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Mary Dolan, 10806 Charlton Way, St. Louis, 63146
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“It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.”
-- Albert Einstein
Ed Schultz Player of the Year AwardIf you play against Jack Bryant, you may observe him taking a moment to study the dummy before playing to the first lead. His habit of staying with problems and coming up with satisfactory playing solutions helped him win the Ed Schultz award for 2015. In the collage at right, you see Jack (top right) hard at work on 2016 accomplishments, after accepting the 2015 award from Unit President Linda Seibert. 2016 Winter SectionalLocal and out-of-town bridge players turned out for Unit 143’s Winter Sectional. Here are the top 25 masterpoint winners. While playing at 383 tables, 441 players earned 1666.56 masterpoints. 39.95 Susan Perez, Maryland Hgts 35.85 Michael Pitonak, Valley Park 33.35 John Samsel, Chesterfield 29.20 Mark Kessler, Springfield IL 29.20 Karen Walker, Champaign IL 24.81 Clay Cuthbertson, Quincy IL 23.77 Linda Leinicke, Saint Louis 23.26 Karen Erlanger, Saint Louis 23.26 John Burgener, Saint Louis 22.49 Mark Ehret, Saint Louis 22.11 En Xie, Saint Louis 21.95 Jack Bryant, Saint Louis 20.17 Mike Giacaman, Saint Louis 19.85 Alan Popkin, Saint Louis 19.72 Paul Chan, Columbia 19.72 Lily Chan, Columbia 18.83 Gloria Spitzer, Saint Louis 18.37 Stephen Zenk, Saint Louis 18.34 Lee Hastings, Saint Louis 17.47 Tom Oppenheimer, Clayton 15.18 Tod Moses, Saint Louis 15.18 Nate Ward, Champaign IL 14.78 Jonathan Weinstein, Saint Louis 14.73 Carol Hamilton, Saint Charles 14.66 Michael Huston, Joplin |
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What
did you do when the lights went out? If you were playing in the December 29th club game at the St. Louis Bridge Center, you continued to play bridge, of course. And here’s the picture (right) to prove it. By the light of pocket flashlights and smartphones, play continued to the end of the session.
Congratulations to these Unit 143 members:
Life Master: Irene Adams, Ralph Britten and Al Delio
Silver Life Master: Twink Baker and Dan Spangler
Ruby Life Master: Louann Yates
Sapphire Life Master: Dennis Spencer
At the beginning of 2016, ACBL announced two new levels of masterpoint rankings: Ruby Life Master (1500) and Sapphire Life Master (3500 MP).
Imagine their surprise when these Unit 143 members woke up one day to discover they had achieved a new masterpoint rank even though their number of masterpoints had not changed. Congratulations!
Ruby Life Masters: John Antognoli, Farid Azzam, Ronnie Bindbeutel, Marilyn Bogacki, Ronald Chase, Frances Christman, Jason Clevenger, Kay Cohen, Cheryl Davis, Lois Define, Shirley Dicks, Egon Diekhoff, Joseph Erlanger, Jane Ettleson, William Finkenstadt, Wally Franck, Ronnie Frank, Elizabeth Freeman, Norman Goldman, E. B. Hale, Dolores Hill, Laverne Hoehn, Becky Hubert, George Jones, Virginia Larsen, Mark Ludwig, Jennifer Luner, George Marvin, Gayle McLean, Ilene Morgan, James Nunn, Donna Overby, Jeannine Owen, Chris Patrias, Linda Powers, Barbara Price, Judy Putzel, Carole Quis, Susan Rechter, Doris Rich, Charles Ries, Anne Rosen, Laura Scholten, Dorothy Sealy, Arthur Seltzer, Jay Shah, David Shanahan, Beryl Shapiro, Jerome Shen, Patricia Shine, Phyllis Siegel, Debby Stahl, Charles Starovasnik, John Steiner, Emil Strotheide, Edward Wang, Robert Wheeler, Allyson Wolf, Mark Zellmer, Stephen Zenk.
Sapphire Life Masters: Mark Boswell, John Dicks, Mark Ehret, Mike Giacaman, Linda Leinicke, Tod Moses, Donna Pedrotti, Debra Romero, Carol Schaffer, Nell Schneider, Marci Stauder, Peggy Wald, Mic Weiss.
