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[email protected] Web www.iwa.org.uk THE AUTHOR Born in the Garw Valley of Welsh-speaking parents, Ken Hopkins was educated at Porth Grammar School and Oxford University. He taught English at Porth Grammar School and was Head Master at Ferndale Grammar School from the 1950s to the early 1970s. Later he became Education Officer with Rhondda Borough Council and then Director of Education with the former County of Mid Glamorgan during the 1970s and 1980s.