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Edie Kieft was the first Australian female to win a Surf Bronze Medallion in 1923, she was refused the medallion owing to the fact she was a woman.[1] Edie passed the test for the medallion as a 16yr old with the Tweed Heads and Coolangatta Surf Lifesaving Club. She had taken the spot from a man that didn’t turn up for the test, and registered only using her first initial so as to hide her identity. She passed the gruelling physical test, two of men failed[2], but once it was discovered she was a woman the medallion was refused to her.[3] Royal Surf Lifesaving Australia claimed that it wasn’t discriminatory of her gender, they feared that the heavy surf belts might lead to later complications during childbirth. Edie herself remembers "I was never told why they refused the award except that it was not lady-like for a woman to be a surf lifesaver,"[4] Edie went on to have children later in life. The refusal of the medal was not a Tweed Heads and Coolangatta Surf Life Saving Club decision, but a decision from the Australian head office. In fact the THCSLSC had been keen to include women in surf lifesaving since the creation of the club.[5] A ladies swimming race was held as early as 1911, to celebrate the opening of the building at Greenmount. The Club saw the virtues of having young women involved as the community was filled with women who would sacrifice their time, and provide volunteer service. By 1914 the building at Greenmount housed a "Ladies Members Room". In 1919 the club advertised in the local newspaper for "girls serious of forming and joining a girls lifesaving brigade”, resulting in Queensland’s first female lifesaving club being formed at Greenmount in 1922. Edna, Ella, and Ettie Martin, Edie and Gwen Kieft, Jean Anderson, Gladys Cook, and Lena Kempnich were founding members of the ladies club. Their costumes were handmade black sateen and red binding, bloomers were worn under a tunic top and they wore a three coloured scarf with an oilskin underneath. The bra tops were sewn to the pants and Edie Kieft recalls her and her sister were often daring and discarded the tunic tops altogether. The Greenmount Ladies Club were given patrols on the quieter bay and river beaches, a decision they mostly resented and would hotly dispute over the next decade.[6] The THCSLSC campaigned for decades to have Edie’s medallion awarded. Finally, in 1991, the centenary of Surf Lifesaving in Australia, Edie was presented with her medallion, she was 84. A head official from Surf lifesaving New South Wales in Sydney flew up for the day. He presented Edie with a specially minted bronze medallion cut in two so that it could be mounted on a plaque; he also allocated a number on the medallion which would have been the number if Edie had got it in 1923.[7] Edie passed away in 1998 in a nursing home in Murwillumbah aged 91.[8] References1. ^http://www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/AWE2692b.htm 2. ^https://www.questia.com/newspaper/1G1-195695555/edie-kieft-part-of-lifesaving-history-first-female 3. ^http://www.lifesaving.com.au/about/our-history/ 4. ^https://www.questia.com/newspaper/1G1-195695555/edie-kieft-part-of-lifesaving-history-first-female 5. ^Lookback, Volume 4, Peter Winter, May 1983 6. ^Log Book, Journal of the Tweed Heads Historical Society, edition 44, September 1998 7. ^Log Book, Journal of the Tweed Heads Historical Society, edition 45, December 1998 8. ^Log Book, Journal of the Tweed Heads Historical Society, edition 45, December 1998 |
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