheets posted on June 25.

Birthday chairman, Sally Corcoran, always

does a fantastic job with the birthday bulletin

boards and cakes and has recruited Judy

Melchiorre (who is responsible for this month’s

creative bulletin board) to contribute her

talents. Thank you, Sally and Judy!

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www.verobridge.com • for daily game results • for tournament schedules • to locate a member’s e-mail address • For hand records • For partnership’s

Phone extensions for fast access 201 Kim’s office

202 Director’s desk

203 Courtesy Phone

204 Cashier’s desk

205 Jamie’s desk

206 Education’s desk

REMINDER: If there is an irregularity at your table, do not

attempt to rectify the situation yourself or

allow the opponents to tell you how it should

be handled. You should always find out what

options are available by calling for the

director.

VBBC is now participating in The Common Game

each afternoon that we have a pairs game. An

expert gives his analysis on a few of the most

interesting hands of the day on the web site,

thecommongame.com.

Please check out the June calendar on the back

page to see more special games and events

scheduled this month. Hope to see you often

at VBBC!

A memorial service will be held in

New York at St. Vincent Ferrer for

Tyrrell Connor on June 10th, 2013.

St Vincent Ferrer

869 Lexington Avenue at East 66th Street

New York, NY 10065-6648

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CLUB STATS FOR MAY TOTAL CLUB TABLES—929.5

MASTERPOINTS AWARDED Black - 1656.56

Red - 50.26

Total - 1706.82

Card Sharks for May

Jamie Portell

0–5 Dana Smith

6–20 Dick Dillon

21–50 Mardie Smith

51–100 Ray Columbaro

101–200 Rick Helfand

Clarice Helfand

201–300 Diana Thompson

301–400 B.A. Hickey

Laurie Stewart

401–500 Joanne Matchette

501-750 Ellen Gelberg

751–1000 John McClenathan

1001-2500 Susan Mayo

2501+ Debbie Drury

ABC CLUB Kim Howard

Congratulations to the following C players who came in

first in all strata (C, B, A) in an open game during May:

May 2 Bev Mogensen & Geri Essig

May 6 Paul Quinn & Bill Friesell

May 14 Jan Greene & Ellen Gelberg

Mary Grimm & Wendy Stowe

May 15 Betsy Tait & Jim Andre

May 16 Dick Haverland & Don Tribus

May 17 Jody Connors & Lynn Bayman

May 20 B.A. Hickey & Laurie Stewart

May 28 Marty Hunter & Joann Houpt

70 percenters for May Compiled by Toril Liapis

Congratulations to the following who achieved 70

percent or more games in May:

May 2 Dave Grober-David Millward 72.69%

May 3 Ron Andrews-Jamie Portell 72.77%

Jackie Dornbusch-Lela Remmert 71.67%

May 13 Debbie Drury-Ron Andrews 70.60%

May 23 William Poole-Joanne Matchette 70.53%

May 30 Judith Kane-William Poole 71.15%

Ace of Clubs and Mini-McKenney Leslie Phelps

Here are the Ace of Clubs ACBL nationwide (not Unit)

standings of our members for points earned at the club level

through April 2013 for the top 30 in each division. Our club

should be proud of the fine accomplishments of these

members:

MP Level

ACBL-Wide Rank

Ace of Clubs VBBC Member

MP thru April 2013

20-50 14 Ray Columbaro 27

300-

500

6

7 Gloria Pappalardo

Joanne Matchette

58

57

2500-

5000

6

7 Bill Poole

Ron Andrews

117.2

116.8

5000-

7500

16

Debbie Drury

103

10000

+

15 Reanette Frobouck 94

ACBL-wide Master Point

MP Level ACBL-Wide Rank

Mini-McKenney VBBC Member

MP thru April 2013

300-500 20th Jeffrey Jones 97

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