Buzz Newman

November 15, 1911– September 4, 1997

Buzz and Aileen Newman arrived in Kailua Kona in 1977. The joined the Kona Bridge Club, then meeting Wednesday evenings at Hale Halewai. We soon drove to Hilo on occasional Sundays for an afternoon game at the 'Y', and then for a sometimes evening game, leaving in daylight but coming back at 10:00pm over the Saddle Road, often in heavy fog dependant on the tail lights of any car in front of you. All this for 24 hands of bridge.

While a resident of Kailua Kona, Buzz, a columnist for Hawaii Tribune- Harold paper, wrote feature articles under the column title, ``Buzz`n Kona``. He wrote of the November 23, 1982 Iwa hurricane and how it affected the Big Island. Buzz wrote:

``Bridge players are a driven lot, who appear at times to live by that famous line oft quoted about the postman. On Tuesday evening, at the height of the storm, 28 Kona players, the die-hards of the Kona Bridge Club, gathered at their usual place at Hale Halawai for their weekly duplicate game. We started with the tables distributed in the usual manner, but the high winds continually swept cards from the tables, so finally emergency measures had to be taken. Five tables were crowded into the kitchen and the other two were placed in the partial shelter of the lava rock wall. After that the game proceeded without further event.``