December Di-Rek'Tor

Our Holiday party was a great feed and lots of fun! I personally love all the different salads, rices, potatoes, vegi-dishes, and all the deserts, not to mention two distinctly different Turkeys (one Bar-B-Qued, and one oven cooked). Thanks for all of you that voted for the oven cooked as the best tasting. Thank you to all those people that helped set up, brought all that great food and wine. A special thanks goes to Tania Moalem and Teddi Fierro who both organized the event.

The winners were: North/South 1st went to Anne Boboricken & Henri Farhi; Melinda (Mindy) Foos & Michael Fleisher 1st in B and 2nd in A; Alexander Tampilang & Gabriella Bowling were 1st in C 2nd in B and 4h in A. Sitting East/West 1st went to Mike Cailean & Franklin Lowenthal; Ronald Siegrist & Mansoor Gowani were 1st B and 2nd A; Stan Batiste & Joel Koransky were 1st C. In the under 100/50/20 game 1st North/South in all 3 catagories went to Bruce Scott & Natarayan Krishnamoort and East/West 1st in A was won by Bob & Nancy Ward and 2nd A 1st B and C was won by Fia & Ben Bosklopper. Way to go! Did I mention I won best Turkey?

I'm sorry to say we lost one of our great Players, Bonnie LaRochelle. She passed away December 10th, and if I remember correctly, she made Life Master back in 1968. She was a very sweet lady and a great Bridge Player. She will be missed by all those that knew her.

Our next Unit function will be the Rose Bowl II, to honor Rose Meltzer's becoming a Grand Life Master (10,000 points)! Rose Bowl I was to honor Rose went she was the 1st woman ever to be on the World Champion Team! If you like great Bridge and good competition, make plans to attend this game and meet Rose on January 22nd.

That's it for this month, so have a Safe Holiday season and a Happy New Year! See ya at the tables.

Absolute Beginner Lessons

by Faye Parsons

Starting January 10, I will start absolute beginner Bridge classes. The time and the date are flexible.

Anyone interested please contact Faye Parsons. 378-4719 or e-mail fparsons@pacbell.net

Now That Was a Party!
by Tania Moalem

I feel honored to belong to a Unit in which so many of our members are always willing to lend a helping hand. From arriving a hour early to help set up all the tables to all of you who stayed late to help clean up. It would be an overwhelming job to take on the responsibility single handedly, but with all of you always willing to help, our events always seem to be a great success.

If you attended our Christmas party you would have witnessed how all our tables were over flowing which scrumptious dishes that so many of you generously provided to fill our hungry tummies. Not only did we have such a variety of main course dishes, but a fourth table had to be set up just to hold all the extra desserts. It would take almost a full page to name everyone so I hope you don't mind if I extend in this little message an acknowledgement of all who helped make our Party such a success.

However, I do want to say a special thanks to our Director, Will Watson, who seemed to be everywhere at once and made sure our game ran smoothly with no noticeable mishaps. And of course to Teddi Fiero who is always so generous with her time.

Happy Holidays to all and a healthy, happy New Year!

Top Ten Games Nov 11-Dec 10

1	71.25%	Celso & Ching Ravelo	11/29 Eve
2	70.60%	Tania Moalem - David Gambelin	11/16 AM
3	69.58%	Ted Richmond - W Riester Jr	12/6 AM
4	68.75%	Matt Moore - Dan Rappaport	11/29 Eve
5	68.15%	Bernard Hoyt - Julie Joyce	12/10 AM
6	67.73%	Kenneth Kenfield - Steve Bosma	12/1 Oak
7	67.59%	Judy Fisher - Steve Chen	11/16 Eve
8	67.36%	Ted Richmond - W Riester Jr	11/15 AM
9	67.19%	David Chang - Gary Yang	12/7 AM
10	67.08%	Bruce Scott - Jesse Merlin	11/24 AM

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

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

11/14	Ben & Fia Bosklopper A/B/C 66.96% Nancy & Tom Cadwell A/B
11/21	Nancy & Tom Cadwell A/B Maxine & Ray Lubow A Karen Kulander - Happy Fordham B/C
11/28	Maxine & Ray Lubow A 65.28% Manju & Raghu Agarwal B/C Kat Wesolowska - Nadia Nilsson A/B Jesse Merlin - Bruce Scott C
12/5	Natrajan Krishnamoorthy - Bruce Scott A/B/C Mich Ravera - Sharon Sava A

Monday 11:00 AM SJBC

11/15	Ted Richmond - W Riester Jr A 67.36% George Wuschnig - Earl Wentworth B/C Kit Humphrey - Robert Ritz A
11/22	Prue Saunders - David Gambelin A Ted Richmond - W Riester Jr A Paul Nelson - Harriet Rounds B Barbara Marleau - Sally McLane B/C Maxine Lubow - Ray Lubow C
11/29	Derek Fiero - Teddi Fiero A/B 66.24% Billie Mechanic - Tina Pearson A Maxine Lubow - Ray Lubow B
12/6	Ted Richmond - W Riester Jr A 69.58% Tania Moalem - Diane Shannon A Paul Nelson - Marilyn Campbell B

Monday 7:30 PM SJBC

11/15	Jim Blum - Ken Rosenfeld Celso & Ching Ravelo
11/22	Leon W. Lee - John Prior
11/29	Celso & Ching Ravelo 71.25% Matt Moore - Dan Rappaport 68.75%
12/6	Donna Webb - Gail Meikle A/B/C Judith Clark - M O'Leary A Jewel Schimke - Bob Shannon B

Tuesday 10:30 AM SJBC

11/16	Tania Moalem - David Gambelin A 70.60% Bill Yetter - Katherine Maxfield A/B Norma Black - Consorcia/Ching Ravelo B Y.E. Chen - Norman Wang C Morey Goldstein - Rita Randolph C
11/23	Bill Yetter - Robert Ritz A Beverly Wright - Jean Power A/B Ronald Siegrist - Lynn Yokel B Vinay Sood - Nikil Mazumder C Judy Travis - Mae Ferguson C
11/30	Team 6 (Langlois, Riester, Yokel, Siegrist) A 4-0 Team 9 (Hannah, Kitson, Chen, Nelson) B 3-1
12/7	David Chang - Gary Yang A/B 67.19% Kathleen Keener - Art Fonda A Gigi Spinazze - David Gambelin B

Tuesday 7:30 PM SJBC

11/16	Judy Fisher - Steve Chen A 67.59% Kenneth Yip - Andy Andrews A/B/C Rita Tingley - Sabina Siem B
11/23	Cindy Gilbert - John Oswalt A/B Bill Langlois - W Riester Jr A Harvey Lindauer - Chuck Lindauer B/C
11/30	Dana Brown - Bruce Luttrell A Chuck Lindauer - Harvey Lindauer A/B/C Z Kadah - Kamen Nedeltchev B/C
12/7	John Oswalt - Cindy Gilbert A/B Tien-Chun Yang - Steve Chen A/B Mich Ravera - Bill Garfield C Joan Rouse - Robert Rouse C

Wednesday 11:00 AM SJBC

11/17	Helen Chao - Cassandra Leung A/B/C Judy Travis - Ching Ravelo A/B Andre Dermant - Keith Burnett A/B Vinay Soud - Connie Dunckelmann C
11/24	Bruce Scott - Jesse Merlin A/B/C 67.08% Joyce Sogg - Fung Bao A/B
12/1	Joan Simpson - Dan Hoffman A/B Jesse Merlin - Bruce Scott C Victor Rivkin - Malcolm Stewart A/B/C Henne Fredkin - Ruth Wiseman A/B/C
12/8	Raja Smadi - Gabriella Bowling A/B Victor Rivkin - Malcolm Stewart A/B Bruce Scott - Elaine Vizsalyi A/B/C Diane Shannon - Mary Anne Berg A Jan Kiernan - Patricia Yelvington C

Wednesday 7:00 PM SJBC

11/17	Raymond Yuenger - Ronald Siegrist A/B Robert Ritz - Mike Cailean A Lynn Yokel - Gary Porter B
11/24	Eugene Vodkin - Boris Ginzburg A/B/C
12/1	Cai Gao - Jiong Sun A/B/C Marshall Yancey - Jack Verson A Melinda Foos - Michael Fleisher B
12/8	Jiang Chen - NongYu Li A/B/C Gigi Spinazze - Steve Chen A/B Kamen Nedeltchev - Jody Praklet C

Wednesday 7:30 PM Oakwood

11/17	Helen Mitchell - David Gambelin A 66.07% Mervin Falk - Shirley Falk B/C Rita Randolph - Shirley Anderson A/B Val Abid - Anne Dudman C
12/1	Kenneth Kenfield - Steve Bosma A 67.73% Nancy Nakamura - Barbara Soohoo A/B/C Peggy Chen - Cathy Stahler B/C
12/8	Abby Aldecoa - Larry Miller A 66.03% Bill Yetter - Joseph Poppo A Dan Rappaport - Matt Moore B/C Mervin Falk - Shirley Falk B/C

Thursday 10:30 AM SJBC

11/11	Tania Moalem - Jean Power A/B Y.E. Chen - Gary Yang A/B
11/18	Diane Shannon - Frances Dickman A 66.96% Lynn Yokel - Daniel Kroll A Louann Partridge - Jane Jennings B Cackalani & Vasanth Krishnamurthi B
12/2	Y.E. Chen - Chi Yung Lin A/B/C
12/9	Tania Moalem - David Gambelin A Y.E. Chen - Gary Yang A/B

Thursday 7:00 PM SJBC

11/11	Erin Gove - Kat Wesolowska A/B/C Joel Koransky - Stan Batiste A/B/C
11/18	Richard Jacobs - Ron Baron A Leon W. Lee - Dan Rappaport A Andre Dermant - Fred Kurzweil B/C
12/2	Hemant Mandpe - Shaila Mandpe A/B Peggy Chen - Glenn Hudson A Natrajan Krishnamoorthy - Jim Blum C Nadia Nilsson - Joe Chui B
12/9	Richard Jacobs - Ron Baron A Joseph Poppo - Alexander Tampilang A Hui Xu - Xiaojian Yang B/C Hemant Mandpe - Shaila Mandpe B

Friday 11:00 AM SJBC

11/12	Jim Blum - Albert Lyew Doris Oelberg - Ching Ravelo
11/19	Linda Mattis - Raja Smadi Edward Makowski - Alonzo Reymond
11/26	Bill Traver - Dan Oneal Bill Yetter - Peggy Yetter
12/3	Julie Joyce - Bernard Hoyt519.05% Molly Kaufman - Janice Scott500.00%
12/10	Bernard Hoyt - Julie Joyce A/B/C 68.15% Jewel Schimke - Sally McLane A/B

Friday 7:00 PM SJBC

11/12	Maralyn Smith - Fia Bosklopper A/B 67.06% Jewel Schimke - Bob Shannon A Colette Babin - Art Quaife B/C
11/19	Nancy Cadwell - Tom Cadwell A Hemant Mandpe - Shaila Mandpe A Art Quaife - Colette Babin B/C Mark Peters - Mike Bennett B/C
11/26	Connie Dunckelmann - Lee Dimmitt A Maralyn Smith - Fia Bosklopper B/C Donna Webb - Gail Meikle A/B
12/3	Ken Rosenfeld - Jim Blum A/B/C Mike Sullivan - Joe Chui A Bob Ward - Nancy Ward B
12/10	Manju Agarwal - Raghu Agarwal A/B/C Frank Napolitan - Ursula Gueldner A Ken Rosenfeld - Norman Marks B/C

Saturday 12:45 PM SJBC

11/13	Joan Simpson - Mike Braun Elaine Erickson - William Ahrens
11/20	Alexander Tampilang - Ken Rosenfeld Loreta Flynn - Fung Bao
11/27	Bill Traver - George Pledger Glenn Hudson - Helen Mohr
12/4	Mildred Brewer - Russell Brewer Richard Jacobs - Hiram Shen

Saturday November 17 7:00PM Unit Game SJBC

Don Nemiro - Betty De Paola A 65.05%

W Riester Jr - Bill Langlois A

Raja Smadi - John Prior B/C

Boris Ginzburg - Eugene Vodkin B/C

Games around Town
by Carole Woodward

I would like to take this opportunity to invite all of you to the Belmont Village game in Sunnyvale. Game time is 10:00 a.m. every Thursday.

Starting in January 2005, I will be increasing the point range from 0-100 to 0-299, so hopefully all you 299ers will be able to come and enjoy the game. Bring a partner or come alone and make this a good game for all.

Belmont Village is located on the corner of Henderson and El Camino Real. There is plenty of parking in the back of the facility. You must enter from the front (so bring your umbrellas when it rains), sign in, and the nice lady at the desk will direct you to where the game is being held. The facility is a very lovely setting and they also provide us with lunch.

Hope to see you all next year. Have a great holiday season and safe New Year. If you have any questions, please feel free to email me at carolw449@juno.com. See you all soon!

Idioter’s Corner

I’ve often said that in pair games, you have your partner to blame and in team games you have your teammates to save you.

Lyricist Mark Knoffler put this admonition in song better than I’ve ever heard it stated in prose: “When you point your finger because your plan fell through, you’ve got three more fingers pointing back at you!”

This admonition ought to apply at the Bridge table in a figurative sense as much as it applies in a physical sense in real life. It’s very difficult to point at the person across the table without pointing three fingers from your own hand at yourself.

I have a couple of thoughts about how we might improve the game of Bridge as it is played at our club. All of these ideas are neither required nor prohibited by the laws of the game:

1) How about sorting the hand for the next person if you have time? If it helps people with either dexterity problems and visual impairments, how can it hurt anyone else? Also, if every hand were sorted, any mixing or failure to mix the hand wouldn’t convey any information.

2) How about North-South pairs asking someone form the East-West Pair to initial the traveler?

3) Can we please get everybody to use the STOP card when they make a skip bid?

4) On the last board of the last round, if you are running behind, how about placing the bidding cards for the final contract and risk level (that’s a fancy term for “whether or not it was double or redoubled”) so that the director and anyone kibitzing won’t have to ask what the contract is?

5) Just six more important things:

Happy Chanukah! Happy Long Night!

Merry Christmas! Plentiful Kwanzaa!

Happy New Year! Happy New Year!

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 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.

All games allow methods and systems permitted by the ACBL General Convention Chart. Those games 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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