January 2006 - 62

Youngsters proudly display their bridge trophies and are flanked by program
coordinators Dom and Rose Gargiulo.

Starting young
Rose Gargiulo taught bridge in
July and August last year at the
Northport-East Northport (NY)
Public Library. With the help of
her husband, Dom, she conducted
a program Contract Bridge for
Beginners for children in the fourth,
fifth and sixth grades.
The program was well attended
with more than 25 children enrolled.
The youngsters were reported to
have enjoyed the program and many
plan to continue learning bridge in
part two, perhaps later this month.
"The kids were fun to teach," says
Rose.
Rose Gargiulo is an ACBL
certified bridge teacher who taught
bridge in adult education for many
years. Besides the program at
the library, she has taught young
children to play bridge at the Fifth
Avenue elementary school in East
Northport NY.
The program was an eight‑week
course and each child received a
bridge tee shirt along with an
instruction book and a deck of cards.
Thanks for this report go to Jim
Schneider, Secretary Unit 242, Long
Island NY.

A journey now complete
Lloyd Johnson, of Elkhart IN, sat
down to play bridge at a sectional in
Killington VT on October 30. The
other players didn't know it, but a
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significant event was happening -
his journey began. At the time he
this was the completion of a 25‑year played in an NABC three times a
journey. Johnson could now claim to year as well as various regional
have played in a tournament in all
tournaments, often with partner Pilar
50 U.S. states.
Barrera.
Although ACBL doesn't keep
In 1998, he took stock of how
records of such things, Johnson
many states he had played in and
might be the first to accomplish
made it a goal to play in the others.
such a feat. He has also played in
Only in Delaware and Vermont
four of the Canadian provinces and
did he play in a sectional - the
in Mexico City.
others were regionals or NABCs.
On hand in Vermont were his
He's quick to point out that he won
partners and grandsons, Glen
masterpoints at all of them.
Whitney, of Long Island NY, and
While at tournaments, he often
Wayne Whitney, of Berkeley CA.
went sightseeing, sometimes in the
Johnson, a retired executive
morning, and played bridge in the
from Miles Lab, is 92 years
afternoon and evening.
old and uses a walker. Making
Anchorage AK and Great Falls
his accomplishment even more
MT are two of the more interesting
impressive is that he is visually
places he's played. "Anchorage is
impaired due to
macular degeneration.
He has to keep track
of the dummy from
memory since he can't
see it. His opponents
have to call their cards
as they play them.
When he retired
in 1978, Johnson
had around 300
masterpoints. He
bought something
called an "annual
passport" from
American Airlines
which allowed him
unlimited travel for
Lloyd Johnson plays bridge with his grandson, Wayne
a set yearly fee and
Whitney (far right).
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