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| photo: Tony Cortizas, Jr. |
Please
come to the annual BCC open house,
see some old friends,
make some new
ones,
play some chess (rated or unrated),
and enjoy a free lunch.
It's a
great way to start the new chess year.
Registration isn't until 11:00 am,
so you can sleep in from your celebrating the night before.
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Since
1974 Boston area chess players have started the new year
with a tournament and open
house at the Boylston Chess Club.
In 1980 the open house was dedicated
to Herb Healy,
described below by Bernardo Iglesias.
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Bernardo did a sketch of the origination of the Herb Healy Open House:
Herbert E. Healy
was born on July 13, 1885 and
died on Wednesday, January 9, 1974 in Boston.
[Thanks to George Mirijanian for providing July 13 as his exact day of birth.]
He was 88 years old and
one of the
original Charter members of the Boylston Chess Club
at its official
organization in 1919. He was Secretary Emeritus at his death.
“The
Club was saddened by the death of Herbert Healy, Charter Member and
Secretary Emeritus, on Wednesday night, January 9, 1974. This
occurred only days after the Herbert Healy Appreciation Tournament (the
30-30 New Year’s Event) and Testimony was held in his honor. Wednesday
had a 10”-12” snowfall, but Mr. Healy showed up at the Union and peeked
into the Chess Quarters. [ He went to his home in the South End on
Brookline Ave.] He died in his sleep. (Only Dave Hudnut, in the
Providence Rhode Island area, remains as a Charter Club Member.)”
In 1980 the New Year's 30/30 was permanently dedicated to him as the
Herbert E. Healy Open House.
Herbert E. Healy along with Harry Lyman, Irvin Yaffee, Myer Edelstein and others customarily provided food to the participants of this event.
This information was taken from minutes of the club from January 27, 1974 and talking with Mr.Harry Lyman and William Lukowiak in past years. There are more testimonies about Mr. Healy that I am omitting.
Bemardo Iglesias
