Hello From Tasmania

**RonPrice** · 10-02-2010, 11:02 AM

1. EMPLOYMENT-SOCIAL-ROLE POSITIONS: 1943-2009

1999-2009-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 2009

I have been married for 42 years. My wife is a Tasmanian, aged 63. We’ve had one child: age 32 in 2009. I have two step-children: ages: 42 and 39 in 2009. 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 at: index and 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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DC · 10-02-2010, 11:14 AM

Hi Ron, welcome to the forums, one of the mods should drop by shortly with an official welcome. Interesting religion, we only have a couple of devouts on the forum, and I'd never even heard of Baha'i until I read your post. I think you'll find it's a friendly, if quite lively, forum.

**RonPrice** · 10-02-2010, 11:23 AM

Thanks for the welcoming note, DCFG53. I hope to drop in occasionally in these middle years(65-75) of late adulthood as some human development psychologists call the years from 60 to 80--and old age(80++), if I last that long.-Ron in Tasmania

**Opinionated** · 10-02-2010, 11:35 AM

Wow Ron, that's quite a cv you have there, I'm sure you will find lots of discussions you'll want to contribute to (correct us abouthttp://www.freesmileys.org/smileys/s...basic/wink.gif ).
So... that official welcome DCFG mentioned basically is just a mod pointing you in the direction of the rules and guidelines etc. and saying if you have any queries please do not hesitate to contact either myself or another mod (we're in black ^ ^ because it's slimming) by private message.
Welcome aboard!

**Midas** · 10-02-2010, 11:38 AM

Hi Ron, and welcome to the Politics Forum!

As Opinionated has done the formal welcome, I'll just add that it's certainly an interesting looking bio and that I'm sure that you'll enjoy the debates

As Op says, if you have any problems or queries about the forum, contact one of us Mods by PM.

Incidentally, I went on a guided tour round the Baha'i temple in Delhi a couple of years ago - a fascinating building, designed to look like a giant lotus flower and finished in white tiles the same way the Sydney Opera House is.......

http://www.eso-garden.com/images/upl...le_delhi_1.jpg

**RonPrice** · 10-02-2010, 11:48 AM

Thanks Opinionated and Midas. I assume you both know another quote along a similar line from George Bernard Shaw: "The trouble with socialism is that you have to go to too many meetings."

**Midas** · 10-02-2010, 11:59 AM

Originally Posted by RonPrice

Thanks Opinionated and Midas. I assume you both know another quote along a similar line from George Bernard Shaw: "The trouble with socialism is that you have to go to too many meetings."

I do indeed know it, and a very apt quote too with your background in organisational behaviour