Hello From George Town Tasmania Australia

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Since I hope to be around this forum from time to time in the evening of my life, I'll provide a bit of background before my retirement ten years ago.-Ron Price, Tasmania:cool:
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1. EMPLOYMENT-SOCIAL-ROLE POSITIONS: 1943-2010

1999-2010-Writer/Poet/Publisher/Journalist and Retired Teacher/Lecturer/Tutor/Adult Educator/Facilitator
George Town Tasmania Australia
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 due to 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 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) and adolescence(1957-63) in and around
Hamilton Ontario
October 1943 to July 1944-Conception to Birth in Hamilton Ontario

2. SOME SOCIO-BIO-DATA TO 2010

I have been married for 42 years. My wife is a Tasmanian, aged 63. We’ve had one child: age 33 in 2010. I have two step-children: ages: 43 and 40 in 2010. I am 65, am 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, part-time teaching in 2003 and voluneeer teaching/work in 2005 after 35 years in classrooms. In addition, I have been a member of the Baha’i Faith for 50 years. Bio-data: 6ft, 230 lbs, eyes-brown/hair-grey, Caucasian. See my website for more details or go to any search engine and type: Ron Price followed by any one of a number of words: poetry, Bahá'í, literature, history, bipolar disorder, psychology, sociology, inter alia.
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wing fan

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When i joined i got a warm welcome, so i figured i would give one to all the newcomers.

Just curious, but, where exactly is Tasmania?

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RonPrice

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wing fan said:
When i joined i got a warm welcome, so i figured i would give one to all the newcomers.

Just curious, but, where exactly is Tasmania?

-wf
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you can google it as one can google anything these days.....in Australia at the bottom.-Ron
 
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RonPrice said:
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you can google it as one can google anything these days.....in Australia at the bottom.-Ron
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I was waiting for all the Tasmanian jokes, but not to be.
Only been down there twice, one time was a very productive day at the brewery.
Must be a myth about the two headed Tasmanian?
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t68 said:
I was waiting for all the Tasmanian jokes, but not to be.
Only been down there twice, one time was a very productive day at the brewery.
Must be a myth about the two headed Tasmanian?
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Thanks, t68. Sorry about the lack of jokes. There is a serious side to
Australian culture but the sense of humour here can potentially help the emerging global culture deal with the complexity. Below are some more comments on that humour.-Ron Price, Tasmania
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Clive James says that he felt he had for too long been a prisoner of his Australian childhood and wanted to put it behind him and that was the reason he wanted to “dredge it all up again without sounding too pompous.” He did not want to “wait until reminiscence was justified by achievement.” All attempts, James wrote with a strong vein of Australian humour and cynicism that runs through his entire work—indeed all his writing—“all attempts to put oneself in a bad light are doomed to be frustrated.”
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If experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes, I'd had plenty of that. My hope is that not too many readers will find my five volumes of memoirs unapproachable due to: their length, their vocabulary, their overly analytical nature, the absence of a simple and interesting storyline, the relative absence of the traumatic conveyed in narrative form--society's violence and sex and mine--the short supply of romance and the kind of adventure that readers have come to expect in a good novel or TV program. If I possessed the humour and masterly narrative style of, say, a Garrison Keilor or a Clive James this work could be more enchanting, hypnotic and funny. Sad to say, I do not. Readers will get what they see here and what they can google if they are inclined.-Ron in Australia
 
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