Congratulations to our latest Committee Appointees

2011 Charity Committee

Mary Connelly	Lee Daugharty

Mary Donnelly (Goderich, Ont):  Mary has been the foundation for the Goderich Bridge Club (Unit 249) for decades and over the years she held every position on the executive.  She has been a member of the Goderich BC for over 50 years!  She received her Director Certificate in 1982 and became a Life Master in 1994.  What I find really amazing about Mary is that still found plenty of time to be involved in Local charities and church activities, such as 30 years of tireless volunteer work and fundraising for Community-Living Central Huron.
 
Lee Daugharty (Unit 166, Brampton, Ont):  Lee spent 27 years in the publishing industry, the last 14 of those as the publisher and editor of The Daily Bridge Calendar. Since 2006, most of his time has been occupied with a variety of bridge enterprises including directing, teaching, tournament organizing, tournament set-up, and selling bridge supplies.   He is a Silver Life Master who has shared numerous regional and sectional wins with some "excellent" partners.  He resides in Brampton with his wife and two children, whom he credits with enabling him to keep life's priorities straight.

2011 Goodwill Committee

Graham Warren	Lorna Johnson	Audrey Craig	Noreen Bramsen

Graham Warren (Newmarket, Ont):  Graham is a Life Master who enjoys giving back to the bridge community the pleasure that the game has given him for over 40 years.  He has served on the Unit 246 Board for the past ten year and he is the District’s Tournament Coordinator.  What I found astounding about Graham was that in 2003, when the Unit couldn’t find anyone to run the Oshawa Sectionals, he stepped right in and has been chairing two Oshawa Sectionals yearly since then.

Lorna Johnson (Ridgeway, Ont):  Lorna, who serves on the Unit 166 Board as the Finance Chair, is well known for her enthusiastic work with the newer players.  She was one of the founding members of the Bridge Centre of Niagara.  She has been the co-chair of the St. Catharines Sectional and of the Niagara Regional; she also chaired Hospitality for the Toronto Regional and founded the Niagara Novice Sectional.  She finds bridge to be challenging and competitive at all levels of play, and the many friendships that she developed over the years have been extraordinary and fulfilling.

Audrey Craig (London, Ont):  Audrey is well known in the London area for having taught hundreds of students and bringing many of them into ACBL.  For the past 17 years she has run supervised play games as well as limited masterpoint games.  Whether at the table, teaching, mentoring or running a game she is always pleasant, cheerful and eager to make people feel comfortable. She served on the Unit 249 Board for years and was the treasurer for the London Regional several times.  She is also well known for her kindness to dogs. 

Noreen Bramsen (Unit 166, Toronto, Ont): Noreen is very gracious at the table and most welcoming to all opponents.  She will play with any player, no matter his level of play.  She was a fixture at Kate Buckman Bridge Studio since 1998 where she took I/N lessons.  Barbara Seagram asked her if she would go on the "call-in list" since she lived around the corner from the club and the very next day Bonny Norris called her to play in her "upstairs A" game.  She had 2 mps then!  Before you knew it, she was playing about 10 sessions a week!  Nowadays she plays at the Regal, Toronto Bridge and Partners.