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Life Master

milestones
Kranyak

Cappelletti
Mukherjee

Levine
Noda

Grand Life Master Mike Cappelletti of Winter Park FL
has surpassed 25,000 masterpoints. Cappelletti's NABC titles are the Rockwell Mixed Pairs in 1998 and the Silodor
Open Pairs and Jacoby Open Swiss Teams in 2000. He has
two second-place finishes in the Reisinger Board-a-Match
Teams - in 1991 and 2000. Cappelletti represented the U.S.
in the World Junior Teams in 1989 and 1991 and was the
non-playing captain of the USA1 Junior team in 2003 and
the USA2 Junior team in 2006.
Shome Mukherjee, Randolph MA, is a Grand Life Master
who just advanced past the 20,000 masterpoint milestone.
Mukherjee has two NABC titles: the Keohane North American Swiss Teams in 1997 and the Baze Senior KO Teams
in 2000. He also has a second-place showing in the Baze
Senior KO in 1997.
One of ACBL's three newest Grand Life Masters is Bruce
Noda of Corte Madera CA. Noda has been actively involved
in his community's bridge activities - from directing games
and teaching at the local junior high school to chairing his
district's Conduct and Ethics Committee. He is Chairman of
the Board for blueEnergy, a non-profit that builds sustainable energy and water systems for the most isolated poor
on the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua.
Emerald Life Master (7500 MPs)
Steven Lawrence, Calgary AB

Bobbi Johnson, Centerville OH
Richard Price, Ft. Worth TX

Sidney Lorvan, Pacifica CA
John Diamond, Boca Raton FL
James Willenborg, Ft. Lauderdale FL
Stephen Rzewski, South Dennis MA
Haven Sharaf, Danvers MA
Sonia Kaplan, Tinton Falls NJ
Meyer Kotkin, Cherry Hill NJ
Lynne Tarnopol, New York NY

Diamond Life Master (5000 MPs)
Roger Snowling, Hamilton ON

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Russ Jones, Jonesboro AR
Helen Corbin, Palo Alto CA
Adam Kaplan, New Port Richey FL
Michael Hellmer, Indianapolis IN
Lewis Gamerman, Westwood MA

Mike Levine, Pinckney MI, has collected the 10,000
masterpoints he needed to achieve Grand Life Master
status. Levine has six NABC titles: the Truscott/U.S. Playing Card Senior Swiss (1998 and 2001), the Baze Senior
KO Teams (1998, 2001 and 2002) and the Keohane North
American Swiss Teams (2010). He brought home a silver
medal in the 1994 World Transnational Teams. Levine is an
inventor and philanthropist.
Also joining the ranks of Grand Life Master is John
Kranyak of Las Vegas NV. Kranyak says that learning the
game from his parents, Ken and Laurie - top players both
- brought his family closer together. His most memorable
bridge highlights are winning the Rockwell Mixed Pairs in
2005 with his mom and finishing third in the Blue Ribbon
Pairs with his dad in 2001. Kranyak won the World Youth
Team Championships in 2001, 2005 and 2006. He brought
home bronze medals from the World Youth Championships in 2002 and 2003. He took third in the 2004 World
University Team Championship, and third, too, in the 4th
IOC Grand Prix - Junior Teams in 2002. He plays professionally and looks forward to kicking off a new partnership with professional Vincent Demuy from Canada on the
Fireman team.
Josef Blass, Chapel Hill NC
Julie Murphy, Hendersonville NC
Lance Shull, Raleigh NC
Michael McNamara, White Plains NY
Robert Quinlan, Pittsburgh PA
Martin Rabinowitz, Narberth PA
James Bauer, Dallas TX
Maria Mitchum, Hampton VA

Keith Moores, Calgary AB
Ronald Duplisea, Long Reach NB
Marcia Shaw, Halifax NS
Terry Hartley, Frankford ON
Mileva Jobin, Ottawa ON
Marilyn Kalbfleisch, Orillia ON
Avi Poriah, Nepean ON
Serge Chouinard, Laval QC

Gold Life Master (2500 MPs)
William Tucker, Hamilton, Bermuda

Lisa Evans, Danville CA
Mary Lou Faggella, Carmichael CA

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