34 English Bridge February 2016 www.ebu.co.uk
EBU Awards
ELIZABETH MUIR
(North East)
Dimmie Fleming
Award
Liz has given over
twenty five years service to the
NEBA committee - her roles
covering all aspects of 'officership'
from Chairman, Secretary,
Congress organizer, Selector and
numerous other roles which
have championed bridge in the
North East, all of which she has
carried out with true honesty
and integrity.
DAVID BURGESS
(Notts)
Dimmie Fleming
Award
David was a
member of the Nottinghamshire
CBA Committee from 2000 to
2015. He was Events Secretary to
2004, and the Secretary to 2014.
For the county he directed many
of the weekly Wednesday drives
and ran most of the major events
for some years. He was also the
Appeals Chairman for the
county. David was a member of
the EBU Panel of Referees from
2006 to 2011 and chaired appeals
panels at EBU congresses in the
Midlands during that time.
David wrote a suite of scoring
programs which were later used
for club and county events plus
the annual Nottinghamshire
Heat of the EBU school event.
JOAN BURGESS
(Notts)
Dimmie Fleming
Award
Joan was a member
of the Nottinghamshire CBA
Committee from 1991 to 2015.
She was its Masterpoint
Secretary until 2010. She was
Teams of Eight League Secretary
from 1992 - 2011, and Team of
Four Secretary from 2011 to
2015. She was Secretary from
2001-2003 and Shareholder for
Nottinghamshire from 2001 to
2014.
DAVID GALPIN
(Sussex)
Dimmie Fleming
Award
David has served
the Sussex County Contract
Bridge Association for many
years in multiple roles, including
serving on the Management
Committee, the Selector's
Committee (as Chair for eight
years to 2014), the County
Tournament Directors panel and
as Honorary Treasurer for over
thirteen years to date.
He has also been Tournament
Organiser for the annual Sussex
League for the last sixteen years.
David has made an enormous
contribution to the success of
Sussex bridge over close to
twenty years. However, it would
be wrong to measure his service
just in terms of time. Rather we
should look at the personal input
he has provided and reflect on
the level of enthusiasm,
commitment and sheer effort
involved.
LESLIE REECE
(Warwickshire)
Dimmie Fleming
Award
Leslie has been a
member of the Warwickshire
Executive Committee for thirty
four years. Joining in 1981 he
took over as League Secretary in
1985, an office he held until he
became Vice-Chairman in 1990.
and then Chairman in 1992 for
two years. He then spent a year as
an Ex-Officio member of the
Committee. In 1996 Leslie
returned to the office of League
Secretary, a post he held for nine
years until, in 2005, he became
Treasurer, an office he still holds
today.
In addition to his various roles
on the Committee Leslie has,
over the years, represented
Warwickshire as a Shareholder,
which he still continues to do. He
has also served on many
subcommittees of the County,
and on the Midland Counties
Congress Committee.
COLIN WOODS
(Cumbria)
Dimmie Fleming
Award
Colin Woods became Treasurer of
Cumbria in 1995 and has done a
sterling job looking after its
finances for 20 years, and
continues to do so. He is at the
Cumbrian Congress every year,
often the first person to welcome
the visitors, with his list of
entrants, taking money and
sorting out the prize money,
before becoming one of the
players himself.
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