Josephine Culbertson
Josephine M. "Jo" Culbertson was an American bridge player, teacher, theorist and writer.
Josephine Murphy was born in Bayside, New York, to parents John Edward Murphy and Sarah McCarthy Murphy. She worked as secretary to the auction bridge authority Wilbur C. Whitehead in the early 1920s and married Ely Culbertson in 1923. The Culbertsons developed and taught the Approach–Forcing system of bidding at auction and later at contract bridge, and founded The Bridge World magazine in 1929.
Some time later her name was Josephine Murphy Dillon.
Culbertson was inducted into the ACBL Hall of Fame in 1996.
Bridge accomplishments
Honors
- ACBL Hall of Fame, 1996
Wins
- North American Bridge Championships
- * Vanderbilt 1930
- * Spingold 1930
Runners-up
- North American Bridge Championships
- * von Zedtwitz Life Master Pairs 1930
- * Whitehead Women's Pairs 1930
- * Fall National Open Pairs 1928
- * Spingold 1934
- * Reisinger 1935