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McEwan, Kathleen (Kitty) Agnes Rose (1894 - 1969)

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Golfer, Journalist, Sports Journalist and War Worker
Born: 15 March 1894  Surrey Hills, Victoria, Australia.  Died: 17 August 1969.

Kitty McEwan was educated at Ormiston Ladies' College and became a freelance journalist working with Australian Home Beautiful in 1929. Interested in the game of golf, she began writing about women and golf, for the Radiator in 1937 and the Sun News-Pictorial in 1938. She organised fund-raising for patriotic appeals during World War II. In June 1942 McEwan was appointed superintendent in Victoria of the Australian Women's Land Army, a position she held until March 1946. After the war she returned to journalism, writing for the Sun News-Pictorial from which she retired in 1966. Kitty McEwan served as honorary publicity officer and an executive member of the National Council of Women Victoria and a councillor of the Royal Historical Society of Victoria. She died on 17 August 1969, aged 75 years.


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Kitty McEwan was a keen sportswoman and was a member of several sporting clubs and associations, including the Barwon Heads Golf Club and the Women's Amateur Sports Council. She used her role as a journalist to promote women's sport to a wide audience. Her efforts in this area have seen her commemorated publcy. In 2003 she had a street in the Canberra suburb of Mckellar names after her, and the pre-eminent Victorian sportswoman of the year receives the VicSport Kitty McEwan Sportswoman of the Year award.

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Sources used to compile this entry: Australian National University, Australian Dictionary of Biography Online, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au.
 
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  • Hardisty, Sue, 'McEwan, Kathleen Agnes Rose', in Ritchie, John (ed.), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 15, Melbourne University Press, Carlton South, Vic., 2000, p. 204. [ Details... ]

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  • McEwan, Kitty., 'The Australian Women's Land Army : a brief history.', The Victorian Historical Magazine, vol. 38, no. 2, 1967, pp. 87-95. [ Details... ]

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