Greater St. Louis Bridge News

News from Greater St. Louis Unit 143

Editor:  Sheryl Finkenstadt, St. Louis MO    sheryl@finkenstadt.com
 

“If someone were to pay you a dollar for every kind word you ever spoke
but collect fifty cents for every unkind word, would your partnership be rich or poor? 

CONGRATULATIONS!

The Board of Directors elected Officers for 2008-2009 at the November Board meeting.  Here are the results.

Officers

Suzi Shymanski-Moore            President, also Hospitality & Charity

Donna Pedrotti                        Vice-President

Bob Wheeler                            Secretary

Bob Janis                                 Treasurer

Other roles

Jackie Baker                           199er Tournament

Carole Benkelman                   Caddies, Hospitality

Bill Bunn                                 St. Louis Knockouts, Braggin' Rights

Carl Clyne                               Bid Boxes

Jane Ettelson                           199er Tournament

Ed Hale                                   NAP, GNT, Education

Jennifer Luner                         Webmaster

Bobby Riggs                           Photographer

Debra Romero                        Publicity

Steve Zenk                             Membership

Bill Bunn replaced Sasanka Ramanadham on Nov 1, 2008. Jennifer Luner replaced Sheryl Finkenstadt effective Nov 12, 2008.

For their commitment and service, our thanks go to the following outgoing directors: Sandy Bigg, Sheryl Finkenstadt, Mark Ludwig, Sasanka Ramanadham & John Samsel.

First time playing duplicate – and a District 8 overall winner in a Fall StaC game

Playing with Judy, his wife, Charlie Biendo had never played duplicate before. They did well enough to place overall in their Flight in District 8’s fall StaC week on Wednesday. And just in case you think it was a fluke, please note that they placed 1^st  in Flt C and 2^nd in Flt B in Lake St Louis’ club game on Nov 26. This just proves that being new to duplicate doesn’t mean you can’t win.

Hint: everyone go recruit newcomers, and use this story as proof that It Can Be Done.

Your Bridge Questions Answered

Visit the Unit 143 web site to read the archives of our Ask the Experts forum and submit your own questions for analysis by our Unit's top players. New questions and answers will be posted soon. 

Kudos to Jacque Sincoff & En Xie for their win in the Open Flight of the District 8 North American Pair finals.

Congratulations also to Tom Kniest  & Karen Walker, Champaign IL, who were 2nd. Will Engel & Colby Vernay were 3rd. Other overall placers from Unit 143 were Tom Oppenheimer & Milt Zlatic (5th) and Lee Hastings & Mark Ehret (7th).

In Flight B, Bill & Sheryl Finkenstadt were 6th, Dennis Spencer & Debbie Romero were 7th, and Donald Chase & Wojciech Golik were 13th. In Flight C, Linda Mize and Maureen Swihart were 3rd, Janet Woodley and Karen Engle were 4th, and Charles and Marie Bretzke were 5th.

The top two pairs in each flight won travel awards to Houston TX in March to represent District 8 in the national finals of their respective flights. The third-place pair in each flight also qualified for the national finals, but receives no ACBL travel award.
 

 Coming Sooner Than You Think!  2009

January 16-18 -- Winter Sectional, Blanchette Park, St. Charles

January 30 - February 5 -- District 8 Sectional-at-Clubs Week

March 7 -- 199er Championship

May 15-17 -- Spring Sectional, Blanchette Park, St. CharlesSectional

August 17-23 -- Mississippi Valley Regional, Renaissance Hotel, St. Louis