CHARLOTTE SECTIONAL – Our Fall Sectional is coming up quickly – November 19-22. We hope you have all jotted this date down on your calendar. We hope to keep tradition going – our last two Sectionals were extremely successful! Besides Open Pairs, Knockouts, and Swiss Team, we will have 299er events and hope all you new players will join us. Lunch will be served on Saturday and Sunday. Gene Manion is our chairperson and Michael Starr will be handling partnerships. If you can help in any way, please let Gene know and if you need a partner(s), please contact Michael as early as you know. As always, we encourage you to help with hospitality – either by bringing something or by giving a money donation.

MEMBERSHIP NEWS – We hope that Lois Mosher is recovering well from her back surgery. We are continually seeing those “stylish” boots – the latest is Maree Howe who broke her foot. Hal Brown (a past member) has passed away. Our condolences to our new member, Agnes Aranyi, who just lost her husband.

BOARD ELECTIONS – Election for the Unit 153 Board of Directors begins at the Annual Meeting on Saturday, December 5^th. Nominees for the Board so far are: Carol Armstrong, Bruce Bedient, Jim Carson, Arnold Hoffman, Paula Musler and Leon Price.

CONGRATULATIONS – Charlie Burnap recently received the Bank of America Award for Teaching Excellence from the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. We are very proud of him!

CONGRATULATIONS – New Plateaus –

Junior Masters – Mary Dickson, Norinne Fraser, Missy Kuykendall, Billie Nordan, Anett Wannamaker

Club Masters – Steve Basco, Debbie Enna, Bill Grice

Sectional Masters – Gretchen Easton, Kay Elder, Stephanie Lohri, Jayne Shive, Cordelia Tyler, Gary White, Jean Wright

Regional Masters – Scott Ellwanger, Lynn Fort

NABC Masters – Katharine Harris, Tom Moon

Life Master – Elise Menaker Bronze Life Masters – Kim Martin, Sue Young

LIBRARY NEWS – The following book was placed in the library in memory of Maxine Meyer by the Charlotte Bridge Club – Robin Hood’s Bridge Memories by David Bird. Also, a thank you to Lenore Cuyler who donated two books – Bridge for Dummies and The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Bridge.

NEIGHBORING SECTIONALS – High Point and Spartanburg (also NAP Finals).