| BRIDGE IN SCHOOLS |
Bridge is a great ACTIVITY CLUB for our local schools!
Petition the head of your PTA and/or the Assistant Principal in charge of activities at your high
school or middle school. Help us identify teachers who would like to sponsor a Bridge Club.
E-mail us, please!
1) The American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) provides a stipend to any teacher willing to
host an after-school activity in order to provide classroom decorum.
2) The Shelby County Bridge Club will provide an instructor to teach the after school activity;
twice weekly, using the Mini-Bridge methodology.
3) The Shelby County Bridge Club will provide all supplies for The Club.
4) By the end of the first school year, we hope to develop enough students capable of a student
work program in the following year to propagate the program to the feeder Middle Schools.
These students will be able to use the work credits to enhance their college application
credentials.
5) The Shelby County Bridge Club will sponsor and waive tuition for any student wishing to take
the ACBL Director's course.
6) Each of the student/teacher mentors will receive a small weekly stipend to assist in
transportation costs.
7) We believe that bridge offers a unique opportunity for talented young people to develop social
skills along with learning about math, logic, competition, ethics, and honesty.
CALL: 205.451.5997 or e-mail LetsPlayBridge@riverchasebridge.com with your comments.
In January 2006 an article in USATODAY outlined the desire of billionaires William Gates and
Warren Buffett to bring bridge to the classroom. Both men are avid bridge players, and as
would be expected, are competitive and direct in their opinion. Both men believe that bridge
builds honesty, logic and social skills to young people. In the article these two men offered a $1
million challenge to develop a curriculum that would include bridge.
We believe that somewhere in the Birmingham area there is ONE school that is willing to take
FREE SUPPLIES AND INSTRUCTORS and bring bridge to Jefferson and Shelby County Schools!
Please be the one that calls 205-451-5997. Thanks,
Linda and John Randall
Petition the head of your PTA and/or the Assistant Principal in charge of activities at your high
school or middle school. Help us identify teachers who would like to sponsor a Bridge Club.
E-mail us, please!
1) The American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) provides a stipend to any teacher willing to
host an after-school activity in order to provide classroom decorum.
2) The Shelby County Bridge Club will provide an instructor to teach the after school activity;
twice weekly, using the Mini-Bridge methodology.
3) The Shelby County Bridge Club will provide all supplies for The Club.
4) By the end of the first school year, we hope to develop enough students capable of a student
work program in the following year to propagate the program to the feeder Middle Schools.
These students will be able to use the work credits to enhance their college application
credentials.
5) The Shelby County Bridge Club will sponsor and waive tuition for any student wishing to take
the ACBL Director's course.
6) Each of the student/teacher mentors will receive a small weekly stipend to assist in
transportation costs.
7) We believe that bridge offers a unique opportunity for talented young people to develop social
skills along with learning about math, logic, competition, ethics, and honesty.
CALL: 205.451.5997 or e-mail LetsPlayBridge@riverchasebridge.com with your comments.
In January 2006 an article in USATODAY outlined the desire of billionaires William Gates and
Warren Buffett to bring bridge to the classroom. Both men are avid bridge players, and as
would be expected, are competitive and direct in their opinion. Both men believe that bridge
builds honesty, logic and social skills to young people. In the article these two men offered a $1
million challenge to develop a curriculum that would include bridge.
We believe that somewhere in the Birmingham area there is ONE school that is willing to take
FREE SUPPLIES AND INSTRUCTORS and bring bridge to Jefferson and Shelby County Schools!
Please be the one that calls 205-451-5997. Thanks,
Linda and John Randall
The Shelby County Bridge Club
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