The educational screen (c1922-c1956])

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The Educational Screen Ernest L. Crandall, Director of Lec- tures and Visual Instruction in the New York Schools was elected President. A. ('. Balcom, Assistant Superintendent of New York, X. J., schools, in charge of visual instruction was elected National Vice-President. Don Carlos Ellis, formerly Director of the Motion Picture Division of the United States Department of Agriculture WIS elected Recording Secretary. Charles H. Mills, Director of Publicity of the Boy Scouts of America, was elected Treasurer. Dr. Rowland Rogers. Instructor of Motion Picture Production at Columbia University, was elected Corresponding Secretary. As the Constitution provided for the election of state vice-presidents, more than a score of such state representatives from as many states in the Union were nominated from the floor and duly elected. Without going into detail as to the provisions of the Constitution and By-laws, it may be briefly stated that the general type of organization is as follows: An executive committee which is to formulate policies and guide the activities of the association, an advisory council which is to consist of the state vice- presidents together with an equal num- ber of specialists and others selected for their technical knowledge, and a general body of members, all of whom shall have equal voting rights. One of the principal functions of the state vice-presidents will be to stimulate the formation of local visual instruction associations similar to the one whose growth and evolution here in New York City has been described above. In other articles appearing in this and the next issue will be found a brief el planation of the more immediate and com crete aims and purposes of the organizJ tion and also an explanation of the motives which prompted its founders to believe that such an organization would serve a useful purpose. It may not be inappropriate here, howl ever, to point out that the real moving cause of the inauguration of this asscl ciation was the deep-rooted conviction of those who had watched the organized growth of visual instruction under the fostering care of our local association here, that this idea was well worth transl planting to other sections of the country! These persons also felt, as many hun ?i dreds throughout the country have fels the need of some general clearing house" for ideas and experiences, open to all types of persons interested in any degree or in any manner in the extension of this phase of class room methods. It is our purpose to utilize these pages of the Educational Screen in the future for conveying intensely practical informa- tion. It seemed pertinent at this time, however, to make something like a re- sume of our activities to date and in a sense to make our maiden bow to the educational public. Hence this article and the accompanying contributions are in- tended primarily as an introduction, so that from this point on we may feel thati we are on speaking terms with our readers. More detailed information regard' the scope, plans, purposes, recent actr ties and present achievements of the assc ciation. so far as these are not coven by these various articles, will gladb furnished by the association. In the January issue will appear an article on "What the Association Proposes to Do" By Don Carlos Ellis, Recording Secretary v