Don’t let anyone tell you there’s no free lunch. There is a free dinner and a free bridge game, if you belong to Unit 507. The unit board is holding its member appreciation dinner and game on Sunday evening, June 10. More details will be posted at the San Jose Bridge Club. Please sign up at the club.

Also please vote at the club for board members. Several are running for re-election after serving two-year terms. Any campaign promises you want to hear? We will have no butterfly ballots. The results of the election will be announced at the dinner.

Faye Parsons is presenting Easybridge! 2 Sunday evenings at 5. The game is now a 0-49er game.

Congratulations to Will Watson’s team for winning the Flight A GNT competition in our district. At the Oakland sectional in Hayward, no other members earned a strat top. At the San Ramon sectional, Shih-Ming Shih took a strat top in the two-session pairs game. In side pairs Richard Jacobs & Hiram Shen and Alexander Tampilang topped their strats. In the Swiss event, Joyjit Sarma’s team took first in their bracket.

The unit board is nominating Lynn Yokel to the district as goodwill person of the year. Lynn has done a lot for bridge and for our unit. Lynn pioneered Easybridge! in our area. She built up a following for her Sunday evening lesson and game, eventually moving the game to Thursday evening, where it has evolved into a 299er game directed by Faye Parsons. Lynn continues to promote the interests of newcomers to bridge. She made many phone calls to fill the club with “pro-am” partnerships at unit games and in the mentor program. As a fellow board member, I can attest that she has done much more than the minimum required by her positions as membership chair and education chair. She has been a unit game organizer, locating directors, arranging and providing the food. Lynn now directs the Tuesday night game, trading off with Neal Webb and me. As notable as Lynn’s energetic efforts on behalf of the unit are her infectious enthusiasm for the game of bridge and her gregarious personality, making strangers to the game or the club so welcome they become partners and friends. Now if we could just clone her so she’d have enough time to play with all her partners.

A few words from Lynn. “I’d like to thank the mentors who volunteered their time to teach and encourage our novice and intermediate players: Ron Siegrist, Judy Fisher, Gary Porter, Ray Yuenger, Stu Goodgold, John Hoffman, Dan Turkus, Mike Roney, Jeanne Becht, Will Watson, Art Fonda, Charley James, Jeff Hack, Marshall Yancey, Marolyn Yancey, Rose Meltzer, Don Nemiro, Carole Dietz, Keith McMahon, Bill Traver, Ivan Rose, Fran Dickman, Ed Lee, Ed Barlow, Don Hayden, Andrea James, Anne Struthers, Elaine Erickson, Richard Reitman, and Gary Soules.”

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