2004 National SCRABBLE® Championship Photos: Round 9

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Photo 09-001	Barbara Van Alen (Chandler, AZ) outside the breakfast room, telling players about upcoming tournaments she and her husband Division 3 Leader Larry Rand will be running this year. Note contestant scorecards scattered around the table toward the other end.
Photo 09-002	The morning pasty table in the breakfast room.
Photo 09-003	A wide variety of breads, muffins, and croissants were available at the breakfasts provided to all contestants and staff members.
Photo 09-004	Charmaine Wolfe (North Tonawanda, NY) and Claudia Koczka (Williamsville, NY) in her SCRABBLE^®-themed shirt.
Photo 09-005	Lam Tang (Vancouver BC) and Gene Tyszka (Mississauga ON) at a breakfast table sipping coffee.
Photo 09-006	Elisabeth Derek Jordan (Los Angeles, CA) amd Travis Chaney (Van Buren, AR).
Photo 09-007	SCRABBLE^® jewelry!
Photo 09-008	TBD.
Photo 09-009	JC Green (East Palo Alto, CA).
Photo 09-010	Division 3 Leader Larry Rand and his spouse Barbara Van Alen (Chandler, AZ).
Photo 09-011	Diane Firstman (Brooklyn, NY) and the man who inspired the T-shirt, Joel Sherman (Bronx, NY). She is CJ to his President Bartlett!
Photo 09-012	Division 2's Scott Pianowski (Berkley, MI), hoping that some of the winning juju rubs off, shakes hands with division 5's Asif Rahman (Cincinnati, OH).
Photo 09-013	They love New York: Debbie Stegman (Kew Gardens, NY), Christine Economos (New York, NY), and Jack Eichenbaum (Flushing, NY).
Photo 09-014	Division 5 leader, Wendell Smith, makes it perfectly clear with division 2's Roy Dixon (Lodi, OH).
Photo 09-015	Deborah Lunder, better known as the mom of John Ezekowitz (Boston, MA), expresses her delight with the tournament to John D. Williams, Jr.
Photo 09-016	Benjamin Bloom (Sunny Isles, FL).
Photo 09-017	Just in case I"m too busy when their game comes up in two rounds, forward-thinking William Snoddy (Asheville, NC) poses with Asif Rahman (Cincinnati, OH) at board 1. Bill fears this will be his only visit to table 1, so he wants it recorded forever!
Photo 09-018	Pronounciation lessons in Thai: l and n sounds, Charnwit Sukhumrattanaporn (Thailand) writes his name in Thai (and it is shorter than in English), and my name in Thai on the bottom.
Photo 09-019	Mary Mathews (Antioch, TN) at the keyboard with her challenge of MAYS/BEYS played by Jim Barker (San Jose, CA). The play is acceptable.
Photo 09-020	Division 2's Joseph Galloway (Elizabethtown, KY) vs. Thomas Hall (Carlisle, PA).
Photo 09-021	Table 1 in division 2, Roy Dixon (Lodi, OH) vs. Mike Wolfberg (Concord, MA).
Photo 09-022	Division 1's top tables: Komol Panyasophonlert (Thailand) vs. Jason Katz-Brown (Richmond, CA) at table 2 and Ron Hoekstra (Kentwood, MI) vs. Nigel Richards (Malaysia) at table 1.
Photo 09-023	Table 3 in division 1, John Scalzo (Middle Village, NY) vs. Pakorn Nemitrmansuk (Thailand) and table 4's Panupol Sujjayakorn (Thailand) vs. Robert Linn (Potomac, MD).
Photo 09-024	Table 1, division 7, Dorothy Hackney (Buffalo, NY) vs. Steven Ornish (La Mesa, CA).
Photo 09-025	Table 1, division 3, Carl Warner (Winter Park, FL) vs. Mitch Bayersdorfer (Menlo Park, CA).
Photo 09-026	Division 3's Stephanie Steele (Saint Paul, MN) vs. Gene Rawlins (Scarborough ON).
Photo 09-027	Division 4's Victor Tantua (Los Angeles, CA).
Photo 09-028	Brenda Smith (Yazoo City, MS) defeats Betsey Wood (Concord, MA), 391-360, division 5. See commentary.
Photo 09-029	Asif Rahman (Cincinnati, OH) defeats Brenda Lou Werner (Cedar Rapids, IA), 424-330, division 5. See commentary.
Photo 09-030	Division 5's Bert Shankle (Astoria, NY) and William Snoddy (Asheville, NC) in a recount. Bill won, 367-362.
Photo 09-031	Three different shades of green Protiles and one set of pink Protiles in front of Daniel Goodwin (Seattle, WA), in division 1.
Photo 09-032	Jerry Lerman (Foster City, CA) vs. Ronald Howard (Irvine, CA) at division 1's table 15. Mike Early (Fort Worth, TX) looks on from the next board.
Photo 09-033	Jerry Lerman (Foster City, CA) defeats Ronald Howard (Irvine, CA), 411-396, division 1. See commentary.
Photo 09-034	Division 1's Joel Horn (Reading, MA) shows me where he played the name of fellow division player, Mike Baron (Corrales, NM).
Photo 09-035	John Scalzo (Middle Village, NY) defeats Pakorn Nemitrmansuk (Thailand), 434-413, division 1. See commentary.

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