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Join us as we celebrate a special milestone – 50 wonderful years of friendship, fun and community! Palo Alto Bridge Center is a vital community hub: bringing all of us together, fostering social connections, mental engagement and lasting friendships.
Consider introducing our wonderful world of bridge at our Bridge Center to some of your friends and families – we have bridge classes starting this fall for new and intermediate players.
Upcoming events for you at Palo Alto Bridge Center:
Attached is a 1-pager current list of planned events for the year, with more to come. |
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Palo Alto Bridge offers monthly Swiss teams games for you to practice in a relaxed atmosphere. Next team club game is on Monday, September 8 at 11:30AM, where the boards are already shuffled with hand records. If you need a partner, or help to be matched with another pair, let us know. Swiss Team games SignUp At last month’s game on August 11 – congrats to the winning team: John Hoffman – Leila Sink – Ken Rosenfeld – Joel Koransky. Very honorable mention of the top strat C team for coming 2nd overall!: Ilya Sherman – Michael Callahan – Pearl Renaker – Solveig Kjartansdottir. |
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Call your partners, friends and join our party to celebrate the 50thanniversary of our community hub, Palo Alto Bridge Center, on Tuesday, September 30. Palo Alto Unit’s first dedicated bridge facility, the Bridge Center, opened in 1975 at Elwell Court in Palo Alto. Our third Alan Cummings Free Lecture will be given by bridge professional and world champion Debbie Rosenberg at around 10:00AM before the club game. Sign up for the 10:45AM club game: SignUp |
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As Fall approaches, bridge teachers Kathy Harper and Frank Smoot are separately offering F2F bridge classes at the Bridge Center. Please register online: Fall classes
We are excited to offer an all-day LIVE in-person seminar workshop by bridge professional celebrity Robert Todd at the Palo Alto Bridge Center on competing and defense strategies on Saturday, October 18. Register: Robert Todd F2F seminar |
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Recent highlights: We were delighted to see so many newer/intermediate players play Team events at the recent Santa Clara Regional, especially after attending our Swiss Teams Boot Camp. 21 players attended the sessions on August 13 and 20. Huge thank-you to the great Phil Abrahamson on his wonderful lectures, Dana Shelley, Marc Cervellino and Liz Koh.
Thank YOU for especially coming in to attend the Special Palo Alto Unit Membership meeting on August 12 to vote and approve our Board’s proposed amendments to the Unit’s Bylaws. The Board appreciates your participation.
STaC at Palo Alto Bridge Congrats to the top Palo Alto Bridge winners at the recent (Sectional Tournament at Clubs) STaC week August 18-22 Aug STaC results:
Celebrity Seminars by Michael Berkowitz on the topic “Do I Play or Defend? How do Experts think through these decisions!” on Zoom on August 16 and 23 were very well attended. If you miss this and other past online celebrity seminars, you can purchase the seminar recordings online: Past Celebrity Seminars Recordings
Congrats to the Palo Alto Bridge winters who won big at D21’s recent Regional in Santa Clara: Santa Clara Regional results:
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We are looking for donations of used (or new!) bidding boxes to replace some of the ones at the Bridge Center. Please drop them off at the Bridge Center and/or come and play bridge with us! |
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Accessorize your outfit at your next club game or tournament. You can purchase your own customized name badge with our colorful Palo Alto Bridge logo – order yours online for $14: Custom Name Badge Order |
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Get involved in your community! Our events and activities are put together by our volunteers, and we want your help. Any little of your time would be appreciated! We need volunteers for marketing and publicity (photo-takers, storytellers, email blaster) and help organize a bridge tournament. Please contact either our Volunteer Chair, Gerry MacDonald (geraldinem@aol.com), or me. |
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Newer Players: we have newcomer/0-49 masterpoint games at the Bridge Center on Tuesdays at 10:45AM and Wednesday evenings at 6:45PM. Gain experience and improve your game in a relaxed environment. SignUp
Some sad news: John Harpootlian, a long-time player at our club games, passed away. |
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Congrats to the following Palo Alto Unit 503 members who achieved a new ACBL Rank in August: Junior Master: Cliff Chambers, Christina Fuhr, Beatrice Hung, Josh Jia, Jill Rubin. Club Master: Lucia Steinhilber. Sectional Master: Stephen Jacobs. Regional Master: Pamela Resser. NABC Master: Adele Kellman. Silver Life Master: David Wong. Ruby Life Master: Linda Mattis, Denise Pitsch, Diane Weissman.
A very warm welcome to our new Palo Alto Unit 503 members:
P.S. Feel free to forward this to others who play at Palo Alto Bridge but who are not members of Unit 503. |
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Play, Laugh & Learn!
Liz Koh |