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Pasadena San Gabriel Unit
Morris Jones
We're continuing to hold two great Unit Championship games (also known
as a "unit game") every month on alternate Sundays.
The dates for this month will be *July 17 and 31*. Game time is 12:30,
and we're finished by 4:00. Space is limited, so reservations are
required! Call Miriam Harrington to reserve your seat at (626) 232-0558.
The game will be seeded, as best we can, for a fair competition.
North-South seats can not be reserved if your pair is able to move from
table to table.
Winners from the June games: June 12, North-South *Peter Szecsi* and
*Amr Elghamry*, East-West *Arthur Moore* and *Dominique Moore*. June
26, North-South *Fredy Minter* and *Lulu Minter*, East-West *Gregory
Tapia* and *Hanna Zhuang*.
Congratulations to new Junior Master *Denise Botsford*, and new NABC
Master *Janelle Morton*!
Looking forward to seeing you all at the Bridge Week regional in Long
Beach! After that I'll be traveling to Providence, Rhode Island, for the
American Bridge Teachers Association convention and the NABC.
--
Morris Jones, Monrovia, CA
BridgeMojo <http://bridgemojo.com>
Old Town Sidewalk Astronomers <http://otastro.org>
Mojo's Blog <http://mojo.whiteoaks.com>
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Pasadena San Gabriel Unit 559
Sorry for missing last month's Bridge News! April was a weird month for me.
Let me start with the Mini McKinney and Ace of Clubs winners for 2021.
There was lots of bridge to be played last year, and here's who did the
best in our unit.
The Mini McKinney is for most points overall, including club games and
tournament play:
Starting Rank
Name
Points
>10000
John Jones
167.2
7500-10000
Lulu Minter
663.0
5000-7500
Rae Murbach
284.4
3500-5000
Ernie Wong
568.9
1500-2500
Cathy Martin
97.9
1000-1500
Fredy Minter
155.7
500-1000
Sadika Elewy
69.7
300-500
Paulette Burkitt
144.5
200-300
Hilary Clark
69.5
100-200
Kim Ebner
153.4
50-100
Mariann Nolan
86.3
20-50
Ming Hu
28.3
5-20
Julie Miller
25.9
0-5
Susan Kane / Jonathan Fuhrman
22.8
The Ace of Clubs is for most points earned in regular club or VACB games:
>10000
Rebecca Clough
80.1
7500-10000
Lulu Minter
601.3
5000-7500
Rae Murbach
268.5
3500-5000
Dominique Moore
135.3
2500-3500
Ernie Wong
497.1
1500-2500
Cathy Martin
97.9
1000-1500
Fredy Minter
146.8
500-1000
Sadika Elewy
69.7
300-500
Paulette Burkitt
139.1
200-300
Hilary Clark
67.9
100-200
Kim Ebner
134.2
50-100
Mariann Nolan
81.0
20-50
Ming Hu
27.4
5-20
Julie Miller
23.7
0-5
Susan Kane / Jonathan Fuhrman
21.2
Our Unit 559 players who did best in 2021:
1
Lulu Minter
662.6
2
Ernie Wong
568.9
3
Rae Murbach
284.4
4
John Jones
167.2
5
Fredy Minter
155.3
6
Kim Ebner
153.4
7
Paulette Burkitt
144.5
8
Dominique Moore
143.9
9
Mike Connell
130.4
10
Angela Peters
123.9
We had great attendance at our four Unit Games in April and May:
April 10: N/S Madhu Sudan and Stan Majcher. E/W Greg Tapia and Hanna
Zhuang (First overall).
April 24: N/S Peter Szecsi and Amr Elghamry. E/W Karen Arase and Gitta
Earll (First overall).
May 1: N/S Lulu and Fredy Minter (First overall). E/W Bob Shore and
Kevin Lane.
May 22: N/S Elliott Mazur and Rose Boot (First overall). E/W Arthur
Moore and Dominique Moore.
*June Unit Games* are scheduled for June 12 and 26. Reservations
required! Contact Miriam Harrington (626) 232-0558 to reserve a seat.
Games are held at the Arcadia Bridge Center, with boards ready to play
at 12:30 p.m.
*Rank changes*: Congratulations to new Club Masters *Nina Huang* and
*Premi Thomas*, new Advanced NABC Master *Karmen Armoudjian*, and new
Bronze Life Master *Michael Lo*.
--
Morris Jones, Monrovia, CA
BridgeMojo <http://bridgemojo.com>
Old Town Sidewalk Astronomers <http://otastro.org>
Mojo's Blog <http://mojo.whiteoaks.com>
First, a reminder about this email list server:
I've updated the list members to include Richard. Welcome (back) to the
board!
When writing to the board, if you address your email "To:
*unit559board(a)bridgemojo.com*" it will be forwarded to all of the board
members. Replies will also be sent to the list, and forwarded to all
board members.
Be careful about replies -- if you intend for a message to go only to
the original author, be sure that "unit559board(a)bridgemojo.com" is not
in the To: or Cc: lists.
My personal calendar only has May 1 as a Unit Game date. I also see that
May 8 is Mother's Day.
But I wanted to point out that May 8 is also within the week of the
Western Conference STaC.
So we might find it worthwhile to hold the May games on May 8 and 23
rather than May 1 and 15.
How does it balance out for you?
Best regards from Barcelona,
Mojo (home Saturday night)
--
Morris Jones, Monrovia, CA
BridgeMojo <http://bridgemojo.com>
Old Town Sidewalk Astronomers <http://otastro.org>
Mojo's Blog <http://mojo.whiteoaks.com>
First, an apology to Karmen for inadvertently leaving her name off of the list of board members on our website, and second, thank you, Lisa, for catching it.
Now…. Have I left anyone else off the list?
I’ve played bridge more than half my life. The lesser half I wasted.
OK, let's go with this:
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I happy to see March behind me this year. I spent 10 days at the Reno
NABC -- some of it playing, some of it "working." I gave a talk at the
teacher's breakfast about teaching online, and even took along my
equipment to teach some of my classes from the hotel room.
Bridge wasn't great for me, and I managed to catch COVID. (I can't help
but think I caught it in the casino where the guests were uncurated and
not the playing area where everyone had their wrist bands.) Rather than
bring it home with me, I extended my stay at the Eldorado, and spent
five days not leaving the room and eating drop-off room service. My
symptoms included a day of a mild fever, and a runny nose that's still
dragging on a bit.
Nevertheless, eleven days after testing positive, I'm again testing
negative, and I'm on my way to work a Sectional at Sea on the Regent
Seven Seas Splendor, traveling from Miami to Barcelona. I have the
weirdest luck and timing.
At the March 13 Unit Game we held elections for unit board members. Long
time member Peter Szecsi is leaving the board, and Richard Halverstadt
is returning to fill his seat.
Our officers remain *Jan Wickersham* as President, I'm being relieved as
Vice President by *Lisa Walker*, with Treasurer *Miriam Harrington* and
Secretary *Linda Stuart*.
Winners at the March 13 game were *Peter Szecsi* and *Amr Elghamry* N/S,
*Arthur and Dominique Moore* E/W.
The March 27 game is one I had to miss, not wanting to bring my COVID
infection into the bridge club. We did have two players who tested
positive shortly after playing on March 27.
Winners at the March 27 Royal STaC game were *Patrick Cardulo* and
*Carolyn Cohen* N/S, and *Arthur and Dominique Moore* E/W. I haven't yet
seen updates for STaC-wide awards, but there was certainly a rainbow of
point colors available for that game!
We have unit games scheduled for Sundays at 12:30 on April 10 and April
24. Reservations are required! Contact Miriam Harrington at (626)
232-0558. Don't forget that proof of full vaccination is required, and
honestly I think it'd be a good idea to wear a mask during the game.
Don't go through what I had to go through!
Rank changes for this month: New Club Master *Nina Huang*, and new
Bronze Life Master *Michael Lo*.
--
Morris Jones, Monrovia, CA
BridgeMojo <http://bridgemojo.com>
Old Town Sidewalk Astronomers <http://otastro.org>
Mojo's Blog <http://mojo.whiteoaks.com>
Well here I am in an airport lounge writing a column for the Bridge
News. We're all running behind. I know that my email reflector for
unit559board is out of date, and so is my own memory of what the changes
were. So I'm not catching all of the new board members.
Please review my draft column below, help me out with who left and who
joined the board, and at some point this week I'll also update the email
reflector so the new members are in the list, and old ones taken off.
It's been a weird and crazy month for me.
Lew I need help from the unit board, I'll get this to you as soon as I can.
Best regards,
Mojo
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I happy to see March behind me this year. I spent 10 days at the Reno
NABC -- some of it playing, some of it "working." I gave a talk at the
teacher's breakfast about teaching online, and even took along my
equipment to teach some of my classes from the hotel room.
Bridge wasn't great for me, and I managed to catch COVID. Rather than
bring it home with me, I extended my stay at the Eldorado, and spent
five days not leaving the room and eating drop-off room service. My
symptoms included a day of a mild fever, and a runny nose that's still
dragging on a bit.
Nevertheless, eleven days after testing positive, I'm again testing
negative, and I'm on my way to work a Sectional at Sea on the Regent
Seven Seas Splendor, traveling from Miami to Barcelona. I have the
weirdest luck and timing.
At the March 13 Unit Game we held elections for unit board members. Our
thanks to /(who?) /and /(who?)/ who are departing the board, and welcome
to /(who?)/ and /(who?)/ who have volunteered to serve for the next two
years.
Our officers remain *Jan Wickersham* as President, I'm being relieved as
Vice President by *Lisa Walker*, with Treasurer *Miriam Harrington* and
Secretary *Linda Stuart*.
Winners at the March 13 game were *Peter Szecsi* and *Amr Elghamry* N/S,
*Arthur and Dominique Moore* E/W.
The March 27 game is one I had to miss, not wanting to bring my COVID
infection into the bridge club. We did have two players who tested
positive shortly after playing on March 27.
Winners at the March 27 Royal STaC game were *Patrick Cardulo* and
*Carolyn Cohen* N/S, and *Arthur and Dominique Moore* E/W. I haven't yet
seen updates for STaC-wide awards, but there was certainly a rainbow of
point colors available for that game!
We have unit games scheduled for Sundays at 12:30 on April 10 and April
24. Reservations are required! Contact Miriam Harrington at (626)
232-0558. Don't forget that proof of full vaccination is required, and
honestly I think it'd be a good idea to wear a mask during the game.
Don't go through what I had to go through!
Rank changes for this month: New Club Master *Nina Huang*, and new
Bronze Life Master *Michael Lo*.
--
Morris Jones, Monrovia, CA
BridgeMojo <http://bridgemojo.com>
Old Town Sidewalk Astronomers <http://otastro.org>
Mojo's Blog <http://mojo.whiteoaks.com>
I'll be there ...
Redirecting to the unit email listserv
Mojo
-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: Re: UNIT BOARD MEETING THURSDAY 1:00. 3/3/22
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2022 09:50:09 -0800
From: janet wickersham <wickershamjanet(a)gmail.com>
To: MARY W FALVEY <lvopera(a)aol.com>, Miriam Harrington
<miratpf(a)aol.com>, Michael Rodrigues <rodfallbrook(a)yahoo.com>, Linda
Stuart <geohnze(a)gmail.com>, Richard Halverstadt
<richardhalverstadt(a)sbcglobal.net>, Katherine Cresto <mysuki(a)att.net>,
Roy Wilson <roywilson.dlm(a)gmail.com>, Lisa Walker
<lisawalkerlac(a)gmail.com>, Karmen Armoudjian <karmenbalian(a)hotmail.com>,
Morris Jones <mojo(a)bridgemojo.com>
janet wickersham is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: janet wickersham's Personal Meeting Room
Join Zoom Meeting
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> On Feb 27, 2022, at 9:49 PM, janet wickersham
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>
> I’m still struggling. Please save the date and time and I’ll get you
> the invite tomorrow. Thanks.
>
>> On Feb 27, 2022, at 9:42 PM, janet wickersham
>> <wickershamjanet(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>
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I have to open with the passing of one of our most beloved and stalwart
unit members and a fierce competitor at the bridge table, *Sandra
Franciscus*. I don't know the full story of Sandra's history with our
unit, but I know she was a frequent volunteer in its administration. The
games here will not be the same without her.
Our Unit Games every other Sunday (or so) continue to be well attended.
In our first February game, February 13, we had nine full tables (not
bad for Super Bowl Sunday). We had just learned of the passing that
morning of Sandra, and you'll notice in the results that the game was
named the Sandra Franciscus pairs in her honor. Winners N/S were
*Cathryn Martin* and *Diana Borgatti* (69%!) and E/W were *Carolyn
Cohen* and *Patrick Cardullo*.
We have another February game scheduled for Sunday, February 27, and
with our column deadlines coming up, I don't yet know how that game will
turn out. I'll report next month.
For March, our games will be on the same dates, March 13 and 27 at the
Arcadia Bridge Center. With limited space, reservations are required!
Call Miriam Harrington to save your spot, (626) 232-0558. As always
proof of vaccination is required, but if we're lucky, maybe these will
be our first games without a mask requirement for vaccinated players
(which would be everyone).
Unit Game results are posted on both ACBL Live for Clubs
https://my.acbl.org/club-results/905596 and The Common Game https://
<https://thecommongame.com/ClubWebHost/905596/>thecommongame.com/ClubWebHost/905596/.
The club name is "Unit 559" which you can use as a search on Live for Clubs.
This month we have two major milestones to announce in rank advancements.
*Lisa Walker* is now a Life Master and Bronze Life Master. *Morris
Jones* is now a Gold Life Master.
I'd like to tell a story about when I first became a Life Master, living
in Campbell, near San Jose, CA. A friend who was a tournament director
and experienced player, was introducing me to some other friends at a
tournament.
He said, "This is Mojo, he's new to Flight B."
It was a humbling thought and a reminder of how much bridge awaited me
on the journey. I've spent a lot of that time learning to compete in
Flight B.
Now that I'm newly in Flight A, I know that I have to learn to play this
game at another level. I wouldn't have it any other way.
And Lisa -- welcome to Flight B!
--
Morris Jones, Monrovia, CA
BridgeMojo <http://bridgemojo.com>
Old Town Sidewalk Astronomers <http://otastro.org>
Mojo's Blog <http://mojo.whiteoaks.com>
