MINUTES OF THE UNIT 195, WESTERN MICHIGAN, ACBL BOARD MEETING 
held at Ruby Tuesday’s on Saturday, September 11, 2004

The meeting was called to order by President Dennis Carman at 4:00 PM.

Present were:
President Dennis Carman
district 1 -  Duane Little, Joe Manhart and Nancy Yarbrough
district 2 -  Joanne Molt and Dave Kamm 
district 3 -  Eugene  Kales, Jackie Oman, and Paul Christ
district 4 -  Alan Bau, Tom Eadie, Judy Euler and Marian Vyverman,
district 5 -  Brenda Walz and Pete Fleming
Board Member absent: - Roger Anderson
Tournament Coordinator - Bob Varty
Beverly Gardner and Bill Arlinghaus, candidates for District 12 Director
Numerous guests (Please limit guests to a spouse, partner, etc.-- one per 
member)
 
    The Minutes of the Board Meeting at Kalamazoo on June 5, 2004 were 
approved.

    The election results for Unit 195 Board members was announced.  Members 
reselected for 4 year terms are Joe Manhart, Roger Anderson, Paul Christ, Judy 
Euler,  and Brenda Walz and newly elected for 4 year terms, Nancy Yarbrough 
and Marian Vyverman, were seated.  Lynn Larson replaces Nancy Yarbrough as 
alternate for district 1.  The other alternates were reelected.

    Beverly Gardner and Bill Arlinghaus were introduced by President Carman 
and invited to give a presentation of their experience and goals as District 12 
Director.  They also answered questions from the floor.  The voting was 
carried out according to instructions from ACBL.  The ballots in their two 
envelopes were collected into a mailing envelope and mailed to ACBL. 

    President Carman asked for nominations for Unit Officers.  The current 
slate of officers was nominated and there were no other nominations. Reelected 
by acclamation were Dennis Carman, President; Joanne Molt, vice-president; and 
Joe Manhart, secretary/treasurer.
 
    The Financial Report was presented by Joe Manhart.  He pointed out that 
the Unit checking account is at $5867 before the Traverse City Sectional and 
the total assets are $32,262.  Financial results of tournaments held this year 
are shown under Tournaments Results below.  The report was approved.

    Dennis reported results from the District Board Meeting.  The District 12 
STaC will be December 6-12, 2004, (Our Unit will subsidize clubs for $5 of 
the $6 per table fee for all of their STaC games that week.  Clubs which held 
NAP games have paid their $1 per estimated table for the STaC.  Clubs who did 
not participate in the NAP games should mail $1 per table to Joe Manhart after 
the event..  He will be paying the STaC director the $6 per table for all Unit 
195 clubs.) 
 
    The dates for the 2005 GNT will be established at the October meeting of 
the District Board.

    Bob McKee resigned as District 12 secretary/treasurer after replacing 
Dale Dalliare.  Barry Lippitt has replaced him and calls himself 
secretary/treasurer/ Coordinator. Barbara Jur still is president of the District 12 Board, as 
well as, First Alternate District 12 National Director. 

    Everyone is disappointed about the District web site.  It is thought that 
the present site manager may be leaving the District and could be replaced by 
Alan Bau who has done such a good job on the Unit web site.  Dennis invited 
Alan to go with him to the District Board Meeting on October 23.

    District 12 is running the NABC in Detroit in 2008 and still are looking 
for a chairman.

    Ken Van Cleve has volunteered to be the District 12 Tournament 
Coordinator at no charge.  The District Board will discuss this at the October meeting.

    The successes of the District 12 players in the Grand National Teams 
final in New York were noted:  Johnson, Zerbini, Burger, and Perlman were 5-8 in 
the Championship Flight.  Leonard, Rozinski, Lippitt, and Mydloski were 2nd in 
Flight A: Beth Armstrong, Robert Houtrow, Jacqueline DeRouin, Lowell Seyburn, 
and William Northrop from Unit 195 were 3-4 in Flight B; and Kiefer, Harty, 
Peters and Blekherman from Ann Arbor won Flight C.  (Details are in the 
September Bulletin.)  No other district placed in the top 8 in all 4 flights and only 
one placed 3 times. These were outstanding accomplishments for District 12 
representatives..                           
TOURNAMENT RESULTS:
    The Kalamazoo Sectional hosted 93 tables(down 18 from 2003) and lost 
$379. (There were $217 of Board Free Plays.)
    The St. Jo 299’er Sectional had 21.5 tables and made $172
    The Muskegon Sectional had 71 tables and made $8.
    The GRAND RAPIDS REGIONAL had 725 tables (down 18 from 2003) and made 
$6211. 
    Traverse City had 128.5 tables.

TOURNAMENT SCHEDULING:
    Expected 2005 Sectionals will be in Jackson--same site as last 
year(January 8,9), Grand Rapids(Apr. 29-May 1), Kalamazoo(June 3-5), Muskegon or Grand 
Haven(July), Traverse City(Sept. 5-7), and Lansing(December 2-4) with St. 
Joseph still a possibility in late  November.  Limited masterpoint one day 
Sectionals will be in St. Joseph  and two in Lansing.  Schedules for all of these 
tournaments should be submitted to Joe Manhart by November 1 for preparation of 
the BRIDGE-O-RAMA.

INFORMATION
    Alan Bau reported on the Unit Webb Site, www.unit195bridge.org.  Visit it 
to see the new additions and  send suggestions to Alan.

    Alan Bau reported that the MENTORING PROGRAM at the Kalamazoo bridge 
center is continuing. $110 was paid by the Unit toward this program.

    Because of the success of this pilot program, the Board voted to offer 
any Unit 195 club which establishes a Mentoring Program, including a Mentoring 
Director, payment from the Unit of one half of the game fee for the mentor.  
The club can choose how much the mentee pays and how the other half of the 
mentors fee is paid.  It is expected that mentors will be experienced players, 
generally Life Masters, and the mentees will be relative newcomers to competitive 
bridge.

    A total of $1311 in NAP club reimbursements have been made.  There may be 
more that has not been requested yet. 

NEW BUSINESS:
    Joe Manhart suggested that we change the name of our voting districts to 
some other name that would not cause confusion with District 12.  A motion to 
ask for approval at the membership meeting in Lansing on December 4, 2004 to 
change the designation to a word to be decided by the Board such as area or 
zone passed.

    Gene Kales moved that we continue to subsidize the NAP and STaC games in 
2005 as we have in 2004.  Discussion suggested that the Board wanted to see 
where the treasury stands before making that decision.  The motion was defeated.

    The next Board Meeting will be January 8, 2005 in Jackson after the 
Saturday games.

The Meeting was adjourned at 6:30 pm.

Respectfully submitted, 


.
Joe Manhart