• The entire team of over 200 local volunteers who made the Compuware Detroit Spring 2008 NABC a huge success!
  
• Mary Smith's article in the ACBL Bulletin is featured on the July 2007 cover!
  
• I/N Committee Co-Chairs Beverly Gardner and Gail Hanson, together with their committee, drew 225 I/N players to workshop!  Watch for current information to appear for the next workshop on September 24, 2007!
• Congratulations to former District 12 member, and long-time Ann Arborite, Zeke Jabbour.  Zeke was honored at the Goodwill Reception in Honolulu with the annoucement of his appointment as the "ACBL's Honorary Member of the Year for 2007."
• Congratulations to The University of Michigan Bridge Teams who won the Intercollegiate National level championship for 2006!
• Each year the District Director receives from the ACBL a gift of $1000 to award to a charity of his/her choice:
• 2008:    Capuchin Soup Kitchen, Detroit, MI.
  
• 2007:    Providence Hospital, Southfield, MI
  
• 2006:  "Schembechler Heart of a Champion Fund" at The University of Michigan Cardiovascular Center.
• 2005:  "Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute" at Wayne State University's School of Medicine.
  
• Appointments
• Made in 2008 to begin in 2009.
• Charity Committee, Lifetime Appointment:  Howard Abrams, Michael Aliota
  
• Goodwill Committee, Lifetime Appointment:  Catherine Gay, Myles Maddox, Jim Reed
  
• Made in 2007 to begin in 2008.
• Charity Committee, Lifetime Appointment:  Patricia Becker, Robert Cappelli
  
• Goodwill Committee, Lifetime Appointment: Connie Dugger, Peter Karmanos Jr., Beverly Kruger, Dave Swarthout
  
• Made in 2006 to begin in 2007.
• Charity Committee, Lifetime Appointment:  Stu Cohen, Don Rumelhart
• Goodwill Committee, Lifetime Appointment:  Sandy Arlinghaus, Chuck Burger
• Made in 2005 to begin in 2006:
• Charity Committee, Lifetime Appointment:  Richard Temkin, Edward White
• Goodwill Committee, Lifetime Appointment:  Alan Bau, Dennis Blodgett, Beverly Gardner, and William Huppenbauer.
  
• Trophies:  records from engraved trophies.
• Portable Document Files (pdf files) sent directly from ACBL to District Director.  Some files are sent every month; most are sent every several months.  The District 12 website has many other lists not posted here (to avoid excessive duplication).  Please look at those, too!