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Bartol 3533 Watson Road Indianapolis, IN 46205-3545 317 926-9269 • 317 590-5737 [email protected] MONITOR ▲ Units ▲ ▼ Other Columns ▼ DEADLINES First Quarter - 2016 December 15, 2015 Second Quarter - 2016 March 15, 2016 Third Quarter - 2016 June 15, 2016 Fourth Quarter - 2016 September 15, 2016 Page D11 ACBL TOC 2 SITE SITE First Quarter - 2017 December 15, 2016 MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT SUN CLUB APPRECIATION JUNIOR FUND O C T MONTH J A N MONTH 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 MONITOR BARREN RIVER 5 6 7 8 9 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Page One CINCINNATI I/N OWENSBORO COLUMBUS 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 COLUMBUS CALENDAR CENTRAL IN PROGRESSIVE (F) 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 ICC-M CINCINNATI LEXINGTON 26 27 28 29 30 31 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 ICC-A N O V F E B 1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 LOUISVILLE/LEXINGTON REGIONAL O’BORO 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 D11 NAP ICC-E CINCY BC LOUISVILLE 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 ICC-M INDIANAPOLIS INDIANAPOLIS REGIONAL 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 29 DENVER, CO NABC D E C M A R 30 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 DAYTON DENVER, COLORADO NABC 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 RENO, NV NABC 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 ICC-E RENO, NV NABC 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 D11 Page D11 ACBL 28 29 30 31 28 29 30 31 3 SITE SITE ICC-A MONITOR STaC MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT SUN CHARITY FUND A P R MONTH J U L 1 2 3 1 2 3 MONITOR COLUMBUS Page Two 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 COLUMBUS 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 HEBRON, KY CALENDAR GATLINBURG REGIONAL EVANSVILLE 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 WASHINGTON, DC 25 26 27 28 29 30 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 WASHINGTON, DC NABC GRASS ROOTS FUND M A Y MONTH A U G 1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 INDIANAPOLIS DAYTON 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 CINCINNATI - DISTRICT 11 STaC 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 LEXINGTON 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 DAYTON 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 29 30 31 NAP LOCAL QUALS INTERNATIONAL J U N JUN 1 - AUG 31 S E P FUND MONTH 30 31 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 CINCINNATI REGIONAL 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 LEXINGTON DAYTON NLM TERRE HAUTE 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 CINCINNATI NLM 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 LOUISVILLE Page D11 ACBL 27 28 29 30 26 27 28 29 30 1 2 4 SITE SITE DAYTON/COLUMBUS REGIONAL District 11 Triumphs!!! Bob Fisk, Darin Campo, Peter Whipple, Ryan Schultz, John Meinking, and DISTRICTA. Beth Re i11d AJ Stephani For the second time in three years, our GNT B team took the national title. All four of our teams, Championship, A, B and C made it into the second round, but our B boys persevered through some tough matches to bring home the title. Just so you know . these pics are taken before the finals, so AJ’s DIRECTOR wearing his game face not his winner’s smile. The GNTs, together with the NAPs are our chance to go face to face with the other twenty-five districts and he Chicago Committee, headed by ACBL Board Member and 2015 once again, District 11 has done itself proud. President Suzi Subeck, doing triple duty, ably assisted by husband Stan and a great team of Chicago volunteers put on a great NABC. Table count was 13,685 up 5.3% over the estimated 13,000 and the second NABC in a row over estimate . despite a relatively high hotel Authorities” (the ACBL for Zone 2—essentially North America) this would rate.T Congrats to all! I grew up (mostly) on the north shore of Chicago so had a seem to make some sense. The dues are currently assessed at $1/member, which great time revisiting the sites of my youth . especially the Art Institute and the means around $165K annually for the ACBL. One problem with the motion glorious Lake Michigan. The weather cooperated to make the ACBL’s return to is that the combined membership of the USBF and the CBF is less than two Chicago after a long absence a great success. thousand as they essentially exist only to run the qualifiers and don’t provide the wide member services for our Zone as the ACBL does, thus the motion MEMBERSHIP GROWTH would essentially wipe out the dues to the WBF. This would be like saying that Through the end of June, total membership stands at 167,756. Membership is the US has decided that its dues to the UN will now be paid by NY State based thirty members higher than at the start of the year. Retention continues to be only on NY’s size and that’s where UN business gets done. In my view, the ACBL a key focus for the organization. Clubs and Membership have embarked on a is a key member of the WBF and US players’ key participants on the world telephone campaign to win back lapsed members and better understand the stage. The motion was deferred to Denver, but its makers indicated that they reasons for not renewing. Full membership statistics can be found at: June 2015 would withdraw it if the WBF dues were clearly broken out in our financial Membership Trend Report.pdf reports, a condition I assure you we can meet. It should be noted that as of August 1, we have set a new record for membership since the counting methodology began in 1997. Prior to that date, SIX-PERSON KO’S we included unpaid inactive Life Members in our figures who did not pay dues Many of you over the years have asked me why the Board can’t “do anything” Our own Pam Granovetter (far left) and her teammates Kerri Sanborn, Irina and did not earn master points. This greatly overinflated membership numbers about the fact that all members of a larger than four KO teams receive full awards, Levitina, Lynn Baker, Karen McCallum, and JoAnna Stansby won the Wager prior to 1997. Where are our new members coming from? Overwhelmingly, regardless if they have only played fifty percent of the matches. In New Orleans, Women’s KOs, a national championship event. from retiring baby boomers . a population segment of seventy-five million. the Board passed the First Reading of a masterpoint change that would have The questions facing the ACBL are how to continue attracting these folks, how corrected this inequity. Between New Orleans and Chicago, sponsors of pro to retain them, how to allocate resources, e.g., do we want to continue spending teams, who are the chief beneficiaries of the current rule, and others launched Diane Travis and Frankie Trieber won the 0-10,000 NABC Pairs event! This is on school programs and juniors when we know the payoff, if any, can’t be an intense lobbying effort to convince the Board that such a change would result the second time since the inauguration of these 0-10K Events a few years ago. measured for twenty or thirty years? Always happy to have your thoughts as the in decreased attendance by pros at Regionals thus disproportionately damaging Board faces these strategic issues. room night counts and attendance. I am sorry to say that this effort succeeded. Enough Board Members who had previously supported the motion changed BOARD ACTIONS their votes on the Second Reading and it was defeated 10-15. One member who changed his vote actually acknowledged that the WBF MOTION proposed change represented the fair and correct treatment to the benefit of the As some of you who wrote me prior to the Chicago meeting noted, there were a majority of players, but that he believed the risks to attendance to be genuine few controversial motions before us. and thought fairness should take a back seat to economics. One of them was a motion to have the ACBL stop paying dues to the WBF (World Bridge Federation) and have the USBF (US Bridge Federation) and CBF BOARD TERM LIMITS (Canada) pay them instead. As these two “NBO”s (National Bridge Organization) This issue came before the Board for the second time in three years, this time in were formed to meet the requirements of the WBF that international teams the form of a by-law amendment.