An amazing 44 years

Recently, our members celebrated 44 years of the Taree Bridge Club with a cake and a small speech - a brief history if our wonderful club - by Judy Scott (pictured and summarised below):

When the club started in 1980, we dealt the cards by hand, recorded the hand and scored our results on a 'traveller' (so named as the record was tucked safely underneath and travelled with the board around the room). At the end of play, the director took the travllers home and calculated the results by hand. No such things as dealing machines, computers or bridge-mates in those days.
We played bridge at Valley Industries, Taree High School, the Big Oyster, Taree West Bowling Club and in the hall behind Fish Fish Fish before we purchased the building on Pitt Street.
Congresses were held in Ormsby House and in the Waterfront Pavilion in front of the Exchange Hotel. We had our Christmas Parties in the Tinonee Hall. Lessons were held in a room above where David Gillespie’s office is and at Valley industries.
Throughout all this fun and excitement, the club is still going, and in a far more modern way than when it first started. This is thanks to all the hard-working members who have participated along the way and given so much of their time and energy.