THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT Anita DeFrantz became the American face of athlete protest for being dragged into international conflict, appearing repeatedly on national nightly tv news programs. Martin Cross: “Anita knew that ‘serving her country’ had nothing to do with boycotting the Games. American trade with the USSR remained unaffected.”5934 Something about politics and sport must have stuck in DeFrantz’s craw. She accepted a position with the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. That led to her eventually becoming the president of the Los Angeles Amateur Athletic Foundation, which administers the profits left over after the 1984 Games. She holds that position to this day. Anita DeFrantz has also been elected to the International Olympic Committee and is arguably the world’s most powerful woman in sport. Gail Ricketson left rowing a couple of years after the 1980 Olympic boycott killed her drive. She married Chuck Helfer in 1984, and the two of them devoted themselves to the sport of cycling for years as Gail made her living as a massage therapist. She and Chuck joined Potomac Boat Club in 1999. She competed in the U.S. and FISA Masters’ regattas in 2010. Tom McKibbon: “Marion Greig was studying to be a veterinarian at Cornell. She hitchhiked out to Long Beach on a horse trailer and worked at Los Alamitos race track. When she left her shoes on the dock, black flies would cover them, there was so much horse manure on them. “She had stroked our quad in 1975. In 1976, she told me, ‘If I can’t stroke again, I sad story, but that is the reality.” – qtd. by Alison Korn, No Borders, Rowing News, August 2010, p. 49 5934 Cross, p. 70 5935 McKibbon, personal conversation, 2011 5936 Zoch, op. cit. don’t want to be in the boat,’ and so she went east to Harry’s camp. What a loss! She was an incredible athlete.”5935 Marion Grieg has since dropped out of sight of the rowing community. Anne Warner graduated from Yale with a degree in Russian studies, attended Harvard Law School and married Cliff Taubes, a Harvard math professor. The two raised their children in Belmont, Massachusetts. Anne now lives in Connecticut where she is an international attorney at a pharmaceutical company. She occasionally rows singles and doubles on the Housatonic River. Training on her own after graduation from Wisconsin, Jackie Zoch earned an MS and MBA from Northeastern University. She rowed in the U.S. Coxed-Four in 1977 but then blew out a disc in her back trying out for the 1980 Olympic Team. Zoch: “After meeting lots of old friends at the Atlanta Olympics in 1996, I ordered a boat and started rowing again in 1997. After a reunion at Wisco, I started competing with rowers from Portland, Oregon, and I’m still at it. “I currently live in Birmingham, Alabama, where I travel the country as a corporate tax auditor.”5936 Carol Brown: “After Montréal, I continued on the National Team, winning medals in 1978, 1979 and 1981 and making the 1980 and 1984 Olympic Teams. I still compete at the Head of the Charles, rowing with Carie, Peggy, and Claudia racing as Etats Unis. We have dominated the Masters’ 50+ category for several years. “Interesting note: one of the members of our crew is Gabi Lohs-Kühn, who was in the East German Women’s Eight that the 1665
