After graduation from GU I spent the next year at Jordanhill College preparing for secondary teacher training and then proceeded to first appointment as maths teacher at St Aloysius College, my old school.

To get a wider view of teaching I moved to St Mungo's Academy for about 4 years, then  applied for a post in Notre Dame College to teach maths to primary students and maths post-grads.        These duties expanded when the College took on degree courses for under grads (maths for me) ratified by CNAA.       Some years later I became a senior lecturer in the College and in the meantime ND had been amalgamated with Craiglockart College and renamed St Andrew's College.
The only other change in my career was when the Scottish Colleges were further amalgamated, in our case with GU.     We became a significant part of the Curriculum Studies Dept. of GU and so the wheel had gone about full circle for me from our graduation to my last teaching post.     In the 80s I completed an M.Ed.

 

On the home front I married Patricia in 1970 and we have 4 daughters and now also 4 sons-in-law and, between them, 7 grandchildren, at least at latest count and no sign of more.         How to tell the difference between 35 and 70?   No, not a multiple of 2 but rather the ease with which we coped with 4 children aged 1,3 5 and 7 as compared to the strain that even two loveable grandchildren can cause in a short space of time.