Title: Rosine Guiterman. Memorial service and poem
Abstract: Rosine Guiterman was born Rosine Lion in London in 1886 and died in 1960. She gained her BA in Arts from Sydney University in 1908. In 1911 she gained her M.A. degree in English, having won the University gold medal for English verse. While at Sydney University, she helped establish the Sydney University Settlement. She went on to be a social activist in Sydney in the areas of pre-World War II refugee settlement, Aboriginal rights and world peace. She was well known in Sydney theater, both as an actor and director. Throughout her life she worked as a English and history teacher, and continued to write and broadcast on radio.
Description: This anonymous roneo-ed document was apparently produced for a memorial service at the time of her death, both to document her life and to record tributes paid to her by those who knew her. Attached to the document is a poem she wrote in 1953 which represented an impassioned attack on the Sydney Morning Herald in reaction to the paper’s headline: "The execution of the Rosenbergs will end a two years' legal battle".The papers where kindly donated by (Dr) Ron Witton.
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