Slide-Share has asked me the question: "what am I an expert in or, what am I an expert at? To answer that question I have placed in this document, and at this site, a copy of my resume of some 23 pages. I do not regard myself as an expert in anything. I am a generalist, a retired teacher and lecturer with 32 years in the classroom, and another 18 as a student. This half century in schools and colleges has seen me studying and reading, teaching and tutoring, writing and publishing on a very wide range of subjects and disciplines, topics and fields. In addition to my professional resume found in this document, my Baha’i resume is also found here, in Appendix C, as is a list of subjects I taught while lecturing, tutoring and teaching in post-secondary schools, colleges and universities(see Appendix B) and a basic bio-data sheet(see Appendix B). Once used to apply for jobs from the early sixties to the early years of the new millennium, this evolving document, altered more times over the last 50+ years than I care to try counting, is now an archive that I update occasionally for internet use in these first years of my retirement, my life on a pension, and my late adulthood, 2009-2014. I use it now in one of a multitude of forms on the internet. My professional resume and the statement of my Baha’i experience has become, in the last decade or so, an integrated document for Baha’is, and those individuals in other interest groups, around the world. Each Baha’i utilizes their resume, their curriculum vitae(CV), their lifeline, lifestory, personal-life narrative in their own unique ways. Their document, outlining their qualifications and experience, has an immense teaching value in its own right especially as this Faith long ago shed its preoccupation with conversion, established its credentials far beyond anything that humanity understands by the word “religion” and focuses its public message in paradigms outside the exclusivist religious categories, the “us and them” intrusions, that it has had in the past.

1. THE PROFESSIONAL AND BAHA’I RESUME
AN INTEGRATED PERSPECTIVE
Preamble:
In addition to my professional resume found below, my Baha’i resume is also
found here(Appendix C), as is a list of subjects I taught while lecturing, tutoring
and teaching in post-secondary schools, colleges and universities(Appendix B)
and a basic bio-data sheet(Appendix B). Once used to apply for jobs from the
early sixties to the early years of the new millennium, this evolving set of
documents, altered more times over the last 45 years than I care to try counting, is
now an archive that I update occasionally for internet use in these first years of my
retirement and late adulthood, 2004-2007. I use it now in one of a multitude of
forms on the internet.
One’s professional resume and the statement of one’s Baha’i experience has
become, in the last decade or so, a potentially integrated document for Baha’is
around the world. Each Baha’i utilizes their resume, their curriculum vitae(CV),
their lifeline, lifestory, personal-life narrative in their own unique ways. Their
document, outlining their qualifications and experience, has an immense teaching
value in its own right especially as this Faith sheds its preoccupation with
conversion, establishes its credentials far beyond anything that humanity
understands by the word “religion” and focuses its public message in paradigms
outside the exclusivist religious categories, the “us and them” intrusions, that it has
had in the past.
Each person, as I say, writes “their story” and outlines their “resume” in their own
way. A whole industry has now grown up around the process. What follows is, not
so much a model, for there are dozens of models now and readers here are in no
need of yet another model for the industry and for their lives. It is the integration of
the professional and the Baha’i resume that I am making a stab at in these
retirement years of my life when I no longer apply for jobs, but when I utilize the
internet for all sorts of public and Baha’i information dispensing. There are
Baha’is around the world, many hundreds I am sure, doing the same thing in an
immense variety of ways. What readers here will find is but one man’s experience.
I post this document here for youth who are just setting out on the road I have
travelled and others, young adults and those in middle age, still travelling on the
road. This is not a “fixed document.” It is used in many ways, in many formats,
many sections and sub-sections. May it be of some use to others. –Ron Price,
George Town, Tasmania, 28 August 2007(ronprice9@gmail.com)
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2. RESUMES & RELEVANT APPENDICES OF RON PRICE
PROFESSIONAL RESUME:
1.0 My Roles In Life:
A. The Ascribed Roles I have had in life: grandson, son, nephew, cousin, half-
brother, father, step-father, uncle, step-grandfather, step-father, husband,
male, among a long list of other possibilities used by developmental
psychologists.
B. My Achieved Roles in life: writer, poet, essayist, author, journalist, teacher,
lecturer, student and many other roles 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

3. 1.3 Further Studies(Qualifications Incomplete)
* 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, respectively
* Granted permanency with DEVET (now Dept of Training and Employment) in
Western Australia in June 1992

4. 1.6 Professional Memberships and Eligibility
* 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 now Swan College of Tafe
in Perth, Western Australia
* 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/Baha’i Library Online has many
categories of my writing and over a million words posted there from 2002 to
2007; and at
1.2 An estimated 4000 other sites containing several million words, 2001-2007
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 uplifting 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", Paper presented at a Baha’i Studies
Conference at Murdoch University 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.

5. 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 5 Articles," Student Magazine, Ballarat
College of Advanced Education, 1977-78.
22. *“The Baha’i Faith: 4 Articles,” Tasmanian CAE Publication, Launceston,
1974.
2.2. Articles and Reviews: Newspapers
150 articles of 800 words each(on average) have appeared in the following
newspapers and magazines in 1983-1986.
Katherine Advertiser.....150,000 words
Katherine Times................2,000 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......................2,500 words(5 articles)
Tasmanian CAE..................1,500 words(4 articles)
Newspapers on Internet.....20,000 words
In 2005 I began posting items at online newspapers and journals now have
postings at:
2.3 Online Newspapers and Journals
1. The New York Times
2. Nashuatelegraph
3. International Viewpoint
4. Persian Journal
5. The Australian
6. Career Journal
7. The Canadian Poetry Association
8. World Chronicle
9. Contemporary Literature

6. 10. European History
11. Medieval History
12. Writers in Touch
13. Arkansas Poets Society
14. Dream Journal
15. Many other newspaper and journals listed in a separate compilation of internet
sites available from the author on request
2.4 Prose At 2.4.1 Online Message Boards, 2.4.2 Blogs and 2.4.3 Forums:
Approximately 2000 online sites listed in that same document sited above in 2.3.15
contain: (a) essays, (b) articles, (c) book reviews, (d) contributions/postings of
some length(500 words or more) to discussions on innumerable topics, (e) shorter
contributions/postings (100 to 250 words) and (f) uncountable postings of fewer
words in lengthy exchanges of views, comments and ideas, often serious and often
trivial.
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. Australian Bahá’í Studies Newsletter
11. Australian Baha'i Studies Journal
12. World Order: Anthology
13. An estimated forty magazines on the internet listed in the above document
sited at 2.3.15 above
2.6 Online Poetry at 2.6.1 Poetry Sites and 2.6.2 Other Topic Sites
Approximately 2000 sites: forums, blogs, message boards, poetry sites and other
topic sites have poetry that I have written in one or more of the several sub-
sections that occupy each of these sites. I have listed them under separate cover at
2.3.15 above and they can be obtained from this author by writing to me at my
email address: ronprice9@gmail.com. Readers here may prefer to google some of my
material and they can do this easily by typing the following words and word
sequences into the respective search engines: Ron Price Poetry, Ron Price Bahá’í,

7. Ron Price Literature( and/or history, media studies, philosophy, psychology,
sociology, religion, Launceston, Australia, Canada, inter alia)
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)
 60 study guides for the Perth Campus, Central Metropolitan College of
 Tafe and the Thornlie Campus, Southeast Metropolitan Collefe of Tafe, in Perth
Western Australia in a wide range of General Studies and Human Service
subjects.(40 page average length: 1988-1999)
* 6 study guies 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: 100,000 words.
* Published by Juxta Publications and is available at The Baha'i Academics
Resource Library and Lulu.com. Hard copy in one volume is available at Lulu.com
* Pioneering Over Four Epochs: An Autobiographical Study and a Study
in Autobiography, 5th edition, BWCL, 2600 pages: 5 volumes in hard copy at
(1) Lulu.com(currently being reviewed by NSA of the Baha’is of Australia,
Inc.); (2) eBookMall has an 1800 page abridged version for $2.98 and (c) many
parts of this work are found at innumerable sites on the internet.
2.8.2 Books Incomplete: Unpublished:
12 attempts at a novel in the years 1983 to 2005. Longest single attempt 30,000
words.
2.8.3 Essays Complete: Unpublished:
* 1979-2007—a collection of over 200 autobiographical and other essays.
2.8.4 Essays Complete: Published:
* Essays 1977-2007: A collection of over 300 essays published in many
locations in (1) newspapers, (2) magazines, (3) journals and (4) on the internet.

8. 2.8.5 Letters Complete: Unpublished:
* 1957-2007: A collection of 50 volumes(arch-lever files and 2-ring binders) of
letters, emails and posts on the internet, an estimated 5000 items. An extended
discussion of these 50 volumes can be found at: Bahá’í Library Online> Personal
Letters.
2.6 Booklets
2.6.1 Complete: Unpublished:
60 booklets of poetry: 100-120 poems per booklet, written from 1980 to 2007,
over 6500 poems in total. An extensive portion of the contents of these
booklets can also be found at: Baha’i Library Online> Poetry.
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 4000 websites on the internet. See the
2nd
edition of my website(http://www.users.on.net/~ronprice/)at the hyperlink
‘Endgame', for a list of some of these sites. An outline of the developmental
process that led to this slowly acquired internet publishing outlet and a list of
some 4000 sites is available, as I have indicated above, 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. 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 and Darwin hold 'some of my poetry' in their
archives, some 100 poems in total.
13. The Afnan Library, c/-George Ronald Publishers, 24 Gardiner Close,
Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 3YA, England has a CD of some 200,000 words.
14. LSA of the Baha’is of Toronto Ontario, 288 Bloor Street West, Toronto
Ontario, M5S 1V8, Canada, 100 poems.
15. The Baha’i Community of Iqaluit, Iqaluit, NWT, Canada, 100 poems.
16. The Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’is of Hamilton, PO Box 57009, Jackson
Station, Hamilton, Ontario, L8P 4W9, 300 poems.
17. The Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’is of Ballarat, PO Box 136, Ballarat,
Victoria, 3350, 100 poems.
18. 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/Baha’i Library
Online>Books and at Juxta Publications. See http://juxta.com/
3. I have been given approval to publish the above book by the National Literature
Committee of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of Canada. Juxta
Publications has put this book on their site at: http://juxta.com/ and it can be
downloaded free of charge.
4. Pioneering Over Four Epochs: An Autobiographical Study and a Study in
Autobiography, BWCL, 2004; Lulu.com: hard cover in 5 volumes(not available
yet); eBookMall and other websites have portions of this work at their sites.
2.10 Essays in Libraries:
1.The Baha'i World Centre Library, 50 essays-1994.
2. Various/many internet libraries and sites, especially Baha’i Library Online at:
(a)> Essays and Internet Postings; (b)>Histories, Memoirs and Interviews, (c) >
Articles and Papers Unpublished and (d) Compilations Prepared by Individuals.
3. Radio Programs and Interviews:

10. 3.1 Interviews: Interviewed on eight occasions in eight cities and towns in
Australia from 1974 to 1995 on the subjects of (i) education and/or (ii) the Baha'i
Faith. Each interview 15 to 25 minutes.
3.2 Programs: Presented 150 half hour programs on City Park Radio in
Launceston for the Launceston Baha'i Community: 2000-2005.
4. COURSES AND LEVELS TAUGHT
4.1 Pre-Apprentice, Apprentice, Educational Programs for Unemployed
Youth(EPUY), Preparatory Educational Programs(PEP) and Youth Training
Programs(YTP) to 15 to 25 year old students:
* Wide range of programs in these areas beginning in 1982 at:
-Open College of Tafe in Katherine 1982-1986
-Hedland College 1986-1987
-Perth Campus/Balga Campus 1988
-Thornlie Campus 1989-1999
4.2 OtherPost-SecondaryInstitutions:FullTime(FT), PartTime(PT) and
Volunteer/Casual
*George Town School for Seniors Inc 1999-2005(Volunteer)
*Charles Sturt University 1995(July to October)(FT)
* Tasmanian CAE 1974(FT) and 1979(PT)
* Ballarat CAE 1976-1978(FT)
* Deakin University 1977(external studies lecturer)(Casual)
* Whitehorse Technical College 1975(FT)
* University of Tasmania 1974(external studies lecturer)(Casual)
4.3 Courses Taught
During the years 1980-1981 I did not teach. Of the thirty-one years from 1974 to
2005, I taught full-time for 22 years and part-time as a tutor/lecturer for 7. I taught
in the post-secondary institutions listed above; I taught some ninety different 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

11. * special education programs for
* (a) indigenous people, (b) adult education and (c) seniors
(See Appendix B below for list of subjects taught)
4.4 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.
5. INDUSTRIAL, COMMERCIAL & HUMAN SERVICE EMPLOYMENT
1961-2005
(non-teaching experience)
A. Summer &/or Short Term Jobs: (each job 5 months max.; average 3 months)
* 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.
* 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
* 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

12. B. Full Time Jobs:(average 2.5 years each)
* Maintenance Scheduler, Renison Goldfields P/L, Zeehan, Tasmania, 1981-1982
* Adult Educator, Tafe, Katherine, Northern Territory, 1982-1986(some teaching
involved)
* Public Relations Officer, Hedland College, South Hedland, WA, 1986-
1987(some teaching involved)
C. Casual/Volunteer Work:(Recent--1997 to 2005)
* 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.
6. PERSONAL INTERESTS
* Writing: see section 2 above for details: 1962-2007
* Reading and music : 1962-2007(separate statements available if desired)
* The social sciences and humanities: have more than 300 files/notebooks/resource
manuals, circa 20 million words, collected over 45 years(1962-2007). A summary
statement is available, if requested.
 Exercise and fitness: separate statement available on request, if desired.
7. 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 : 1959-2007
(see Baha’i Resume below for details)
* I have been a member of many groups during the fifty year period 1957-2007,
the age of 13 to 63. 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.
8. REFERENCES, REFEREES AND PORTFOLIO OF MY WORK:
8.1 am no longer required to supply transcripts, references and testimonials in
relation to positions since I no longer apply for jobs of any kind. I keep an

13. archive-file for nostalgia purposes of many of the references and documents in
connection with my working life and my community participation as a citizen, a
volunteer and an individual in relation to the many interest groups I was involved
with in the communities where I lived over the last half century. I have not
required any of these documents in the last decade, the years 1997 to 2007, years
of my planned and early retirement.
8.2 Samples of my writing are also available in a separate portfolio, if requested.
This portfolio of my writing is available in its many forms and genres as suited and
relevant to the needs of the groups and individuals making the requests. Virtually
all of the requests now come from locations on the world-wide-web.
8.3 In July 1999 I ceased full-time employment as a lecturer-teacher. In May 2001
I went onto an Australian Disability Pension due to my bipolar disorder and I no
longer applied for full-time jobs. Four years ago, in late 2003, I applied for my last
part-time job. In May 2005 my work in nearly all volunteer organizations also
ceased with the exception of work done within the Baha’i community. Now at the
age of 63 I devote myself full-time to writing, although my wife ensures that I keep
my-end-up, so to speak, on the domestic front and participate in the social world
where she plays an active role and often wants/needs my assistance.
9. GENERAL
* a personal & bio-data sheet can be found below in Appendix A.
* a covering letter may be included to introduce this document, if relevant.
* a list of subjects taught can be found in Appendix B.
* a Bahá’í resume is found in Appendix C.
Ron Price
George Town Tasmania
Last Updated: 28 August 2007
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APPENDIX A:
PERSONAL & BIO-DATA
SURNAME Price
GIVEN NAMES Ronald Frederick
ADDRESS 6 Reece Street George Town Tasmania Australia 7253

14. AUSTRALIAN
CITIZEN Yes
CANADIAN
CITIZEN Yes
CONTACT
DETAILS
TELEPHONE 61-03-63824790(“61” is for international calls)
POSITIONS
APPLIED FOR: I applied for some four thousand jobs during the 42 year period:
1961-2003. During two of those years I was ill and/or
hospitalized and could not work and I was a student from
1961 to 1967 with only summer jobs. The 4000 job applications,
then, in 40 years works out to an average of two every week
for each of these 40 years--from the summer holidays in
grade 10 to my 60th
year.
HEALTH
Manic-depression/bi-polar disorder: treated(for the most part)
--separate statement available, if desired
AGE 63
REFEREES Have not required any referees in the last five years:2003-2007,
but they can be provided if required.
FT/PT WORK/CASUAL
VOLUNTEER/ See lists above in sections 3,4, and 5 of resume.
VALUE BASE Member of the Baha’i Faith for 48 years, 1959-2007.
COMPUTER Extensive use of computer to: (a) write, (b) send emails,
LITERACY (c) do topic searches and (d) keep a large personal archive of
documents.
DRIVER’S
LICENCE Yes
PHOTO Digital photos available on electronic transfer, if desired.
PORTFOLIO I have a large portfolio of my writing available under separate

15. cover, if desired.
PERSONAL STATS hair colour: brown and greying quickly; eye colour: hazel;
weight 215 lbs(16.5 stone) and increasing slowly; height:
6 feet(183 cms); full medical details/statement is also
available, if required.
MARITAL STATUS married twice: 1967-1975 and 1975 -2007
CHILDREN three: one from my second marriage(son age 30 in 2007)
and two from my second wife’s first marriage( two
girls, my step-daughters, ages in 2007 are:41 & 36.
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APPENDIX B:
COURSES, UNITS, MODULES, SYLLABI, SUBJECTS AND/OR
PROGRAMS TAUGHT IN POST-SECONDARY EDUCATIONAL
INSTITUTIONS IN AUSTRALIA: 1974-2005
The list below outlines the ‘subjects’ taught and the institutions where I taught
them between 1974 and 2005: 29 years. As I mentioned above, I did not teach in
the years 1980-1981 and from July 1999 to May 2005 my teaching was PT, casual
and/or volunteer giving an actual total of 21 years of full-time post-secondary
teaching. Some teachers have a highly specialized teaching function and others are
generalists. My role was as a generalist and this is why there is such a variety of
subjects which I taught and which are listed below.
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A. 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

16. 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)
B. 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

17. Welfare Practice 2B
C. 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. 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
E. Engineering, Applied Science and Social Science Students
at the Ballarat College of Advanced Education 1976-1978:
(now the University of Ballarat)

18. 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)
F. Whitehorse Technical College: 1975-1976
Behavioural Studies(Library Technician Trainees)(Cert.3)
G. Tasmanian College of Advanced Education
(now the University of Tasmania): 1974:
Language in Use(Linguistics)
Introductory Psychology
Human Relations
Sociology of Art
Individualized Learning
Sociology
H. The George Town School of Seniors Inc: 1999-2005
Autobiography
Creative Writing
Philosophy
Social Sciences
Media Studies
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APPENDIX C:
RESUME OF BAHA’I ACTIVITY
Preamble:
The outline below is a brief sketch only. No attempt is made to list all the activities
in the 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(place,length of time, specific program) and their respective occasions. Some
specificity is required, though, and I think I have provided a good balance between
specificity and generality.

19. I would think, in the vast majority of cases, 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. In the last five years, 2003 to
2007, in these early years of my retirement and late adulthood, I have not applied
for positions using this document or some variation of it.
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A. PRE-YOUTH: 1953-1959
B. YOUTH : 1959-1963
C. ADULT : 1963-2007
1. LOCALASSEMBLY 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 years
2. REGISTERED and UNREGISTERED GROUP SERVICE:
Frobisher Bay NWT: 1967-68
King City Ontario : 1969
Picton Ontario : 1970-71
Whyalla South Aust : 1971
Launceston Tasmania : 1974
Kew Victoria : 1975
Smithton Tasmania : 1979
Zeehan Tasmania : 1980-82
Katherine NT : 1982-86
South Hedland WA : 1986-87
George Town Tas : 1999-2007(until further notice)
3. PUBLISHED AND UNPUBLISHED WORK:
See my resume above for details in these two categories of my writing.
4. COMMITTEE WORK:
1. LSA and Group Committees:

20. The list of committees during the 19 years of service on LSAs and another 29 years
in Registered and Unregistered Groups is partly too long to recount and partly
beyond the scope of my memory after all these years. I do not recall serving on
any committees in the five year period 1959 to 1964. Since May of 2005 I have
been the publicity officer of the George Town Baha’i Group.
1. Regional and National Teaching Committees:(RTCs and NTCs)
1. RTC of Northern Tasmania : 1974
2. RTC of the Northern Territory : 1984-86
3. National Community Development Committee: 1976-77
5. ASSISTANT TO THE AUXILIARY BOARD : 1986
In the Northern Territory in 1986 for a few months before moving interstate.
6. PIONEER SERVICE:
1. Homefront : Canada : 1962-1971
2. International : Australia: 1971-2007
7. TEACHING WORK:
It is very difficult to quantify one’s teaching work and the accomplishments and
developments of some fifty years of teaching as a pioneer(1962-2007), as a new
Baha’i in my home town for three years(1959-1962) before pioneering and the
several years of early contact through my mother and father in this new
Faith(1953-1959). But, given the importance of this part of Baha’i life, the
following activities could be listed as areas of contribution relevant to the teaching
work during a period of often unrealistically high expectations, with the
consequent measure of inevitable disappointments and discouragements. These
contributions also took place during the succession of the Cause’s developments
and triumphs in the face of opposition and indifference, triumphs that have
encouraged and inspired its adherents.
It should also be emphasized, as a preamble to this list, that since the early 1990s
there has been an important shift in the field of Baha’i public information and the
focus of Baha’i activity. The former preoccupation with “conversion” and the
inevitable sense of “us and them” that intruded for so many years; what had
become a somewhat parochial view of focusing the Baha’i message in religious
categories has been slowly replaced with a more inclusivistic approach or
philosophy and my own teaching work has reflected this shift.
7.1 Working on LSAs, Groups and Committees

21. 7.2 Writing: (see my resume above)
7.2.1 essays and poetry for magazines, journals, newspapers and websites in and
out of the Baha’i community
7.2.2 essays and poetry given to individuals, groups and LSAs in the Baha’i
community
note: -some of this is kept at the Baha’i World Centre Library(BWCL)
-the rest I have on file in hard copy or in my computer directory at home
7.2.3 Giving talks/presentations/interviews
7.2.4 Working as a teacher in educational institutions
7.2.5 Moving to many towns and states where few or no Baha’is have lived
7.2.6 Moving to another country at crucial point in a Plan as a pioneer
7.2.7 Entering into various forms of activity and interest groups in local
communities
7.2.7.1 -festivals and other public events, social programs and musical events
-media programs and local organizations in a list too long to mention
7.2.8 Promoting the Baha’i Faith through various forms of advertising such as:
- putting up posters, an estimated....10,000.
-doing letterbox drops, an estimated 7,000
-placing ads in newspapers, radio stations, TV stations and magazines, an
estimated 1000, and
-being interviewed on radio, eight radio appearances
(one on cassette tape; one on mini-disc and sent to the BWCL).
7.2.9 Going on unnumbered travel teaching trips from home communities/localities
to extension goals, to towns which were not goals and overseas as a pioneer;
and
7.2.10 Giving poetry readings in both Baha’i and other interest group settings
8. CONSOLIDATION WORK:
It is also difficult to define one’s contributions to the consolidation work over this
same time period of 54 years. Again, some attempt is made below, given the
importance of consolidation during these years of the ninth and the tenth stage of
Baha’i history: 1953-2007. There has been a major shift in the nature of
consolidation in Baha’i communities as there has been in the teaching domain. I
would like to list the following as part of my contribution to the consolidation
work in its several forms:
1. Work on the Baha’i institutions listed above taking many forms—too
extensive to list here;
2. Writing, as listed above and requiring no more description;
3. Writing booklets of poetry which I have had, and will have, a consolidation
potential in the years ahead since they provide a rich base of comment on the
several decades of Baha’i experience in these epochs; and

22. 4. Several of the activities listed above under ‘teaching’ which also had a
consolidation function.
9. TRAVEL TEACHING
See a separate statement I have written on travel teaching posted at many sites on
the internet and at THEHEYDAY.COM(in the ‘service’ section) as well—and
available from the author on request.
10. OTHER FORMS OF WORK IN THE BAHA’I COMMUNITY:
In a lifetime, over five decades now, of service in this emerging world religion one
does a great deal. This section has been opened to include items not covered in the
above and will be elaborated upon in the years ahead as my life continues into late
adulthood(60 to 80) and old age(80++) and this Cause goes through
transformations that can not, as yet, be anticipated.
11. CONCLUDING STATEMENT:
The above sketch, or Baha’i resume as I call it, has been written to provide an
outline of my activity in the Baha’i community since 1953 when my mother joined
this new world Faith and I was still a child and since 1959 when I joined the Baha'i
Faith at the age of 15. The 200 thousand Baha’is in 1953 are now six million and
the Baha’i community has gone through several transformations in this time as has
the focus and direction of my teaching efforts.
This sketch above is concerned more specially with the years since 1962 when my
pioneering life began and since 1966 when my service in Baha'i Administration
started in Windsor Ontario. The decades of struggle in implementing the global
Plans of the Universal House of Justice also began in these years and what seems
now like an endless series of creative and not-so-creative experiments, brief
periods of activity, greater periods of growth and then, at times, crises and
disintegration with the often inconspicuous offering widening dimensions of
possibility.
This sketch of mine, this statement, also needs to be read in conjunction with: (a)
my professional resume above--which I used for many years in a multitude of
forms when applying for general employment positions; and with (b) my more
than 6500 poems--which is part of a larger autobiographical work entitled
Pioneering Over Four Epochs containing: journals, poetry, letters, book reviews,
photographs, tapes, notes and narrative written and collected over 50 years: from
1957 to 2007—an estimated five million words.
Some 5000 of my poems were sent as a gift to the BWCL in the decade 1987 to
1997 in celebration of the wondrous efflorescence that is the Baha’i Project and the

23. Terraces on Mount Carmel. An 800 page autobiography by the same title was also
sent to the BWCL in 2004. This statement, like my professional resume, was once
used when applying for positions in the embryonic global Baha’i Administrative
Order. Now it is only used on the internet, when relevant, at various websites in
connection with a host of subjects.
I trust the above statement is useful to readers who chance upon it and helps
Baha’is in their efforts to serve the Cause and establish it, more firmly than it
already is, as “the axis of the oneness of the world of humanity” among their
contemporaries.
Ron Price
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Updated on: 28/8/07.