22 May 2015.indd - Western Conference Contract Bridge Forum

May 2015
Anaheim
What’s New in District 22
Bakersfield
By Ron Lien
By Mimi Stull
e sadly report the loss of former Anaheim Club director and
good friend, Jim Kirby, who
passed away March 30. We will miss his
company and his humor. Please remember
his wife Sheri and son Bob in your prayers.
Jim enjoyed life and wanted us to celebrate
his life. The April 6 unit game is dedicated
to his memory and love of the game.
Our masterpoint winners at the well-attended San Diego Regional included Subba Ravipudi, Ron Lien, Rai Osborne, Len
Beck, Louis Shen, Wei Pei, Rolland and
Gina Otto and Linda White.
By the time you read this, we will have
finished our Anaheim Sectional. Thanks to
all who attended.
Mike’s Monday 7:00 p.m. game is located
in Lemon Park, at 701 South Lemon, Fullerton. There are both open and Non-Life
Master sections. First time players play
free.
Art’s Wednesday game starts at 11:30
a.m. at the Anaheim Senior Center, 150
East Center Drive, Anaheim.
The 5:00 p.m. Placentia Library Wednesday game is located at 411 East Chapman,
Placentia.
Club winners in March included Linda
and Brian Trent, E. Schechter - Herbert
Scheffler, Savita Rajwani - Verne Allen,
Linda Eagan - Faye Phillips, Elizabeth
Burrell - Kent Burrell, Art Linderman Thomas Felice, Helen Hoover - Trudy
Durrette, Deede Both - Sharon Ray, Nancy Coons - Jean Jacobson, Jean Jacobson
- Joan Culbertson, Jean Jacobson - Louis
Shen and Steve Hirsch - Greg Thorpe.
Do you know any college bridge players?
We are seeking candidates for the 2015
Gayle Andrews $1,000 bridge scholarship.
Full-time college students who regularly
play bridge at a Southern California club
are eligible to apply. For an application
form or more information please contact
me at [email protected]
ournament chairman and unit president Patti Young says, “If this article arrives before the week-end of
April 24, there is still time to get a partner
to play in the Spring Sectional.
Check with Cecily Kay at 661 663-8995
or [email protected] for partners. Scores
may be viewed on our own website or at
acbl.org ... click on sectional tournaments.”
Our March unit game was highlighted by
a celebration for Gert Prejean who has attained the rank of Gold Life Master. Overall winners were Beverly Busacca - Sharon
Wilson followed by: Maynard & Sandy
Denison; Bob Giragosian - Bruce Maclin;
Marlyn Everett - Sue Kelly; GeorgeAnn
Kerley - Dene Ferris; Lee Mathers - Tim
Prince; Henry Schaeffer - John Maunder;
and Libbie Stull - Mimi Stull.
Two teams of C players ranked 1st in their
direction in the open game. They are Larry
Hawk - Paul Sherman and Cecily Kay Ron Miller.
Those intermediate players who placed
first in Monday games in March include:
Fred Carlisle - Larry Hawk (three times!);
Jeri Cook - Patti Young; and Teri Jones Rebel Pilshaw.
Two pairs reached 70%+ games. They are
David Priest - Bruce Maclin, and, in Tehachapi, Henry Schaeffer - John Maunder.
We welcome new member Janet Lund,
and re-instated member, Bill Horton, both
of Tehachapi.
Laurie Osborne is a new Junior Master.
Vilas Bankar is our newest Life Master.
Congratulations!
For this month only, our Saturday games
will be held on the first Saturday, May 2,
and the fifth Saturday, May 30, because the
Community House has been reserved for
other events. On most months our regular
days are the second and fourth Saturdays
unless, as in this case, other events have
been planned. Games on these days will
begin at 11:00 a.m., as usual. Check the
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of the C-17 and was lead engineer on the
autoflight system. He also worked on the
navigation system of the Delta 4 launch vehicle. [Columnist note: I may have bumped
into Fred in the halls at C-17 and Delta,
but we didn’t know each other then.]
Here are Fred’s views about his life with
bridge: “I started playing bridge when I
was 16 and played at work when I could
find a game. It was on a cruise to New Zealand and Australia that my experience with
the game changed. It was on the second
day of the cruise when I read in the daily
bulletin about a bridge lecture scheduled
for 10:00 a.m. I actually wondered whether
this was about the game or the bridge of the
ship. I attended the lecture and returned for
the 3:00 p.m. game.
I was assigned a partner with whom I
played the duration of the cruise. When
we docked in Sydney, the final port, my
partner suggested that I find a club locally
where I lived. I followed his advice and
have been playing duplicate for 13 years. I
am now a Silver Life Master.
“I have played in clubs in all of the local units and in many tournaments. One of
my most interesting experiences was when
I played in an Omaha Regional and went
up to shake hands with Warren Buffet. He
was wearing his gecko shirt reflecting his
ownership interest in Geico. Years later I
ran into him again at the Las Vegas Summer NABC and he was wearing the same
shirt. The partners I play with the most are
Bill Hall, Shirl Thomas, Fred Benedetti,
Dale Rensing, Jody Pedri, Shmuel Fisher,
Ted Doria and Tae Lee.”
Thank you Fred, for sharing your brief
bio with us.
A call for editorial input: looking back at
some of my earlier columns, circa 2008
and 2009, I notice that unit members used
to provide me with news of their victories
in bridge, new grandchildren, vacations
and cruises, etc. Nowadays, the news volunteered by members seems to have dried
up except for a few isolated cases. Come
on, readers, let me know what is going
on with you. I am all ears (or eyes) if you
bulletin board for other May activities.
Oops! It was Mr. Spock who told us to
...”Live long and prosper.” Dr. Spock told
us how to raise our kids!
Here’s wishing all the Moms a very Happy Mother’s Day!
Balboa
By Phil Pearl
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embership news: new members: Irma Grime, Sydney Klevatt, Patty McGinley, and Patricia Mills. Transfers into our unit: Roy
Dowd from Monterey, and Cynthia Wittenberg from Saddleback. Welcome aboard.
Advancement in rank: Junior Master:
Chris Burton, Rella Lutzky, Denise Mohle,
and Jean Stauffer. Club Master: Deanann
Dierke, Barbara Rountree, and Jim Rountree. Regional Master: Stephen Queen.
NABC Master: Rohit Dubey.
Congratulations to all.
This month we feature Frederick (Fred)
Solomon, a club regular playing in the
open games. Fred was born and raised
in Anaheim and attended Katella High
School. He attended the California Institute of Technology, graduating with honors
in 1977, majoring in Applied Mathematics.
“My undergraduate tenure at Caltech was
one of the most profound experiences of
my life. I lived at Page House, one of seven
undergraduate on-campus residences. We
invited to dinner and had personal interaction with several prominent personalities
of the day, including Richard Feynman and
Linus Pauling (Nobel Laureates), Robert
Heinlein (science fiction) and Carl Sagan.”
Fred then attended graduate school at
UCLA earning his PhD in mathematics in
1981. At the same time he was working
for Hughes Aircraft and was a fortunate
participant in the company’s doctoral fellowship program. He spent approximately
30 years in the aerospace industry working
at Hughes, Ford Aerospace, and McDonnell Douglas (later becoming Boeing). He
worked on the development and flight test
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