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COLUMBUS 2020 NEWS!!

Here's our Tournament Logo! The Columbus NABC is March 19-29, 2020.
A brief update:  We begin ordering tournament shirts this month.  The ACBL Team will meet in Columbus at the end of January to review the site, hotels, restaurants, and logistics.  We'll publish updates every month or two here. All Tournament committee activities are moving forward.  We will be asking each Unit Later in 2019 to provide volunteers for the NABC (Prizes, Registration, Information, etc.) Be sure to give your time to help make this a memorable NABC - one people will want to come back to!   Tournament Chair: Cheryl Schneider
Congratulations to the 2019 Officers of the District 11 Board of Directors!
The District 11 Board of Directors elected new officers for 2019 at the Board Meeting in Elizabethtown IN (Louisville/Lexington Regional meeting) November 2018.

From left to right:

Steve Moese (Unit 124) - President
Ryan Schultz (Unit 136) - Vice President
Potter Orr (Unit 124) - Treasurer
Maribeth Ransell (Unit 136) - Secretary

Please get all comments and inputs to your District Board Representative. We want to hear from you!

District 11 Board of Directors

Congratulations to All D11 NAP Finalists! Here are the flight A & B finalists results. All Flights finalists are shown in the photos. Flight A places 2, 3 & 4 will represent D11 since our illustrious Director of the Board cannot play!

Congratulations go to:
Isaac and AJ Stephani for winning flight A and who cede their spot to the next 3 pairs:
Doug Simson & Shan AU,
Yauheni Siutsau & Bill Higgins
Ryan Schultz & Peter Whipple

Congratulations go to:
Larry Newman & Dennis Schultz for winning Flight B. Qualifiers:
Charles Seelbach & Blaine Mullins, Terry Brausch & John Williams, and Max Mohan Arora & Rahul Kapur will join them in Memphis! The top 3 in flight A and the top 4 in flights B and C will represent D11 at the Memphis NABC in March 2019.

Want Growth? Get behind the NEW D11 Education Initiative! Vangie Smith and Kit Overpeck (Louisville) are supercharging Education for District 11. Don't be left out. Make your ideas and voices heard. Here is the proposal they reviewed with the D11 Board Saturday September 8, 2018. D11 growth depends on our success with these education initiatives.
Reference Pages: D11 Bridge Education        D11 Stakeholder Meetings
Contact Vangie: lbavangie@gmail.com   and   Kit: kitoverpeck@yahoo.com   to volunteer!
So How Are District 11 Regionals Doing? Here is the latest data from A. J. Stephani on Table Counts and Numbers of sessions per person played at our regionals.
Table Counts      #Sessions/Player and Graphs
The District 11 Board of Directors voted unanimously to end the publication of the Midwest monitor effective July 1, 2018. The District lowers costs by several thousand dollars, costs it passed on to the Units. We encourage Unit Representatives to send human interest news for posting to the Distirct 11 website. We encourage all District members to use their Unit and District websites to find out what's new, and keep abreast of special events of interest.
ACBL Maps (Clubs, Tournaments, Teachers, Youth Programs)
Check out what's going on in D11 100 miles from these major cities in the next 90 days:
Charleston WV, Cincinnati, Columbus, Evansville, Indianapolis, Lexington, Louisville

FEATURES
District 11 ACBL Director Report - AJ Stephani: Summer 2018 Atlanta, GA district11director@acbl.org
Atlanta NABC Meetings Hi All! Many apologies for such a long delay from my last newsletter – to be honest, the Atlanta ACBL Board of Directors (BOD) meetings were something of a dud for developments that affect our grass roots members. We had our usual slate of motions, with 3 full days of Committee and full Board meetings, and an additional day-long retreat of sorts with lots of interesting guest speakers (including our own Steve Moese!). However, most of the motions were hardly earth-shattering, and I’m hopeful that the BOD will move away from the administrative minutiae in coming years. I’ve been waiting for some more juicy tidbits to tell you about, but we’ve been in something of a holding pattern since last spring. I want to keep these newsletters focused on decisions that matter most to our players while maintaining a reasonable length. I also want to balance the informational content (what did the Board decide?) with opinion (why did I vote a certain way?).
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ACBL D11 Board of Director Reports and Board of Governor's Reports (Other ACBL Information)
Atlanta Summer 2018 Board of Governor's Report - S. A. Moese
Rank Change Letters - Here are the newest Rank Change Letters from our fellow District 11 members from August '17 to Apr '18. Past Rank Change Letters are available on the District 11 Rank Change Letter page.
AJ Stephani District 11 Representative, ACBL Board of Directors.
The D11 Ethics and Proprieties Handbook is updated and ready for your use. Feel free to share as you see fit. All club managers and teachers are encouraged to share ethics of the game with all players.
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