Marjorie Crocombe

Dr
Marjorie Tuainekore Tere Crocombe
Born 1930 (age 87–88)
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Occupation Academic and author
Language English, Māori
Nationality New Zealander (Cook Islands)
Alma mater University of the South Pacific, University of Hawaii, University of Papua New Guinea, University of California, Los Angeles
Notable works If I Live: the story of Ta'unga
Notable awards Order of the British Empire (OBE)
Spouse Ron Crocombe

Dr. Marjorie Tuainekore Tere Crocombe OBE (born 1930) is an author and academic from the Cook Islands.

Background

Crocombe was born in 1930 in Rarotonga, in the Cook Islands.[1] Her early education was at Titikaveka Primary School and Epsom Girls' Grammar School.[2]

In 1971, she was one of the first Cook Islanders to graduate from the University of the South Pacific and then went on to study Pacific history and sociology at the University of Hawaii, University of Papua New Guinea, and University of California, Los Angeles.[2]

In 2011, Crocombe was the first woman from the Cook Islands to receive a Doctor of Letters (honoris causa) from the University of the South Pacific.[3][2]

Career

Crocombe trained as a teacher and in the 1950s began working for the Cook Islands Education Department, developing primary school readers in the Māori language. She then translated and published writings of early Cook Islands missionaries including those of Pa Maretu Ariki and Ta'unga, as well as editing sections of the stories into simple English readers.[1]

Crocombe often collaborated with her husband, Ron Crocombe, including co-writing and editing several books and articles.[1] Following his death, she co-wrote (with Rod Dixon and Linda Crowl) a book of list life and work, Ron Crocombe: E Toa : Pacific Writings to Celebrate His Life and Work.[4]

Crocombe has worked as a lecturer at the University of the South Pacific Cook Islands and senior lecturer at the Centre for Pacific Studies at the University of Auckland.[2]

Works

Children's and young adult

  • If I Live: the story of Ta'unga (1980, University of South Pacific Press)
  • Cannibals and Converts: radical change in the Cook Islands (1983, University of South Pacific Press)
  • They Came for Sandalwood (1974, Islands Education Division)
  • Te rau maire: poems and stories of the Pacific (1992, Tauranga Vananga, Ministry of Cultural Development)

Non-fiction

  • Works of Ta'unga: Records of a Polynesian Traveller in the South Seas, 1833-96 (1968, C Hurst & Co Publishers), with Ron Crocombe
  • Post Secondary Education in the South Pacific: Present Patterns and Future Options (1994, Commonwealth Secretariat), with Ron Crocombe
  • Ron Crocombe: E Toa: Pacific Writings to Celebrate His Life and Work (2013, University of South Pacific Press), with Rod Dixon and Linda Crowl
  • Cook Islands Art and Architecture (2016, University of South Pacific Press), with Rod Dixon and Linda Crowl

Crocombe is also the author of numerous academic journal articles, including in The Contemporary Pacific,[5] The Journal of Pacific History,[6] Comparative Education,[7] and The Journal of the Polynesian Society.[8]

Awards

In the 2009 New Year Honours, Crocombe was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to the Cook Islands, the Pacific, education, literature and the community.[9]

Crocombe was named Pacific Islands Woman of the Year by Island Business in 1990 and the Cook Islands Business & Professional Womens Association's woman of the year in 2000.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Lal, Brij V.; Fortune, Kate (2000). The Pacific Islands: An Encyclopedia, Volume 1. University of Hawaii Press. p. 530. ISBN 082482265X.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Reeves, Rachel (6 June 2016). "Marjorie Crocombe honoured and described as a beacon of light". Cook Islands News. Archived from the original on 6 June 2016. Retrieved 10 November 2017.
  3. ↑ "Story - The University of the South Pacific News". University of the South Pacific. Archived from the original on 2014-03-20. Retrieved 10 November 2017.
  4. ↑ Crowl, Linda; Crocombe, Marjorie Tuainekore; Dixon, Roderick Alan (2013). Ron Crocombe: E Toa : Pacific Writings to Celebrate His Life and Work. USP Press. ISBN 9820109019.
  5. ↑ Crocombe, Marjorie (et al.) (Spring 1990). "Polynesia in Review: Issues and Events, 1 July 1988 to 30 June 1989". The Contemporary Pacific. 2 (1): 162–181. JSTOR 23701523.
  6. ↑ Crocombe, Marjorie Tuainekore; Crocombe, Ron (1990). "The Cook Islands and Niue". The Journal of Pacific History. 25 (3): 35–38. JSTOR 25434250.
  7. ↑ Crocombe, Marjorie Tuainekore; Crocombe, Ron (1993). "Scale, Sovereignty, Wealth and Enterprise: Social and Educational Comparisons between the Cook Islands and the Solomon Islands". Comparative Education. 29 (3, Special Number (15): Education in the South Pacific): 307–319. JSTOR 3099331.
  8. ↑ Crocombe, Marjorie Tuainekore; Maude, H. E. (March 1962). "Rarotongan sandalwood: The visit of Goodenough to Rarotonga in 1814". The Journal of the Polynesian Society. 71 (1): 32–56. JSTOR 20703963.
  9. ↑ Cook Islands "No. 58930". The London Gazette (2nd supplement). 31 December 2008. p. 29.

Further reading

CITV Local News 24 June 2009 - Marjorie Crocombe Queen's Award

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