SANDEE BLOOM, Director

• Director of Scrabble® Club 276 since 1986 
• NSA/NASPA Member since 1985
• Occupation:  Retired-Advertising & Marketing
• Interests include Scrabble®, ISC, painting,  computer graphics,  music, theater, movies, creating memory DVD's....actually creating anything and everything...projects upon more projects! Canasta, Mah Jongg, reading and enjoying the company of family and friends
• Favorite Quotes:                                           "When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves."        -William Arthur Ward-

          "Every day is an opportunity to make a new             happy ending."          -Anonymous-

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LARRY "P." GRADUS, Assistant Director

• NSA/NASPA member since 1971
• Scrabble® Club 276 member since its inception
• Occupation:  Land Developer
• Interests include Scrabble® and blackjack tournaments
• Favorite Quote:                                                "May all your bingos be phoneys and may all your phoneys be "good."   -Larry P. Gradus-

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*** In Memoriam ***

 ANN ROBIN

January 17, 1922 - May 22, 2011

Assistant Director-Emeritus

*** Original Director! ***

"You will be missed so much.  We love you."

• NSA/NASPA Member since 1986

• Scrabble® Club #276 member since 1986        
  

• Occupation: Retired Bookkeeper

• Interests include Scrabble®, swimming, reading, puzzles (crossword & acrostics)
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SANDRA BROMBERG (Inactive Snowbird)

• NSA/NASPA member since 2009
• Scrabble® Club 276 member since 2009
• Snowbird from New York
• Occupation:  Retired and Part Time Teacher NYS Teaching License, N-6-Speech
• Interests include Scrabble®, dance, theater, reading, writing, swimming, helping community, art member of Art Student's League

MITCHELL BROWN  (Inactive)

• NSA/NASPA Member since December 2005
• Joined Scrabble® Club #276 in 2004; took a hiatus because of job hours and returned to club in 2010
• Occupation: Lauderhill Recreation Department
• Interests include Scrabble® and collecting sports memorabilia
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MARY CAPALBI 

• NSA/NASPA Member since 1978 (Played in first tournament in '77)
• Scrabble® Club #276 member since 2000
• Was a member of Club #5!  Waaay back!
• Occupation: Retired Principal 
• Interests include Scrabble®, golf, swimming, bicycling, trivia games, reading, travel and poker
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  ANGEL DUPREE

• Scrabble® Club 276 member since 2002

• Retired - Horticultural Pest & Disease Control Specialist
• Interests include Scrabble®, bowling, entomology, suduko, reading
• Have won many bowling awards 

 

                                               

 DONNA FORMAN (inactive)

• Scrabble® Club 276 member since June 2009
• Occupation - Retired.  Part-time Insurance Agent LTC
• Interests include Scrabble®, music, dancing, reading, nature
• Favorite Quote:                                                       "I create my reality. I experience my creations."

JUDITH A. (JUDY) FORD

• NSA/NASPA member since 1995
• Scrabble® Club 276 member since 1997
• Occupation:  Retired Attorney
• Interests include Scrabble®, reading, traveling, grandkids,  getting together with cousins from all over the globe, Mensa, Nova Singers, crossword puzzles, volunteering in Israel, bird-watching, nature walks
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JEFF GARRETT

• NSA member since 1985
• Scrabble® Club 276 member since 1985
• Occupation:  Travel Agent
• Interests Include Scrabble®, photography, world travel
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RANDY GREENSPAN

• NSA/NASPA member since 1988
• Scrabble® Club 276 member since November 2010
• Occupation:  Retired - Postal Clerk
• Interests Include Scrabble®, crosswords, retrotainment - old movies, TV, music
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*** In Memoriam ***

 DEE JACKSON

August 7, 1938 - June 25, 2008 

Although you will always be in our hearts, your kindness, humor and wit will be missed by all of your many friends.

• NSA member since 1985
• Scrabble® Club 276 member since 2003
• Occupation:  Retired Attorney and College Professor
• Interests were Scrabble®, grandkids, pussycats, reading, travel, cold weather, gambling 
• Favorite quote:                                                  “God willing and the Creek don’t rise!”                  -Benjamin Hawkins-
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VICKI HOLMES (Snowbird)

• Scrabble® Club 276 member since January 2012
• Occupation:  Retired - Professional Speaker
• Received a standing ovation by 1,200 at Caesars Palace after a professional speaking engagement.
• Only female stockcar driver at the South Florida speedway many years ago.
• Other interests include Scrabble® and traveling throughout America.  Took off December 26, 2006 in van with mattress, hiking boots and laptop to see America.  "What an awesome country we live in!"

ROBERT KAHN

• NSA/NASPA member since its formation
• Scrabble® Club 276 member since 1992
• Occupation:  Attorney
• Interests include Scrabble® and movies
• Awards won:  Three-time Florida State Champ. 
  
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LYA KORDA

July 4, 1920 - September 22, 2011 

In her own word's, she

"LIVED, LOVED AND LEFT"

 

In our words....Your smile, wit, warmth and diverse talents will be missed by so many of us. 

• NSA/NASPA member since 1995
• Scrabble® Club 276 member since 1997
• Occupation: Designer
• Interests include Scrabble®, people with heart, brains and a little time for me
• Have received awards in painting, fencing, javelin and shotput
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CAROLYN KOSLEN (inactive)

• NSA/NASPA member since April 2009
• Scrabble® Club 276 member since April 2009
• Occupation:  Affiliate Marketing - Webmaster - Social Media Consultant
• Interests include Scrabble®, cycling, travel, singing, languages
• Favorite Quote:                                                      "The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power.  You just take it."   
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CHERYL LEVIN

• NSA/NASPA member since 1989
• Scrabble® Club 276 member since mid 1980's
• Occupation:  Attorney
• Interests include Scrabble®, ACLU, history walking tours, reading history, politics, biography, eating--then working out at the gym
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• Favorite quote:  “Be careful what you wish for-you might get it."   

• NSA/NASPA member since 1987
• Scrabble® Club 276 member since Sept.  2010
• Occupation:  Real Estate
• Interests include Scrabble®, photography, ping pong and travel
  
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• Favorite quote:                                                  “Our limitations are our real opponents."            ~Noel Livermore-

 

ELAINE PATTERSON

• NSA/NASPA member since 1984
• Scrabble® Club 276 member since 2003 
• Occupation:  Retired - Medical Assistant
• Interests include Scrabble®, reading, movies, socializing with friends
• Favorite Quote: 

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 TRIP PAYNE  (Inactive - Moved to CA)

• NSA/NASPA member since 1995
• Scrabble® Club 276 member since 2003 
• Occupation:  Freelance Puzzlemaker
• Interests include Scrabble®, puzzles, pinball, home organization, Oscars
• Awards:  Ft. Lauderdale Scrabble® Tournament-5/2007, American Crossword Puzzle tournament - 1993, 1998, 2004
• Won $32,000 on "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire"
• Featured in movie "Wordplay"

• Visit my web site  http://www.tripleplaypuzzles.com/
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HOWARD PISTOL 

• NSA/NASPA member since 1989
• Scrabble Club® 276 member since 1997
• Occupation - Finance
• Interests include Scrabble® and travel
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STEVE POLATNICK

• NSA/NASPA member since 1977
• Scrabble® Club 276 member since 1994
• Occupation - Attorney
• Interests include Scrabble®, tennis, bicycle touring, foreign languages
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MARSHAL RESNICK  (Snowbird)

• NSA/NASPA member since 2008
• Scrabble® Club 276 member since 2006
• Occupation - Retired.  Executive Sales
• Interests include Scrabble®, golf, bridge, fishing and all sporting events, movies, vacations and shows
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GEORGE ROGERS 

• NSA/NASPA member since 1992
• Scrabble® Club 276 member since 1991
• Occupation - Retired Cameraman
• Interests include Scrabble® and coin collecting
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MARTY ROSEN 

• NSA/NASPA member since 1997
• Scrabble® Club 276 member since 1996
• Occupation:  C.P.A.
• Interests include Scrabble®, poker, movies, theater and good food
• Favorite Quote:                                                       "Life is truly beautiful!"   -Marty Rosen-
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MAXINE SAPERSTEIN 

• NSA/NASPA member since 1989
• Scrabble® Club 276 member since 2001
• Occupation:  Retired - Teacher
• Interests include Scrabble®, reading, travel and good food
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JOHN SCALZO (Snowbird)

• NSA/NASPA Member since 1999
• Scrabble® Club #276 member since 2005
• Snowbird from New York 
• Occupation: Retired  New York City Transit Auhority Bus Dispatcher 
• Interests include Scrabble®, music-oldies, walking, bicycling, fishing
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*** In Memoriam ***

CHARLOTTE SIMEONE 

June 15, 1927 - February 6, 2011

• NSA/NASPA member since 1989
• Scrabble® Club 276 member since 1989
• Occupation:  Part owner and manager of landscaping company
• Interests include Scrabble® , gambling, poker, stock market, politics and watching all spectator sports such as baseball, football, basketball and tennis
• Awards:  Placed 1st in my division in six or seven Scrabble tournaments over the years
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CARL STOCKER 

• NSA/NASPA member since its beginning, 1979
• Scrabble® Club 276 member since 2005
• Occupation:  Retired professor of physical sciences
• Director of Scrabble Club #432
• Interests include Scrabble®, volunteerism, tennis, piano, computer, investments, travel, reading
• Awards:  Original Southeast Regional Tournament held in Miami in the late 1970's.  Most recently I won several club tournaments, including one recently held at Tim Wise's club.
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RANDY TAYLOR (Snowbird)

• NSA/NASPA member since 1990
• Scrabble® Club 276 member since January 2011
• Occupation:  Retired - Solar Astronomer - Naval Research
• Interests include Scrabble®, folk dancing, pinnochle, traveling, ballroom dancing, writing, chess, bridge, collecting
• Favorite quote:  "Fill the unforgiving minute with 60 seconds' worth of distance run."            ~Rudyard Kipling   "If" 

JOHN THOMASON 

• NSA/NASPA member since August 2007
• Scrabble® Club 276 member since May 2007
• Occupation: Film critic (Orlando Weekly) and entertainment beat reporter (Forum Publishing weekly newspapers
• Interests include Scrabble®, film theory and criticism, record collecting, media, politics, blogs, stand-up comedy, literature (Tom Wolfe!!!), tennis, racketball.
• Favorite sites: www.huffingtonpost.com, www.orlandoweekly.com, www.mediamatters.org, www.slantmagazine.com
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 MICHAEL VACIANNA 

• NSA/NASPA member since 2001
• Scrabble® Club 276 member since 2009
• Occupation:  Flight Instructor
• Interests include Scrabble® and movies
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FRED WEINSTEIN

• Scrabble® Club 276 member since August 2009 
• Occupation: Professor of Business Administration 
• Interests include Scrabble®, ping pong, exercise, current events, reading pharmacy, medical and business journals

IAN WEINSTEIN 

• NSA/NASPA member since 1989
• Scrabble® Club 276 member since 1993
• Occupation:  Physician
• Interests include Scrabble® , transcendence, medicine, law, bridge, poker and the quest for Prajna (enlightenment/insight-wisdom)
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 SHEREEN WEINSTEIN

• NSA/NASPA member since 2000
• Scrabble® Club 276 member since 2000
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Occupation:  Retired - Chemistry Teacher
• Interests include Scrabble®, family, friends, reading novels, exercise, plants, hand sewing, and piano
• Awards:  Scrabble Club #275 Most Improved Scrabble Player Award for 2000
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MIKE WOLFBERG (Snowbird)

• NSA/NASPA member since 1980
• Scrabble® Club 276 occasional "Snowbird" visitor during a few weeks almost every Fall since 1993
• Occupation:  Software Developer, including the WHAT program for Scrabble and other
  word game players
• Interests include Scrabble® , recreational badminton (both a player and organizer), cooking, attending concerts, webmaster for Scrabble® and badminton in the Boston, MA area
• Since early 1980's - Statistician of the Lexington, MA Scrabble® Club
• Several Scrabble accomplishments including:
  21 tourney wins,  played some 6-bingo games, 5 consecutive bingos, exceeded 700 points 3 times (unique in North America), made a 239-point play in a national tourney,  highest game = 737, highest loss = 479
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