WELCOME

UNIT 143

  GREATER ST. LOUIS

Get your promotional garb from Land’s End

Steve Zenk,

President

Winter STaC Week - February 6-12---RESULTS

District 8 Overalls

Local Club Game Results

Masterpoint List

Kudos to En Xie and Debby Romero #1 & 2 in District 8.

Spring 2012 NABC

March 15-25 in Memphis, TN

schedule, housing, speakers, and more...

Youth Bridge at the Nationals 

199er Sectional Tournament

March 31, 2012          Maryland Heights, MO

2 Single Sessions  11 AM  &  5 PM 

Reservations strongly recommended

Only 7 of the 42 tables are available for the 11 AM session.

St. Louis  

Gateway to the West Regional

August 6-12, 2012

New 2-page flyer format

1st page: by event type, 2nd page: by day

Click here for full schedule

from the Education Committee...

Camp Counselors Needed for Youth Bridge Camp

Information and registration for campers in February.

FREE Bridge Lessons

for those who have never played

More than 40,000 people have downloaded this user-friendly & comprehensible program from the ACBL web site. Click here for free download.

Bridge Hand of the Week

ACBL Bridge Bites

bridge articles - geared toward the beginner/newcomer bridge players

UPCOMING UNIT-SPONSORED & DISTRICT 8 TOURNAMENTS:

2012 UNIT 143-SPONSORED TOURNAMENTS:

• St. Louis Sectionals
  • May 18-20, 2012

DISTRICT 8 Tournaments & Nearby Tournaments of Interest

• March 2-4 Gilbertsville, KY Sectional
• March 2-4 Peoria, IL Sectional
• March 2-4 Springfield, MO Sectional
• March 9-11 Elgin, IL Sectional
• April 16-22 Gatlinburg, TN REGIONAL flyer  schedule, contacts, & info

MONTHLY UNIT CHAMPIONSHIPS

• Announcing "8 is Enough" is now "10's Terrific"
• Change in event format and conditions of contest
• Game details -- 1st Sunday of the Month

• Next game is March 4, 2012 at 5:00 PM
• Held on 2nd Sunday of February;1st Sunday No Game on Superbowl Sunday
• Handicapped Swiss Teams of Four -- 2nd Sunday of the Month
• Next game is March 11, 2012
• March will feature an Expert game, in addition to Swiss.  Reservastions required.

Unit 143 added 7 new members  January.

   Welcome them when you see them at the table!

Unit membership is 1176

In Memoriam

We are sorry to be late in sharing the death of

Bill Mullen

who passed away January 25.

Obit

We will publish names of Unit members who pass away from us and link to an obituary published for two weeks in the St. Louis Post Dispatch. Please notify us when you have news to share.

Kudos to:

*** NEW LIFE MASTERS ***

*** New Bronze Life Masters ***

*** New Silver Life Masters ***

Ann Ruwitch

Marie Sander

*** New Gold Life Masters ***

Gail Hawkins

Jack Hawkins

*** New Diamond Life Master ***

Bob Bainter

En Xie

*** New Grand Life Master ***

*** OTHER ADVANCERS ***

Richard Ahrens

Norma Barr

Jerry Brown

Charlene Bry

Virginia Frederick

Bob Griffin

Jerry Hoog

Becky Hubert

John Hubert

Ralph Kuhlman

Richard Lazaroff

Steve Litwicki

William Maack

William Manion

Tom McGinnis

Wayman Minor

Robert Niehaus

Marilyn Olschansky

Jay Sarver

Ila Steutermann

Joan Tobin