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Regina Duplicate Bridge Club
Player of the Year
June 1, 2010 - May 31, 2011
Last Updated - 09/05/10
This race is for all club members.
1. Nelson Sunshine 30.53
2. Dick Anderson 25.59
3. John Groves 25.16
4. Gil Lafreniere 23.24
5. Ilsa Krukoff 21.24
6. Cal McLeod 17.44
7. June Lind 16.55
8. Art D'Entremont 16.20
9. Rae Hart 15.52
10. Don Norman 14.21
August Player of the Month
Nelson Sunshine - 9.81
U100 Player of the Year
June 1, 2010 - May 31, 2011
This race is for all members
who started the year with
less than 100 masterpoints.
1. Don Norman 14.21
2. Sandy Bingaman 9.73
3. Barb Miller 6.94
4. Shirley Strohan 6.68
5. Ron Miller 6.02
6. Jim Rogers 4.80
7. Byron Seymour 4.59
8. Rae Lindsay 4.25
9. Buddy Lindsay 4.25
10. Nancy Welta 3.83
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[WEBMASTER'S NOTE: THIS HISTORY IS INCOMPLETE AND WE HOPE TO FIND A CLEARER UNDERSTANDING OF THE CLUB'S HISTORY IN THE FUTURE]
THE START OF THE REGINA DUPLICATE BRIDGE CLUB:
I understand that the Regina Duplicate Bridge Club was formed in 1958 by 6 friends who used to play at their homes and were introduced to duplicate bridge and decided to try to form a club.
The 6 friends were Bill Robertson & Ches Teal, who lived in Radville, [Ches died in 1981?}; Pat Boyle, now living in Saskatoon; Tom Burke [who is now deceased]; Harry Van Eke, [Harry , the Bear] who passed away in Regina in 2001, April at age 86; & Blake Carson, who passed away in Regina in March 2001 , at age 88 about 2 weeks before Harry.
It is believed that they formed the club and recruited friends and acquaintances to play at their first site: the Orange Hall at 1200 Albert St.. It is believed that they played twice a week, Tuesday & Friday evenings, just renting the hall for evening games. It is rumored that they once averaged 14 tables.
Later they moved to a hall on 1300 Broad St or near it in the industrial area of town, the old Auto Electric Building, next door to the wonderful smelling Sid Sunflower Seeds.
Still later they played at the YMCA before into their own rooms at the building in the Riverheights basement in 1964.[ only 6 years after being formed.]
The 30 year lease was up in 1994 but was extended until the club finally moved in Aug. 1998 to their present location at 349 Albert St. where they have 4 – 5 year leases [20 years] taking them to the year 2018.
The original playing fees were $2.00 /person
In 1970 the club put a promotion on to get new members and advertised a fee of 50 cents for students. They drew approximately 30 new recruits, many who are still playing in our club today. Peter Worby & John Taillon were the first recruits in early 1971, and got their tutoring from Tony Braun & with wife Pam Braun the foursome were a good Swiss team at the time.
In the early 1970’s many of us majored in Bridge at the Admin Students office, the ED. Students office or the Classroom Cafeteria. 2 or 3 tables of Rubber bridge was the order at the Cafeteria, starting at about 10:30 and going full force until 3PM. We drew cards to see who had to go to class to take notes.
K/S & Precision were the main systems used in 1972 by Locksley Campbell, Bryan Chitolie, Dave Worby, Larry Lazurko, Ed & Jean Flett, Garry Johannsson, Andy Klein, Dan Mathieson, Gerry Munt, Glen & Heather Collins and Al Haide.
By 1974 a new crop of students were learning bridge at the U of S, Regina Campus. They included Lance Connell, & Errol (Benjie the Postman] Benjamin.
In 1988 a second duplicate club was started up and played at All Saints Anglican Church about twice a week. This club lasted about 1 ˝ years. This attempt at a new club was the prompting needed to start the search for a better club than the deathtrap in the basement of the Riverheights Plaza. The move eventually took place to 349 Albert Street in 1998.
The first director was ? . Hans Krause followed him. Art D’entremont took over from him & taught some of our current directors including Claire Jones our current highest ranking Regional Director. Tim Ayers & Doug Rankin are other busy directors who you are likely to see at Regional or Sectional Tournaments.
The early teachers or directors that should bring back memories were: ,
John Cracknell, Lee Wilson, Angelle Brundige, Tony Braun, Art Dahl, Bob Barr,
Joan Richards, Pete Wollner, Fred Jamieson, Joy Doyle & Ashok Sil.
Irene Huber, Dick Anderson, Joan Schnieder, Arnie Lind, and John Quesnel are other qualified teachers who have put in many years helping the players of the RDBC club.
The Regina Duplicate Bridge Club has had lots of success. It has produced many top notch players and hard workers for bridge. In 1996 Peter Worby & Kevin Young won the ACBL NA Pairs Championships flight B, at Pasadena, California. At this time it was a grueling 4 session event. This was their 3rd? time at the North American finals having finished 12th and 26th ? before at Atlanta City, New Jersey; and New Orleans.
Dick Anderson was elected to represent our district, moved on to Canadian Bridge Federation Treasurer, then in 1998 became ACBL President for a one year term. His wife Jan Anderson has been club manager for our club for a long time, as well as secretary for the Canadian Bridge Federation.
Dick Anderson was second in the Richmond Trophy race for most points in one year by a Canadian. That was in year 1998 when he had points and was runner up to our most famous Pro, Ken Gee, who has won the Richmond trophy for the past 4 years and is miles ahead in the race again this year 2002. Second this year and last is another RDBC member- S’toon transplant Pro Barry Harper
Our Junior program has done well for itself also due to hard work by John Quesnel who put on summer bridge camps for the youth. He has had children ages 8 thru 20 years old attend. In 1996 we had a youth, 16 year old Erin Berry, originally from Moose Jaw, qualify for ACBL summer bridge camp in Rhode Island? Unfortunately Erin Berry died in a car accident in 1998[?] An ACBL event is named after her.
In 1998, Erin Anderson got her Life Masters becoming the youngest female in Canada to get her LM.. She was later named the Queen of Hearts for her bridge exploits and named to the Canadian Youth Bridge Team. She represented Canada at a tournament in Brazil and is still in this program. Erin played in 2 youth World championships in 1999 & 2001
James Dulmage is another Junior who is getting National recognition. Both James & Erin Anderson are working at promoting bridge and both joined the RDBC board in 2002.
Our club has been run thru the hard work and dedication of many volunteers. In many clubs across North America the clubs are dying because the average age of the membership is rapidly increasing. The RDBC is working hard to not be one of these.
To keep our club strong we always need more volunteers.
HELP KEEP OUR CLUB STRONG – PLEASE VOLUNTEER
SEE DAVE WORBY –need help Directing, newsletter & others.
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