Eisenhower Bridge Benefit
Duplicate Bridge players are invited to the second annual
Dwight D. Eisenhower Bridge Benefit from 1 to 5 p.m. July 25 at the Eisenhower
Presidential Library Courtyard, 200 S.E. Fourth Street
"Join us in celebrating and preserving the legacy of
the 'Bridge Player in Chief, 'Dwight D. Eisenhower," invites Carol Sunde,
Benefit director and member of the Abilene American Contract Bridge League that
sponsors the event with the Eisenhower Foundation. "We wanted to have an
event at the Eisenhower Presidential Library because Eisenhower was such a
bridge player."
Benefit co-chairwoman and fellow bridge player Georgia
Reynolds says Eisenhower learned to play bridge while attending West Point and
continued to play the game throughout his life.
"Dwight D. Eisenhower played with some very big bridge
players of his time," Reynolds says. "He was very strategic-minded,
and duplicate bridge is very strategic."
Proceeds from the event benefit the K-12 educational
programs, Ike EDucation, according to Reynolds.
"Ike EDucation is working hard to educate people about
President Eisenhower and he is more popular now than he ever was,"she
says. "He was a man that stood up for principles that matter."
Promoting the Eisenhower Presidential Library, Museum and
Boyhood Home is also a goal of the Bridge Benefit, and players and their
spouses receive free passes to the museum.
Those interested in attending the event are encouraged to
pre-register by emailing ikeed@eisenhowerfoundation.net or phone (785)
263-6791; the registration fee of $10 can be paid the day of the event. For
more information, contact Sunde at (785) 263-0582.
The Abilene American Contract Bridge League, active for
about 50 years, organized the first Eisenhower Bridge Benefit at the Eisenhower
Library last year with 10 teams participating from Abilene, Salina, Concordia,
Wichita, Hutchinson and Great Bend, according to Sunde. The winners took home a
traveling trophy featuring a bust of Eisenhower with a plate inscribed with
their names; that trophy will be passed on to this year's winners.
Duplicate Bridge, the most widely used variation of contract
bridge in club and tournament play, features the same bridge deal replayed by
different sets of players.
"The object of the game is to score more than everyone
else playing with the same cards,"Sunde says. "It's a game of what
you do with what you have, and it's the best card game I've ever played and
I've played a lot of card games."
About the Eisenhower Foundation
To honor and champion the relevance today of the life and leadership of Dwight D. Eisenhower through compelling programs and events that celebrate his legacy.
To honor and champion the relevance today of the life and leadership of Dwight D. Eisenhower through compelling programs and events that celebrate his legacy.
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