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Please review for mistakes and omissions. I really forgot who's on and off the board, so help me out with that.

Tom, this will no doubt be revised ... I'm working a bit from memory ... especially on the incoming and outgoing board of directors.

Mojo

Pasadena San Gabriel
Morris "Mojo" Jones

So much news!

A new Unit Board has been elected. Departing the board are Jan Wickersham, Mary Falvey, and Roy Wilson. Joining the board is Angela Peters.

Our new board includes President Lisa Walker, Vice-President Richard Halverstadt, Secretary Linda Stuart, and Treasurer Miriam Harrington, plus members Morris Jones, Kathy Cresto, and Michael Rodrigues.

At the first meeting of the new board, we made plans to split the monthly Unit Games between the Pasadena Bridge Club and the Arcadia Bridge Center. Unit Game dates will be as follows, with all games starting at 12:30 p.m.:

April 9, Pasadena Bridge Club (yes, Easter)
April 23, Arcadia Bridge Center
May 7, Pasadena Bridge Club
May 21, Arcadia Bridge Center
June 4, Pasadena Bridge Club
June 18, Arcadia Bridge Center

The board is discussing not serving lunch at the Unit Games. If you have an opinion one way or the other, please let a board member know!

In March our Unit Games were 12 tables on March 12, and 13 tables for the STaC game on March 26. Here are winners North-South and East-West for each game:

March 12 N-S Madhu Sudan - Stan Majcher
March 12 E-W Joel Schiff - Jan Wickersham
March 26 N-S Gregory Tapia - Hanna Zhuang
March 26 E-W Dan Lubesnik - Amr Elghamry

As always, for the Unit Games, space is somewhat limited, and reservations are kindly requested! Contact Miriam Harrington to reserve seats, (626) 232-0558, and miratpf@aol.com.

The Mini-McKenney awards go to unit members accumulating the most masterpoints in 2022. Ace of Clubs is awarded to that player who wins the most in club games (not tournaments). (There were no members in the 7500-10,000 category this year.) The awards in each category go to:

Category	Mini-McKenney	Ace of Clubs
>10000	John Jones	Lulu Minter
5000-7500	Rae Murbach	Rae Murbach
3500-7500	Ernie Wong	Ernie Wong
2500-3500	Joan Mesias	Joan Mesias
1500-2500	Fredy Minter	Fredy Minter
1000-1500	Sandy Rucker	Sandy Rucker
500-1000	Paulette Burkitt	Paulette Burkitt
300-500	Kim Ebner	Kim Ebner
200-300	Elliott Mazur	Janelle Morton
100-200	Suzanne Wilcox	Mariann Nolan
50-100	Ming Hu	Ming Hu
20-50	Nina Huang	Nina Huang
5-20	Stuart Soldate	Stuart Soldate
0-5	Denise Botsford	Denise Botsford

There are several bridge courses starting up in April, including a free course on the Precision bidding method by Roy Wilson. He'll be offering the course at the Pasadena Bridge Club on Saturday afternoons at 1:00 starting April 8. Let Roy or Mojo know if you're planning to attend!

Other courses include:

Popular Conventions, Wed. 7-9 PM, April 5
Competitive Bidding, Thu. 9-11 AM, April 6
Two Over One Game Force, Sat. 9:30-11:30 AM, April 8

To enroll send an email to mojo@pasadenabridgeclub.com, or use the form on the website at https://pasadenabridgeclub.com

We've had some unfortunate instances of anger and provocation at the bridge table during Unit Games recently, and the unit board will be emphasizing our Zero Tolerance Policy for such actions. It's important to know that there are no warnings, and the tournament director is the sole judge for applying penalties.

Finally, I'm saddened to note the sudden and unexpected passing of one of the stalwarts at the bridge table in our unit, Arthur Moore. Arthur was a formidable competitor at the table, and a Sapphire Life Master. I'll miss seeing his name at the top of the leader board for the unit games, and join with everyone in the unit to offer comfort and support to his widow Dominique Moore.

In Arthur's honor, the Unit Game on April 23 will be named the Arthur Moore Open Pairs.

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Morris "Mojo" Jones
mojo@PasadenaBridgeClub.com
https://PasadenaBridgeClub.com