Unit 154 Annual Meeting

The Unit 154 annual meeting was held this year on Sunday morning July 1st at the Kokomo Sectional. The meeting started at 9:30 A.M. just prior to the Swiss Team Game. The following is President Jim Davis's Annual Report.

President's Annual Report -- June 2006 thru May 2007

Our Northern Indiana Unit 154, District 8 held four sectionals and one regional during the last fiscal year. Many thanks go to the chairmen of these tournaments, Dorothy Harrell at Kokomo, Jim Pelletier, Bob Carteaux and Joe Shull at Fort Wayne, Raj Kohli at South Bend and Chuck Briggs at Portage. They and their volunteer staffs put in many hours of effort for your enjoyment. We would also like to thank all of our club managers and helpers for their work throughout the year.

The financial condition of our unit continues to be sound, thanks primarily to the very successful annual Fort Wayne Fall Festival Regional. We have been able to subsidize some of our special games at the clubs, especially our STaC (Sectional Tournament at Clubs). We are continuing our North American Pair / Grand National Team promotion incentives. In addition to paying your entry fees for the District 8 Finals, the Unit will reimburse each qualifying Unit 154 member $100 to help defray travel costs.

This year, a very special event occurred in our Unit. Bob Carteaux, from Ft. Wayne, became Unit 154's and District 8's first Grand Life Master. He reached the 10,000 master point level at the summer NABC in Chicago. A well deserved special recognition reception was held for Bob at last year's Ft. Wayne regional.

Your current Board of Directors (7-18-07) are: President: Jim Davis, Vice-President: Jim Pelletier, Secretary-Treasurer: Dick Ellis, Past President: Bob Carteaux, Recording Secretary: Mary Lou Clegg and Area Representatives Joe Shull, Michael Clegg, Jo Ann Steigmeyer, Charles Schultz, Steve Watson and Chuck Briggs. We thank Jody Castillo, Dale Shepherd and Dorothy Harrell, who resigned their board positions, for their service.

This fiscal year (June 2007 thru May 2008), we are continuing our quarterly format of sectional tournaments in Kokomo, South Bend, Portage and Fort Wayne and our ever popular regional tournament in Fort Wayne. Hope to see an active participation by our membership and surrounding bridge community. If you have any comments concerning our Unit 154, contact me at jodavisuw@aol.com

Respectfully submitted,
   Jim Davis, Unit 154 President