Naomi Wolinski

Naomi Herman Wolinski, MBE (26 March 1881, in Bendigo, Victoria, Australia – 14 September 1969, in Sydney, Australia) was an Australian sports activist/administrator, who organised fundraising and the production of clothing for servicemen during World War II.

The daughter of a Polish-born rabbi, Solomon Herman,[1] she and her husband took up lawn bowls in the late 1920s, playing at the Wollstonecraft Bowling Club.

Wolinski died in 1969, aged 88, in Sydney.

Awards and recognition

In 1953 she was awarded Queen Elizabeth II's coronation medal. In 1960, she was appointed MBE.[2] In 2011 Wolinski was posthumously inducted into the Bowls' Australia Hall of Fame.[3]

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References
  1. JWA profile
  2. Biography
  3. "ParlInfo - Minister congratulates Bowls Hall of fame inductees". parlinfo.aph.gov.au. Retrieved 17 November 2019.

Sources
  • She's Game: Women Making Australian Sporting History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2007
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