Howard John Page



BRIDGEND & DISTRICT AMATEUR RADIO CLUB

 

 

    Saturday April 24, 2010     

Howard's  GW6GWK

 Born in Pontypridd and attended Pontypridd Grammar School. My first post was in the Treasurer’s Dept of the former Glamorgan County Council working in the Taxation dept issuing driving and road fund licences.

I then spent a few years in the Royal Air Force before going into College and qualifying as a teacher. During the next 15 years I taught in Secondary Schools in Buckinghamshire and north Worcestershire specialising in Mathematics.

In 1971 I moved back to South Wales, living in Bridgend and teaching in the School for the Visually Impaired. This was a residential school taking children from all over Wales and the south-west of England. During this time I taught most subjects excluding music and domestic science most being taught through the medium of Braille. In the years before I retired in 1996 I was responsible for all Braille production and copying throughout the school, all electronic braillers, ‘talking computers’ teaching word processing and computer skills and finally training support assistants in Braille and the production of audio, visual and tactile aids.

Over the years I have been chairman of the South Wales Association of Teachers of the Visually Impaired (SWATVI), treasurer of the Welsh Sports and Recreation for the Visually Impaired (WSARVI), member of the College of Teachers of the Blind, and of latter years treasurer of the Bridgend and District Amateur Radio Club.