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From the President 18 December 2025

December 2025

The bridge club has just had a wonderful Bridge day and Christmas lunch and I thank all of the staff at the RACV for putting on such a splendid event.  We were delighted that Mr Rob Everett was able to join us as well as Simone and Stephanie who look after the bridge club so well.

The winners of the morning session were 

Section A. N/S     Lee Mazzoni and Marita McMahon-Ball
               E/W    Kaye Monteith and Rhonda McMahon

Section B. N/S      Kim Lee and Reg Horne
               E/W     Denise Rozner and Barry Ballard.

Congratulations to them and many thanks to the RACV Club for providing the bottles of wine.

PRESENTATIONS.

The PSMC winner                            Kim Lee

Club Championship Pairs 

                                      1st             Jo-anne Heywood and Shayne Wurf
                                     2nd             Denise Rozner and Barry Ballard
                                     3rd             Sally Foster and Mary Stoney

Most Improved Players             Anna O’ Hallahan 
                                                  Chris Alp

Member of Distinction.            Helen Higgins.

Congratulations to all the award winners.

I hope to see you all on Wednesday 28th January at the January Challenge.

Have a wonderful Christmas and I wish you all good health for 2026

Ronella Stuart

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From the President - 2 November 2025

It is with great sadness that I convey to our members about the death of three very long-term members.

Wally Reid was treasurer of the RACV Bridge Club for many years, and he and Adrienne were regular players on a Wednesday.

Ross Golias will be sadly missed by us as he was such a delightful gentleman and a pleasure to know.

Trefor Morgan AO loved to play bridge twice each week and last year won The Patricia Snowden Cup.

We will miss these wonderful gentlemen and convey our condolences to their families.

On a happier note, we look forward to the RACV Club Championship Pairs being played over November. I do hope many of you will participate in this new event.  Details aree available here

Planning is underway for the RACV Bridge Club Christmas lunch, preceded by bridge on Wednesday 17th December 2025.

Booking for bridge and/or lunch will be done by phoning Member’s Services.  Details can be seen here.

I hope to see many of you at the Christmas bridge and lunch. 

Ronella Stuart 

President

From the President 4th September 2025

Congratulations to Mary Stoney on once more organising a very successful RACV Club Congress.

My thanks also to Simone Langdon, Robert Chambers, and the RACV Club. team as well as Leigh Gold and Ben Kingham - without these people we would not have such a great event.

Kim Lee and his partner came third overall, a wonderful result, and well done to them. 

The best RACV Bridge Club team were Jenny Date and Bob House, congratulations to them and all the RACV Bridge Club members who entered the Congress.  I do hope you enjoyed the day.

I hope those who entered the Australian Wide Open Pairs, played at our Club on on 27th August,  enjoyed the experience and congratulations to 

  • Shayne Wurf and Jo-anne Heywood coming 26  - a great result.

Special mention to     

  • Ann Heron and Renate Triffett   110
  • Brian Hassett and Geff Dwyer    118

We have an interclub game against Kooyong on Monday 15th September 2025. This is the last inter club for this year. I appreciate the members who put their names down for these events.

My thanks to Barry for carrying out all the duties while I was away.

Ronella Stuart

From the President - 28 June 2025

Since the last committee meeting the RACV Bridge club has participated in an Interclub match with RSYTC Bridge Club . It was an opportunity for some of our newer players to compete and I was delighted that some Monday players entered.

The RACV Club very generously offered reduced price tickets for the Torvill and Dean Spectacular and many of the tickets were taken up over the three performances.

I wrote to Jane Cahir and thanked her on behalf of the club.

The RACV Club acknowledged Jo–Anne Heywood’s elevation to Grand Master status with the ABF with a presentation and drinks .

I wish to thank Barry Ballard for his added workload over the past few months. It has been greatly appreciated.

See you at the bridge table
Regards
Ronella Stuart
President