A.1.3

This is the revised draft of my report to the the NSA of the Baha'is of Canada, sent 28/11/'14, and to the NSA of the Baha'is of Australia sent 24/11/'14 and the UHJ

also in that last week of November some time.

THE RESUME OF RON PRICE

Preamble:

Part 1:

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 teaching and tutoring, lecturing and delivering adult education programs in post-secondary schools, colleges and universities(Appendix B). A basic bio-data sheet(Appendix A) is also included. Finally, I have attached, in an Appendix D, a general perspective on my personal career, a perspective that an employing authority would have found relevant in the latter years of my paid-employment life and now, in cyberspace, some readers will find useful in describing my life-narrative in relation to the world of paid employment.

I no longer apply for jobs, as I did from 1950 to 2005, and the above set of evolving documents, altered more times over the 55 years of my paid-employment life, is now found in an electronic archive in my computer directory. I update these documents occasionally for internet use in this first decade of my full retirement from FT, PT and casual employment in these last years of my late adulthood, a period used by developmental psychologists for the years 60 to 80 in the lifespan. I have come to use this package of information for a multitude of purposes on the internet in the last several years. I forward it to you for your use in whatever way it has value in the years ahead.

Part 2:

My professional resume and the statement of my Baha’i experience has gradually come to take the form it now has as an integrated document. I once utilized my resume, my curriculum vitae(CV), along with a brief statement of my lifeline, life-story, personal-life narrative to provide a broader perspective for employing authorities to assist them in assessing the relevance of my particular application for the position in question. Each person writes “their story” and outlines their “resume” in their own way. With a whole industry that has now grown-up around

this process of job applications, I tried to provide employing authorities with what I hoped they would find a refreshing and distinctive approach to this job application process.

What follows is not so much a model, for there are dozens of models now and readers of this statement are in no need of yet another model for the job application industry or some employing institution. What follows is, rather, an integration of a professional, a Baha’i and a more personal resume in these the retirement years of my life which I utilize on the internet for all sorts of professional, public and personal reasons suited to my purposes. I now utilize this resume, this still evolving document, in many ways, in many formats, at many internet sites in their various sections and sub-section. I hope you find what follows, some 10,000 words and 32 A-4 pages, of some practical use, for it is intended to be useful to the recipient. Feel free to write to me directly at my email address if you would like to discuss this statement for any reason. –Ron Price, George Town, Tasmania, Australia, 28 November 2014. My email address is: ronprice9@gmail.com. __________________________________________________________________

RESUMES & RELEVANT APPENDICES

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, tutor, lecturer, adult educator, student and many other roles found in section 4 below at different times since beginning my employment life in 1950.

1.1 Academic Qualifications

* Bachelor of Arts(Sociology)McMaster UniversityHamilton Ontario Canada 1966 *B. Ed.(Primary School Training) Windsor Teachers’ College(Now University of Windsor) Windsor Ontario Canada 1967

* MA(Qualifying Thesis)

University of QueenslandSt Lucia QueenslandAustralia 1988 1.2 Professional Qualifications * Post Graduate Diploma in EducationWindsor UniversityWindsor Ontario Canada 1967 * Certificate of Integrated StudiesEducation Department of OntarioToronto Ontario Canada 1970

1.3 Further Studies(Qualifications Incomplete) * Advanced Diploma in EducationUniversity of Adelaide Adelaide South Australia 1973-comparative education unit * Master of Educational AdministrationUniversity of New England Armadale NSW 1975 to 1978-comparative education, organization theory and practice, educationaladministration, open education and history of education units * Diploma in Personnel Management and Industrial RelationsTasmanian College of Advanced EducationLaunceston Tasmania 1980-organizational behaviour-3 units * Graduate Diploma in Multicultural EducationArmadale College of Advanced EducationArmadale NSW 1983-language and society unit; presented paper at residential school. * Graduate Diploma in Religious EducationSouth Australian College of Advanced EducationAdelaide South Australia 1984 to 1986-religious symbols and symbolism, sociology of education, the Bibleas 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-to-late 1970s, respectively* Granted permanency with the Department of Employment, Vocational Education and Training(Devet) in WA. Devet is now known as the Dept of Training in Western Australia as of 1993.

1.6 Professional Memberships and Eligibility

* Secondary School Teachers Union of Western Australia: 1987 to 1999Branch secretary for four of those years first at Hedland College in the Pilbara, and then at the Thornlie Campus of the Southeast Metropolitan College of Tafe now known as Polytechnic West--Thornlie Campus 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 2014; and at

1.2 An estimated 8000 other sites containing several million words, 2001-20142. * "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 and Baha'i Councils of the NSA of the Baha'is of Australia Inc., 1971-2014.4. * Periodic Articles/Letters, Baha'i Canada and The Australian Baha'i Bulletin now The Australian Baha’i: 1971-2009. 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.3-4.16. * "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,

1974.23. My website is found at: http://www.ronpriceepoch.com/

2.2. Articles and Reviews: Newspapers

1. 150 articles of 800 words each(on average) have appeared in the following newspapers and magazines in 1983-1986. Katherine Advertiser.....150,000 wordsKatherine Times................2,000 wordsBarkley Regional..................300 wordsLaunceston Examiner...........300 wordsThe Tasmanian.................... 300 words The Northern News .............300 wordsCosmos.................................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 2. 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 Times2. Nashuatelegraph3. International Viewpoint4. Persian Journal5. The Australian6. Career Journal7. The Canadian Poetry Association8. World Chronicle9. Contemporary Literature10. European History11. Medieval History12. Writers in Touch13. Arkansas Poets Society14. Dream Journal15. 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 various lengths(1000 to 5000 words) 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. Artgender2. The Southern Gazette3. Herald of the South4. Katherine Advertiser5. four W No.6: Selected Works-Charles Sturt University 6. The Southern Gazette7. Australian Baha’i Bulletin8. The Liquid Mirror

9. Baha'i Canada10. Australian Bahá’í Studies Newsletter11. Australian Baha'i Studies Journal12. World Order: Anthology13. 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 readers can do this easily by typing the following words and word sequences into the respective search engines: Ron Price Poetry, Ron Price Bahá’í, 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 ofTafe and the Thornlie Campus, Southeast Metropolitan College 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 guides 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 online at: http://bahai-library.com/Ronprice

* Pioneering Over Five Epochs: An Autobiographical Study and a Study in Autobiography, 6th edition, BWCL, 2600 pages: 5 volumes in hard copy at

(1) Reviewed by NSA of the Baha’is of the USA for publication in cyberspace; (2) eBookMall has an 1800 page abridged version for $2.98 and (3) manyparts 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 1988 to 1991. Longest single attempt 30,000 words.

2.8.3 Essays Complete: Unpublished:

* 1979-2014—a collection of over 200(circa) autobiographical and other essays.

2.8.4 Essays Complete: Published:

* Essays 1977-2014: A collection of over 300 essays(circa) published in many locations in (1) newspapers, (2) magazines, (3) journals and (4) on the internet.

2.8.5 Letters Complete: Unpublished:

* 1957-2014: A collection of 50 volumes(arch-lever files and 2-ring binders) of letters, emails and posts on the internet, an estimated 10,000 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:

75 booklets of poetry: 100-120 poems per booklet, written from 1980 to 2014, over 7000 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 8000 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 8000 sites is available, as I have indicated above, under separate cover at: ronprice9@gmail.com .The latest, the 4th, edition of my website is found at: http://www.ronpriceepoch.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 poems11. 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. The last dozen of my Booklets of Poetry were now kept in my study in George

Town, Tasmania. By my late 60s(circa 2011-12) I no longer had any plans to send booklets of my poetry to other individuals and Baha'i communities except, of course, in cyberspace.

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, 5th edition; 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. At least 50 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:

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 Other Post-Secondary Institutions: FullTime(FT), PartTime(PT) & Volunteer/Casual(V/C)

*George Town School for Seniors Inc 1999-2005(V) *Charles Sturt University 1995(July to October)(FT) * Tasmanian CAE 1974(FT) and 1979(PT) * Ballarat CAE 1976-1978(FT) * Deakin University 1977(C)

* Whitehorse Technical College 1975(FT) * University of Tasmania 1974(C) 4.3 Courses Taught

During the years 1980-1981 I did not teach due to illness. 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* 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. West 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, 1973/43. Oakwood Education Trust, Launceston Campus, 2001.

5. INDUSTRIAL, COMMERCIAL & HUMAN SERVICE EMPLOYMENT1961-2005

(non-teaching experience) A. Summer &/or Short Term Jobs: (each job 5 months max.; average 3 months)

* Self-Employed: Gardening-&-Odd-Jobs, Burlington, Ontario, 1950 to 1959.

* 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/Cleaner/Storeman & Packer, Firestone Tire and Rubber Corporation, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, 1963/64* 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, 1969* Security Work, International Security, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1969* 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:(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. * Several positions in at the local and regional levels of Baha’i Administration in Perth WA and in Tasmania from 1997 to 2005.

6. PERSONAL INTERESTS

* Writing: see section 2 above for details: 1962-2014* Reading and music : 1962-2014, separate statements available if desired.

* The social sciences and humanities: have more than 300 files/notebooks/resource manuals, circa 20 million words, collected over 52 years(1962-2014). 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 Ontario(1953-1962)* Member of the Baha’i Faith(1959-2014) (see Baha’i Resume below for details)* I have been a member of many other groups during the fifty year period 1957-2014, the age of 13 to 70. 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 1 am never required to supply transcripts, references and testimonials in relation to positions since I never apply for jobs of any kind. I do keep an archive-file for nostalgia purposes, as well as a form of concrete/official evidence, of many of the references and documents in connection with my working life and my community participation as a citizen.

This archive also contains evidence of my volunteer work and individual initiative in relation to the many interest groups I was involved with in the communities where I lived over the last 60 years, 1953 to 2014. As I say, I have not been required to present any of these documents in the last decade, the years 2006 to 2014, years of what has been my retirement from all FT, PT and C/V work.

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, although still continued on a casual, volunteer and part-time basis until 2005. In May 2001 I went onto an Australian Disability Pension due to my bipolar disorder and in July 2009 I went on to the Australian Old Age Pension. Now at the age of 70 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 in the volunteer/social world where she plays an active role . 9. GENERAL

* a personal & bio-data sheet can be found below in Appendix A. * a covering letter was supplied until 2005 specifically related to some position in question.* a list of subjects taught can be found in Appendix B below.* a Bahá’í resume is found in Appendix C below; and* a general perspective on my career and lifeline in Appendix D

Ron Price George Town Tasmania AustraliaLast Updated On: 28 November 2014 at age: 70.3__________________________________________________________________

APPENDIX A:

PERSONAL & BIO-DATA

SURNAME Price GIVEN NAMES Ronald Frederick ADDRESS 6 Reece Street George Town Tasmania Australia 7253 AUSTRALIAN CITIZEN Yes CANADIAN CITIZEN Yes CONTACT DETAILS TELEPHONE 61-03-63824790(“61” is for international calls) POSITIONS APPLIED FOR:

The approximately 4000 word statement which can be accessed at this link describes my transition out of paid-employment and the job-hunting process. My life-narrative was involved in job-hunting and paid-employment from 1957 to 2007, 1953 to 2003, or 1954 to 2004 depending on my definitions of job-hunting

on the one hand, and paid-employment on the other. It was a transition to a full retirement from all FT paid-employment, and to the pursuit of a leisure life devoted to being a writer and author, poet and publisher, online blogger and journalist, editor and researcher, reader and scholar. The years 1999 to 2007 marked these years of transition. During those 8 years I also gave up PT work and most casual-volunteer work. Go to this link for that statement: https://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140626213638-7568280-running-the-job-hunting-gauntlet-persistence

HEALTH

Manic-depression or bi-polar disorder: treated--separate statement

available: http://www.ronpriceepoch.com/MENTAL_HEALTH.html

AGE 70.3

REFEREES Have not required any referees in the last 8 years:2007-2014, but they can be provided if required. FT/PT WORK/CASUALVOLUNTEER/ See lists above in sections 3,4, and 5 of resume. VALUE BASE Member of the Baha’i Faith for 55 years, 1959-2014. 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 cover, if desired.

PERSONAL STATS

hair colour:greying quickly; eye colour: hazel; weight 238

lbs(17 stone) & increasing slowly; height: 6 feet(183 cms);

full medical details/statement is also available, if required.

MARITAL STATUS married twice: 1967-1975 and 1975 -2014

CHILDREN three: one from my second marriage(son age 37 in 2014), and two from my second wife’s first marriage( two girls, my step-daughters, ages in 2014 are:48 & 43). __________________________________________________________________

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: 31 years. As I mentioned above, though, (i) I did not teach in the years 1980-1981 and (ii) from July 1999 to May 2005 my teaching was PT, casual and/or volunteer giving an actual total of only 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.__________________________________________________________________ A. Hedland College: Acting Lecturer in Management Studies 1986-1987:

Katherine Open College of Tafe 1982-1986: Interpersonal Skills AInterpersonal Skills BPerformance AppraisalNegotiating Skills ANegotiating Skills BConflict Resolution AConflict Resolution BIntroduction to ManagementClub ManagementTime Management

CounsellingInterview TechniquesPublic SpeakingInterview TechniquesConsultation SkillsLetter Writing and Report Writing ALetter Writing and Report Writing BSupervision SkillsAboriginal Administrator Training Officer SkillsCreative 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 TEEAncient Roman History TEEModern History TEEPolitics TEEEnglish Literature TEEEnglish TEETraditional Culture and Modern Society(Anthropology)Framework of Australian Society(Economics)History of IdeasAustralian Government and Legal SystemsPhilosophy 1 APhilosophy 1BGeneral PsychologyCommercial and Civic PrinciplesInterpersonal Study and Work Skills 001Interpersonal Study and Work Skills 002Society and Culture(Sociology)Life Skills 1B(guitar)Recreation 2(Certificate 2)Social Science IntroductionWelfare Practice 1AWelfare Practice 1BWelfare Practice 2AWelfare 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 EnglishWriting Workplace DocumentsPresenting InformationPresenting ReportsWorkplace CommunicationQuality Team ManagementJob Seeking SkillsCommunication and Industrial RelationsManaging Effective Working RelationshipsManaging and Developing TeamsField Experience in Community ServicesWork 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) 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 PsychologyHuman RelationsSociology of ArtIndividualized LearningSociology H. The George Town School of Seniors Inc: 1999-2005

AutobiographyCreative WritingPhilosophySocial SciencesMedia Studies__________________________________________________________________

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 61 years(1953-2014) of my association with and membership/service in the Baha’i community. In outlining what follows I have tended to generalize rather than specify the particular tasks in terms of place, length of time, specific programs and their respective purposes. Some specificity is required, though, and I think I have provided a good balance between specificity and generality.

I would think, in the vast majority of cases, the information is correct and accurate. This statement was once used 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 decade, 2003 to 2014, in

these early years of my retirement and late adulthood, I have not applied for positions using this document or some variation of it.__________________________________________________________________ A. PRE-YOUTH : 1953-1959B. YOUTH : 1959-1963C. ADULT : 1963-2014

1. LOCAL ASSEMBLY SERVICE: LSA of the Baha’is of Windsor : 1966/7: vice-chairmanLSA of the Baha’is of Toronto : 1969LSA of the Baha’is of Whyalla : 1972: secretaryLSA of the Baha’is of Gawler : 1973: chairmanLSA of the Baha’is of Ballarat : 1976-78: chairman/secretaryLSA of the Baha’is of Launceston: 1979: publicity officerLSA of the Baha’is of Stirling : 1988: secretaryLSA of the Baha’is of Belmont : 1989-1999: chairman/secretary for 7 years 2. REGISTERED and UNREGISTERED GROUP SERVICE: Frobisher Bay NWT : 1967-68King City Ontario : 1969Picton Ontario : 1970-71Whyalla South Aust : 1971Launceston Tasmania : 1974Kew Victoria : 1975Smithton Tasmania : 1979Zeehan Tasmania : 1980-82Katherine NT : 1982-86South Hedland WA : 1986-87George Town Tas : 1999-2014 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:

The list of committees during the 19 years of service on LSAs and another 31 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, and the secretary.

1. Regional and National Teaching Committees:(RTCs and NTCs)

1. RTC of Northern Tasmania : 19742. RTC of the Northern Territory : 1984-863. 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 : 1962-19712. International : Australia : 1971-2014

7. TEACHING WORK: It is very difficult to quantify one’s teaching work and the accomplishments and developments of some 52 years of teaching as a pioneer(1962-2014), as a new Baha’i in my home town for three years(1959-1962) before pioneering, and the several years of early contact(1953-1959) as a result of my mother and father's involvement in this new Faith. 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 in the land of its birth and indifference in many other countries, as well as triumphs that have encouraged and inspired its adherents.

It should also be emphasized, as a preamble to this list, that since the mid-1990s there has been an important shift in the field of Baha’i public information and the focus of Baha’i activity, what has amounted to a new paradigm, a new culture of learning and growth in the Baha'i community. The former preoccupation with “conversion” and the inevitable sense of “us and them” that necessarily and unavoidably 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 inclusive approach or philosophy and my own teaching work has reflected this shift.

It should also be emphasized that this teaching work has been part of Canada's glorious mission overseas and the extension of the teaching work to the northernmost part of Canada as the Guardian has described various aspects of the global teaching work of the Canadian Baha'i community in his letters to Canada.

7.1 Working on LSAs, Groups and Committees7.2 Writing: (see my resume above)7.2.1 essays and poetry for magazines, journals, newspapers and websites in and out of the Baha’i community7.2.2 essays and poetry given to individuals, groups and LSAs in the Baha’i communitynote: -some of this poetry 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 home7.2.3 Giving talks/presentations/interviews7.2.4 Working as a teacher in educational institutions7.2.5 Moving to many towns and states where few or no Baha’is have lived7.2.6 Moving to another country at crucial point in a Plan as a pioneer: 19717.2.7 Entering into various forms of activity and interest groups in local communities 7.2.7.1 Taking part in festivals and other public events, social programs and musical events 7.2.7.2 Taking part in media programs and local organizations in a list too long to mention7.2.8 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 & overseas as a pioneer; and7.2.10 Giving poetry readings in both Baha’i and other interest group settings7.2.11 Held monthly devotional meeting from 2003 to 2014 in the locality where I live in Tasmania

8. CONSOLIDATION WORK: It is also difficult to define one’s contributions to the consolidation work over this same time period of some 61 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: 1953-2014. 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

4. Several of the activities listed above under ‘teaching’ which also had a consolidation function.

9. TRAVEL TEACHING, SERVICE AND SOCIAL ACTIVISM:

9.1 Letter Writing

Go to this link:http://bahai-library.com/letters_memoirs_poetry_autobiography

9.2 Essay Writing:

Go to this link: http://bahai-library.com/Ronprice

9.3 Internet Work:

A. MY TYPE OF SOCIAL NETWORKING

1. Everything I do with other people online is part of my particular type of social networking. My social networking is associated with three basic activities: (a) the creation of a personal webpage that serves as a home base, a central hub, for my writing, for teaching and consolidation, that is, community building, for service and social activism, as well as for feedback from others---should they wish; (b) the creation of a detailed personal profile(see Appendix 1 below) which I post at over 8000 internet sites which readers at these sites can access, again, if they wish; and finally (c) posting my writing at these 8000+ sites, and interacting with others about my posts and theirs. In the process I promote my website, and my writing, at these 8000+ internet sites.

2. In the last decade, 2004 to 2014, I have created an extensive audience or readership. I address myself to a circle, a crowd or single individuals. I try to make of my interactions more than the typical ones found at sites like Facebook and twitter. The interactions or connections at such popular social networking sites often reduce friendship to a feeling or an image, a sense of connection to faraway or nearby friends about everyday things based, for the most part, on very short, pithy posts. Such connections involve posts that often contain little about one’s true difficulties in life. A world of privacy and an image is

created. There is nothing wrong with that, with this type of site and networking style, but it is not my style, not my approach, not my MO, modus operandi, to use a who-dun-it term.

3. I post a great deal about what I think in the form of prose and poetry, generally more extended pieces of writing than the posts found in the Facebook and twitter world. My posts are far beyond the one-liners, the jokes, what I did today, what I ate for dinner, I poke you, I like this and I don’t like that, the ‘here are some photos of this’ and ‘here are some pictures of that’, ‘here is a video of this’ and ‘here is a piece of music,’etc.

B. MY WEBSITE

1. My website has been on the internet for the last 18 years: 1997-2014. It is part of a tapestry, or perhaps a jig-saw puzzle is a more accurate word, for all my poetry and prose both at my website and elsewhere in cyberspace at those 8000+ sites mentioned above. I have dozens of links at my site, some linked to my writing at other internet sites, and some linked to resources created by others. I have created a large thread of words across the internet since leaving the world of jobs in the late 1990s and taking a sea-change at the age of 55.

2. My cyberspace creation is made by a now self-employed individual: a retired teacher and lecturer, tutor and adult educator, taxi-driver and ice-cream salesman. I am now a writer and author, poet and publisher, editor and scholar, researcher and editor,online blogger and online journalist, scribbler and sampler within the immense commentariat and bloggosphere that is the world-wide-web.

3. I am now 70.3(28/11/'14) and I attempt to endow various themes and a wide range of subjects in the arts and sciences with many layers of meaning. In these last 18 years on the world-wide-web I have evoked a complex range of responses in readers who come upon my work, responses which range from lavish enthusiasm to utter indifference and quite intense criticism. The solitary work of literary creation requires a type of talent, some earned ability or unearned gift of grace which is almost never collaborative. Social networking may expose readers to this or that book, this or that video or piece of music, this or that restaurant, food dish or pleasurable activity, this or that idea or cause.

3.1 The solitude I require to create an essay, a poem or a book requires my ability to draw on the globally interrelated, interdependent and interlocked system of the WWW to market my wares. Until my work is ready to be placed in cyberspace the activity is intensely private, although I often draw on the work of other writers in composing my own literary creations. The marketing of my work is also private, and then the feedback comes in or it does not as the case may be. Not everything I write in cyberspace is commented on by others.

B.1 MY WEBSITE AND OTHER INTERNET SITES

I will continue to use my website as the central hub for my literary work, for my internet teaching and learning activity, for my now several million words and many

books on the internet in this 2nd decade of the 21st century. My writing is found in the form of: essays and blogs, poems and articles, ebooks and message boards, threads and special topic sites, indeed a myriad types of discussions. I do not engage, though, in any sort of aggressive proselytising or heated exchange at those 8000 websites that are part of this personal and industrious exercise. When what I write produces vehemence and invective, heated criticism at some site, I simply leave if I am unable to cool the emotional climate at the site. Sometimes I am banned from a site before this occurs for a variety of reasons: Christians only, Muslims only or some other form of exclusivist site-policy. Sometimes what I write is considered spam and, even after I defend my case, I am sometimes excluded from some site. In cyberspace as in any real space, one cannot win all the time.

C. MY WRITING STYLE AND MY VALUES

1.I have tried over the last several decades of my life, looking back as far as my own junior youth in the 1950s, to develop a writing style which, while fusing together material from many academic disciplines, from my own life as well as from my value, belief and attitude base, aims to be both provocative and intellectually stimulating on the one hand and light and entertaining on the other. In writing, as in daily life though, one wins sometimes and one loses at other times; one’s writing appeals to some and not to others. One’s value, belief and attitude base is a set of assumptions around which one places one’s emotions and then proceeds to act and argue one’s case before the court of life.

2. I possess an obvious enthusiasm for my evolving values, beliefs and attitudes as well as the several causes I promote or I would not have been associated with some of them in their overt form---for more than 60 years; nor would I be promoting my ideas in a multitude of forms, subtle and not-so-subtle, on the internet as I do and have done since retiring from FT work in 1999, PT in 2003 and most casual-volunteer work in 2005.

D. MY READERSHIP

1. I now have several million readers on the internet. It is difficult to guesstimate readership precisely in cyberspace when there are now at least 1 billion sites and some 3 billion users, and when one writes at as many sites as I do. Many of the sites at which I post my writing and interact with others keep me informed about how many people click-on to what I have written.

2. I am engaged in varying degrees of frequency and intensity, in parts of this tapestry, this jig-saw puzzle, this literary product, this creation, this immense pile of words with hundreds of people with whom I correspond on occasion as a result. I keep most of this correspondence as infrequent as possible or I would drown in this new form of letter writing: the email and the internet post.

E. THE WWW AND PUBLISHING

1.This amazing technical facility, the world wide web, has made this literary success, this form of publishing, possible. This teaching and learning exercise, this form of service and often social activism, among the many other functions of my writing in the now wide and extensive dialogue I now have with diverse publics is an enriching one. If my writing had been left in the hands of the traditional hard and soft-cover publishers, where it had been without success for the most part from 1981 to 2001, these publishing results with my now extensive readership would never have been achieved.

2.It is my hope that what I write as a result of this self-employment, this literary vocation and avocation, this pleasurable occupation of my leisure time, resonates with both the novitiate and the veteran on the one hand and the great diversity of people who are on a multitude of paths in their journey through life.

F. NOTE

When accessing what I write in cyberspace you can Google: Ron Price, but be aware that there are 4000 to 5000 other Ron Prices now on the web. Some of them are men of fame and others of notoriety. You can also Google: Pioneering Over Five Epochs or Ron Price forums/blogs or Ron Price followed by…..many other words and phrases literally several 1000 possibilities to access what I have written. My website, to reiterate, is found at: http://www.ronpriceepoch.com/ My email address is:ronprice9@gmail.com is you want to write to me.APPENDIX 1:

EMPLOYMENT-SOCIAL-ROLE POSITIONS: 1943-2014

2010-2014-Retired and on an old-age pension in George Town, Tasmania1999-2009-Writer & Author, Poet & Publisher, Editor & Researcher, Reader and Scholar, Online Blogger and Journalist, Retired Teacher & Tutor, Lecturer & Adult Educator, Taxi-Driver & Ice-Cream Salesman, George Town Tasmania Australia2002-2005-Program Presenter City Park Radio Launceston1999-2004-Tutor &/or President George Town School for Seniors Inc--------ABOVE THIS LINE ARE MY YEARS OF RETIREMENT-------------

1988-1999 -Lecturer in General Studies & Human Services West Australian Department of Training1986-1987 -Acting Lecturer in Management Studies & Co-ordinator of Further Education Unit at Hedland College in South Hedland WA1982-1985 -Adult Educator Open College of Tafe Katherine NT1981 -Maintenance Scheduler Renison Bell Zeehan Tasmania1980-Unemployed due to illness and recovery1979-Editor External Studies Unit Tasmanian CAE; Youth Worker Resource Centre Association; Lecturer in Organizational Behaviour Tasmanian CAE; Radio Journalist ABC---all in Launceston Tasmania

1976-1978 -Lecturer in Social Sciences & Humanities Ballarat CAE Ballarat, Victoria1975 - Lecturer in Behavioural Studies Whitehorse Technical College, Box Hill Victoria1974 -Senior Tutor in Education Studies Tasmanian CAE Launceston, Tasmania1972-1973 -High School Teacher South Australian Education Department1971-Primary School Teacher Whyalla South Australia---ABOVE THIS LINE ARE MY YEARS LIVING IN AUSTRALIA AND BELOW THIS LINE ARE MY YEARS LIVING IN CANADA-------------------

1969-1971 Primary School Teacher Prince Edward County Board of Education Picton Ontario Canada1969-Systems Analyst Bad Boy Co Ltd Toronto Ontario1967-68 -Community Teacher Department of Indian Affairs & Northern Development Frobisher Bay NWT Canada1959-67 -Summer jobs-1 to 4 months each- from grade 10 to end of university1949-1967--Attended 2 primary schools, 2 high schools and 2 universities in Canada: McMaster Uni-1963-1966, Windsor Teachers’ College-1966/71944-1963 -Childhood(1944-57) and adolescence(1957-63) in and around Hamilton Ontario1943 to 1944-Conception in October 1943 to birth in July 1944 in Hamilton Ontario

2. SOME SOCIO-BIO-DATA TO 2014

I have been married twice for a total of 47 years. My second wife is a Tasmanian, aged 68. We’ve had one child: age 37. I have two step-children: ages: 48 and 43, three step-grandchildren, ages 21, 18 and 4, as well as one grandchild aged 3 years. All of the above applies in November 2014. I am 70, am a Canadian who moved to Australia in 1971 and have written several books--all available on the internet. I retired from full-time teaching in 1999, part-time teaching in 2003 and volunteer teaching/work in 2005 after 32 years in classrooms as a teacher and another 18 as a student. In addition, I have been a member of the Baha’i Faith for 55 years. Bio-data: 6ft, 238 lbs, eyes-brown/hair-grey, Caucasian.

My website is found at:http://www.ronpriceepoch.com/ You can also go to any search engine and type: Ron Price followed by any one of a number of words in addition to: poetry, forums, blogs, literature, history, bipolar disorder, psychology, sociology, media studies, inter alia, to access my writing________________________

10. OTHER FORMS OF WORK IN THE BAHA’I COMMUNITY:

In a lifetime, some 6 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. More details will be elaborated upon in the years ahead as my life continues through this last decade(70-80) of late adulthood(60 to 80) and old age(80++), if I last that long, and as this Cause goes through transformations that cannot, as yet, be anticipated.

11. CONCLUDING STATEMENT:

11.1 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 approximately 200 thousand Baha’is in 1953 are now 5 to 8 million and the Baha’i community has gone through several transformations in this time as has the focus and direction of the teaching efforts.

This sketch above is concerned more specially with the years since 1962 when my pioneering life began in Dundas Ontario, 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 often inconspicuous events 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 7000 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 2014—an estimated five million words.

11.2 Some 5000 of my poems were sent as a gift to the BWCL in the dozen years from 1988 to 2000 in celebration of the wondrous efflorescence that is the Baha’i Project and the Terraces on Mount Carmel. An 800 page autobiography(5th edition) 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 among their contemporaries more firmly than it already is---as “the axis of the oneness of the world of humanity”

Ron Price 25 November 2014

APPENDIX D:

LETTER WRITING 1-2 JOB APPLICATIONS A WEEK FOR 44 YEARS

JOB HUNTING 1961-2007

Part 1:

The information and details in the above resume, a resume I rarely use in the job-hunting world anymore, should help anyone wanting to know something about my personal and professional background, my writing and my life. This resume might be useful for the few who want to assess my suitability for some advertised or unadvertised employment position which, I must emphasize again, I rarely apply for anymore, but which I might seriously consider given the right circumstances.

I ceased making regular efforts to apply for full-time jobs more than a dozen years ago in 2001 and part-time ones in 2003. I also left the world of volunteer activity, except for work in one international organization, the Baha’i Faith, in May 2005. The age of 70 sees me, then, self-employed as a writer-poet. I gradually came to this role in the years after I left full-time employment in 1999, fifteen years ago.

Not being occupied with earning a living and giving myself to 60++ hours a week in a FT job, as I had done for many years before taking an early retirement at the age of 55 in 1999; and not giving myself to many other hours of community activity from 1999 to 2014, marked a turning point in my life so that I could devote my time to a much more extensive involvement in writing.

Part 2:

Writing is for most of its votaries a solitary, hopefully stimulating but not always pleasurable leisure-time-part-time-full-time pursuit. In my case in these early

years of my late adulthood, writing is full-time about 60 hours a week.1 I have

replaced paid employment and activity with people in community with a form of work which is also a form of leisure, namely, writing and reading.

Inevitably the style of one's writing and what one reads is a reflection of the person, their experience and their philosophy. Occasionally I attach my resume with its summary of my experience and qualifications this experience to this brief essay, this introductory statement on the history of my job application process.2 If,

1 This involves reading, posting on the internet, developing my own website and writing in several genres.2 My resume is only included with this statement when it seems appropriate, on request, in my autobiography/memoirs or on the internet for some other purpose.

as Carl Jung writes, we are what we do, then some of what I was and what I am can be found in that attachment. That document may seem over-the-top, as they say, to some readers since it now goes on for nearly 30 pages, but after nearly half a century of various forms of employment, years in the professional and not-so-professional job world, a great pile of experience was produced, a pile that still surprises me when I read it occasionally. As I say, I make it available to readers when appropriate and virtually entirely on the world-wide-web now. I update it to include many of the writing projects I have taken on during these first years of my retirement from full-time, part-time and volunteer activity. The resume has always been the piece of writing, the statement, the document, the entry ticket which has opened up the possibilities of another adventure, another pioneering move to another town, another state or country, another location, work in another organization, another portion of my life. I'm sure that will also be the case in the years of my late adulthood(60-80) and old age(80++) should, for some reason, movement to yet another place or, indeed, from place to place be necessary or desired. As I go through these early years of my late adulthood(60-80) and head into the last stage of my life, 80++, a stage usually called old age, I like to keep my options open, as they say.

Part 3:

In the last ten years which are the first(60 to 70) of my late adulthood(60 to 80) and in these early years of my retirement(2004 to 2014), I have been able to write to a much greater extent than I had ever been able to do in those years of my early and middle adulthood from 1965 to 2003 when job, family and the demands of various community projects kept my nose to the grindstone as they say colloquially. With the final unloading of much of the volunteer work I took on over many decades and more recently in Tasmania from 1999-2004, with my last child having left home in 2005, and with a more settled home environment than I’ve ever had, the remaining years of late adulthood(70-80) beckon bright with promise. My resume reflects this shift in my roles and my activity-base.

The process of frequent moves and frequent jobs which was my pattern for forty years is not everyone's style, modus operandi or modus vivendi. Many millions of people live and die in the same town, city or state and their life's adventure takes place within that physical region, the confines of a relatively small place and, perhaps, a very few jobs in their lifetime. Physical movement is not essential to psychological and spiritual growth, nor is a long list of jobs, although some degree of inner change, some inner shifting is just about inevitable, or so it seems to me, especially in these recent decades. For many millions of people during the years 1961-2005, my years of being jobbed, the world was their oyster, not so much in the manner of a tourist, although there was plenty of that, but rather in terms of working lives which came to be seen increasingly in a global context.

This was true for me during those years when I was looking for amusement, education and experience, some stimulating vocation and avocation, some employment security and comfort, my adventurous years of pioneering, my applying-for-job days, the more than forty years from 1961 to 2005. My resume altered many times, of course, during those forty plus years is now for the most part, as I indicated above, rarely used in these years of my retirement, except as an information and bio-data vehicle for interested readers, 99% of whom are on the internet at its plethora of sites.

Part 4:

This document, what I used to call a curriculum vitae or CV, is a useful backdrop, though, for those examining my writing, both my prose and my poetry, although some writers and, more so, poets regard their CV, resume, bio-data, lifeline, life-story, personal background as irrelevant to their work. For they take the position, assume the philosophical stance, that a person is not what he does or, to put it a little differently and a little more succinctly, "we are not our jobs." I frequently use this resume at various website locations on the Internet when I want to provide some introductory background on myself, indeed, I could list many new uses after forty years of only one use--to help me get a job, make more money, enrich my experience add some enrichment to my life, etcetera.

For decades this resume saved me from having to reinvent the wheel, so to speak. I did not have to say it all again in resume after resume to the point of utter tedium as I did so frequently when applying for jobs, especially in the days before the email and the internet. A few clicks of one’s personal electronic-computer system and some aspect of life’s game goes on or comes to a quick end at the other end of the electronic set of wires, as the case may be. During those job-hunting years 1961-2007 I applied for some four thousand jobs, an average of one-to-two a week for each of all those years! This is a guesstimation, of course, as accurate a guesstimation as I can calculate for this forty year period. The great bulk of those thousands of letters involved in this vast, detailed and, from time to time, quite exhausting and frustrating a process, I did not keep. I did keep a small handful of perhaps half a dozen of all those letters in a file in the Letters: Section VII, Sub-Section X of my autobiographical work, Pioneering Over Four Epochs. Given the thousands of hours over those forty years devoted to the job-hunting process; given the importance of this key to the pioneering venture that is my life; given the amount of paper produced and energy expended; given the amount of writing done

in the context of those various jobs,3 some of the correspondence seemed to warrant a corner in the written story of my life.4

It seemed appropriate, at least it was my desire, to write this short statement fitting all those thousands of resumes into a larger context. The things we do when we retire!5

3 Beginning with the summer job I had in the Canadian Peace Research Institute in 1964, I wrote an unnumbered quantity of: summaries, reports, essays, evaluations, subject notes, inter alia, in my many jobs. None of that material has been kept in any of my files and, over 40 years, it amounted to literally millions, an uncountable number, of words.4 The Letters section of my autobiography/memoirs now occupies some 25 arch-lever files and two-ring binders and covers the period 1960 to 2007. I guesstimate the collection contains about 3000 letters. This does not include these thousands of job applications and their replies, thousands of emails now and an unnumbered quantity of in-house letters at places where I was employed. I have kept, as I say above, about half a dozen to a dozen of these letters and none of the approximately 10,000 documents I wrote in the years 1961 to 2005.5 From 1994 to 2014 thousands of emails have been sent to me and replies have been written but, like the job application, most have been deleted from any potential archive. For the most part these deleted emails seem to have no long term value in an archive of letters. They were deleted as quickly as they came in. Of course there are other emails, nearly all of the correspondence I have sent and received since about 1990 to 1995 which would once have been in the form of letters, is now in the form of emails. They are kept in my letter-files along with internet site postings and, together, they occupy another 25 arch-lever files and two-ring binders.