Fay Calkins

Fay Gilkey Calkins Ala'ilima (24 September 1921 - 1 August 2010)^[1] was an American academic and writer who lived in Samoa. She was the wife of Samoan politician Leiataualesa Vaiao Alailima.

Calkins was born in

Western Samoa.^[2] Their early life together is chronicled in her second book, My Samoan Chief.^[1]

In Samoa she taught at Pesega College and Samoa College.^[1] Following Leiataualesa's retirement as public service commissioner, they moved to Hawaii, where they worked for the East–West Center.^[1] She also taught at Kamehameha Schools, Hawaii Loa College, and Leeward Community College.^[1] In 1986, they returned to Samoa, where she worked as her husband's secretary while he served as a government minister.^[1] She later worked for the National University of Samoa's Institute of Samoan Studies.^[1] In 1995 she received a grant under the Fulbright Program for work on Samoan politics,^[3] which later became her unpublished book, Samoa's Changing Chiefdom. After retiring from the NUS, she returned to Hawaii. She died on 1 August 2010.^[2]

Works

The CIO and the Democratic Party (University of Chicago Press, 1952)
My Samoan Chief (Doubleday, 1962)
Aggie Grey : a Samoan saga (Mutual Publishing, 1988)

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j "Fay Gilkey Calkins Ala-ilima". Western Friend. Retrieved 13 July 2022.
^ ^a ^b "DR. FAY GILKEY CALKINS ALA'ILIMA". Honolulu Star-Advertiser. Retrieved 20 July 2022.
^ "Fay Alailima". Fulbright Scholar Program. Retrieved 20 July 2022.

[WFObit-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j "Fay Gilkey Calkins Ala-ilima". Western Friend. Retrieved 13 July 2022.

[HSAObit-2] "DR. FAY GILKEY CALKINS ALA'ILIMA". Honolulu Star-Advertiser. Retrieved 20 July 2022.

[3] "Fay Alailima". Fulbright Scholar Program. Retrieved 20 July 2022.

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