Golfer. She played many sports while growing up; including tennis, football, baseball, and softball, but she excelled at golf. She took up playing golf in her teens due to a bet from her brother for an ice cream cone. Two years later she won the DC women's championship. She graduated from Trinity College in Washington, D.C. and went on to play the Florida winter women's amateur tour from 1935-1936. She won many amateur championships and tournaments and was recognized as a long hitter. She had her own 15-minute radio show, The Woman's Side of Sports, that aired on WJSV. In 1938, her love of baseball, led to her becoming the first female baseball broadcaster on national radio and she was sponsored by Wheaties cereal. She started with the Washington Senators and was known as "The Girl of Summer." She was a touring guest announcer at both MLB and minor league baseball games while continuing to play golf tournaments. Also in 1938, she won the Maryland, District of Columbia, and Mid Atlantic amateur golf championships. She turned pro in 1939 and won the Women's Western Open and received a silver Revere bowl but no money. She signed a contract with Wilson Sporting Goods in 1939 to demonstrate golf gear. In 1940, she won the Titleholders Championship. She continued to tour around the country playing golf, working with sporting goods companies and instructing. She later signed with MacGregor Sports. During World War II, she joined the United States Army Air Forces' Air Transport Command and worked as a receptionist before being assigned as a cryptographer. In 1943, she was selected to pilot the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress with the Women Airforce Service Pilots. She trained in Columbus, Ohio and was assigned to Avenger Field in Sweetwater, Texas to transport planes to Europe. She logged over 750 flight hours before the program was disbanded in December of 1944. After the war, she moved to Indio, California and worked as an assistant for Jacqueline Cochran, in writing her history of the WASP. In California, she began instructing and her clients included many celebrities. She also, co-designed a golf course at Indian Palms Country Club. In 1944, she cofounded the Women's Professional Golf Association and served as it's second president before they ceased organization in 1949. In 1946, she was runner-up in the 1946 National Women's Open. In 1949, she appeared alongside several other professional golfers in the MGM movie "Pat and Mike." In 1950, along with twelve other female golfers, she helped to found the Ladies Professional Golf Association as a charter member and was one of five who signed the original incorporation papers. She served at the first vice president of the LGPA. These ladies, who were not already members of the World Golf Hall of Fame, all received election in to the 2024 class of the World Golf Hall of Fame. In 1952, she began working as a golf pro at Thunderbird Country Club in Rancho Mirage, California, then briefly at Eldorado and also organized the Helen Dettweiler Invitational Tournament and taught at the Neskowin Beach club in Oregon. In 1956, she wrote an article for "Sports Illustrated Magazine." In 1958, she won the LPGA's first Teacher of the Year award. She continued playing on the LGPA tour until her retirement in the 1960s. After her retirement she continued to instruct. She later settled in Palm Springs, California and opened a fine clothing store and split her time between her homes in Palm Springs and Portland, Oregon. She also helped to establish the Eisenhower 5 Star Thrift Shop. She served on the board of Pathfinders. She made her last golf appearance at the 1987 Founders Classic near Dallas, Texas. On March 10, 2010, she, along with all of the other WASPs were awarded as a group the Congressional Gold Medal. This medal is on display at the Smithsonian.