FEATURED TEACHER: Bobbie Gomer
Our ABTA award nominee this month is Willow Grove, Pennsylvania-based Bobbie Gomer. Bobbie has been teaching bridge since 1995, and is particularly revered among her students as a "bridge matchmaker".
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THIS MONTH'S TEACHER SPECIAL
We've added the teacher's manual from Gary Brown's Learn to Play Bridge as a FREE download to our teacher resources section! If you're interested in the full book, you can buy it for just $10 US. We'll even cover the shipping and handling charges!*
FEATURED TEACHER: Kathy Rolfe
In the months leading up to the first ABTA Master Point Press Teacher of the Year award, Mastering Bridge thought you might like to meet some of the teachers being nominated.
First up is Missouri’s Kathy Rolfe. For eight years, Kathy has taught middle and high school students in multiple districts of Missouri. An electrical engineer by trade, Kathy didn’t participate in her first duplicate game until 2001, but was playing bridge long before then.
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FEATURED TEACHER: Kathie Macnab
Kathie Macnab is an entrepreneur. In 1998 the Halifax resident, alongside business partner and bridge teacher Balon Buckley, started the Bridge Studio, the city’s second bridge club and its first with an open-door policy toward new players. Kathie has been teaching bridge since the late 1980s and acquired certification from the ACBL, Better Bridge and most recently was awarded the ABTA Master Teacher certification. She is the also the only Master Teacher in Eastern Canada.
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FEATURED TEACHERS: Chuck and Carolyn Hodel
Chuck and Carolyn Hodel began playing bridge during their 51-year marriage’s early years, and became ardent duplicate players around 1980. In 1981 they moved to Chico, California, “a small agricultural community with a university,” Chuck says. Carolyn and Chuck became life masters in 1992 and started teaching bridge together at the same time.
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AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT: Paul Thurston
Paul Thurston is an old hand at the bridge writing game – an avid player since high school, he’s been writing about and teaching bridge for over 40 years. As an author, he’s recently become known for his book 25 Ways to Win 2 Over 1. Some of his lessons on the 2 Over 1 bidding system will be appearing on Mastering Bridge over the next month; in the meantime, we thought you might like to know more about the author.
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FEATURED TEACHER: Patty Tucker
Patty Tucker learned to play bridge at 11, and was competing in her first tournament at 12. It will probably come as no surprise, then, that this Alabama native began teaching bridge in her early 20s, though she didn't begin teaching full time until 13 years ago.
Notable among Patty’s achievements is the Atlanta Junior Bridge program, which teaches bridge to children in metro Atlanta for free, and which she started three years ago with “some other local teachers and friends.”
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