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IJ 1 magazine "The C Jmopolltan" dies 1 in 1929-31. She orked as a e tu n . Broadcasting was another field l c r er I England during 93 0, and was a serip'- at 60 m whi�J:?. Miss Marson achieved 1 8-4 Gleaner Staff Reporter recogrution. While living in Eng- writer with BBC Television in 938-39. A Jamaican who made her land during and after World 1 She was awarded the Musgrave mark in many fields - amon War II, she made her name in ilve M of the them, poetr):', journalism, broad radio as t staffer with the British S t: �al Institute of amai a m for her castmg, socJal-welfare work Broadcasting Corporatioa. When J C 1930, literary work. d1ed :yesterday after a full, ac she became the producer Of the . M1ss Marson Is survived by a tJve life that took her outsid popUlar West Indian programme �ister, Ethel, a �ivil s�rvant, who the island to many parts of th "Lon�on Calling'', world. This was a programme beamed Is "':'ell known m J!lUSical circles, associated with the Una Marson, perhaps one of by the BBC to the West Indies havmg been D cesan Festival Choir for the best-known personalities in. and provided a link betwe.m w m ny years. Jamaican literary life, died in West Indians at home and their a ' compatriots St. Joseph s Hospital, Kingston who had gone to Funeral �ri!Dgements have not ' Britain to after a brief illness. fight or to work in the yet been fmaliZe!i. An announce- i munition factories m�nt on these Will be made later . She returned home quietly Miss Marson [ worked with the thiS w�k. JUSt over three weeks ago - BBC for six years until 1946 as· fl'om �s �el, w here she had A tribute to Mill Marson waa � a producer of West Indian 'ro- sent to thE! Gleaner yesterday � been visiti!'g- for a. brief rest grammes. The pattern which t e ca Teachers a before gomg to England to she set i in this area is beinuo fol- !l J�1 �OC • take up a. British l twn. Said the message, Signed Council lowed today by the BBC · scholarship. She was by the secretary. Mr. W. B. C. 60. H�,wth�rne:. Una Marson was born In It IS WI� profound regret Ill-health had b e.n plaguing Santa. Crus, st. El.lza.betb. , e She that. the Jamaica Teachers Asso­ the dedJcated Jamaican writer was the youngest g f dau hter o ciatio.n learns of the death today and social worker over the the late Rev. Solomon Marson of .. Miss Una �t:son.. . years. but lack of physical Baptist minister, and Ada. (ne� . . The AssociatiOn JOlDS ":'Ith s en th did not affect the Mullings), his wife After tr g . t�e vast J?Uffi�r of organiZa- dynamiSm of one who took a graduating from Hampton Hi�h bons and mdivlduals both hE;re passionate interest in the cause School. she worked ';,. a.s a seer a.nd abroad in its deep apprecla- of Jamaica and its people ' parti- ta.ry for some time and also on t n and gratitude for the cularly its children. the ed orial staff f th 10 it o e Ol.!tsta?dlng. and immortal con- Up to early this year. she was '' "Gleaner". tribubon MISS Marson has made busy _at the task of running the She left Jamaica in the early to the social and cultural life of .JamaiCa Save The Children 1930's for England and soon iden �ur OWl;! land and the spiritual Fund. a. sociaT welfare organiza- tifled herself w ith the League of rmpact she has made on the lives tlon which she helped to start Coloured Peoples founded b back of those wbo bad the I!OOd for-I m 1938, and with which another notable Jamaican th! tune to know her. . she has been assoc�ated ever late Dr. • . She "To her bereaved�tives, the smce . . I s e r v e d as secretary of the A its smcere con- She le t Jama1ca m March . League ee 1 _ JT extends f betw n the period 933 dolence. af�er bemg a�a_rded a grant of 1 1935. ''May she rest in peace." £1:>0 by the British Council to as - sist her in research into the 1 C t �al development of Jamaica oDauvra •- or Movin in o the international over the pas I -yyears -_: her g t e a findings to be incorporated into sphere, sh was delegate to the th Con s of the Interna­ a semi-autobiographical work l� �es which she planned to complete tiona! Alliance of Women, held th.is summer. in , Turkey, in 1,935. She This book will not now be , served as a temporary collabora­ written, but Una Marson has .: �r with thl}! League of N ations, left behind her a rieh legacy of m G;eneva, 1D �e. same year. other writings, including books Miss �ar.soQJOlne� the stafi of of poems which established the Ethiop1anPtLegation in Lon­ don during 1936, and accom­ her, a.s far back a.s 1930, a.s one . of the shining lights in the panied His Majesty, The Emperor Ja.ma.�ca.n literary slty. rH�ile. Se�assi�, .of Ethiopia, on . {\s a JOUrnalist, she wrote pro- �his h ist.onc �ISSion to the League lifically for the Gleaner contri- of Nations lD that year, when buting articles mainly of 'national the "King of Kings" made his and sociological content: her two dramatic appeal to the League principal preoccupations. , against the rape of Ethiopia by Her last published article here Italy. • dealt with Jamaica's diplomatic Returning to Jamaica, Una representation in - a Marson resumed h e r literary typical Una Marson piece of f work. She founded the Readers 1 1 and Writers Club in Kingston, journalism which looked search- i ingly into the operations of the and also launched the Kingst

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