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Having a ball Prytanean alumna Ruby Tadich Lawler ’27 was the guest of honor on January 27 at the Bancroft Hotel (formerly the College Women’s Club). The event was part of a program marking the dedication of the Prytanean Ballroom, formerly the hotel’s Great Hall. The re-designation recognizes the Prytanean Society, the first women’s honor society, for a century of service to the University. Rock of ages During our 50th reunion activities, a Korean War Memorial was dedicated on September 29, 2001 as a gift of the Army and Navy ROTC classes of 1951. This ceremony and memorial were the result of an idea and much work on the part of David Blakemore, with a little help from classmate Ed Hall and myself. The three of us are 1951 Army ROTC graduates and retired colonels. The design and placement was coordinated by the campus landscape architect; the Chancellor’s Office and the Office of University Relations assisted David in getting the proper campus approvals. The memorial consists of a plaque on a large rock, and a teak bench nearby. The plaque reads:
Three 1951 Army ROTC classmates, all Infantry lieutenants, were killed in Korea in 1952: Brian D. S. McGlynn, Robert B. Studnick, and Henry Sarrail. Chancellor Berdahl was one of the speakers at the dedication of the site, just southeast of Alumni House. McGlynn’s widow, Mrs. Shirley Payne, was also present at the ceremony. The ROTC department provided a cadet color guard, a Cal Band trumpeter played Taps, and the Cal Jazz Choir sang several selections. Chaplain (Colonel, ret.) Martin Walsh performed the invocation and benediction. The ceremony was, and the memorial is, a moving tribute to those in our Class who made the ultimate sacrifice in the Korean War. —Conway Peterson Scouting dreams Watching a baseball game between all-star high school teams in Long Beach, Frank Mattox ’87 checks his program for background on a 6-foot, 6-inch, 210-pound pitcher who’s on the mound. “He has a good body. He’s lean,” Mattox says. “And it looks like he moves around all right.” Dressed casually and wearing sun glasses, Mattox will make similar observations all day as he sits in the sun, 10 rows above first base. He’s among about 250 scouts and college coaches in the grandstand scribbling notes on game programs and raising radar guns to measure the velocity of pitches.
The crowd watches two of nine teams, assembled by professional baseball scouts across the country, who play four games a day in this event. “It’s one of the few times you can see a lot of players from all over the country on the same field,” says Mattox, director of scouting for the Seattle Mariners, the team with the best regular-season record in major league baseball last season. The slender Mattox, who wears a small mustache, hop-scotches the country eyeballing talent, sometimes visiting ten cities in five days. He has achieved his position in a sport where most teams are criticized for not hiring enough minorities as major executives. “We have only one African-American general manager in the major leagues. Is that enough?” asks Mattox, although he thinks more minorities will be hired. “Since I started scouting in 1992, I see more minorities in scouting or player development, and I think you will continue to see them elevated to the front office.” Mattox, who played seven years in the minor leagues, says that for someone in his position, “a job as a general manager or director of player personnel would be the logical next step. If that opportunity presents itself, I’ll take a look at it, but I’m pretty happy where I am. Given that my family is so young, I’m not sure it’s in our best interest at this time.” Mattox, who lives outside Phoenix with his wife, Sylvia, and sons Myles, 4 and Blake, 3, loves his work. “I’m not sure I ever get tired of it,” he says. “I love the game. I love giving young men the opportunity to pursue their dreams.” —Gary Libman |
 Ruby Tadich Lawler '27
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