Miethke, Adelaide Laetitia (1881 - 1962)

Adelaide Laetitia Miethke began training as a teacher in 1899, and soon became active in women teachers' and union affairs. She was the first woman vice-president of the South Australian Public School Teacher's Union in 1916, and in 1924 gained both her Arts degree and her position as the first female inspector of high schools. She was South Australian state president of the National Council of Women from 1934, and national president, 1936-1941. Miethke was appointed as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (Civil) on 1 February 1937 for her role as President of the South Australian Women's Centenary Council, particularly in organising the Pageant of Empire on 27-28 November 1936. Miethke went on to work with the Royal Flying Doctor Service, and establish the School of the Air for outback children.

Membership

• National Council of Women of South Australia (1902 - )

Presided

• National Council of Women of Australia (1931 - )

  [1936 - 1941]

Related People

• Marshall, Dorothy May (1902 - 1961)

  Assisted Adelaide Miethke with the Schools Patriotic Fund of South Australia

Books

• Miethke, Adelaide L, Six years with the SPF / story of the Schools Patriotic Fund of South Australia, Jan. 1940-Jan. 1946, The Fund, Adelaide, 1946, 112 pp. [ Details... ]

Book Sections

• Edgar, Suzanne and Jones, Helen, 'Adelaide Miethke', in Radi, Heather (ed.), 200 Australian women, Women's Redress Press Inc, Broadway, NSW, 1988, pp. 125-126. [ Details... ]
• Middelmann, Raoul F., 'Miethke, Adelaide Laetitia (1881-1962), educationist', in Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle (eds), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 10, Melbourne University Press, Carlton, Victoria, 1986. [ Details... ]

Journal Articles

• Trethewey, Lynne and Whitehead, Kay, 'THE CITY AS A SITE OF WOMEN TEACHERS' POST-SUFFRAGE POLITICAL ACTIVISM: ADELAIDE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA', Paedagogica Historica [Belgium], vol. 39, no. 1-2, 2003, pp. 107-120. [ Details... ]

Reports

• Miethke, Adelaide L, Patriotic work in our schools : a report on the South Australian Children's Patriotic Fund ... showing administration of funds and some phases of the work, Sept. 1915-17, Rigby, Adelaide, 1917, 45 pp. [ Details... ]

See also

• Alexander, Joseph A (ed.), Who's who in Australia 1950, 14th edn, The Herald, Melbourne, 1950, 816 pp. [ Details... ]
• Healey, John (ed.), S.A.'s greats: the men and women of the North Terrace plaques, Historical Society of South Australia, Adelaide, 2001, 183 pp. [ Details... ]
• Jones, Helen, Nothing seemed impossible : women's education and social change in South Australia, 1875-1915, University of Queensland Press, St. Lucia, Qld., 1985, 259 pp. [ Details... ]
• National Council of Women of South Australia, Greater than their knowing: a glimpse of South Australian women 1836-1986, Wakefield Press, Netley, SA, 1986, 310 pp. [ Details... ]