Peggy Solomon

Margery Lee Golder Solomon (née Mastbaum; August 14, 1908 – March 4, 1995),

Life

Solomon was the daughter of Etta (née Wedell) and Jules Mastbaum, a Philadelphia real estate investor who specialized in movie theaters and the philanthropist whose estate established that city's Rodin Museum. He died in 1975.

Solomon died at age 86, at home in Elkins Park, on March 4, 1995. According to a daughter the cause was pulmonary fibrosis. She was survived by a sister, two daughters, Joan Golder Ash and Norma Golder Brunswick, eight grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.

Career

Solomon played in one world championship tournament, the fourth quadrennial World Team Olympiad in 1972. She was a member of the 6-person USA women team that finished third behind Italy and South Africa. With Gail Moss instead of Solomon the team would win bronze and gold medals in 1976 and 1980.

In ACBL competition Solomon won one national-level tournament in the open category, the 1944 Chicago Board-a-Match Teams (now the North America-level Reisinger). She won the premier national championship for women pairs (Whitehead Women's Pairs) in 1945 with Olive Peterson and in 1960 with Mary Jane Farrell. She won the analogous tournament for women teams five times from 1942 to 1970 and that for mixed teams three times. Wagar Women's Knockout Teams (5) 1942, 1957, 1964, 1968, 1970 Marcus Cup (1) 1967 Chicago Mixed Board-a-Match (3) 1949, 1950, 1959 Reisinger (1) 1944

Runners-up

North American Bridge Championships (15) Hilliard Mixed Pairs (1) 1943 Rockwell Mixed Pairs (1) 1961 Smith Life Master Women's Pairs (3) 1965, 1966, 1967 Wagar Women's Knockout Teams (5) 1948, 1953, 1954, 1961, 1967 Vanderbilt (1) 1954