Teupoko'ina Utanga Morgan
cook Island educator, politician and author (1934–2007)
Teupoko'ina Utanga Morgan (1 October 1934 – 15 September 2007) was a Cook Islands educator, politician and writer of children's books and song books. She was elected to the Legislative Assembly in 1961, becoming one of the first two women directly elected to the islands' legislature.
Biography
Morgan was born in Avarua in 1934, the oldest of six children of Ripeka and Utanga Utanga. She was educated at Rarotonga Primary School and then won a government scholarship to attend St Matthew's Collegiate School in Masterton in New Zealand. She studied at Ardmore Teachers' College from 1953 to 1954, where she met Guy Morgan. The couple married in 1955 and went on to have five children. After starting her teaching career in Auckland, she returned to the Cook Islands to work at Nikao Maori School in Rarotonga from 1958 to 1962.
She was a Cook Islands delegate to the fourth South Pacific Commission conference in 1959. In the same year she joined Rarotonga Teachers' Training College as teacher and Women's Warden. A keen tennis and basketball player, she became president of the Rarotonga Basketball Referee's Union.
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