This is the 74th Women's Pairs. At stake is the Whitehead Trophy, donated in 1930 by Wilbur C. Whitehead of New York, a great bridge authority and a member of the team that won the Vanderbilt Cup in 1928, the first year it was in play.

Whitehead (1866-1931) was president of the Simplex Automobile Company, but bridge held such a fascination for him that he retired from business in 1910 to devote his life to bridge.

He was the inventor of many bidding and play conventions, the quick-trick table of card values, the Whitehead system of requirements for original bids and responses and the Whitehead table of preferential leads.

Whitehead was instrumental in standardizing procedures in auction bridge and later in contract bridge.

Previous Winners:
1930 Olive Peterson, Maud Zontlein
1931 Vivi Hanson, Elinor Murdoch
1932 Mrs. Jay S. Jones, Olive Peterson
1933 Doris Fuller, Mrs. Courtand Smith
1934 Helen Bonwit, Helen White
1935 Bertine Teichman, Mable Ulbrich
1936 Mrs. Jay S. Jones, Sally Young
1937 Mable Ervin, Doris Fuller
1938 Helen Sobel, Sally Young
1939 Helen Sobel, Sally Young
1940 Edith Atkinson, Mrs. John Waidlich
1941 Mae P. Rosen, Edith Seligman
1942 Mae P. Rosen, Edith Seligman
1943 Mae P. Rosen, Edith Seligman
1944 Ruth Sherman, Margaret Wagar
1945 Peggy Golder, Olive Peterson
1946 Edith Seligman, Sally Young
1947 Gratian Goldstein, Josephine Gutman
1948 Gratian Goldstein, Josephine Gutman
1949 Kay Rhodes, Ruth Sherman
1950 Mrs. John Kelly, Dorothy Thompson
1951 Alwina M. Dunphy, Mrs. Edward Minear
1952 Shirley Fairchild, Elaine Lee
1953 Mrs. Harold P. Swearingen, Barbara Weiner
1954 Margaret Alcorn, Sally Neely
1955 Kay Rhodes, Margaret Wagar
1956 Kay Rhodes, Margaret Wagar
1957 Kay Rhodes, Margaret Wagar
1958 Betty Nail, Phyllis Novak
1959 Betty Adler, Dorothy Hayden
1960 Mary Jane Farell, Peggy Solomon
1961 Agnes Gordon, Betty Haddad
1962 Carol Sanders, Sylvia Stein
1963 Mrs. K. L. Sargent, Mrs. Ray Tobin
1964 Margaret Alcorn, Lucille Patterson
1965 Nancy Gruver, Sue Sachs
1966 Virginia Heckel, Edith Kemp
1967 Garner McDaniel, Terry Michaels
1968 Hermine Baron, Rhoda Walsh
1969 Gale Clarke, Gloria Noszka
1970 Robin Klar, Tina Rockaway
1971 Amalya Kearse, Jacqui Mitchell
1972 Kerri Davis, Rhoda Walsh
1973 Ann Economidy, Vivian Williamson
1974 Pat Leary, Jan Stansby
1975 Jacqui Mitchell, Gail Moss
1976 Gail Schaab, Barbara Staton
1977 Jacqui Mitchell, Gail Moss
1978 Babs Charney, Flo Rotman
1979 Anne Burnstein, Edith Kemp
1980 Mildred Boyce, Barbara Norwood
1981 Emma Jean Hawes, Dorothy Hayden Truscott
1982 Hermine Baron, Beverly Rosenberg
1983 Evelyn Levitt, Jo Morse
1984 Judy Tucker, Jacqui Mitchell
1985 Dale Dermer, JoAnne Caplan
1986 Edith Freilich, Nancy Gruver
1987 Tobi Deutsch, Kay Schulle
1988 Sally Wheeler, Georgiana Gates
1989 Nadine Wood, Jeanne Elkner
1990 Tobi Deutsch, June Deutsch
1991 Leslie Paryzer, Nancy Widman
1992 Cheri Bjerkan, Janice Seamon
1993 Carol Sanders, Betty Ann Kennedy
1994 Corinne Kirkham, Ann Kluewer
1995 Lila Perlstein, Juanita Chambers
1996 Nancy Widman, Leslie Paryzer
1997 Susan Wexler, Margie Gwozdzinsky
1998 Judi Radin, Valerie Westheimer
1999 Harriet Eaton, Ellen Crawford
2000 Joan Stein, Eunice Rosen
2001 Judi Radin, Sylvia Moss
2002 Cheri Bjerkan, Sue Weinstein
2003 Joan Eaton, Candace Griffey

This event was held at the Summer North American Championships until 1962. A similar event was held at the Spring NABC 1958-1962 with these winners:

1958 Kay Rhodes, Margaret Wagar
1959 Bert Epstein, Blossom Grossblatt
1960 Gretchen Feldstein, Jane Mueller
1961 May Belle Long, Effie Woods
1962 Clarice Holt, Mrs. Greeley Warner