Marge Calhoun

Marge Calhoun was an American surfer, born in Hollywood and living from 1926 to 2017 according to the lead of her article, though its early life section gives 1924 as her birth year. She is described as the first woman world champion surfer, a title she earned by winning the Makaha International competition on the Hawaiian island of Oahu; the same article also names the event the Makaha Invitational in 1958, when she and her friend Eve Fletcher spent a month in Hawaii. As a young woman she swam and dived competitively and trained for the 1940 Summer Olympics, which were cancelled because of World War II, and she also worked as a stunt performer. She took up surfing in the 1950s after her husband Tom gave her her first board. In 1961 she was a co-founder of the United States Surfing Association and served as its first secretary and as its first woman surfing judge. Her daughters Candy and Robin also surf.