District 4
District Director's Report
Very sad news. Joan Gerard passed away today. Joan was on the Board of Directors for 25 years representing District 3 (Hudson Valley, Suburban NYC, Northern NJ). She also was tournament chair of all four of their regionals and she was a long time board member of both the World Bridge Federation and the United States Bridge Federation. We lost a tireless worker for the game of bridge and I personally lost a good friend and my mentor.
In St. Louis the Board did a few things that might be of interest. They raised the Senior age to 60 and grandfathered those who are 55 by this year’s end. It was a token gesture, given that 95% of our membership still qualify.
A couple of alerts were changed. The one that will be of most interest is that NO 2D response to a strong 2C bid is alertable as of 1/1/14.
A new event was introduced in St Louis; the 0-10,000 Swiss Team (all four members must have less than 10,000 masterpoints). It was a rousing success as 81 teams entered. The Board is considering four more 0-10,000 events. A mini-Vanderbilt, Mixed Pairs, Fast Pairs and Open Pairs.
Congratulations to Joann Glasson on winning the Women’s Swiss Teams. I think it was her 6th National Championship!
Winners in St Louis from D4:
Joann Glasson Pennington, NJ 106.83 Eric Greco Wynnewood, PA 105.00 Rhoda Prager Boca Raton, FL 55.61 Meyer Kotkin Cherry Hill, NJ 47.79 Corey Krantz Philadelphia, PA 46.41 Gail Bell King of Prussia, PA 45.09 Albert Bingaman, Jr. Reading, PA 43.01 Raymond Depew Kingston, PA 42.83 Norman Dressler Kingston, PA 42.83 Ala Hamilton-Day Rose Valley, PA 37.61 George Krizel Feasterville-Trevose, PA 37.55 Barry Gorski Reading, PA 37.06 Gregory Kiddy Reading, PA 35.69 Louis Glasthal Berwyn, PA 33.33 Albert Shrive Dalton, PA 31.71 Bob Glasson Pennington, NJ 28.56 Neal Satten Wynnewood, PA 23.51 Ken Cohen Wynnewood, PA 23.51 Peter Kyper West Chester, PA 20.13 Marilyn Goldman Rochester, NY 18.39 Dick Wilson Rochester, NY 18.39 Paul Irvine Allentown, PA 17.70 David Dodgson Lansdale, PA 15.51 Thomas Salter Hatfield, PA 15.51 Bruce Lang Philadelphia, PA 14.53 Randall Berseth Bear, DE 13.58 Jacqualyn James E. Stroudsburg, PA 13.55 Arnold Fisher Clementon, NJ 13.14 Arlyne Shockman Philadelphia, PA 12.76 Zhuo Wang Philadelphia, PA 11.05 Richard Hurd Trumansburg, NY 10.40 Eleanor O'Connor Trumansburg, NY 10.40 George Subt Southampton, NJ 10.07