Pioneering Over Four Epochs

“Gradually it has become clear to me,” Nietzsche writes, “what every great philosophy has been: namely, the personal confession of its author and a kind of involuntary, unconscious memoir. . . . In the great philosopher . . . there is nothing whatever that is impersonal. I like this quotation from this 19^th century German philosopher because it expresses my understanding of my autobiography, my memoir, namely, that it is my engagement in a highly conscious form of writing.

Nietzsche in Beyond Good and Evil adds, inter alia: “I do not believe that a ‘drive to knowledge’ is the father of philosophy; but rather that another drive has . . . employed understanding (and misunderstanding) as a mere instrument.” In my case, the father, so to speak, of my philosophy, the drive that employs understanding, is one that is embedded in the complex and highly articulate framework of my travels from home since 1966.

These quotations from Nietzsche are found in: The Conversation, “Philosophy and Death: Philosophy as Divertissement (Continuing to learn from the Phaedo and Pascal)”

The introduction to The Diary of Anne Frank, a book published on 12 June 1952 and which has now sold more than 30 million copies, was written by the wife of the President of the United States, Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt. It reads in part:

“Written by a young girl—and the young are not afraid of telling the truth—it is one of the wisest and most moving commentaries on war and its impact on human beings that I have ever read. Anne Frank’s account of the changes wrought upon eight people hiding out from the Nazis for two years during the occupation of Holland, living in constant fear and isolation, imprisoned not only by the terrible outward circumstances of war but inwardly by themselves, made me intimately and shockingly aware of war’s greatest evil—the degradation of the human spirit. At the same time, Anne’s diary makes poignantly clear the ultimate shining nobility of that spirit.”

“I think it is well for us, who have forgotten so much of that period, to read about it now, just to remind ourselves that we never want to go through such things again if possible. Her story ended tragically. She died in the concentration camp at Bergen Belsen. This diary should teach us all the wisdom of preventing any kind of totalitarianism that could lead to oppression and suffering of this kind.”

June 12, 1952 was Anne Frank’s birthday. On that day the book’s editor wrote to Anne Frank’s father: “It is extremely gratifying for me to work on the book because I believe so strongly in it. Besides my great feeling for it, I believe it to be one of the very important Diaries of all time, as a psychological, historical, and a literary document.” She pointed out the several reviews the book had received in The New York Times, The New York Herald Tribune, and Time. Omnibook was going to serialize the Diary and would pay $1,000, of which $500 would go to Mr Frank.

“All this news promises,” that editor concluded, “that ANNE FRANK will receive a wonderful reception in America!”  In the years following publication, Anne Frank’s father received 30,000 letters from readers. The Diary was translated into sixty-seven languages and more than 31 million copies have been sold. It is a book that has touched many hearts; let us pay tribute to wise choices and graceful editing. –Ron Price with thanks to Kem Knapp Sawyer, “Barbara Epstein and ‘The Diary of Anne Frank’”, 21 September 2006 in The New York Review of Books.

In October 1952, four months after this
book’s publication, a Baha’i Holy Year
began with its centenary celebrations of
the birth of Baha’u’llah’s mission. I was
just 8 years old, lived in a small town in
Ontario’s Golden Horseshoe. My mother
had just found-out about the new religion
which would fill my life and produce my
own autobiographical diary.1 Time would
tell if my diary would be read by anyone!

1 My diary is, in the main, my poetry and my letters. Although, in some ways, my entire literary corpus could be seen as one long diary or journal.

Ron Price
12/1/’12 to 12/5/’13

RESUME OF MR RON PRICE

Preamble:

In addition to my standard resume found below, my Baha’i resume is also found here, as is a list of subjects I taught while lecturing in post-secondary schools and colleges. Once used to apply for jobs from the early sixties to the early years of the new millennium, this evolving document is now an archive that I update occasionally for internet use in these first years of my late adulthood, 2005-2007.

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A. My Ascribed Roles: grandson, son, nephew, cousin, father, step-father, uncle, step-grandfather, step-father, husband, male.

B. My Achieved Roles: writer, poet, essayist, author, journalist, teacher, lecturer, student and many others found in section 4 below at different times since beginning my employment life in 1961.__________________________________________________________________

1.1 Academic Qualifications

* Bachelor of Arts(Sociology)

McMaster University

Hamilton Ontario Canada 1966

*B. Ed.(Primary School Training)

Windsor Teachers’ College

Windsor Ontario Canada 1967

* MA(Qualifying Thesis)

University of Queensland

St Lucia Queensland

Australia 1988

1.2 Professional Qualifications

* Post Graduate Diploma in Education

Windsor University

Windsor Ontario Canada 1967

* Certificate of Integrated Studies

Education Department of Ontario

Toronto Ontario Canada 1970

1.3 Further Studies(Qualifications Incomplete)* Advanced Dipoma in Education

* Advanced Diploma in Education

University of Adelaide

Adelaide South Australia 1973

-comparative education unit

* Master of Educational Administration

University of New England

Armadale NSW 1975 to 1978

-comparative education, organization theory and practice, educational

administration, open education and history of education units

* Diploma in Personnel Management and Industrial Relations

Tasmanian College of Advanced Education

Launceston Tasmania 1980

-organizational behaviour-3 units

* Graduate Diploma in Multicultural Education

Armadale College of Advanced Education

Armadale NSW 1983

-language and society unit; presented paper at residential school.

* Graduate Diploma in Religious Education

South Australian College of Advanced Education

Adelaide South Australia 1984 to 1986

-Religious symbols and symbolism, sociology of education, the Bible

as literature, moral education, Islam and principles of religious education units.

1.4 Transcripts and Grades

* Transcripts are available on request, originals or copies.

* A summary of my academic record would read:

Matriculation(B), BA(C), Dip.Ed.(B), Post-Graduate Studies(2 distinctions, 5 credits, 1 pass(B) and 10 pass(C) grades.

1.5 Teaching Qualifications and Registrations

* Teaching Certificate(Primary) Windsor Teachers’ College 1967.

* Registered with the Primary, Secondary and Technical Teachers

Registration Boards of Victoria in the mid and late 1970s, resp.

* Granted permanency with DEVET (now Dept of Training and Employment) in Western Australia in June 1992.

1.6 Professional Memberships and Eligibility

* Secondary School Teachers Union of Western Australia: 1987 to 1999.* Secondary School Teachers Union of Western Australia: 1987 to 1999.Branch secretary for four of those years at Hedland College and the Thornlie Campus of the Southeast Metropolitan College of Tafe

* Australian Association of Educational Administration: 1975 to 1976

* Australian Institute of Welfare Workers(eligible)

2. PUBLICATIONS:

2.1 Articles and Reviews: Journals/Websites

1.*Essays, Interviews and Articles on the Internet at:

1.1 The Baha’i Academic Resource Library: Bachelor of Arts(Sociology)1.1 The Baha’i Academic Resource Library jonah@winterswebsorks.com. has several hundred items posted there, 2002-2006; and at

1.2 An estimated 2000 other sites containing several million words, 2001-2006.

2. * “A History of the Baha’i Faith in the Northern Territory: 1947-1997,” Northern Lights, 32 Instalments, 2000-2003.

3. * Periodic Articles in “Newsletters,” Regional Teaching Committees of the NSA of the Baha’is of Australia Inc., 1971-2001.

4. * Periodic Articles/Letters, Baha’i Canada and The Australian Baha’i Bulletin now The Australian Baha’i: 1971-2006.

5. * “Memorials of the Faithful,” Baha’i Studies Review, September 2001.

6. * “Review of Two Chapbooks: The Poetry of Tony Lee,” Arts Dialogue, June 2001.

7. * “Asia and the Lost Poems: The Poetry of Anthony Lee,” Art ‘n Soul, a Website for Poets and Poetry, January 2000.

8. * “The Passionate Artist,” Australian Baha’i Studies, Vol.2, 2000.

9. * “Memorials of the Faithful,” Australian Baha’i Studies, Vol.1, No.2, 1999, p.102 and upligting words.org, 2005-6.

10. * “Poetry of Ron Price: An Overview,” ABS Newsletter, No.38, September 1997.

11. * “Thomas a Kempis, Taherzadeh and the Day of Judgement,” Forum, Vol.3, No 1, 1994, pp.1-3.

12. * “Forward”, An Introduction to Occasions of Grace: Poems and Portrayals, Roger White, George Ronald, Oxford, 1993.

13. * “The Inner Life and the Environment”, a paper presented at Murdoch University at the Baha’i Studies Conference in April 1990 and published in The Environment: Our Common Heritage, Monograph No.5, 1994, pp.118-131.

14. * “The History of a Dream: A Tribute to Persistence”, Office of Tafe Publication in Western Australia, 1988, pp.5-6.

15. * “Response”, Dialogue, Vol.2, No.1, 1986, pp.3-4.

16. * “Homeward Bound”, Dialogue, Vol.1, No. 1, 1985, pp.37-38.

17. * “Happiness”, Herald of the South, Vol.11, 1985, pp.26-27.

18. * “Perspectives on Multiculturalism”, Residential School Papers: May to July 1983, Centre for Multicultural Studies, Armidale CAE, pp.24-28.

19. * “Who Plays the Music in Your Dreams?”, Dream International, 1983, Vol.1, No.3, p.31.

20. * “Consultative Decision Making”, Northern News, Darwin, December, 1983.

21. “The Baha’i Faith: A Series of 4 Articles,” Student Magazine, Ballarat College of Advanced Education, 1977-78.

1. “The Baha’i Faith: 4 Articles,” Tasmanian CAE Publication, Launceston, 1974.

2.2. Articles and Reviews: Newspapers

150 articles of about 800 words each have appeared in the following newspapers and magazines in 1983-1986.

Katherine Advertiser…..150,000 words

Katherine Times…………2000 words

Barkley Regional………..300 words

Launceston Examiner….300 words

The Tasmanian…………. 300 words

The Northern News …….300 words

Cosmos………………………500 words

Zirius…………………………500 words

Ballarat CAE………………2500 words(5 articles)

Newspapers on the Internet…20000 words

In 2005 I began posting items at online newspapers and now have postings at:

2.3 Online Newspapers and Journals

The New York Times

The New York Times

Nashuatelegraph

International Viewpoint2.8.3 Essays Complete: Unpublished:Career Journal

The Canadian Poetry Association

World Chronicle

Contemporary Literature

European History

Medieval History

Writers in Touch

Arkansas Poets Society

Dream Journal

2.4 Online Journals

Approximately1000 online sites.

2.5 Poetry

Poetry published in the following publications:

1. Artgender

2. The Southern Gazette

3. Herald of the South

4. Katherine Advertiser

5. four W No.6: Selected Works-Charles Sturt University

6. The Southern Gazette

7. Australian Baha’i Bulletin

8. The Liquid Mirror

9. Baha’i Canada

10. ABS Newsletter

11. Australian Baha’i Studies Journal

12. World Order: Anthology

An estimated forty magazines on the Internet

–See my website at: ‘Endgame’ after hyperlink 42 for a short list; andAn additional, more comprehensive, list of poetry sites is available on request, if required.

2.6 Online Poetry SitesApproximately 400 sites.

2.7 Manuals

* 25 in-house training manuals in the management studies program for Hedland College and the Open College of Tafe in Katherine in the Northern Territory.(70 page average length of each manual: 1982-1986)

* 25 in-house training manuals in the management studies program for Hedland College and the Open College of Tafe in Katherine in the Northern Territory.(70 page average length of each manual: 1982-1986)25 in-house training manuals in the management studies program for Hedland College and the Open College of Tafe in Katherine in the Northern Territory.(70 page average length of each manual: 1982-1986)

25 in-house training manuals in the management studies program for Hedland College and the Open College of Tafe in Katherine in the Northern Territory.(70 page average length of each manual: 1982-1986)

* 60 study guides for the Perth Campus, CMC and the Thornlie Campus, SEMC in a wide range of General Studies/Human Service subjects.(40 page average length: 1988-1999)

* 6 manuals for classes at The School for Seniors in George Town: 1999-2005.

(see the list of subjects taught in Appendix B below)

2.8 Books, Essays and Letters 2.8.1 Books Complete: Published:

* The Emergence of a Baha’i Consciousness in World Literature: The Poetry of Roger White. This is a collection of essays written from 1988 to 2002: 80,000 words.

* Published by Juxta Publications, The Baha’i Academics Resource Library. Also available as an ebook at Lulu.com. Hard copy in 1 volume available at Lulu.com

* Pioneering Over Four Epochs: An Autobiographical Study and a Study in Autobiography, 5th edition, BWCL, 2500 pages: 4 volumes in hard copy at Lulu.com(currently being reviewed by NSA of the Baha’is of Australia, Inc.)

5th edition, BWCL, 2500 pages: 4 volumes in hard copy at Lulu.com(currently being reviewed by NSA of the Baha’is of Australia, Inc.) Books Incomplete: Unpublished:

This is a collection of essays written from 1988 to 2002: 80,000 words.5th edition, BWCL, 2500 pages: 4 volumes in hard copy at Lulu.com(currently being reviewed by NSA of the Baha’is of Australia, Inc.)

This is a collection of essays written from 1988 to 2002: 80,000 words.5th edition, BWCL, 2500 pages: 4 volumes in hard copy at Lulu.com(currently being reviewed by NSA of the Baha’is of Australia, Inc.)

12 attempts at a novel in the years 1983 to 2005. Longest single attempt 30,000 words.

* 1979-2007–an autobiographical collection of over 200 essays.

2.8.4 Essays Complete: Published:* Essays 1977-2007: A collection of 300 essays, an estimated 200,000 words, by an international pioneer in Australia in the third, fourth and fifth epochs.

Essays 1977-2007: A collection of 300 essays, an estimated 200,000 words, by an international pioneer in Australia in the third, fourth and fifth epochs.

2.8.5 Letters Complete: Unpublished:

* 1960-2007. A collection of twenty-five volumes of letters to and from a pioneer in the Baha’i community, an estimated 5000 letters.

2.6 Booklets2.6.1 Complete: Unpublished:60 booklets of poetry: 100-120 poems per booklet, written from 1980 to 2007, over 6000 poems.

2.7 Websites

Several million words in several genres: essays, narrative, interviews, book reviews, poetry, letters, emails and a wide range of postings and responses to the writing of others are located at over 2000 websites on the Internet. See the 2^nd edition of my website(http://www.ronpriceepoch.com/)at the link ‘Endgame’, after site #42, for a list of many of these sites. A comprehensive list is available under separate cover at ronprice9@gmail.com

2.8 Collections of My Poetry in Libraries:

1. Baha’i World Centre Library, Baha’i World Centre, PO Box 31 001, Haifa Israel: 5000 poems.

2. Canadian National Baha’i Centre Library, 7200 Leslie Street,Thornhill, Ontario, L#T 6L8 Canada, 300 poems.

3. Australian National Baha’i Centre Library, Sydney, Australia, 300 poems.

4. Regional Baha’i Council of Tasmania, PO Box 1126, GPO Hobart, Tasmania, 7001, Baha’i State Library of Tasmania, Hobart, 300 poems.

5. Baha’i Centre of Learning Library, C/-LSA of the Baha’is of Melville, PO Box 628, Applecross,Western Australia, 6153, 200 poems.

6. Local Spiritual Assembly Library of the Baha’is of Burlington, Ontario, Canada, 300 poems.

7. International Pioneer Committee of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’is of Canada, 7200 Leslie Street, Thornhill, Ontario, L3T 6L8, Canada, 120 poems.

8. Local Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’is of Brighton, PO Box 553, Brighton, South Australia, 5048, State Baha’i Centre Library, Brighton, S.A., 120 poems.

9. Local Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’is of Canberra, 18 Hichey Court, ACT, 2611, Baha’i Centre Library, 120 poems.

10. Baha’i Council of the Northern Territory, PO Box 2055, Humpty Doo, NT, 0836, 100 poems

11. Baha’i Council of Victoria, Knoxfield, Victoria, 3182, 100 poems.

12. LSAs of Belmont, Launceston, Ballarat, Darwin: hold ‘some of my poetry’ in their archives, 100 poems.

13. The Afnan Library, c/-George Ronald Publishers, 24 Gardiner Close,

Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 3YA, England has a CD of some 200,000 words.

LSA of the Baha’is of Toronto Ontario, 288 Bloor Street West, Toronto Ontario, M5S 1V8, Canada, 100 poems.

The Baha’i Community of Iqaluit, Iqaluit, NWT, Canada, 100 poems.The Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’is of Hamilton, PO Box 57009, Jackson Station, Hamilton, Ontario, L8P 4W9, 300 poems.

Booklets of poetry to other communities and institutions are also planned into the future.2.9 Books in Traditional and Cyberspace Libraries:1. The Emergence of a Baha’i Consciousness in World Literature: The Poetry of Roger White, in the Afnan Library, a ‘deposit library’ Administered by the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’is of the United Kingdom, April 2003.

2. The same book is in the ‘Baha’i Academics Resource Library’. See http://bahai-library.org/books/white; and at Juxta Publications. See http://juxta.com/ 3. I have been given approval to publish this book by the National Literature Committee of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’is of Canada and Juxta Publications has put it on their site at: http://juxta.com/

4. Pioneering Over Four Epochs: An Autobiographical Study and a Study in Autobiography, BWCL, 2004; Lulu.com: hard cover in 4 volumes(not available yet).

2.10 Essays in Libraries:1.The Baha’i World Centre Library, 50 essays-1994.

1.The Baha’i World Centre Library, 50 essays-1994.

2. Various internet ‘libraries.’

2.11 Radio Programs and Interviews:

2.11.1 Interviews: Interviewed on eight occasions in eight cities and towns in Australia from 1974 to 1995 on the subjects of (i) education or (ii) the Baha’i Faith. Each interview 15 to 25 minutes.

Interviewed on eight occasions in eight cities and towns in Australia from 1974 to 1995 on the subjects of (i) education or (ii) the Baha’i Faith. Each interview 15 to 25 minutes.

2.11.2 Programs: Presented 150 half hour programs on City Park Radio in Launceston for the Launceston Baha’i Community: 2000-2005.

Presented 150 half hour programs on City Park Radio in Launceston for the Launceston Baha’i Community: 2000-2005.

3. COURSES AND LEVELS TAUGHT

3.1 Pre-Apprentice, Apprentice, EPUY, PEP and Youth Training Programs(15 to 25 year old students):

* Wide range of programs in these areas beginning in 1982:

Wide range of programs in these areas beginning in 1982:

Wide range of programs in these areas beginning in 1982:

-Open College of Tafe in Katherine 1982-1986

-Hedland College 1986-1987

-Perth Campus/Balga Campus 1988

-Thornlie Campus 1989-1999

3.2 Other Post-Secondary Institutions: Full/Part/Time/Volunteer(F/P/T)

*George Town School for Seniors Inc 1999-2005(Volunteer)

Charles Sturt University 1995(July to October)(F/T)

* Tasmanian CAE 1974 and 1979(F/T)

* Ballarat CAE 1976-1978(F/T)

* Deakin University 1977(external studies lecturer)(P/T)

* Whitehorse Technical College 1975(F/T)

* University of Tasmania 1974(external studies lecturer)(P/T)

3.3 Courses Taught

During the years 1980-1981 I did not teach. Of the thirty-one years, 1974-2005, I taught full-time for 22 and as a part-time tutor for 7. I taught in the post-secondary institutions listed above; I taught some ninety differently named units of study in the humanities and social sciences. The list is too long to sight here; I have included it in appendix B below. The list includes the following general categories:

* communication studies

* social sciences

* welfare studies/human services

* education studies

* matriculation studies

* public relations/media studies

* creative and business writing

* special education programs for

* (a) indigenous people and (b) seniors

(See Appendix B below for list of subjects taught)

3.4 Primary and Secondary School Teaching Experience:

A. Primary:

1. Sir Martin Frobisher School, Frobisher Bay, NWT, Canada,1967/8.

2. Cherry Valley Primary School, Cherry Valley, Ontario, 1969/70.

3. Picton Primary School, Picton, Ontario, Canada, 1970/1.

4. Whyalla Primary School, Whyalla, South Australia, 1971/2.

B. Secondary:

1. Eyre High School, Whyalla, South Australia, 1972/3.

2. Para Hills Secondary School, Para Hills, South Australia, 1973/4

3. Oakwood Education Trust, Launceston Campus, 2001.

4. INDUSTRIAL, COMMERCIAL AND HUMAN SERVICE EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE: 1961-2001

(non-teaching experience)

A. Summer and/or Short Term Jobs: (each 5 months maximum)

* Kitchen-Assistant, A&W Root Beer Co., Aldershot, Ontario, 1960.

* Packer, Shell Oil Company, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, 1961.* Driver-Assistant, Dundas Slot-Machine Company, Dundas, Ontario, Canada, 1962.

Driver-Assistant, Dundas Slot-Machine Company, Dundas, Ontario, Canada, 1962.

* Data Processing/Storeman & Packer, Firestone Tire and Rubber Corporation, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, 1963

Data Processing/Storeman & Packer, Firestone Tire and Rubber Corporation, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, 1963

Data Processing/Storeman & Packer, Firestone Tire and Rubber Corporation, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, 1963

* Cash-Register Clearance, T. Eaton Company of Canada, 1964

* Repairman/Assistant, Bell Telephone Co of Canada Ltd., Hamilton, Ontario, 1964

* Abstractor, Canadian Peace Research Institute, Dundas, Ontario, Canada, 1965

* Electrician’s Assistant, Stelco of Canada, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, 1965

* Driver/Salesman, Good Humour Company, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, 1966

* Clerk, Motor Vehicle License Branch, Dept of Transport, Brantford, Ontario, 1967* Systems Analyst, Bad Boy Company, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1968

Systems Analyst, Bad Boy Company, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1968

* Security Work, International Security, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1968

* Youth Worker, Resource Centre Association Inc., Launceston, Tasmania, 1979

* Journalist, ABC Radio, Launceston, Tasmania, 1979

* Editor, External Studies Unit, Tasmanian C.A.E., Launceston, Tasmania, 1979

B. Full Time Jobs:(each 2 to 4 years)

* Maintenance Scheduler, Renison Goldfields P/L, Zeehan, Tasmania, 1981-1982

* Adult Educator, Tafe, Katherine, Northern Territory, 1982-1986

* Public Relations Officer, Hedland College, South Hedland, WA, 1986-1987

C. Casual-Recent-Volunteer Work:(1997-2004)

* Research Assistant, Recreation Network Inc(disability services) Subiaco, WA, 1997

* Presenter of Programs, City Park Radio, Launceston, 2000-2003.

* Tutor/President, George Town School for Seniors, Inc., George Town, Tasmania, 1999-2005.

5. 1 PERSONAL INTERESTS* Writing: see section 2 above for details: 1962-2006

* Writing: see section 2 above for details: 1962-2006

* Reading and music : 1962-2006(statement available if desired)

* The social sciences and humanities: have more than 300 files/notebooks/resource manuals, some 20 million words, collected over 45 years(1961-2006).

5.2 CLUBS, ASSOCIATIONS AND FORMAL GROUPS:

* Member of a singing group in George Town, 2001-2005.

* Public Speaking Assessor, Rostrum, Katherine, NT : 1984/6

* Member of the Lions Club, Zeehan Tasmania : 1981/2

* Member of fitness centres in Melbourne(1975-6), Ballarat(1977-78),

Perth(1989-99) and Launceston(1999-2003)

* Member of baseball and hockey teams in Burlington: 1953/4-1962

* Member of the Baha’i Faith : 1959-2006

(see Baha’i resume below for details)

* I was a member of many groups during the fifty year period 1955-2005. I was associated with or worked as a volunteer in: (a) The George Town School for Seniors, (b) City Park Radio in Launceston and (c) several other clubs and associations like (I) Cubs, (II) Formal discussion groups in educational institutions as a student and (III) unnumbered Groups as a teacher.

6. REFERENCES, REFEREES AND PORTFOLIO OF MY WORK:

6.1  If required, I will supply transcripts, references and testimonials in relation to many of the above positions as well as references for my recent time in Tasmania, 1999-2005, where my work has been as a volunteer. I have not required any of these documents in the last decade, since 1996.

6.2 Samples of my writing are also available, if requested. I have a portfolio of my writing work in many forms, genres and layouts as suited to the needs of the groups and individuals making the requests.

6.3 In July 1999 I ceased full-time employment as a lecturer-teacher. May 2001 I went onto an Australian Disability Pension and I no longer applied for full-time jobs. Three years ago, in late 2003, I applied for my last part-time job. In May 2005 my work in volunteer organizations also ceased with the exception of work done within the Baha’i community. Now at the age of 62 I devote myself full-time to writing.

7. GENERAL

* a bio-data sheet can be found below in Appendix A.

* a covering letter may be included if relevant

* a list of subjects taught can be found in Appendix B.

Ron Price George Town

Tasmania

19/8/’06 to 12/5/’13._________________________________________________

APPENDIX A: PERSONAL & BIO-DATA

SURNAME Price

Price

GIVEN NAMES Ronald Frederick

ADDRESS 6 Reece Street George Town Tasmania Australia 7253

AUSTRALIAN

CITIZEN YesCANADIAN

CITIZEN Yes

CONTACT

DETAILS

TELEPHONE (03) 63824790

POSITIONS APPLIED FOR: I applied for some five thousand jobs during the 50 years: 1955-2005. During two of those years I was ill and/or hospitalized and could not work: 5000 job applications in 50 years is an average of two every week for 50 years–from my last year of childhood to my 60^th year.

HEALTH

Manic-depression/bi-polar disorder: treated

–separate statement available if desired

AGE 69

REFEREES Have not used drawn on any referees in the last decade,

2004-2013. Can provide names, if required.(F/T,P/T & Volunteer Work)

VALUE BASE

I have been a member of the Baha’i Faith for forty-seven years:

1959-2007.

COMPUTER

LITERACY Yes Windows 95; Word 97

Yes Windows 95; Word 97

DRIVER’S

LICENCE Yes

Digitalphoto available on electronic transfer, if desired.

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APPENDIX B:

COURSES, UNITS, MODULES, SYLLABI, SUBJECTS OR PROGRAMS TAUGHT IN POST-SECONDARY EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS

IN AUSTRALIA

The list below outlines the ‘subjects’ taught between 1974 and 2005: 29 years.

I did not teach in the years: 1980-1981.

1. Hedland College: Acting Lecturer in Management Studies: 1986-1987

Katherine Open College of Tafe: 1982-1986

Interpersonal Skills A

Interpersonal Skills B

Performance Appraisal

Negotiating Skills A

Negotiating Skills B

Conflict Resolution A

Conflict Resolution B

Introduction to Management

Club Management

Time Management

Counselling

Interview Techniques

Public Speaking

Interview Techniques

Consultation Skills

Letter Writing and Report Writing A

Letter Writing and Report Writing B

Supervision Skills

Aboriginal Administrator Training Officer Skills

Creative Writing(Adult Education)

Sociology(Adult Education)

2. Thornlie Campus of the SEMC and Perth Campus of CMC:(1988-1999)

Communication Core(Certificate 3)

Communication 1(Diploma)

Business Communication 1A(Diploma)

Business Communication 1B(Diploma)

Ancient Greek History TEE

Ancient Roman History TEE

Modern History TEE

Politics TEE

English Literature TEE

English TEE

Traditional Culture and Modern Society(Anthropology)

Framework of Australian Society(Economics)

History of Ideas

Australian Government and Legal Systems

Philosophy 1 A

Philosophy 1B

General Psychology

Commercial and Civic Principles

Interpersonal Study and Work Skills 001

Interpersonal Study and Work Skills 002

Society and Culture(Sociology)

Life Skills 1B(guitar)

Recreation 2(Certificate 2)

Social Science Introduction

Welfare Practice 1A

Welfare Practice 1B

Welfare Practice 2A

Welfare Practice 2B

1. Thornlie Campus: 1994-1999

In these three programs: Human Services Certificate 3

Welfare Studies Certificate 4

Human Services Diploma(5)

I taught the following subjects:

Welfare Communication (4)

Introduction to Human Services(3)

Dealing With Conflict(3)

Family and Community(3)

Workteam Communication(3)

Service Provision and Practice(3)

Study Skills(3)

Recognition of Prior Learning(3)

Human Development 001(3)

Human Development 002(3)

Field Placement(3), (4) and (5)

Field Tutorial(3) and (5)

Managing People: Training and Development(5)

Managing Group Problem Solving and Decision Making(5)

Sociology for Human Service Workers(5)

D. Engineering, Applied Science and Social Science Students at the Ballarat College of Advanced Education 1976-1978:

Social Science(Applied Science: Engineering)(BSc)

Social Science(Applied Science: Geology)(BSc)

Social Science(Social Science)(BA)

Australian Media(Social Science)(BA)

Sociological Theory(Teacher Trainees: Secondary)

E. Whitehorse Technical College: 1975-1976

Behavioural Studies(Library Technician Trainees)(Cert.3)

F. Tasmanian CAE: 1974:

Language in Use(Linguistics)

Introductory Psychology

Human Relations

Sociology of Art

Individualized Learning

Sociology

G. Thornlie Campus of the SEMC: General Studies: 1989-1998:

Writing Plain English

Writing Workplace Documents

Presenting Information

Presenting Reports

Workplace Communication

Quality Team Management

Job Seeking Skills

Communication and Industrial Relations

Managing Effective Working Relationships

Managing and Developing Teams

Field Experience in Community Services

Work Experience in Job Train Programs

H. The George Town School of Seniors Inc: 1999-2005

Autobiography

Creative Writing

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RESUME OF BAHA’I ACTIVITY OF RON PRICE

Preamble:

The outline below is a brief sketch only. No attempt is made to list all the activities in fifty-four years(1953-2007) of my association with and membership/service in the Baha’i community. Also, after more than fifty years, the memory gets somewhat rusty and the occasional detail below may not be accurate; for this reason and others I have tended to generalize rather than specify the particular tasks and their respective occasions-although I think I have provided a good balance between specificity and generality.

I would think, in the vast majority of cases, though, the information is correct and accurate. This statement has been used occasionally when applying for positions somewhere in what has become a vast network of service situations/institutions around the globe both within and outside the Baha’i community.

YOUTH: Burlington/Dundas Ontario: 1959-1963

1. LOCAL ASSEMBLY SERVICE:

LSA of the Baha’is of Windsor: 1966/7: vice-chairman

LSA of the Baha’is of Toronto: 1969

LSA of the Baha’is of Whyalla: 1972: secretary

LSA of the Baha’is of Gawler: 1973: chairman

LSA of the Baha’is of Ballarat: 1976-78: chairman/secretary

LSA of the Baha’is of Launceston: 1979: publicity officer

LSA of the Baha’is of Stirling: 1988: secretary

LSA of the Baha’is of Belmont: 1989-1999: chairman/secretary for 7 of these years

2. REGISTERED GROUP/ISOLATED BELIEVER SERVICE

PIONEERING OVER FOUR EPOCHS

Part 1:

With the opening of this arch-lever file of personal correspondence there now exists ten volumes of personal letters to individuals for future biographers, analysts of embryonic Baha’i institutions, communities and interested parties of various ilks. This volume of letters opens the 23^rd year of my extensive letter collecting, and the 46^th since the first letter in this collection found its place in volume 1 on 27 November 1960. I had been a Baha’i for 13 months at the time.

For the most part these letters are a casual, although to some extent, systematic collection. In recent years I have also added some non-epistolary material because it seemed appropriate;  I leave it to future assessors and literary editors to sift out this material, to keep it in appendices, to simply include it as part of a varied type of letter/communication or to delete it as desired. The decision as to how to organize this assortment of resources I leave in the hands of anyone who takes a serious interest in it.  To decide what to do with it all belongs to them. All I do here is place these introductions in cyberspace.

In some ways my collections of writing are themselves manifestations of my effort to make my life subservient to a personal need to be a letter writer, a poet, an essayist, a note-taker, as Dylan Thomas’s writing efforts were part of his self-appointed task to make his life subservient to his need to be a poet. This is a subtle idea and quite complex and I deal with it more extensively in my writing, especially my poetry, from time to time over the years. But the idea, however intricate, delicate and subtle, needs to be given an airing occasionally in these periodic reviews of my letters, and the occasional update of these introductions. This latest update is taking-place on 12/5/’13.

There is, it seems to me, an unavoidable self-consciousness in my approach to the business of writing since perhaps the 1980s. This self-consciousness was also the case with the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas as I pointed out above. Paul Ferris states this in his introduction to Thomas’s collection of letters. This self-consciousness has done Thomas some harm at the hands of his critics–as Ferris notes in his discussion of the analysis of Thomas’s critics from the 1960s and 1970s.

Part 2:

Perhaps my somewhat dogged sense of living within the confines of a self-constructed role as a writer in these latter years of the first century of the Formative Age will prove my undoing.  As a writer, I revel in the context of a range of a complex set of implications both for me and for the Baha’i community I am part of. Perhaps this will bring me some “harm” as well in the long term. Of course, if this harm ever occurs, I will be long gone from this mortal coil. In the short term the problem is irrelevant at least insofar as any public is concerned. I began to receive a great deal of feedback to what I wrote in the period after I had retired from FT, PT and casual-work in the years 1999 to 2005. This feedback, now some ten years in the making is kept on file, at least some of it. The task of keeping all the feedback became impossible, indeed, quite undesirable by the end of the first decade of the 21st century.

Since my retirement in 1999 I have written a great deal more in all the genres of my writing. In my years of full-time employment and student life as far back as the late 1940s, if I take the analysis as far back as the years of middle childhood, the notebook dominated my writing life. Then the essay and several attempts at a novel as the years went on. The extent of my writing in all other genres in the last twenty years(1993-2013) has exceeded whatever I had done before. This is especially true of letters.

In the most general of senses, I see my letters as “a kind of spiritual journal.” Robert Gittings says this of the letters of John Keats written at the time of the birth of Baha’u’llah and the Bab. There is an obsessive quality in some of Keats’ letters, occasionally a sign of morbidity and despair and many signs of self-control and the lack thereof. This is also true of my own letters and journals. Like Keats, I try to face my difficulties, fight my battles and get on with the journey. I do not always do this successfully. My criticism of others both in letters and in life, if it is felt or thought privately, tends to be muted. I tend to mask it with a sympathetic tenderness, a softening of intensities, a moderating influence, an etiquette of expression, at least for the most part. I often try to diffuse tension that might easily flare into anger and close down a line of correspondence. Readers will look in vain for the kind of acrimonious correspondence, the kind of quarrel, that took place between the poet Irving Layton and the Canadian academic Desmond Pacey or, indeed, other writers of our time.

Part 3:

I can not think of any correspondence that led to a falling out. Rather lines of letters just withered away, usually after two or three letters. Comments on my writing are occasional with very little analysis. Even after 25 years of writing and, perhaps, a decade of writing extensively few were readers of my writing, such was my impression. But this is a separate subject.

I would like to draw extensively here on the words of Rachel Donadio who discusses the email in her article in the New York Times because so much that is in this volume of letters and others in recent years is in the form of an email. “Back in the 20th century,” Donadio writes, “it was often lamented that the telephone might put an end to literary biography. In lieu of letters, writers could just as easily gab on the phone, leaving no trace. Today, a new challenge awaits literary biographers and cultural historians: the e-mail. The problem isn’t that writers and their editors are corresponding less, it’s that they’re corresponding infinitely more — but not always saving their e-mail messages, so argues Donadio.

Publishing houses, magazines and many writers freely admit they have no coherent system for saving e-mail, let alone saving it in a format that would be easily accessible to scholars. Biography, straight up or fictionalized, is arguably one of today’s richest literary forms, but it relies on a kind of correspondence that’s increasingly rare, or lost in cyberspace. My correspondence is not lost. I keep a goodly measure of it in each of my collections of letters. I like to think that my correspondence reflects a sensitivity to and an appreciation of the idiosyncrasies of the recipients of my emails. Writing is like talking and, in the process, one tries to create some impression. With the passing of time, whatever talking I have done will have gone into the ether, but this writing, these letters and emails, will reveal much about my life and my times. Many of my poems sprinkle the pages of my emails in an impromptu, often impulsive and serendipitous fashion, although I often do not keep a copy of all the poems which accompany a particular letter. Worrying about trees and the extent of print one produces became a concern in the 1980s and 1990s and it often seemed pointless to keep a copy of poems I already had in my computer files and poetry booklets.

In 2004 alone Farrar, Straus & Giroux, to chose but one publisher, put into the marketplace ”The Letters of Robert Lowell” and a biography of the critic Edmund Wilson that draws on his letters. These are but two of an extensive list of publications that draw on correspondence. That doesn’t necessarily mean that publishing companies are saving their own communication with writers. This is also true of many a writer. A great deal of personal communication is just going down the proverbial drain. Since the email became part of my life some 20 years ago(1993-2013) I have tried to save emails that are significant, relevant or important in some way for the tasks at hand. I have written about this subject before and I do not want to go into detail here. But this subject does need to be given an airing occasionally, given the extent of emails in my recent collections of letters since the late 1990s.

Part 4:

Jonathan Galassi, the president and publisher of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, said: ”I try to save substantive correspondence about issues concerning books we’re working on, or about our relations with authors, but I’m sure I don’t always keep the good stuff, particularly the personal interchanges, which is probably what biographers would relish.” Galassi made this comment via e-mail, of course, like most of the editors and writers who might make a comment on such an issue. ”I don’t think we’ve addressed in any systematic way what the long-term future of these communications is, but I think we ought to,” Galassi continued. I include these comments here in this introduction to Volume 10 of my personal correspondence because virtually everything in the last few volumes of personal correspondence is now an email. There are, of course, exceptions to this rule and I have commented upon them before.

Random House Inc., whose imprints include Alfred A. Knopf, Doubleday and Bantam Dell, has not set any email guidelines. ”At present Random House Inc. does not have in place a distinct corporate policy for archiving electronic author-publisher correspondence, and we have yet to establish a central electronic archive for housing publishing material,” Stuart Applebaum, a spokesman for Random House, noted. ”Each of our publishing divisions decides what author-publisher correspondence and materials they wish to retain.” W. W. Norton doesn’t have a policy for saving e-mail messages or letters, leaving it to the discretion of editors, and Harcourt’s archiving policy doesn’t yet govern e-mail communication. So, it appears, I have lots of company in my new problem, a new problem that arose in the 1990s and especially since my retirement in 1999.

Although David Remnick, the editor of The New Yorker, said he considers the collected letters of Harold Ross, the magazine’s founding editor, ”the best book I’ve ever read about The New Yorker,” you won’t see Remnick’s collected letters or e-mail correspondence, any time soon. ”Oh, God forbid,” Remnick said. For one thing, The New Yorker routinely purges messages from its system. And I do the same; I have to with over 200 emails coming in every day from the many websites I am a member of in the last several years.

Deborah Treisman, who as The New Yorker’s fiction editor, is in communication with most major living writers, confessed she doesn’t always save her messages. ”Unfortunately, since I haven’t discovered any convenient way to electronically archive e-mail correspondence, I don’t usually save it, and it gets erased from our server after a few months,” Treisman said. ”If there’s a particularly entertaining or illuminating back-and-forth with a writer over the editing process, though, I do sometimes print and file the e-mails.” The fiction department files eventually go to the New York Public Library, she said, ”so conceivably someone could, in the distant future, dig all of this up.”

Part 5:

The impact on future scholarship is ”not something that I’ve spent much time thinking about,” Remnick said. “As much as I respect lots of scholarship in general, what matters most is the books and not book chat. Something’s obviously been lost, even though I don’t think it’s the most important literary thing we could lose.” This may be the case for me and my letters as well and the final result of all this worry-warting may be that it all simply bites the dust and all the issues about what to save and what to erase may prove irrelevant, immaterial and in the ‘who could care less’ basket.

Book chat or no, irrelevance or not, great letters are great literature. In Robert Lowell’s letters, for instance, the mundane quickly opens up into whole worlds of feeling. ”I think our letters on the agency tax-money must have crossed,” Lowell wrote Elizabeth Hardwick, his soon-to-be ex-wife, in 1971. ”Through long hours of revising, a leisurely bath and a quick dressing, I have been thinking about our long past,” he continued. ”Not having you is like learning to walk.” Some entire books don’t convey as much raw emotion as those eight words do . And I feel the same is true of some of my correspondence. In the end, of course, the significance of what I write is so intimately tied up with the growth and development of the Baha’i Faith as the emerging world religion on the planet.

Designed for constant and instant contact many e-mail messages inevitably have a different tone from postmarked missives that allow correspondents the time to ruminate and percolate, to apply a critical eye to their own lives. Often less nuanced, more prosaic, written in haste and subject to misunderstandings, e-mailed thoughts are microwaved, not braised. ”It often occurs to me that e-mail may render a certain kind of literary biography all but obsolete,” Blake Bailey, the author of a biography of Richard Yates and a forthcoming one of John Cheever, said. Email messages are ”too ephemeral: people write them in a rush without the sort of precision and feeling that went into the traditional, and now utterly defunct, letter.” 95% of the emails I receive are certainly ephemeral and oblivion is the only place for them and that is where they go within the day they are sent. But there is much in the emails I write and receive that is not in this ephemeral category. And these emails are found here.

Part 6:

Unless one possesses the emails or letters at the other end of the conversation or dialogue one misses a great deal. I have tried, where possible, to keep copies of relevant correspondence at both ends. One misses a great deal, too, when all one possesses is the advocacy or the judgement of the letter-writer. It is often difficult to find out the truth of an idea or a situation in one’s own household; people who live in the same house often have completely different stories to tell. A number of views is often necessary, but not possible when one is dealing with the contents of a letter. The copiousness of letters is no guarantee of what is authentic, true and accurate. Perhaps, as a major biographer of Wagner, Ernest Newman, said: “There can never be too many documents.” He might have added: there can never be a final truth.

Ron Price

^{28/11/’05 to 12/5/’13}

I was not able to edit this post and so I have rewritten it below.-Ron