May 4!!

Even though we had some members on vacation or celebrating Passover, Club 34 still managed 20 players. Newcomer Michelle Grozinger appeared for the last game which will probably be her norm since she has a busy work schedule as a psychotherapist right now. We also were surprised with the appearance of David Postal who also will be attending our next Blankheads session. It is always nice to see the mailman even though I suffered my worst Scrabble defeat at his hands EVER… 5 bingos for him to include one triple triple, no bingos for me which is as rare an event as the eclipse. An easy victory for him, about 300 points. Oh well, that’s Scrabble…

Our next Blankheads at the Cassidy estate will be May 4 at 11am. We have 18 confirmed with Debbie or is it Rosey Bloom on the waiting list. She spent the past week in Italy and today landed in France. Sounds like a great time. But there will be 3 divisions of 6 players each, a true round robin. The divisions are as follows with food designations to be given out next week.. Please no last minute cancellations….NONE…

Div A–A1 Poder A2 Freebody A3 Postal A4 Louie A5 Inae Bloom A6 Roche

DivB– B1 Moss B2 Sturm B3 Sturgeon B4 Gunn B5 Trachtenberg B6 Rice

Div C– C1 Davis C2 Marcus C3 Reikes C4 Prince C5 Cassidy C6 Gonzales

Your Director

Lets Party!!

And we did. What a celebration on Tuesday!! We honored the 103rd BD for Desiree Engel and the 10th anniversary of the new Club 34. I opened the party festivities by talking about the 46 year history of Club 34, how it went from a small non-certified Scrabble club in 1978 to the largest certified Scrabble club in North America in 2024. It took some work but it was well worth it and everyone in that room on Tuesday should take a certain amount of pride that they made this possible.

The celebration included 2 wonderful cheesecakes supplied by Maxine Marcus and a room full of decorations. Thank you for that Lorry Higgins… A full write up with pictures will be on display today in the weekly NASPA newsletter so dont miss that!!

We had to say goodbye to Inge Weinfeld as she embarks on the next chapter of her life in Newcastle, Delaware. She has been a vital part of Club 34 and will be sorely missed. We were so happy to see the brief appearance of Barbara Creighton who is recovering from major surgery but would not miss this for anything.

We had our usual international representation of players from Paul Rickhoff-Santa Clarita… Inae Bloom and Bruce from Los Angeles…Jeff Polan from the San Fernando Valley… Najat from Riverside and Gretchen from San Clemente. Lets not forget Susan Rice from a 3 month excursion around the world as well as Amnon and Anthea from Beverly Hills.

We had 28 players in all and now we embark on the next 10 years of our adventure. See you all next Tuesday.

Your director