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ACBL District 15

District 15  serves Southwestern Missouri,Kansas,Oklahoma,Western Arkansas,and Northern Texas.  It is comprised of  the following 8 units. Meet Phyllis Harlan, ACBL President. Phyllis Harlan vividly remembers the first time she played duplicate bridge. It was December 1972. She and her husband, Bill, were invited by a couple of friends to try duplicate and they went to a club in their home town,Oklahoma City OK.Harlan was terrified. “I was shaking so hard I had to hold my hands under the table,”she recalls. Despite the frightening night,Harlan says,she stuck with it because if she didn’t,“I knew I was going to be the equivalent of a golf widow because Bill instantly loved it.” Fortunately,the nerves left her shortly thereafter when she and Bill played in and won a newcomer game at a regional in their home town. Over the 41 years since that introduction,Harlan has earned a reputation as an exceptionally hard worker,a trait recognized by her colleagues on the ACBL Board of Directors. Earlier this week,Harlan was elected without opposition to be the 2014 ACBL President. Harlan came to the board in 2004 after doing practically every bridge-related job there was in District 15. In fact,the service started during the tournament at which they won the newcomer game. She and Bill were sitting and talking at the hotel when a group of players nearby invited them to set up a bar. It’s been non-stop for the Harlans ever since. Among her many contributions,she has served on her unit and district boards and was district president twice. Harlan joined the board after filling in for former District 15 Director Virgil Anderson,who missed four of six meetings over a two-year period because of illness. Harlan was second alternate when Anderson became ill,and the first alternate didn’t want to take over for him. She had not planned to run for ACBL president but Harlan was urged to do so by several members of the current board. “I’m a worker,”she says. “I think the board members appreciate that fact.â

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