TALK: Friends of the Library talk

Bill Dickinson will present a “travelogue” with photographs, slides and artefacts of his time spent teaching in Bhutan in 2003. He hopes that talks such as this will help the Bhutanese people in their wish to have people know something of their country.

Bhutan is a country situated in the Eastern Himalayas. “Since its doors were cautiously opened in 1974, visitors have been mesmerised: the environment is pristine, the scenery and architecture awesome and the people hospitable and charming” (Lonely Planet Guide)

Bill Dickinson studied Science and Education at Melbourne University, and then taught at schools in England and the USA for three and a half years. After teaching for ten years at Melbourne Grammar School, he moved to Scotch College in Perth as Headmaster in 1972 until his retirement in 1997. He received the honour of Member of the Order of Australia in 1991.

In the second half of 2003 Bill and his wife Julie taught in a Teachers’ College in Bhutan – Bill in the Science area and Julie (who teaches Counselling in the School of Social Work at Curtin University) was teaching Counselling.

Bill is currently working as an Education Consultant.

Members: Free; Non-members: $5.00 donation