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.[2]

Awards and recognition

In 1953 she was awarded Queen Elizabeth II's coronation medal. In 1960, she was appointed MBE.[3] In 2011 Wolinski was posthumously inducted into the Bowls' Australia Hall of Fame.[4]

References
  1. JWA profile
  2. McCarthy, Louella, "Cultural Advice", Australian Dictionary of Biography, Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, retrieved 21 April 2021
  3. Biography
  4. "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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