This Is My Post-Structural Hello From Tasmania

[RonPrice]

1. EMPLOYMENT & SOCIAL ROLES: 1944-2008

1999-2008-Writer/Poet/Retired Teacher: George Town Tasmania
2002-2005-Program Presenter, City Park Radio, Launceston
1999-2004-Tutor and/or President: George Town School for Seniors Inc
1988-1999 -Lecturer in General Studies and Human Services West Australian Department of Training
1986-1987 -Acting Lecturer in Management Studies and 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: Bi-Polar Disability
1979 -Editor, External Studies Unit, Tasmanian CAE; Youth Worker, Resource Centre Association, Launceston;
Lecturer in Organizational Behaviour, Tasmanian CAE; Radio Journalist ABC, Launceston
1976-1978 -Lecturer in Social Sciences & Humanities, Ballarat CAE, Ballarat
1975 - Lecturer in Behavioural Studies, Whitehorse Technical College, Box Hill, Victoria
1974 -Senior Tutor in Education Studies, Tasmanian CAE, Launceston
1972-1973 -High School Teacher, South Australian Education Department
1971 Primary School Teacher, Whyalla SA, Australia
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 and Northern Development, Frobisher Bay(Iqaluit), NWT, Canada
1959-67 -Summer jobs from grade 9 to end of university
1949-1967 - Attended 2 primary schools, 2 high schools and 2 universities in Canada: McMaster Uni:1963-1966, Windsor T’s College: 1966/7.
1944-1963 -Childhood(1944-57) and adolescence(1957-63) in and around Hamilton Ontario.

2. SOME SOCIO-BIO-DATA(as of: 2008)

I have been married for 41 years. My wife is a Tasmanian, aged 60. We’ve had 3 children: ages in 2008-42, 38 and 31. I am 64, a Canadian who moved to Australia in 1971 and have written 3 books--all available on the internet. I retired from full-time teaching in 1999, from part-time teaching in 2003 and from volunteer/casual teaching/work in 2005 after 35 years in classrooms. In addition, I have been a member of the Baha’i Faith for 49 years. Bio-data: 6ft, 225 lbs, eyes/hair-brown, Caucasian. See my website for more details at: http://www.users.on.net/~ronprice/ or go the google search engine and type: RonPrice(no space), Pioneering RonPrice, RonPrice Poetry, RonPrice Bahá’í, RonPrice History,(philosophy, religion, media studies, politics, inter alia)--for additional writings.

[Cayden]

[dwest]

Pavoninidae don't live in Tasmania, at least not naturally.

[crookedtune]

I hope to someday reach the point where it takes 5-10 minutes to download my biography.

[Denny]

Hi Ron! Welcome to C&F!

Wordy, ain't ya

[djm]

Hello, Ron Price. Do you play ITM? What instrument(s)?

djm

[crookedtune]

I browsed the website, but couldn't find what I was after. I'm thinking you must have a good picture of a flange around somewhere. We have another forum where you might post that.

[Innocent Bystander]

Hello, Ron Price. Do you play ITM? What instrument(s)?

djm

Keyboards, obviously.

[dwest]

Hello, Ron Price. Do you play ITM? What instrument(s)?

djm

Keyboards, obviously.

Some type of horn tooting too.

[Doug_Tipple]

Welcome to the forum, Ron.

Nobody gets to see my complete biography. No way. How do you get to be a school teacher if you have previously been a railroad bum, I ask you? No, you have to "santatize" (in keeping with the holiday season) those years and substitute somethng more acceptable. It isn't OK to confess that you were goofing off in the desert for three years.

[RonPrice]

Thanks for all the welcoming notes, folks. I play the guitar and have done for 40 years(1968-2008)..now for sing alongs at an aged care facility where the sixties generation is slowly gathering. I was 15 in 1960 and 25 in 1970 and I'm watching them come in. some, of course, stay in their gardens with their books and their TVs, but the more disabled are going in to these places one by one. We sing together and, as William Faulkner wrote in his book "As I Lay Dying," I watch them drop off their perches one by one.

It's a post-structural scene and still I thank you all for your encouragement here. I shall drop in occasionally here in these my latter years, my early years of late adulthood(60-80) and old age(80++), if I last that long...see yas all lateRon

[emmline]

I say if you drop off your perch happy, while listening to guitar music, you've done ok.
Keep it up.

[RonPrice]

your remark is noted, emmline.--Ron