Day

SPECIAL GAMES

Unit Games

Wine&Cheese Unit Game

Sat 11/27 7:00 PM

Holiday STaC Potluck Sun 12/12

CCC Big Room

Food: 5:00 PM

Game approx 5:30 PM Section Rated

STaC Week: 12/6-12

All games: Section Rated

Special Unit STaC

Sat 12/11 7:00 PM Section Rated

Special Games

499er Potluck

Sun 11/21

Food: 4:30 PM

Game: 5:20 PM

WHAT’S INSIDE?

Top Ten 2

Prez Sez by Dan Turkus

Does anyone have a spare computer lying around that they would like to donate to the Club? As you all know, the one we currently have is going downhill at a rapid pace. If you do, please call Judy Fisher or me. Thanks!

Thanks to all that helped at the Sectional. Dick and Ellie Pitzer, and Alex for helping set up all those tables, Tania Moalem for organizing all the food, Teddi Fiero for doing everything that Tania didn't including more food and goodies., and Jeff Hack for being a Caddy for one Session. Special thanks also go to Nancy Caldwell, who is not even a member of our Unit, but brought all those great sandwiches! Look elsewhere in this edition for a letter from our Sectional Chairperson listing all you great folks that helped out. For your information, this particular Sectional passed last year's Sectional by a full 60 tables! Thanks also to all of you that attended. I hope you all got the Silver points you needed. If not, STaC week is coming.

Our next unit event is going to be a Wine and Cheese Party on the Saturday after Thanksgiving, then, December 12th, our annual Holiday Pot Luck Unit Party and Game. The Unit will provide the Turkeys (I'm cooking one, and I think Ray Yuenger will do the other), and you bring the rest! If you missed this party in the past, believe it or not, there are quite a few really good cooks in our Unit, and every year I look forward to all the different delicious dishes! We will also have an extra STaC game December 11th, on Saturday evening. Look for the exact times in this edition, and mark your calendars.

Remember everybody, Bridge is a timed event. There is nothing more frustrating than having to wait every round for someone else to move. Well, maybe seeing the score slip with everyone else making 5 and I only made 4 could also be somewhat frustrating, but I'm getting used to it.

Well, that's it for this month, so I'll see ya at the tables.

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Pro-Am 10/22 by Carole Dietz

THANK YOU, THANK YOU!

Our first Pro-Am Game, which was held on Friday, October 22, was a huge success. George and I were very pleased with the turnout, and were overwhelmed by the 18 tables that showed up. A special thank you to all the pros, who were wonderfully instructive and patient with their ams. And a special thank you to all the ams who were willing, eager students. I'm certain that everyone benefited from the evening. The overall winners were Marshall Yancey and Mich Ravera.

This pro-am will become an annual event. We look forward to seeing all of you next October. In the meantime, remember our regular Friday night game, which is now limited to players with fewer than 300 master points. It is a wonderful way to spend an evening.

Thank You! By Tania Moalem

This is just a little note to thank everyone for making our Fall Sectional such a success. It never ceases to amaze me how much bridge players eat and I appreciate all the donations of food and baked items we had to feed our hungry competitors. I especially want to thank Nancy Caldwell for providing all the wonderful sandwiches and home baked items she prepared from her wonderful kitchen on Saturday and Sunday.

I feel an acknowledgement is due our unit President, Dan Turkus, for his ongoing hard work behind the scenes that I observe at each of our tournaments. He is usually one of the first to arrive and one of the last to leave.

I also extend a warm hug and many thanks to my wonderful Co-Chair, Teddi Fiero, whose ongoing assistance made my job so much easier! She is ever cheerful and seems to have unlimited energy.

The only real glitch occurred on Sunday when one of the caddies did not show up. Jeff Hack was kind enough to stay for the first half of our Swiss event and man one of the rooms while our very capable Director, Gary Porter not only handled director calls but also managed to assist our caddy, Amy Drozdiak, in our main room. Glenn Paterson must have been exhausted by Sunday night as he caddied all 6 sessions and did a great job. Thanks also to Ali Pincus, Melanie & Adam Jasper and Emily Weissman who was kind enough to help us out Sunday night for our second session.

As always, Jay Magid and Diane Barton-Paine and Gary Porter did an excellent job of directing with Tom Quinlin helping out Sunday night.

I hope everyone had a great time. I know I was told that we had 60 more tables at this tournament than last so it seems you all are enjoying yourselves with perhaps the exception of some very weird distribution of hands on Saturday.

Sunday 5:20 PM San Jose Bridge Center (SJBC)

10/10	Gary Ratts - Cathy Stahler A/B Ben & Fia Bosklopper A/B/C Karen Kulander - Happy Fordham C
10/17	Fred Kurzweil - Bill Garfield A/B/C Maxine & Ray Lubow A Mary Harvel - Randy Rice B/C
10/24	Mac Morris - Milly Morris A 68.86% Raghu Agarwal - Manju Agarwal A/B/C Carol Woodward - Maralyn Smith B
11/7	Kat Wesolowska - Nadia Nilsson A/B Ben & Fia Bosklopper A/B Karen Kulander - Happy Fordham C

Monday 11:00 AM SJBC

10/11	Art Fonda - Dan Turkus A/B Cackalani & Vasanth Krishnamurthi C Dolores & Jack Clinch A Maxine & Ray Lubow B/C
10/18	Ted Richmond - W Riester Jr A 66.55% Maxine & Ray Lubow A/B/C Coline Maclean - Bev Rennie B/C
10/25	Kou-Ping Cheng - Dan Turkus A Dolores & Jack Clinch A Maxine & Ray Lubow B/C
11/1	Bill Yetter - David Gambelin A Dolores & Jack Clinch A Maxine & Ray Lubow B/C Derek & Teddi Fiero B Raja Smadi - Mouna Nachman C

Monday 7:30 PM SJBC

10/11	Jesse Merlin - Bruce Scott Jewel Schimke - Bob Shannon
10/18	Celso &Ching Ravelo 68.87%
10/25	Jewel Schimke - Bob Shannon Kat Wesolowska - Erin Gove
11/1	Carol Woodward - Jan O'Malley Joseph Poppo - Peggy Sprague

Tuesday 10:30 AM SJBC

10/12	Sidney Safir - Malcolm Stewart A/B Robert Ritz - Bill Yetter A Raja Smadi - Jerry Lundquist B/C
10/19	Bill Yetter - Coline Maclean A/B Tina Pearson - Dana Brown A Teddi Fiero - Kit Humphrey B
10/26 T	Coy, Yetter, Spinazze,Gambelin A/B
11/2	Gigi Spinazze - David Gambelin A/B 66.35% Tania Moalem - Dana Brown A Jim Tseng - Norman Wang B/C Cackalani & Vasanth Krishnamurthi C

Top Ten Games Oct 11-Nov 10

1	72.02%	Robert Ritz - Kou-Ping Cheng	10/27 AM
2	69.44%	Lynn Yokel - Raymond Yuenger	11/8 Eve
3	69.00%	Alan Becker - Paul Nelson	11/3 AM
4	68.87%	Celso & Ching Ravelo	10/18 Eve
5	68.86%	Mac Morris - Milly Morris	10/24 Eve
6	68.52%	Judy Fisher - Steve Chen	10/19 Eve
7	67.59%	Marshall Yancey - Jack Verson	10/20 Eve
8	67.56%	Bernard Bertonis - Rita Tingley	10/16 PM
9	66.67%	David Gambelin - Helen Mitchell	11/3 Late
10	66.55%	Ted Richmond - W Riester Jr	10/18 AM

Full game results and some hand records are available at http://www.sjbridge.org/cal.php

Tuesday 7:30 PM SJBC

10/12	Tien-Chun Yang - Kou-Ping Cheng A Derek Fiero - Teddi Fiero B Franklin Lowenthal - Gary MacGregor A John Oswalt - Cindy Gilbert B
10/19	Judy Fisher - Steve Chen A 68.52% Derek Fiero - Teddi Fiero A/B
10/26	Victor Rivkin - Boris Ginzburg A/B Patricia Hannah - Josephine Cooley A Candy Wentworth - Sabina Siem B/C
11/2	Melinda Foos - Michael Fleisher A/B Paul Nelson - Richard Jacobs A/B
11/9	Bruce Luttrell - Dana Brown A Judy Fisher - Tania Moalem A Boris Ginzburg - Victor Rivkin B Larry Wagner - Annette Powers B

Wednesday 11:00 AM SJBC

10/13	Mike Stockwell - Bruce Scott A/B/C Jack Clinch - Sidney Safir A/B Jerry Lundquist - Lee Dimmitt A/B Gabriella Bowling - Ricardo Jastremski C
10/20	Mary Touris - Judith Clark A Joan Bower - Lynn Whelan A/B/C Lee Dimmitt - Jerry Lundquist A/B Jack Clinch - Sidney Safir B
10/27	Robert Ritz - Kou-Ping Cheng A 72.02% Joan Simpson - Dan Hoffman B Jack Clinch - Sidney Safir A Andre Dermant - Keith Burnett B Henne Fredkin - Ruth Wiseman C
11/3	Alan Becker - Paul Nelson A/B 69.00% Luke Lien - Cassandra Leung C

Wednesday 7:00 PM SJBC

10/13	Anne Boboricken - Diane Shannon A Carole Dietz - Judy Fisher A NongYu Li - Jiang Chen B/C Melinda Foos - Michael Fleisher B/C
10/20	Marshall Yancey - Jack Verson A 67.59% Will Watson - Leila Sink A Tania Moalem - Dana Brown B Walid Baroudi - Z Kadah C Mansoor Gowani - Mike Cailean B
10/27	Anne Boboricken - Edward Barlow A Marshall Yancey - Jack Verson A Raymond Yuenger - Mansoor Gowani B
11/3	Lynn Yokel - Annette Powers A/B Tania Moalem - Edward Lee A/B Z Kadah - Walid Baroudi C
11/10	Raymond Yuenger - Panette Talia A/B 65.41% Annette Powers - Lynn Yokel A/B

Wednesday 7:30 PM Oakwood

10/13	Raymond Yuenger - Srinivasan Ravindran A Barbara Soohoo - Nancy Nakamura A/B/C
10/20	Joseph Chui - Erin Gove A/B/C William Ahrens - Mostafa Hafezi A Laura Walters - Lorraine Rodich B/C
11/3	David Gambelin - Helen Mitchell A 66.67% Ann & Fred Carlson A/B Val Abid - Anne Dudman C
11/10	Steve Bosma - Kenneth Kenfield A Connie & Mario Vazquez B Ann & Fred Carlson A/B

Thursday 10:30 AM SJBC

10/14	Paul Nelson - Josephine Cooley A/B Read Kitson - Patricia Hannah A/B
10/21	Lynn Yokel - Daniel Kroll A/B Cackalani & Vasanth Krishnamurthi A/B
10/28	Olive Tangney - Richard Sarsfield A Kathleen Keener - Barbara Harkleroad A Derek Fiero - Teddi Fiero B/C
11/4	Jean Power - Olive Tangney A Henri Farhi - Kit Humphrey A Norman Wang - Gary Yang B Kathleen Keener - Josephine Cooley B

Thursday 7:00 PM SJBC

10/14	Mike Sullivan - Dan Rappaport A/B Mike Carney - Dalia Golan C Ron Baron - Leon W. Lee A Joseph Poppo - Kat Wesolowska B/C
10/21	Patricia & Richard Bader A/B/C 65.18% John Prior - Joe Chui A Hemant Mandpe - Shaila Mandpe B
10/28	Ron Baron - Richard Jacobs A/B Glenn Hudson - Bill Garfield A/B Patricia & Richard Bader C
11/4	Nancy & Tom Cadwell A/B/C Robert & Joan Rouse A/B Shaila & Hemant Mandpe C

Friday 11:00 AM SJBC

10/15	Margot Livenspargar - Edward Makowski Maureen Ellenberg - Ruth Sporer
10/22	Fung Bao - Doreen Hornback 66.29% Cackalani &- Vasanth Krishnamurthi
11/5	Fung Bao - Doreen Hornback 66.07% Cackalani & Vasanth Krishnamurthi

Friday 7:00 PM SJBC

10/15	Manju & Raghu Agarwal A/B/C Colette Babin - Art Quaife A/B/C
10/22 Pro-Am	Marshall Yancey - Mich Ravera Art Fonda - Bob Ward Don Nemiro - Candy Wentworth Tania Moalem - Earl Wentworth
11/5	Karen O'Connell - Joy Baker A Bob Ward - Nancy Ward A/B Karen Kulander - Happy Fordham C Manju Agarwal - Raghu Agarwal B/C

Saturday 12:45 PM SJBC

10/16	Bernard Bertonis - Rita Tingley 67.56% Molly Kaufman - Glenn Hudson
10/23	John Prior - Raja Smadi Joan Simpson - Mike Braun
11/6	Alexander Tampilang - Gabriella Bowling Margaret Lamey - Jean Bogosian

Sunday Night at the Club by Faye Parsons

For the next eight weeks or so, my Sunday night lessons will cover Slam Tools. Here is a list of the topics:

Jacoby 2^NT

Roman Key Card Blackwood (RKC)

Splinters

Cuebids

Gerber

Super Accepts

Exclusion Blackwood

Super Gerber

Lessons start at 5:00 PM. The game follows at 5:20 PM.

Also, come join us for our 499er Potluck at 4:30PM on Sunday, November 21.

Idioter’s Corner

Back in the late twentieth century, many of us in Information Technology in San Jose worked feverishly to insure that the passing of the millennium was essentially a non-event. It is also traditional in the month of November to remember to give thanks.

It is with these two thoughts in mind that I welcome Tania Moalem’s article of thanks to these pages.

Tania, however, omitted one important person, namely herself, from her list. A good tournament chair should be underappreciated, if she is any good at her job. You see, it is precisely because she worked so hard that no one knew how hard she worked. Putting on a three-day sectional tournament is no small undertaking. Putting on such a tournament with greater than expected turnout and with less than necessary staffing is nothing short of amazing. As a player, the only time that I ever had a hint that staffing was short was on Sunday when Jeff Hack answered a director call after having caddied boards.

Frequent readers may know what I have had to say about other tournaments. One has only to have attended one or two tournaments that were not as well run to know that tournaments don’t just happen by magic. Everything imaginable, from running out of coffee to no bidding boxes, inadequate heating, to no food, has happened at various tournaments in the last year, but not at ours

Are we just lucky? Well, is it the four-leafed clover or the two-headed coin?

The Di-Rek’Tor

The Di-Rek’Tor is published monthly by Unit 507 of the American Contract Bridge League, Campbell Community Center, One West Campbell Avenue, Building J-68, Campbell, CA 95008. Opinions in articles are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the Unit Board.

Unit 507 Board Officers

President

Dan Turkus

Vice President

Ray Yuenger

Secretary

Marshall Yancey

Treasurer

Neal Webb

Sgt. at Arms

Art Fonda

Membership

Dick Pitzer

Ethics

Bill Langlois

Unit Recorder

Carole Dietz

Forum columnist

Ray Yuenger

Unit Game Coordinator

Rekha Nirula

Tournament Coordinator

Tania Moalem

The Di-Rek'Tor Editor

Michael Angelo Ravera

Education/NAOP

Lynn Yokel

D21 Representative

Jeff Hack

Stu Goodgold

New Player Representative

Mich Ravera

Unit 507 Club Games

Day	Time	Game Type	Photo	Directors	Phone (408)
Sunday	5:20 pm	0-499 Stratified (Lesson: 5:00 pm) Monthly Potluck: 4:30 pm		Faye Parsons	378-4719
Monday	11:00 am	Open Stratified Hand records		Bill Traver	379-4490
Monday	7:30 pm	0-599 Handicapped (Lesson: 7:10 pm)		Al Becker	252-1426
Tuesday	10:30 am	Open Stratified Hand Records Super Chart		Judy Fisher / Carole Dietz	395-0032 / 395-6360
Tuesday	7:30 pm	Open Stratified Hand Records		Neal Webb / Ray Yuenger	243-9132 / 379-7717
Wednesday	11:00 am	Two Sections: Open and 0-299 Stratified Hand Records (Lesson 10:30 am)		Rita Tingley / Bernie Bertonis	261-0268
Wednesday	7:30 pm	Open Stratified Hand Records At Oakwood		Bill Traver	379-4490
Wednesday	7:00 pm	Open Stratified Hand Records Super Chart		Jim Hayashi / Anne Boboricken	292-2370 / 379-2805
Thursday	10:30 am	Open Hand Records Super Chart		Jim Hayashi / Anne Boboricken	292-2370 / 379-2805
Thursday	10:00 am	0-300 at the Belmont Village		Carol Woodward
Thursday	7:00 pm	0-999 Stratified (Topics: 6:40 pm)	See Sunday	Faye Parsons	378-4719
Friday	11:00 am	0-999 Handicapped (Review: 2:30 pm)	See Monday	Al Becker	252-1426
Friday	7:00 pm	0-300 Stratified (Lesson: 6:30 pm) One “Teacher Lifeline” Hand Records		George Pledger / Carole Dietz	249-2674 / 395-6360
Saturday	12:45 pm	0-2000 Handicapped	See Monday	Al Becker	252-1426

All games are held at the San Jose Bridge Center (408-871-1232) at one W. Campbell Ave, Room J-68, inside the Campbell Community Center except those identified as “in Sunnyvale”, “at Belmont Village”, and “at Oakwood. The Oakwood game is held at the Oakwood Garden Apartments, 700 Saratoga Ave, San Jose. The Belmont Village game is held at Belmont at 1039 E. El Camino Real between Wolfe Rd and Lawrence Expressway. The Evergreen game is held at BridgePointe Retirement center at 4855 San Felipe Rd, San Jose.

All games allow methods and systems permitted by the ACBL General Convention Chart. Those identified as “MidChart” or “Super Chart” also permit methods authorized by those charts with proper disclosure.

Check club postings, visit our web site at http://www.SJBridge.org or call for the exact dates and times of the Special STaC and Special Unit games, and of the 499er Potluck.

Games are often reduced, relaxed, or cancelled during local tournaments.

CONGRATULATIONS

Unit 507 Club Games

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