ZLAC Rowing Clubthe existing boathouse into a second meeting room, the “Trophy Room,” with
kitchen facilities and an upstairs apartment for the Neals. Saunders and Liebman,
meanwhile, created a pier and float. ZLAC celebrated the opening of the new
boathouse on October 14, 1962.^50
The 1960s marked the beginning of new era for rowing. At the 1960 Olympic
Games in Rome, the U.S. men’s eight-oared crew suffered its first defeat in Olympic
Thursday Morning Rowers in the ZLAC barge, April 7, 1973. Bow to stern: Mary Jessop, Ellen Roche, Annette
Frank, Margaret Redelings, Judy Browne, Betty Sullivan, Nancy Leydecker, Suzanne Leibmann, and Mary
Maddox Grandell (coxswain). ©SDHS, UT #88:K7006-3, Union-Tribune Collection.
Juniors scull on Mission Bay, April 1975. Bow to stern: Alice Lee, Anne Benton Chuter, Shelly Shaner, Patty
Mallory, and Stacey Melhorn (coxswain). ©SDHS, UT #88:L9949, Union-Tribune Collection.