ARTHUR
LEWIS GO CLUB
Sponsored
by the Charles
W.
Gilchrist
Center
for
Cultural Diversity
Mid-County
Community Recreation Center
2004
Queensguard Road, Silver Spring, Maryland
Arthur
Lewis (1917-1992)
Arthur
Lewis was Secretary/Treasurer of the area's oldest Go Club, the Greater
Washington Go Club (GWGC), from the mid-1960's until his death in Jan
1992.
During that time, he brought a firm discipline, stability, and
reliability to
the key functions of membership and finances. As a result, the GWGC
prospered
and grew in influence and reputation. He left to the old timers in the
DC Go
community a remembrance of a gentle, yet persuasive man whose no
nonsense style
endeared him to one and all. His legacy to the GWGC was a sound and
secure
financial foundation. Arthur Lewis was born on Nov
15, 1917
in Mt Vernon, New York. He
graduated cum laude from Harvard with a degree in Political Science.
During
World War II, he was part of the American military team that went to England
to decipher
the German ENIGMA code. After the war, he and his wife Kathy moved to Washington
DC
and then to
Wheaton
MD
where they
raised two daughters, Anne and Susan. He worked for the National
Security
Agency until his retirement in the 1970's. His other interests were
photography
and the environment, and he made a similar deep impression on the
people in
those areas. The Arthur Lewis Go Club is dedicated to the memory of a
man who
was deeply appreciated, respected, and beloved by his fellow Go players.
--Click
here for photos from the Dec. 1, 2001 Dedication Ceremony. --
--Click
here for photos from the October 23, 2002 Go Demo at the Berman Hebrew
Academy of Rockville MD. --
Go
Club Activities
Weekly
Go meetings are held every
Tuesday, from 6:30
PM
to 845
PM.
The Go
Club
is located in the Mid-County Community Recreation Center (Montgomery
County Maryland) at 2004 Queensguard Road, Silver Spring, 240-777-6820 .
That's 1-2 miles north of the Glenmont Metro station and just off
Layhill Road.
Go
sets and instructional Go books are stored on site and experienced
players are on hand to teach new players. The Arthur Lewis Go Club was
made possible by generous grant support from the Montgomery County
Community and Neighborhood Investment Program and the American Go
Foundation.
For
more information, please contact John
Goon
at spineyone@yahoo.com,
telephone:
301-613-8297, or Todd
Heidenreich
at todd@capitalgo.org.
For
quality and value in Go equipment and books, visit WWW.YUTOPIAN.COM
Click here for DC and Baltimore
Area Go Club links.
www.erols.com/jgoon/links-go.htm
Created
on August
21, 2000.
Updated March 9, 2013
by spineyone@yahoo.com.
American
Go Association (http://www.usgo.org/).