MAYFIELD DUPLICATE BRIDGE CLUB


NEWSLETTER NO 35 - JANUARY 2002

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING TUESDAY - 23 APRIL 2002

The 18th Annual General Meeting of the Club will take place on the above date at St John's Church Hall starting at 7.00pm followed by bridge at 7.40pm. The format will be as usual with the Officers' reports being posted on the notice board in advance of the Meeting and hopefully being taken as read at the Meeting. Please advise the Secretary, Pam Southon, of any business that you wish to be raised at the meeting at least one week in advance of 23 APRIL 2002, otherwise it may not be possible to include it in the agenda. A copy of last year's minutes has been available at the club for the past 8 months and will remain so until the Meeting. If you require an individual copy please speak to Pam Southon. The accounts will be available at the Meeting.

Members are reminded that if they wish to propose an amendment to any of the rules it must be given to the Club Secretary 4 weeks before the date of the Annual General Meeting - the date for this year is 26 March 2002.

There will be no table money to pay at the AGM - a FREE EVENING

MEMBERS OPINIONS

Jubilee Pairs - Your thoughts will be invited at the AGM as to whether you wish the club to continue to run a heat of this Surrey event. Whilst the Committee are happy to continue, there is quite a lot of paperwork involved for them and a very small qualification ratio for you. This year only 3 pairs qualified out of an entry of 13 pairs.

Teams Nights - the number of entries for these evenings has been dropping. It was wondered if this might be because members realise too late that they have to organise a team? For this reason the Committee have been running more pick-up teams. Is this what you prefer? Do let any committee member know your feelings or voice them at the AGM.

FORTHCOMING EVENTS

Norman Cup (Club Pairs Championship) - heat, 5 February: 7 table final, 19 February. Non-competing pairs may also take part on the qualifying night and on the night of the final there will be the usual duplicate for those members who did not qualify for the final so THERE WILL BE BRIDGE FOR ALL ON BOTH NIGHTS. The winners of the Norman Cup will represent the Club in the Mary Edwards Cup which will take place on Sunday 26 May at 2.00pm at the Wimbledon Bridge Club.

Mayfield Teams Cup (Club Teams Championship) - 5 and 19 March. This is a team of 4 competition and each team may have up to 6 players from which the team may be picked. Please put your names up as early as possible on the entry list so that Peter Southon as Director can be prepared for the movement he has to use. Thank you. The winners of the Mayfield Teams Cup will represent the Club in the Wanborough Cup on Sunday 19 May at 2.00pm at the Wimbledon Bridge Club.

Note: Both these events attract bonus master points as they are Club Championships

Dorothy Williamson Swiss Teams - Tuesday 14 and 28 May. This event proves a difficulty when there are less than 14 teams so it has been decided that with 14 teams or more then a Swiss Teams will be played. Should there be less than this then a Multiple Teams will be played on the first evening with the top 5 teams going through to a Multiple Teams Final on the second night. This would be run alongside an open pairs evening for those that did not qualify, so there would still be bridge for all on that night. Please put your names on the entry list which is on the notice board as early as possible. Up to 6 players may be used in the team so that if your full team is not available for both nights then it is still possible to play. However if your team plays on the first date then it is imperative that it is available to play on the second date. If problems arise during the 2 weeks you should telephone Peter Southon.

30 April - Note that, in view of the plethora of teams evenings in March and April, this will be an ordinary pairs evening even though it is a 5th Tuesday.

EVENTS HELD

Pro-Am Night - Tuesday 25 September 2001: Once again Margaret Lee organised a very successful evening which was won by Julia Brough and Peggy Moir with 68.80% and the runners-up were Bill Heasman and Liz Phillips with a measly 66.86%!

Xmas Party Night - Tuesday 12 December 2001: According to your comments another extremely enjoyable evening. Pam Southon masterminded the refreshments and, apart from the sandwiches, supplied and prepared everything. John Timberlake organised the booze and those of you who partook of the red wine will have noticed the superior quality thanks to a Sainsbury's error. They supplied Clavet instead of Claret which had been ordered and it cost twice as much! John didn't notice this until he was checking through the bill and, when making the returns of unopened bottles and the glasses, he pointed out their mistake. As they had the original copy of the order they duly repaid the difference in price and so we enjoyed the expensive wine for half the price! Thank you Sainsbury's.

WEBSITE

It was with great delight that we welcomed Raymond and Mary Coninx as our first new members via our website. Many of you will not have met them as they are primarily interested in playing on a Friday and, just before Christmas, Mary underwent a replacement joint operation. We trust that she is recovering well.

NEW MEMBERS

New Members

We would like to welcome three new members, Joan Cullen, Raymond and Mary Coninx

MEMBERS SUCCESSES

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