BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING MINUTES
March 2, 2005

Duplicate Bridge Association of Atlanta

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING MINUTES                                                               March 2, 2005

President Jack Feagin called the meeting to order.  Present:  Jack Feagin, Beatrice Kemp, Josie Mitchell, Marty Nathan, Susan Wolfe, Kevin Collins, Carolyn Eckert and Bob Heller.

 

1. Minutes:  February 2nd  DBAA Board meeting minutes were approved.

 

2. Financial:  Financials for Dec 2004 and January 2005 were submitted by Bill Burks

 

3. New Business:

Separation of DBAA Association functions and DBAA Club functions:

A motion was presented, 2nd and approved to have:

  1. Minutes of the Duplicate Bridge Association meetings in reference to the functions DBAA performs for education in bridge and other programs supporting bridge in the 5 county areas of DBAA and the minutes will be posted on the web.
  2. A Committee is appointed to plan for the Wednesday night game and its week to week operations.

 

Proposal: Bridge Summer Camp for Kids by Patty Tucker:

A motion was presented, 2nd and approved to support a proposal by Patty Tucker to hold a Summer Camp for Kids the week of July 11-15 at the FamilyLifeCenter at the corner of West Wesley and Peachtree Road.  DBAA will provide 1) financial security should the cost of the program exceed the income generated by fees from the students and 2) help Patty to secure additional funds from Unit 114, District 7, and ACBL Education Foundation.  Attached below is the proposal submitted by Patty Tucker

 

Change of Rank Parties:

A motion was presented, 2nd and approved for DBAA to support local clubs within the 5 county area of DBAA who have a Change of Rank Party during the months of March, April and May.  A letter and follow up phone call to Priscilla Smith, Dan Plato, Bill Marks and Nancy Hetsko will be made by Carolyn Eckert explaining the support would be as follows: 1) reimburse the club owner for a ‘free play’ for those who have achieved Life Master and above and who redeem the ‘invitation” sent to them by DBAA;  2) provide up to $40.00 to each club owner who has a Change of Rank Party for a cake or refreshments.   Receipts for reimbursements (invitation and food) should be sent to Bill Burks at DBAA.

 

4. New Business:

Bob Heller, tournament chair of the Atlanta Sectionals, addressed the board requesting information on the following:

  1. Lighting at the Hilton Hotel:  the lighting is not good and Bob would like someone to look into adequate lighting during the tournaments. Jack responded that if there is a solution to the lighting, DBAA will be in favor of it.
  2. Housing for Tables:  someone needs to explore options for storing the bridge tables.
  3. Sectionals will be held at the Hilton for May 2005, November 2005 and July 4, 2006. Our contract at the Hilton will expire after that time. Therefore, we need to identify a new host hotel.

 

Meeting adjourned 7:30PM.  Nextmeeting:  Wednesday, April 6th, 2005 @ 6:15pm

Respectfully submitted,

Carolyn Eckert

Carolyn Eckert, Secretary

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National Champion, Patty Tucker – Instructor

 

Date:  July 11th – 15th

 

Sessions:  9-11 a.m. or 12 to 2 p.m.

 

Cost:  $100.00.  Pre-registration is encouraged as class size is limited

 

Location:  FamilyLifeCenter

                  2715 Peachtree Road

                   404-231-0375   

                   Patty Tucker - 770-457-6251 or http://pattytucker.home.mindspring.com

 Financial Assistance is available from www.bridgeatschools.org

  

Patty Tucker

4757 Luray Drive

DunwoodyGA   30338

 

 

To:  DBAA

 

From:  Patty Tucker

 

Ref:  Bridge Summer Camp for Kids

 

Date:  3/2/2005

 

I am going to offer a Summer Camp for Kids from July 11th

through July 15th at the FamilyLifeCenter at the corner of West Wesley and Peachtree Road.  I will be charging for this camp.

 

I would also like to offer the children who take the course the ability to play at the nationals the week following the course.  I thought that Thursday afternoon would be the best time as that would not conflict with the regularly scheduled events.

 

I would like assistance from the DBAA in the following areas:

 

1)   Help in advertising the camp (press releases, etc)

2)   Assistance and coordination in arranging the game at the nationals

3)   The loan of Bidding Boxes, Table Place Cards and Duplicate Boards

4)   Financial assistance in the purchase of 3 ring binders and copying of the course material

5)   Possibly help when the course is being run if the amount of children exceeds the number I feel I can comfortably teach (I don’t want to send anyone away)

6)   Assistance contacting any of the ‘big’ or ‘famous’ name players who might be attending the nationals and be willing to drop in to the playing site to see the children playing and say hello.

7)   Other assistance and suggestions which I have not considered

 

I have contacted Linda Granell (ACBL Marketing director) and feel comfortable that the ACBL will provide some advertising assistance and will supply diskettes of Bridge Base which I can give to the students at no charge.

 

Barbara Heller, Bridge at Schools, has indicated that her organization will provide financial assistance to children who would like to take the course but are unable to afford the fee.  I will also be amenable to charging a lesser amount to children who need assistance.

 

Patty Tucker

4757 Luray Drive

DunwoodyGA   30338

 

 

Dear Sir,

 

In cooperation with the Duplicate Bridge Association of Atlanta and the Bridge at Schools program, I will be offering a ‘Bridge Camp’ during the summer for children to learn duplicate bridge.

 

Bridge is a game which develops many of the social and intellectual skills which will benefit children as they mature.  Bridge involves learning how to react to defeat and victory, working together with your partner towards success, mathematics, probabilities, higher order thinking skills and deductive reasoning.

 

I would appreciate your support in making the information available to the parents and students attending   xxx xxx.

 

Thank you for your consideration.

 

 

Patty Tucker

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