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"TPO help teachers teach and chil-l dren learn." These words from the sound track of the motion picture, Pictures Teach at Penfield, produced by Eastman Kodak Company in collaboration with the Penfield Central Schools, expresses the thinking of the Board of Education and the professional staff of the Penfield schools as to the pmposes of their audiovisual program. Penfield is one of several rapidly growing Rochester suburbs, with an expanding school population of approximately three thousand students. It contains three elementary schools, a junior high school and a new senior high .school.
Located as it is in suburban Rochester, New York, in the heartland of the audiovisual communications industry, the community
naturally has considerable audiovisual motivation.
Faced with having to provide a new senior high school for occupancy in the fall of 1958, Mr. Elmer Peck, Supervising Principal of the Penfield Central Schools, recommended to his Board of Education in 1955 that it set up some seventeen sub-committees to a.ssist in planning the new high school. In this way Mr. Peck believed that the talents and experience of the whole community could be utilized and at the same time community understanding and support for this large financial undertaking would be developed.
The specific recommendations of the sub-committees to the Board of Education were resolved by a steering committee working closely
with the administration and the Board of Education. With this wealth of information and special talent, the architectural firm of C. Storrs Barrows &: Associates of Rochester conceived the design for the Penfield Senior High School, which incorporates the most modern concepts of present day secondary education and yet is utilitarian to the ultimate.
With this background as preface, it shoidd be observed that the audiovisual instructional materials area in the new school is designed to serve not only its own needs, but those of all the schools of the district.
As is shown in the architectural drawing accompanying this article, the audiovisual area comprises eight rooms, having these func
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EdScreen & AV Guide — January, 1959