INVITATIONS & APPOINTMENTS

• Invited to address a session of the National Council Teachers of English (NCTE), Boston, 1965. Speech published in New Approaches, 1966.
• Appointed chairman, Division III English Curriculum Committee 1965
• Appointed editor, affiliate publications, NCTE, U.S.A. 1976-1970
• Invited by the Humanities Association, University of Saskatchewan, to address their meeting, Feb. 1966
• Invited by Dr. Carlyle King, Chairman, English Department, University of Saskatchewan, to teach creative writing for the Saskatchewan Arts Board at their Summer School for the Arts, 1965-67
• Invited by Saskatchewan Arts Board to locate Saskatchewan writers 1968-69
• Appointed collegiate principal, Saskatoon Public School System, 1969-1987
• Appointed committee member, Region IV Innovative Grants Committee, Saskatchewan Department of Education, 1974
• Invited by the New Brunswick Teachers' Association to address their Fredericton conference, October, 1975
• Learned Societies International Conference asked to use my poetry in their anniversary publication during their conference at the University of Saskatchewan, 1979
• Invited by the Saskatchewan Teachers of English to address sessions of their conference in 1979 and again in 1989
• Invited by the College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, to act as a referee on an interview committee for college admission, 1980
• Invited by the Provincial Library to act as one of twelve traveling authors to various Saskatchewan communities as part of Celebrate Saskatchewan, 1980
• Invited to serve as program director, mayor's committee, Saskatoon's 'Commemorate' '85, the centenary of the Northwest Rebellion, 1984-1994. At the conclusion of this work I was awarded the designation "Friend of the College."
• Invited to attend the Constitutional Conference in Calgary by the federal government, 1992
• Invited by the Battlefords Historical Society to sit on their project Committee, 1994
• Invited by William Warwick, then publisher of the Battlefords Telegraph to write a series of freelance columns. After the paper changed hands, I continued to write the columns, 1992-2005.