https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/04/25/betty-van-dyke-bay-area-surfing-and-organic-farming-pioneer-dies/

Betty Ann Van Dyke was part of a pioneering Cupertino farming family and later became one of the few women to surf in Santa Cruz in the 1950s and 60s.

She went from helping grow Blenheim apricots and Bing cherries to lugging long surfboards into the frigid waters before the invention of wetsuits.