Phillip Ramage
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My career started after year 12 with a Fitting and Turning apprenticeship at Bingera Sugar mill for 3 years, after which I moved to Brisbane to work in a Research and Development workshop for a Cold Room Manufacturing Company.

After a couple of years there, I was accepted for Teacher training at Mt Gravatt Teacher Training College in the area of Manual Arts. This was a 12 month intensive course in 1973.

After graduating from the course, I married Dorothy, and we started married life at Nambour, on the Sunshine Coast and my teaching career began as a Manual Arts teacher. After just one year we were transferred to Rosewood, a small town just west of Ipswich, where we stayed for the next four years.

Our next shift was to an aboriginal mission at Doomadgee, another small place on the bottom of the Gulf of Carpentaria about 100 klms west of Burketown. Here we were part of a population of about 1000 very nice aboriginal folk, and about 50 white staff. We stayed there for the next three years and enjoyed ourselves immensely, making many close friends with these folk.

Our next shift was back to Bundaberg, the city of my birth, to Bundaberg State High School, where we stayed for the next 22 years, until my retirement from Teaching in 2004.

Since then we have moved to an area just north and west of Toowoomba, to a place called Meringandan West where we have purchased a home on 3750 sq mts (3/4 acre) and have found retirement to be a very busy life style. We now have the time to do all the things we were never able to find time for before.

We have four children, Jeffrey, who is currently the owner of an electronics business in Bundaberg; Bronwyn who married Todd (Centrelink career) and they now have a beautiful son Michael, 10 months old, our first grandchild; Jenny who married Paul only last year and is stationed in Dysart as a PE Teacher; and our youngest David, married to Suzanne, and who is now attending CQU in Bundaberg seeking a degree in accounting.

We were thrilled to here of the reunion while we were in Bundaberg early June, and were even more surprised to find that the lady I was speaking to was the mother of one former student of mine, and his sister was a trainee teacher who spent time with me in the classroom during her teacher training days. How small the world can be!

We have been looking at our schedule and unfortunately we have a previous engagement on the night of the reunion that we are unable to break, much as we would have liked to have been there.

Our regards to the troops on the night, and we trust that an enjoyable time is had by all.

Created: 13 July 2006 - Last Amended: 13 July 2006 by Roger Clarke - Site Last Verified: 15 February 2009
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