RonPrice
Am just dropping in again, this time to formally accept some 33 peoples' requests for friendship. Life is busy, as I've said before, even when one is retired and in one's 70s as I am. I am, therefore, not able to come to this site very often.-Ron Price, Australia
RonPrice's Blog
November 24, 2011
Since I hope to be at this site occasionally in the next decade or so, I'll post a bit of background so that those who come to my blog have some idea of the person writing what they write.-Ron in Tasmania
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A. All those making requests for my friendship are automatically accepted; I eventually accept such requests formally, although it may be some time before I click on the appropriate box.
B. EMPLOYMENT-SOCIAL-ROLE POSITIONS: 1943-2014
2010-2014-Retired and on a pension in George Town, Tasmania
1999-2009-Writer & author, poet & publisher, editor & researcher, online blogger & journalist, reader & scholar. I am also a retired teacher & tutor, lecturer & adult educator, taxi-driver & ice-cream salesman. I live in George Town Tasmania Australia
2002-2005-Program Presenter City Park Radio Launceston
1999-2004-Tutor &/or President George Town School for Seniors Inc
--ABOVE THIS LINE ARE MY YEARS IN RETIREMENT FROM FT PAID EMPLOYMENT----------------------------------
1988-1999 -Lecturer in General Studies & Human Services West Australian Department of Training
1986-1987 -Acting Lecturer in Management Studies & Co-ordinator of Further Education Unit at Hedland College in South Hedland WA
1982-1985 -Adult Educator Open College of Tafe Katherine NT
1981 -Maintenance Scheduler Renison Bell Zeehan Tasmania
1980-Unemployed due to illness and recovery
1979-Editor External Studies Unit Tasmanian CAE; Youth Worker Resource Centre Association; Lecturer in Organizational Behaviour Tasmanian CAE; Radio Journalist ABC---all in Launceston Tasmania
1976-1978 -Lecturer in Social Sciences & Humanities Ballarat CAE Ballarat, Victoria
1975 - Lecturer in Behavioural Studies Whitehorse Technical College, Box Hill Victoria
1974 -Senior Tutor in Education Studies Tasmanian CAE Launceston, Tasmania
1972-1973 -High School Teacher South Australian Education Department
1971-Primary School Teacher Whyalla South Australia
---ABOVE THIS LINE ARE MY YEARS IN AUSTRALIA, AND BELOW MY YEARS IN CANADA--------------------------
1969-1971 Primary School Teacher Prince Edward County Board of Education Picton Ontario Canada
1969-Systems Analyst Bad Boy Co Ltd Toronto Ontario
1967-68 -Community Teacher Department of Indian Affairs & Northern Development Frobisher Bay NWT Canada
1959-67 -Summer jobs-1 to 4 months each- from grade 10 to end of university
1949-1967 - Attended 2 primary schools, 2 high schools and 2 universities in Canada: McMaster Uni-1963-1966, Windsor Teachers’ College-1966/7
1944-1963 -Childhood(1944-57) & adolescence (1957-63) in and around Hamilton Ontario
1943 to 1944-Conception in October 1943 to birth in July 1944 in Hamilton Ontario
2. SOME SOCIO-BIO-DATA TO 2014
I have been married twice for a total of 47 years. My second wife is a Tasmanian, aged 68. We’ve had one child: age 37. I have two step-daughters: ages: 48 and 43, and three step-grandchildren, ages 21, 18 and 4, and 1 grandchild age 3. All of the above applies in 2014.
I am 70, am a Canadian who moved to Australia in 1971 and have written several books--all available on the internet. I retired from full-time teaching in 1999, part-time teaching in 2003 and volunteer teaching/work in 2005 after 32 years in classrooms as a teacher and another 18 as a student. In addition, I have been a member of the Baha’i Faith for 55 years.
Bio-data: 6ft, 230 lbs, eyes-brown, and hair-white-grey, Caucasian. My website is found at: http://www.ronpriceepoch.com/ You can also go to any search engine and type: Ron Price followed by any one of a number of words: poetry, forums, religion, literature, history, bipolar disorder, psychology, sociology, Baha’i, inter alia, to access my writing________________________
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