Wave Woman

Wave Woman is the untold story of Betty Pembroke Heldreich—a pioneering champion Hawaii surfer in the mid-1950s, a female athlete, an artist, a professional who broke glass ceilings and believed anything exciting was worth trying at least once, an inspiration to women of all ages.

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In this full color, beautifully printed edition, Wave Woman is
the untold story of an adventurer whose zest for life and learning kept
her alive for ninety-eight years. Betty Pembroke Heldreich Winstedt was
the granddaughter of Mormon pioneers who, after spending an active and
athletic childhood in Salt Lake City, moved to Santa Monica with her
family and enrolled at USC to study dental hygiene. Betty went on to
elope with a man she hardly knew, and to have two daughters.









In middle age, Betty finally followed her dream of living near the
ocean; she moved to Hawaii and, at age forty-one, took up surfing. She
lived and surfed at Waikiki during the golden years of the mid-1950s and
was a pioneer surfer at Makaha Beach. She was competitive in early
big-wave surfing championships and was among the first women to compete
in Lima, Peru, where she won first place. Betty was an Olympic hopeful, a
pilot, a mother, a sculptor, a jeweler, a builder, a fisherwoman, an
ATV rider, and a potter who lived life her way, dealing with adversity
and heartache on her own stoic terms. A love letter from a daughter to
her larger-than-life mother, Wave Woman will speak to any woman searching for self-confidence, fulfillment, and happiness.