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This '''member news''' page contains notices about Scrabble [[players]] and links to articles about them in the press.  Other articles may be found in the [[iContact | NASPA News]], periodical [[NASPA Bulletin | Bulletins]] or the [[club news]] page.
  
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The directors of Club #359, along with its members, want to congratulate
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To have your news item considered for publication here, please send it to [[Club/Director Committee]] or [[Web Committee]].
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Robin Lewis on her superb score of 644 on Sunday. Robin opened with
 
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MILIEUS for 74, then proceeded to play NATRONS-75, EXPLORER-101, COENZYME-114,
 
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and then bingoed out with REALISTS-77.
 
  
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Wow, 5 bingos and 644. Way to go Robin.
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== January 2013 ==
  
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Carole Miller, Co-Director, Houston Club #359
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=== Chris Schneider ===
  
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* '''Geoff Thevenot, Austin, TX'''
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On January 15, Chris Schneider, seeing ZING on the board, extended it with OSTRACI for OSTRACIZING.
  
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The following newspaper article was in the Austin Chronicle May 29, 2009.
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Congratulations from Directors Mary Rhoades, Kate Watson and Dee Segrest and Bedford Scrabble Club #248!
  
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== October 2010 ==
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=== Craig Rowland ===
  
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'''''Playing Through'''''
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On Oct 21, Craig Rowland had 5 consecutive bingoes against Priya Fernando:
  
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BY THOMAS HACKETT
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ADIPOSE
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RATIONED
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HOGTIES
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FROGGIER
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TITIVATE
  
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Courtesy of Matthew Wedgwood
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Congratulations from Directors Shan Abbasi and Jean Barinque and Mississauga Scrabble Club #422!
  
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All play is pointless. It makes nothing happen, W.H. Auden said. It is "quite useless," Oscar Wilde said. Whether you're talking about the massive sculptures of Richard Serra or the majestic golf shots of Tiger Woods, the defining virtue of play is its purposelessness, its ultimate irrationality.
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== August 2010 ==
  
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A rational individual wouldn't dedicate his life to moving little figurines around a tabletop, but a grandmaster chess champion does. A sensible gal wouldn't contort her body into wildly improbable positions, but ballerinas do.
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=== Ted Barrett ===
  
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I had to remind myself of this while watching Geoff Thevenot dispose of some shit. Actually, Thevenot just had to correctly spell a word that meant shit, or excrement. The word is "ordure." In print, it doesn't seem a particularly hard word to spell. The pronunciation – awr-jer – is what throws you. But not Thevenot. While other contestants in The Austin Chronicle Adult Spelling Bee last week at Threadgill's hemmed, hawed, asked for definitions and derivations, and twisted their faces in agonies of concentration, Thevenot coolly swatted one word after another out of the park. If words were fastballs, Thevenot was Hank Aaron.
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Ted Barrett, the winner of the [http://{{SERVER}}/tourneys/2010/nsc/build/standing/5/31.html 5th division] at the [[2010 National SCRABBLE Championship]] was featured in an [http://www.phillyburbs.com/news/local/burlington_county_times/bct_news_details/article/26/2010/august/19/playing-with-words-1.html article] by ''Burlington County Times''.
  
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Like most people, though, I have always held hitting baseballs and golf balls in higher regard than spelling weird words. I'm not sure why. If knowing obscure words like "banausic" and "botryoidal" is no less inconsequential than hitting a golf ball, Thevenot's talent is no less remarkable than Tiger Woods'.
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== July 2010 ==
  
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Which is not to say Thevenot is particularly impressed with his peculiar facility.
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=== Allen Pengelly, father of twins ===
  
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"I don't come into these things sticking my chest out," he says. "What I have is an ability to encode trivia and minute rules, to systematize details. But it's no big deal. I know people a lot smarter than me who can't spell for shit. I just like the way words are constructed, the flavor of words. There's an aesthetic quality to it. But sequencing English letters is only one kind of intelligence."
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Congratulations to [[2009 National SCRABBLE Championship]]
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Division 4 Leader
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[[Allen Pengelly]] and his wife Jenna Paikowsky
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on the birth of their daughters Sarah Isabelle Pengelly
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and Natasha Claire Pengelly on July 15th, 2010.
  
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Well, sure – and hitting golf balls is only one kind of athleticism. Writing symphonies is only one way of making noise. Writing a sestina is only one way of arranging words. It's in the nature of every play form to isolate and elevate in importance a teeny-tiny skill set. So while Thevenot – one of the best Scrabble players in the world; runner-up of the 2006 United States Open, he'll be competing in the Thailand International Cup next month – adamantly makes no great claims for himself, I will.
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=== Omaha tournament in the news ===
  
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That he can spell doesn't in itself impress me. That he is willing to devote countless hours to mastering the lexicon, even if it serves no purpose and brings him no wealth or fame, does.
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KETV 7 featured the [http://www.scrabbleplayers.org/tourneys/2010/lxt/07/016.shtml Omaha tournament] on July 10–11, 2010 in their
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[http://www.ketv.com/video/24211779/index.html local news].
  
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The Threadgill's competition started with nearly 200 entrants. Each round cut the field roughly in half, until finally Thevenot was in a showdown with Dave Riddle, a lawyer from Pacific Grove, Calif. The word that tripped up Riddle was "onomatopoeically." In case you're wondering, that's spelled, "o-n-o-m-a-t-o-p-o-e-i-c-a-l-l-y."
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== June 2010 ==
  
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=== Nashua tournament in the news ===
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The ''New Hampshire Union Leader'' published an [http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=Scrabble+tournament+draws+top+players&articleId=26817d65-95de-4c75-af1b-e7ed0afcc455 article] about the [http://www.scrabbleplayers.org/tourneys/2010/lxt/06/022.shtml tournament] in Nashua on June 19–20, 2010.
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== February 2010 ==
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=== Matt DeWaelsche (San Antonio, TX) ===
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Matt was featured in an [http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/83694817.html online article] and a [http://www.mysanantonio.com/videos/83654627.html video clip] by ''San Antonio Express-News''.  He is being inducted in Texas Scrabble Hall of Fame during a tournament in Salado.
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== December 2009 ==
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=== Jesse Matthews (Kelowna, BC) ===
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Story at [http://www.kelowna.com/2009/12/14/scrabble-champ-to-start-club-at-library/ Kelowna.com] about Jesse's new Scrabble club that will meet Thursday evenings, starting January 7, 2010.
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== November 2009 ==
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=== Tournament at Elmhurst, IL  ===
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Story in the [http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chicago/chi-scrabble-tourney-w-zone-25-nov25,0,4982175.story Chicago Tribune] about the upcoming NASPA tournament at Elmhurst, IL, held November 28-29, 2010.
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== August 2009 ==
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=== Jesse Matthews (Kelowna, BC) ===
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Story in the [http://www.bclocalnews.com/okanagan_similkameen/kelownacapitalnews/community/57874732.html Kelowna Capitol News] about Jesse's history in Scrabble and a current fundraiser where he takes on all comers.
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=== Dave Wiegand (Portland, OR) ===
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Story at [http://www.oregonlive.com/living/index.ssf/2009/08/lake_oswego_man_wins_national.html OregonLive.com] about Dave's second time winning the [[NSC]].
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=== Max Karten (Barrington, RI) ===
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A nice write up about Max Karten, who won Division 4 at NSC in Dayton, is at [http://www.eastbayri.com/detail/130750.html EastBayRI.com] .
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== June 2009 ==
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=== Juanita (Nita) Washington (Yazoo City, MS) ===
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Juanita Scott Washington, known to her friends as Nita, was a charter member of the Jackson, Mississippi NASPA Club #427. She attended the first meeting in November of 1994 and missed very few meetings in the years since, making the one-hour drive from Yazoo City regularly. For the last several years, she served as Club Director. She moved the club's tournament from Jackson to Yazoo City and attracted a good turnout with her well-known hospitality. Just one among her many loving touches was serving her homemade ice cream to everyone at the tournament each year. She was a fixture at southern tournaments. As a player, you never assumed you had a game won when playing Nita. Everyone in the club has had the experience of Nita's coming from 100 points or more behind to pull out a spectacular win. She was at the club meetings in May, as usual filling everyone with her smile and enthusiasm for the game. She passed away in June at the age of 62, after losing a very brief battle with cancer. Club #427 will be naming their annual tournament in her honor.
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=== Maddy Kamen (Covina, CA) ===
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Gary Moss reports that Maddy Kamen is the 2009 - 2010 Club #350 Scrabble Champion.
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Congratulations, Maddy!
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=== Billie Garver (Northport, AL) ===
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Billie is a long-time player, formerly from northeast Arkansas, and now lives in Alabama.
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Source: [http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/article/20090607/news/906059962 Tuscaloosa News], June 7, 2009.
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=== Jim Geary (Phoenix, AZ): $230,670 ===
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Congratulations to Jim Geary on his 3rd place finish in the 2009 World Series of Poker event #11!
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Source: [http://www.pokernews.com/news/2009/06/2009-wsop-day-2-10-000-world-championship-mixed-event-12-and-6676.htm Poker News], June 6, 2009.
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== May 2009 ==
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=== Geoff Thevenot (Austin, TX) in ''The Austin Chronicle'' ===
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Congratulations to [[Geoff Thevenot]] for winning ''The Austin Chronicle'' Adult Spelling Bee.
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The paper featured the competition in its sports column “Playing Through” by Thomas Hackett:
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The Threadgill&rsquo;s competition started with nearly 200 entrants. Each round cut the field roughly in half, until finally Thevenot was in a showdown with Dave Riddle, a lawyer from Pacific Grove, Calif. The word that tripped up Riddle was &ldquo;onomatopoeically.&rdquo; In case you&rsquo;re wondering, that's spelled, &ldquo;o-n-o-m-a-t-o-p-o-e-i-c-a-l-l-y.&rdquo;
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How do I know this? Because Geoff Thevenot said so.
 
How do I know this? Because Geoff Thevenot said so.
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Source: [http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/column?oid=oid%3A787127 Playing Through] by Thomas Hackett, ''The Austin Chronicle'', May 29, 2009.

Latest revision as of 11:08, 2 August 2021

This member news page contains notices about Scrabble players and links to articles about them in the press. Other articles may be found in the NASPA News, periodical Bulletins or the club news page.

To have your news item considered for publication here, please send it to Club/Director Committee or Web Committee.

January 2013

Chris Schneider

On January 15, Chris Schneider, seeing ZING on the board, extended it with OSTRACI for OSTRACIZING.

Congratulations from Directors Mary Rhoades, Kate Watson and Dee Segrest and Bedford Scrabble Club #248!

October 2010

Craig Rowland

On Oct 21, Craig Rowland had 5 consecutive bingoes against Priya Fernando:

ADIPOSE RATIONED HOGTIES FROGGIER TITIVATE

Congratulations from Directors Shan Abbasi and Jean Barinque and Mississauga Scrabble Club #422!

August 2010

Ted Barrett

Ted Barrett, the winner of the 5th division at the 2010 National SCRABBLE Championship was featured in an article by Burlington County Times.

July 2010

Allen Pengelly, father of twins

Congratulations to 2009 National SCRABBLE Championship Division 4 Leader Allen Pengelly and his wife Jenna Paikowsky on the birth of their daughters Sarah Isabelle Pengelly and Natasha Claire Pengelly on July 15th, 2010.

Omaha tournament in the news

KETV 7 featured the Omaha tournament on July 10–11, 2010 in their local news.

June 2010

Nashua tournament in the news

The New Hampshire Union Leader published an article about the tournament in Nashua on June 19–20, 2010.

February 2010

Matt DeWaelsche (San Antonio, TX)

Matt was featured in an online article and a video clip by San Antonio Express-News. He is being inducted in Texas Scrabble Hall of Fame during a tournament in Salado.

December 2009

Jesse Matthews (Kelowna, BC)

Story at Kelowna.com about Jesse's new Scrabble club that will meet Thursday evenings, starting January 7, 2010.

November 2009

Tournament at Elmhurst, IL

Story in the Chicago Tribune about the upcoming NASPA tournament at Elmhurst, IL, held November 28-29, 2010.

August 2009

Jesse Matthews (Kelowna, BC)

Story in the Kelowna Capitol News about Jesse's history in Scrabble and a current fundraiser where he takes on all comers.

Dave Wiegand (Portland, OR)

Story at OregonLive.com about Dave's second time winning the NSC.

Max Karten (Barrington, RI)

A nice write up about Max Karten, who won Division 4 at NSC in Dayton, is at EastBayRI.com .

June 2009

Juanita (Nita) Washington (Yazoo City, MS)

Juanita Scott Washington, known to her friends as Nita, was a charter member of the Jackson, Mississippi NASPA Club #427. She attended the first meeting in November of 1994 and missed very few meetings in the years since, making the one-hour drive from Yazoo City regularly. For the last several years, she served as Club Director. She moved the club's tournament from Jackson to Yazoo City and attracted a good turnout with her well-known hospitality. Just one among her many loving touches was serving her homemade ice cream to everyone at the tournament each year. She was a fixture at southern tournaments. As a player, you never assumed you had a game won when playing Nita. Everyone in the club has had the experience of Nita's coming from 100 points or more behind to pull out a spectacular win. She was at the club meetings in May, as usual filling everyone with her smile and enthusiasm for the game. She passed away in June at the age of 62, after losing a very brief battle with cancer. Club #427 will be naming their annual tournament in her honor.


Maddy Kamen (Covina, CA)

Gary Moss reports that Maddy Kamen is the 2009 - 2010 Club #350 Scrabble Champion. Congratulations, Maddy!

Billie Garver (Northport, AL)

Billie is a long-time player, formerly from northeast Arkansas, and now lives in Alabama.

Source: Tuscaloosa News, June 7, 2009.

Jim Geary (Phoenix, AZ): $230,670

Congratulations to Jim Geary on his 3rd place finish in the 2009 World Series of Poker event #11!

Source: Poker News, June 6, 2009.

May 2009

Geoff Thevenot (Austin, TX) in The Austin Chronicle

Congratulations to Geoff Thevenot for winning The Austin Chronicle Adult Spelling Bee. The paper featured the competition in its sports column “Playing Through” by Thomas Hackett:

The Threadgill’s competition started with nearly 200 entrants. Each round cut the field roughly in half, until finally Thevenot was in a showdown with Dave Riddle, a lawyer from Pacific Grove, Calif. The word that tripped up Riddle was “onomatopoeically.” In case you’re wondering, that's spelled, “o-n-o-m-a-t-o-p-o-e-i-c-a-l-l-y.”

How do I know this? Because Geoff Thevenot said so.

Source: Playing Through by Thomas Hackett, The Austin Chronicle, May 29, 2009.

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