Carter, Doris Jessie (1912-1999)

Field of activity
Hockey Player, Olympian, Servicewoman, Sports Administrator and Track and Field Athlete
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http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-707066

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Doris Carter became Australia's first women's field athlete to compete at an Olympic Games when she placed sixth in the high jump at the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games. She also represented Australia in international hockey, and was General Manager of the Australian Women's Team at the Melbourne Olympic Games in 1956. A Wing Officer and Director of the Women's RAAF, she was the first woman to fly both the Canberra Bomber and the Vampire Jet. Her proudest moment was in 1996 shen she co-led the Melbourne ANZAC Day parade

  • 1929 - 1941 Teacher with the Victorian Education Department
  • 1936 Participated at the Berlin Olympic Games - Track and Field Athletics - placed sixth in the high jump
  • 1937 - 1939 Played interstate hockey
  • 1938 Represented Australia at the Empire Games, Sydney
  • 1941 - 1946 Member of the Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force (WAAAF)
  • 1946 Officer-in-charge of the WAAAF Victory Contingent to London
  • 1946 - 1948 Department of Post-War Reconstruction
  • 1948 - 1951 Officer-in-charge of the Child and Youth Migration with the Department of Immigration, London
  • 1951 - 1960 Director of the Women's Royal Australian Air Force
  • 1952 - 1961 President of the Australian Women's Amateur Athletic Union
  • 1956 Manager of the Australian Women's Team at the Olympic Games, Melbourne
  • 13 June 1957 Appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire
  • 1960 General secretary of the YWCA, Melbourne
  • 1963 Member of the Board of Trustees at the Australian War Memorial, Canberra
  • 1971 Member of the National Fitness Council, Victoria

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  1. A Proper Spectacle: Women Olympians 1900-1936Celebrating 100 years of women in the Olympics : A Proper Spectacle: Women Olympians 1900-1936
    Daniels, Stephanie and Tedder, Anita
    [2000]
    Published: Walla Walla Press with ZeNaNa Press and the Centre for Olympic Studies, UTS
  2. She's Game: Women Making Australian Sporting History
    Australian Women's Archives Project
    [2007]
    Published: Australian Women's Archives Project
    Series: http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/sg/sport-home.html
  3. Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989
    Australian Women's Archives Project
    [2003]
    Published: Australian Women's Archives Project
    Series: http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html
  4. The WAAAF in Wartime Australia
    Thomson, Joyce A
    [1992]
    Published: Melbourne University Press
  5. Who's who in Australia, 1971
    Legge, J S
    [1971]
    Published: The Herald and Weekly Times

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