Educational screen & audio-visual guide (c1956-1971])

Uantaae f-^olnts The vantage points we're thinking of are those points of view from which this magazine is edited. We want to make the editorial point that all the editors of this magazine hold unique positions from which to carry on their editorial responsibilities. We think this is a prime reason we have succeeded for so long in meeting the interests and needs of the thousands of you who read us regularly. Take the Church Department, for instance, (and this is a particularly appropriate time to do this inasmuch as we are giving special emphasis to the church use of audiovisual materials in this issue). Bill Hockman typifies what we mean. He does not sit in an ivory bell tower trying to figure out what audiovisual problems a church might have. He knows, because he's on the ground floor facing these problems daily; and he's been solving them for years. Through his accumulated knowledge and trial and error experience he has earned full right to the opinions he holds about audiovisual materials for church use, and the use that should be made of them. Consider also the "Evaluation of New Films" section. Even though these evaluations come to you from a university campus, there's nothing ivory towerish about the vantage point from which "Ole" Larson and Carolyn Guss get their perspective. Nowhere in this country is there a larger, busier, more comprehensive and practical audiovisual center. Here films must be evaluated continuously as a normal part of the center's function; and this wealth of downright practical experience is shared every month with SCREEN readers. When Max Bildersee's columns first appeared in SCREEN more than ten years ago they were headed "Record in Review." Now they're called "Sound Advice." But the thousands of words Pat has written to serve you have always been sound advice because they have been based upon daily contact with the needs of classroom teachers. This coupled with his personal and discriminating interest in all forms of recorded sounds that teach have provided him with a vantage point unique in the audio field. Although Dr. Irene Cypher is our newest department editor, she is a veteran educator and prominent professionally in the audiovisual field. Nor has she just discovered filmstrips. In the past, when no one was watching, we read her words about filmstrips in other audiovisual journals. It was obvious that her contacts with producers and filmstrip users gave her a vantage point to produce words that SCREEN readers just had to have. We're glad we can now bring them to you regularly. Phil Lewis' title of "Technical Editor" is a misnomer. Through the years he has given us and you assistance in far more than technical ways. Many of his articles, including the first published in September 1948, have been on technical subjects. Then he was an industrial arts teacher, and while he has written for you he has been repeatedly promoted in the Chicago school system until now he directs the Instructional Materials Department. Always his articles on technical and non-technical subjects have been written from the vantage point of a practical and successful teacher and school administrator. For editing the "New Equipment and Materials" section and the news of the trade we look to and rely upon Bill Kruse's more than thirty years of contacts with manufacturers, producers, users, and everybody with any relationship to the audiovisual field. His experience gives him a qualifying vantage point to speak or write on practically any phase of the field; and whenever he does, it is practical. This leaves but two of our editors with vantage points undescribed. Enid ("Micky") Stearn, managing editor, has but recently come to the audiovisual field, and soon the field will be coming to her. Already she is managing to put together a magazine that is improving with each issue; and she is managing to get it to the printer and you on time. Now, from my vantage point as the Director of Instructional Materials in the Rochester, New York, school system, and as "we," the editor, I know what it means to you in the audiovisual field that we have the editorial staff we do. We're proud of these people. EdScreen & AV Guide — February, 1 959 69