Short ♣ News

Unit Membership Dinner and Game Sun 7/10

Dinner: Chicken Coop

Game: CCC Big Room

Unit Board Elections: Until June 2

Sunday Evening Inaugural Team Game 6/12 5:20 PM

Tuesday Morning Monthly Team Game 5/24 10:30 AM

Friday Evening Monthly Team Game 5/27 7:00 PM

Saturday Evening Club Championship 5/21 7:00 PM

WHAT’S INSIDE?

Short ♣ News. 1

WHAT’S INSIDE?. 1

Prez Sez by Dan Turkus. 1

Saturday Nights at the Club. 1

Lynn Yokel BIDDING CONVENTIONS Classes. 2

Faye Parsons Modern Bidding Workshops. 2

The Di-Rek’Tor 2

Late April – Early May Winners. 2

Top Ten Games April 11-May 10. 3

Unit 507 Board Officers. 5

Promotions and Titles. 5

Idioter’s Corner 5

Unit 507 Club Games. 6

Prez Sez by Dan Turkus

Have you all voted yet? The reason my name isn't on the ballot is I still have another year to go, so please stop writing my name in. The group of people that are running are going to make it hard to select from, as I feel all would do a great job.

Congratulations Don Nemiro on becoming a Platinum Life Master!

Lots of people have asked my where I've been lately, and the answer is Italy, The Netherlands and Germany. If you have extra time ask to see my pictures....they are already in an album, and the Bulbs (tulips, hyacinths, etc) were incredible!

Back to bridge stuff. I was able to sign agreements to keep our Sectionals at the Masonic Temple through 2008! Also, if you are wondering how come Palo Alto is having their Firecracker Sectional at the Hyatt in SAN JOSE, Ricky's was sold to a developer, and the Palo Alto Board called various members of our Board and pleaded and we voted to allow it this time.

For your information, at the All Western Regional over Labor Day, the ACBL will be offering free Bridge lessons for absolute beginners. I think it's a great idea. They are going to start the program during the Sacramento Regional and have asked we send a representative to observe. I am most interested in the success of the program. The ACBL said there will be local advertising to draw in the beginners. In the meantime, you can think of a few people who have said "One of these days I'd like to learn that game." and advise them of the upcoming lessons.

All new Life Masters who have not had their names on the Board yet, well, another board is on its way, and we will have your names on the wall soon. Sorry about the delay, you can blame me.

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

Saturday Nights at the Club

Did you know that San Jose Bridge Center holds an Open Game EVERY Saturday Evening except during local tournaments? Game Time is 7:00 PM. Each Game is preceded by the “Deal of the Day”

Come Join Us!

Lynn Yokel
BIDDING CONVENTIONS Classes

Are you ready to improve the accuracy of your bidding by adding new bidding conventions to your partnership agreements?

Are you currently using conventions and find you don't always know what the responses and rebids mean?

Summer is a great time to brush up on or add new Bidding Conventions!

Wednesday mornings starting in June, Lynn Yokel will be offering a class on useful Bidding Conventions at the San Jose Bridge Club

For information contact Lynn at (408) 374-4669 or lynnyokel@comcast.net

Faye Parsons
Modern Bidding Workshops

We are going to have a mini workshop for those bridge players who are interested in continuing to learn more modern conventions such as Michaels, Defensive bidding, Blackwood, Gerber, Roman Key cards 0314, and 1430, Playing and defending of the hand or any other concern they may have. The charge will be $20.00 and payable in advance.

Dates: May 22^nd and June 5^th.

Time 2- 4:30 on Sundays

For more information call Faye 378-4719.

Please submit contributions for The Di-Rek’Tor to Michael Angelo Ravera

Email: maravera@prodigy.net

Voice: 408-432-1020

Printed: SJBC Folder

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.

Late April – Early May Winners

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

4/17	Carol Woodward - Maralyn Smith A/B 65.48% Donna Webb - Gail Meikle A/B Em & Art Toman C
4/24	Kat Wesolowska - Nadia Nilsson A Phyllis Vierra - Mike Sullivan A Mary Harvel - Randy Rice B/C Suzie Chiang - Doug Ryan B/C
5/1	Maxine & Ray Lubow A John Prior - Joe Chui A Fred Kurzweil - Bill Garfield B
5/8 STaC	John Prior - Joe Chui A 67.65% (1A) Norman Marks - Martin Anding B/C (1B/1C) Carol Woodward - Mich Ravera A (5A) Hemant & Shaila Mandpe B (3B)

Monday 11:00 AM SJBC

4/11	Dana Brown - Tania Moalem A 67.59% Richard Jacobs - Malcolm Stewart A/B
4/18	Y.E. Chen - Bert Hsu A/B 66.03% Coline Maclean - Bev Rennie A/B
4/25	Ted Richmond - W Riester Jr A 71.44% Faye Parsons - N Hatfield A Leon W. Lee - Dan Rappaport B/C Maxine & Ray Lubow B/C
5/2 STaC	Faye Parsons - N Hatfield A 68.38% (3A) Paul Nelson - Marilyn Campbell A/B (A13/B6) Maxine & Ray Lubow B/C
5/9	Bonnie Beardsley - Judy Fisher A Anne Struthers - Virginia English A David Gambelin - Derek Fiero B

Monday 7:30 PM SJBC

4/11	Mich Ravera - Judy Travis Joseph Poppo - Peggy Sprague
4/18	Kat Wesolowska - Erin Gove
4/25	Leon W. Lee - Jerry Lundquist 70.63% Bruce Scott - Jesse Merlin
5/2 STaC	Celso & Ching Ravelo A 66.27% (1A) Leon W. Lee - John Prior A (2A) Shirley Foreman - Rekha Nirula B (1B)
5/9	Hiram Shen - Mike Sullivan 66.12%

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

Full STaC results are available at http://www.contractbridgeforum.com/stac/spring05/results.htm

STaC Results are (in parentheses)

Tuesday 10:30 AM SJBC

4/12	Kathleen Keener - Madie Horton A/B Read Kitson - Paul Nelson A/B Paul Chang - Cassandra Leung C Barbara Tiernan - Richard Markell C
4/19	Lynn Yokel - Diane Shannon A Gigi Spinazze - Ruth Sporer A/B Paul Nelson - Josephine Cooley B
4/26	Team 1 (Hayashi, Boboricken, Shannon, Rothschild) A
5/3 STaC	Frances Dickman - Diane Shannon A (5A) Gary Yang - David Chang B (9A/5B) Tania Moalem - Dana Brown A Hugh Roberts - Harry Shannon C (5C)
5/10	Carole Dietz - Sidney Safir A Bernard Hoyt - Julie Joyce A/B/C Richard Sarsfield - Jim Blum B/C

Tuesday 7:30 PM SJBC

4/12	Steve Chen - Tien-Chun Yang A Patricia Hannah - Paul Nelson A K.V. Rao - Rajiv Dhingra B/C Derek & Teddi Fiero B
4/19	Kit Humphrey - Henri Farhi A Shirley Foreman - Richard Jacobs A/B Jiang Chen - NongYu Li B/C
4/26	Gigi Spinazze - Wayne Stuart A Kit Humphrey - Henri Farhi A Z Kadah - Kamen Nedeltchev B Richard Jacobs - Rekha Nirula B
5/3 STaC	Grant Robinson - Stu Goodgold A/B 65.71% (11A/4B) Tien-Chun Yang - Cai Gao A (Tie 17A) Kenneth Yip - Andy Andrews B/C Z Kadah - Kamen Nedeltchev C
5/10	Bruce Luttrell - Raymond Yuenger A Melinda Foos - Michael Fleisher A/B

Top Ten Games April 11-May 10

1	74.40%	Lynn Yokel - Ronald Siegrist	5/7 Eve
2	73.75%	Bob & Nancy Ward	4/15 Eve
3	71.44%	Ted Richmond - W Riester Jr	4/25 AM
4	70.63%	Leon W. Lee - Jerry Lundquist	4/25 Eve
5	70.00%	Bruce Scott - Jesse Merlin	4/20 AM
6	69.46%	Mich Ravera - Jerry Lundquist	4/23 PM
7	68.38%	Faye Parsons - N Hatfield	5/2 AM
8	67.65%	John Prior - Joe Chui	5/8 Eve
9	67.59%	Dana Brown - Tania Moalem	4/11 AM
10	67.08%	Bob Ward - John Newman	4/13 AM
	Tie	John Prior - Raja Smadi	4/30 PM

Wednesday 11:00 AM SJBC

4/13	Bob Ward - John Newman A/B/C 67.08% Kit Humphrey - Timothy White A/B 66.67% Victor Rivkin - Malcolm Stewart C
4/20	Bruce Scott - Jesse Merlin A/B/C 70.00% Helen Chao - Cassandra Leung A/B/C Henne Fredkin - Ruth Wiseman A/B/C
4/27	Frank Napolitan - Ursula Gueldner A Jan Kiernan - Patricia Yelvington B/C John Newman - Bruce Scott A/B/C Mostafa Hafezi - Timothy White A Victor Rivkin - Malcolm Stewart B Coline Maclean - Nancy Cadwell C
5/4 STaC	Ursula Gueldner - Frank Napolitan A (2 NLM A) John Newman - Bruce Scott A/B/C (4 NLM A) Lynn Yokel - Gigi Spinazze A Frances Dickman - Diane Shannon A Donna Armstrong - Sioux Atkinson B Victor Rivkin - Malcolm Stewart B Norma Epler - Martin Anding C

Wednesday 7:00 PM SJBC

4/13	Marshall Yancey - Jack Verson A Kit Humphrey - Henri Farhi A Bing Tsao - Daren Kuo B/C Edward Lee - Mansoor Gowani B
4/20	Marshall Yancey - Jack Verson A Kit Humphrey - Henri Farhi A Paul Nelson - Jeffrey Hack B David Gambelin - Panette Talia B Victor Rivkin - Boris Ginzburg C
4/27	Richard Sarsfield - Bill Garfield A/B/C 65.11% Z Kadah - Walid Baroudi A/B/C
5/4 STaC	Marshall Yancey - Jack Verson A (16A) Melinda Foos - Michael Fleisher B Z Kadah - Walid Baroudi A/B/C

Wednesday 7:30 PM Oakwood

4/27	Paul Nelson - Hiram Shen A 65.48% Leon W. Lee - Jerry Lundquist A/B/C Mervin & Shirley Falk B/C
4/13	Rita Randolph - Shirley Anderson A/B/C Louann Partridge - Marian Kelly A/B
4/20	Erin Gove - Joseph Chui A/B Matt Moore - Dan Rappaport A/B/C
5/4 STaC	Maxine & Ray Lubow A/B/C 66.67% (Ties 5A/2B/1C) Janet Adamiak - Hiram Shen A/B Joan & Robert Rouse C

Thursday 10:30 AM SJBC

4/14	Patricia Hannah - Read Kitson A/B Diane Shannon - Rose Meltzer A Paul Nelson - Josephine Cooley B
4/21	Bert Hsu - Boyer Chu A/B/C 65.10% Tania Moalem - Prue Saunders A Kathleen Keener - Art Fonda B
4/28	Diane Shannon - David Gambelin A Kathleen Keener - Barbara Harkleroad A Gary Yang - Boyer Chu B Lynn Yokel - Buzz Heeschen B
5/5 STaC	Timothy White - Bernard Bertonis A 65.39% (9A) Frances Dickman - Diane Shannon A (16A) Richard Sarsfield - Paul Nelson B Judy Travis - Consorcia/Ching Ravelo B Samuel Shat - Cassandra Leung C

Thursday 7:00 PM SJBC

4/14	Mich Ravera - Ellie Hall-Pitzer A Joel Koransky - Kat Wesolowska A/B Rekha Nirula - Joseph Poppo B
4/21	Mike Carney - Mike O'Connor A/B Richard Jacobs - Ron Baron A Bill Garfield - Martin Anding C
4/28	Maxine & Ray Lubow A/B 66.07% Celso & Consorcia/Ching Ravelo A Mike Sullivan - Dan Rappaport B Nadia Nilsson - Cassandra Leung C Andre Dermant - Fred Kurzweil C
5/5 STaC	Ravi Thomas - Neal Robinson A/B 65.91% (9A/5B) Tania Moalem - Prue Saunders A Leon W. Lee - John Prior B Joseph Poppo - Rekha Nirula C

Friday 11:00 AM SJBC

4/15	Sioux Atkinson - John Hornback 65.48% Jewel Schimke - Sally McLane
4/22	Richard Jacobs - Malcolm Stewart 66.63% Julie Joyce - Bernard Hoyt 66.24%
4/29	Judi Strozza - Nancy Daniher Doris Oelberg - Consorcia/Ching Ravelo
5/6 STaC	Carol Woodward - Harry Shannon A/B/C 65.15% (1A/1B/1C) Joan & Robert Rouse A (4A) George Wuschnig - Earl Wentworth B/C (2B/2C)

Friday 7:00 PM SJBC

4/15	Bob & Nancy Ward A/B 73.75% Beverly Nelson - Kathy Coons A/B/C
4/22	Hemant & Shaila Mandpe A Bill Garfield - Ken Rosenfeld B Martin Anding - Norma Epler A/B Art & Colette Quaife C Manju & Raghu Agarwal C
4/29	Team 8 (Quaife, Quaife, Smith, Bosklopper) A
5/6 STaC	Ken Rosenfeld - Jim Blum A/B Mike Sullivan - Bill Garfield A Fia Bosklopper - Maralyn Smith B

Friday Evening Players Art, Nancy, Collette, and Tom

Photo by Carole Dietz

Saturday 12:45 PM SJBC

4/16	Maxine & Ray Lubow Charles Monia - Alexander Tampilang
4/23	Mich Ravera - Jerry Lundquist 69.46% Mildred & Russell Brewer
4/30	John Prior - Raja Smadi 67.08% Tom Cadwell - Alexander Tampilang
5/7 STaC	Fung Bao - Raja Smadi A (1A) Maureen Ellenberg - Ruth Sporer A (3A) Joan Simpson - Mike Braun B (4A/1B) Kirk Woolsey - Mike Freda C (5A/2B)

Saturday 7:00 PM SJBC

4/16	Leon W. Lee - Jerry Lundquist A Keith & Carol Burnett B
4/23	Ellie Hall-Pitzer - John Prior A/B
4/30 Unit Game	Melinda Foos - Michael Fleisher A/B 65.08% Gary MacGregor - Jim O'Neil A John Prior - Raja Smadi B
5/7 STaC	Lynn Yokel - Ronald Siegrist A 74.40% (1A) Melinda Foos - Michael Fleisher B (2B) Gene Simpson - Laura Kenney A Maxine & Ray Lubow B

Unit 507 Board Officers
President	Dan Turkus
Vice President	Ray Yuenger
Secretary	Marshall Yancey
Treasurer	Neal Webb
Sergeant 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
District 21 Representatives	Jeff Hack Stu Goodgold
New Player Representative	Mich Ravera

Promotions and Titles

JUNIOR MASTER	Kathy Coons Eileen Kotecki Jean Meehan Hui Xu John Zhuge
CLUB MASTER	Jesse Merlin Ken Rosenfeld Barbara Tiernan
SECTION MASTER	Jennifer Gu
REGIONAL MASTER	Jiang Chen Katarzyna Wesolowska
NABC MASTER	Judi Carollo
BRONZE LIFE MASTER	R F Randolph
GOLD LIFE MASTER	Barbara Harkleroad
CLUB DIRECTOR	Stu Goodgold

Sunday Evening Players Martin and Eileen

Sunday Evening Players Mike, Joan, Mike, and Robert

Idioter’s Corner

In 1991, I was working on site in Seoul to help implement the first electronic Business-to-Business network in Korea. One particular feature that was on everyone’s list seemed unnecessary and, in fact, silly to me. A lot of unnecessary effort was being expended in an effort to figure out how to satisfy the requirement. After proper inquiry, I arrived at the truth of the matter. It turns out that the Most Esteemed Managing Director had made an off-handed comment to one of the technical managers and, somehow or another, this comment had been treated as a kind of sacred dogma. When I mentioned to those whose task it was actually to verify the system that the Managing Director was unlikely ever to log on to the system, it wasn’t so much a case of an embarrassed Emperor having been tricked by an unscrupulous fabric salesperson as a nudist Emperor having a good laugh at the expense of his subjects!

It is with this though in mind that I remind people actually to check the rules before criticizing others for violating them. In some cases the rules are not as commonly supposed.

It has little to do with sacred dogma, but did you think that you were missing some master points that you earned back in 2003? Well, I was pretty sure that I was missing a very small sliver of gold. It was easy to tell in my case since a small sliver is all the gold that I have earned. I used our web site as evidence and e-mailed to masterpoints@acbl.org and they took care of it. Fifty-nine other people also earned points in Unit NAP qualifying event. All of them will receive the points that they earned from this event. If you think that you are missing points from other events, a copy of the results page from our website seems to be sufficient evidence.

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	0-699 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		Ray Yuenger / Will Watson	379-7717 / (650)610-0225
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		Lynn Yokel	374-4669
Thursday	10:00 am	0-300 at Belmont Village		Carol Woodward
Thursday	7:00 pm	Open Stratified	See Sunday	Faye Parsons	378-4719
Friday	11:00 am	0-1199 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
Saturday	7:00 pm	Open Stratified “Deal of the Day” 6:55 PM		John Prior	JGPrior@mindspring.com

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.