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

News people organizations events Connecticut AV Group Elects Officers For '61 The Connecticut Audio-Visual Education association installed new officers at its animal meeting Friday, May 14, 1961, at New Haven. Seated as president was George Pugliski, audiovisual director for the Stratford public schools. He succeeded David Silverstone, associate professor and head of the AudioVisual center of the University of Bridgeport. Dr. Silverstone had been president of CAVEA for the past two years. Other officers are Blaine Miller, of Manchester, vice president; Miss Marion McHugh, of Milford, secretary, and Don Wilson, of Central State college in New Britain, treasurer. The following were elected to the board of directors; Joseph Murphy; Elliott Kone; Russ Capen; and John Del Vecchio, who will fill the unexpired term vacated by Blaine Miller. Air TV To Be Highlighted At Educational Conference Airborne television will receive major attention during a conferenceworkshop in educational media to be held at Indiana University June 26July 7, 1961. The theme of the two days conference preceding the workshop will be "Technology in the Learning Environment." Dr. Carleton Washburne will give the keynote address, "Educational Needs in a World of Technology." The two day conference and workshop will be implemented by 2'/2 hours per day of resource information on video tapes telecast from a plane flying at 23,000 feet over Montpelier, Indiana. The telecasts will include: ( 1 ) typical lessons prepared for classroom use from among 28 instructional areas and grade levels: (2) demonstrations of various types of followup activities recommended for schools participating in the Airborne Project; and (3) a tape deaUng with the role of the Midwest Program on Airborne Television Instruction (MPATI), the resource institution, and the local .school district in evaluation and research of Airborne Television Instruction. The workshop-conference is designed for principals, supervisors, classroom teachers, coordinators of educational media and those leaders who have responsibilities related to the use of the audio-visual materials, including .school board members, PTA members and staff members of state departments of public instruction. University Dean Stresses Concern For Adult Learning America's justifiable concern with education for youth should not be allowed to give "marginal status to the critical need for expansion of educational opportunities for adults, "Dean Thurman White, University of Oklahoma, said at the annual meeting of the National University Extension offers tfie industry's most complete line of PROJECTION and TRANSPORTATION TABLES Folding and Nonfolding Models for Transportation by auto Classroom film projection Classroom television viewing Libraries — churches University and institutional use Office supply carriers Hospital oxygen tanks Photographers' equipment Office machine demonstrations WHEELIT designers, engineers and craftsmen have as their first objective the continued creation of the finest transportation ond projection tables mode. Sold throughout the world. Ask your dealer or write PRODUCTS CO. Toredo, 6-A Ohio Dean Thurman White Association at Santa Barbara, Calil May 6-10. Dean White is president i the association. Dean White called university extei sion "one of the great education froi tiers in the United States." He wame that with the unprecedented explosic of learning unique to this centui adults in all walks of life have coi stant need to keep their knowledg up-to-date. During the Association meeting, "position paper" was presented ou lining American higher education role and responsibilities toward adul who are not full-time students hi who, nevertheless, have a valid ca on their colleges and universities. Alexander F. Victor 1878-1961 In the death of Alexander F. Victc at his home in Carmel, California, c March 29, the audiovisual field h: lost one of its most creative and mo colorful pioneers. Few men in any field of endeavt have been so prolifically inventive i this professional magician tumfr manufacturer. Born in 1878, he cam to America in 1900 as one of tt world's best known showmen. Amop his "magic" properties was a motic picture projector, Lumiere's No. 1 l)ought at a Paris movie show fiv \ears earlier. The projector and i 50-foot film rolls traveled with hi | in many lands— Egypt, India, Londc (Continued on Fap,e 322) 320 Educational Screen and Audiovisual Guide — July, 19('