BRIDGE CLUB OF LEXINGTON
Lexington, Kentucky --  859-245-9770

Andy Anderson
Thursday Afternoon Game

Andy learned bridge by watching his co-workers at the Government Tax Office during lunch breaks in Jamaica, West Indies. This was less than rubber bridge he later found it to be. 

After college here in USA Andy began playing duplicate bridge at the Bridge Club in Kingston, N.Y. where he worked for IBM. Its challenges forced him to go to a larger Bridge Club in Poughkeepsie, twenty-five miles away, which truly competed strongly against his time for tennis. Tennis eventually lost the match. 

It was only after moving to Lexington in 1985 that Andy took Bridge more seriously.  He started using his director's license, which he had acquired during his NY stint.  Andy served for several years on the Lexington, KY Unit 164 Bridge Board. 

Max Hoover
Monday & Friday Afternoon Games

Max started playing duplicate bridge in the early 60's in unit 229 in Western Pennsylvania. In the late 60's he served several years as president of ACBL Unit 229.

He received his Director's certification in 1971.  He was given his written and oral examination by District Director Ernie Donaghy who was also his mentor.

In the early 70's Max served one 3 year term as District 5 representative to the ACBL National Board of Governors.  District 5 includes Western Pennsylvania, Eastern Ohio, and the Western parts of New York, West Virginia and Maryland.

In 1975 Max moved to Harrodsburg, Kentucky. He helped form a duplicate club there and directed it until the early 80's.  He dropped out of bridge completely for about 10 years.  After he married Aloma Sanders he resumed playing bridge and directing. He has directed weekly games at the Lexington Bridge Club for about 10 years and is currently directing the Monday and Friday Open games.

Ray & Kathy Linck
Monday Evening Game

Kathy and Ray started playing duplicate bridge socially in Wyckoff, NJ in 1970.

They fell in love with the game and bought a set of boards. They moved to Lexington, KY in 1973 and were quickly involved in three duplicate bridge groups that played monthly in the homes of the members.

 
Ray retired from IBM in November of 1998 and Kathy from the Fayette County School Board at the same time.  They joined ACBL and became regulars at the Lexington Bridge Club in the spring of 1999.   Ray was elected to the Unit 164 board in 2001 and continues to serve.

Kathy served on the Lexington Bridge Club board of directors for five years where she was Secretary for four of those years. They also coordinated the May Bluegrass Sectional Tournament for five years.

They both got their Director’s Certification in November 2004 and are regular directors of a weekly game, starting with novice games in 2005 and now running the Friday open game. 

Donna Loeffler
Substitute Director & Teaching

Sandra Marlin
Special Games & Teaching

Mike McCann
Substitute Director

Like many Bridge Players, Mike started as a "Party" Bridge Player and learned all his bad habits by learning from his friends and never taking lessons.

After retiring from IBM (28 years), ARDIS (5 years) and Candle Corporation (6 years) which were all extensive travelling jobs, Mike and Sherry were casting about for things to do together in retirement.  Mike suggested they take up Bridge and finally get some proper lessons, which they did.  He also suggested Sherry take up SCUBA diving which Mike has enjoyed for 20+ years.  She did, and has enjoyed it ever since.  For her part, Sherry suggested they take up Ballroom Dancing but Mike decided they had enough with Bridge and SCUBA.

Mike and Sherry started playing at the Lexington Bridge Club about 2000.  They have enjoyed the friendship and competitive level of play ever since.

Early on Mike became interested in the mechanics of the game and volunteered his services to maintain the club computer, the club website and our Yahoo Group communications list.  He became a Director in 2002 and Directed the Wednesday night Open game for six years retiring in 2009 to a position of substitute Director.  In addition, Mike is the official club janitor and IRS tax compliance officer although some people prefer to call him the Facilities Manager.

Bill McClain

Jackie Merkel
Tuesday Evening, Friday Evening & Sunday Evening Games

Anita Pettus
Wednesday Afternoon Game & Teaching

Georgia Ringo
Tuesday Afternoon, Wednesday Evening, Sunday Afternoon Games & Teaching

Georgia played at bridge for 30 years before coming to the club and learning how to play competitive bridge using modern bidding.  She entered the scene in the fall of 2002.

In the spring of 2005, at the urging of Ann McCullough, Georgia took a class from Priscilla Smith at the Gatlinburg Regional to be an accredited teacher of EasyBridge.  With Ann McCullough as director and partner Lorraine Gibbs as teaching partner, the three of them opened the first Summer Camp for kids in June, 2005.  Now with four summer camps behind them, they are looking forward to the fifth and hope to take a group to nationals in Washington, DC, at the conclusion of camp in 2009.

In the summer of 2007, Georgia took the directors' course at the nationals in Nashville again under the tutelage of Priscilla Smith.  That fall, she began directing a 49-er game on Friday evenings.  Now she directs that game on Sunday and a 199-er Mentor/Mentee game on Tuesdays.

Because she liked the teaching methods used by Edith McMullin and Marti Ronemus in the EasyBridge series, she gave adult lessons one summer.  Then Georgia decided her niche was to give drop-in workshops for those already playing but wanting to improve their game.  She offers EB1 and EB2 workshops twice a week on a rotating series basis.

Sometime before the camps started, she earned the rank of Life Master, and between camps and directing, she became a Bronze Life Master.