The Harrisburg Bridge Club spends inordinate amount of time training and developing beginning bridge players. We have a stable of not yet Life Masters, who play better than I do. Mike Mendelson and several others have dedicated a lot of time and effort to developing neophyte players, to get pretty good, pretty quickly. The Harrisburg Bridge Club is a great place to play bridge, with a home like atmosphere and tremendous member cohesion; it is worth driving 100 miles or more to play at our club. The members own our club, so we have a club, not just games.

I played with two advanced partners, frequently to get the number of brightly colored points that I needed. So a special thanks is extended to Mike Zeller and Midge Sobolewski.

Another special thanks is extended to Chuck Meister of the Martinsburg, WVA club; Phil Davis of the Chambersburg club; and Dennis Wick who is willing to work with very junior players, even though he is an Emerald Life Master. Not many advanced players will do that. Those three men helped me immensely when I took up the game, here in Central PA.