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September, 1923
333
Official Department of
The National Academy of Visual Instruction
OFFICERS AND EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
President: Dudley Grant Hays, Director of Visual Education, Chicago Public Schools, Chicago, Illinois.
Vice-President: A. Loretta Clark, Director of Visual Education, Los Angeles, California.
Secretary: J. V. Ankeney, Associate Professor in Charge of Visual Education, Columbia, Missouri.
Treasurer: C. R. Toothaker, Curator, Philadelphia Commercial Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
A. W. Abrams, Chief of Visual Instruction Division, University of the State of New York.
Rupert Peters, Director of Visual Education, Kansas City Public Schools, Kansas City, Missouri.
A. G. Balcom, Ass't Supt. of Schools, Newark, New Jersey.
J. W. Shepherd, Department of Visual Education, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma.
Carlos E. Cummings, Society of Natural Sciences, Buffalo, N. Y.
W. H. Dudley, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin.
A department conducted by the Secretary of the Academy for the dissemination of Academy news and thought. AH matter appearing here is wholly on the authority and responsibility of the Academy.
The Oakland Meeting
By Dudley Grant Hays
MEMBERS of the National Academy of Visual Instruction will be interested in the report of the splendid program of visual instruction which was presented at the N. E. A. meeting in Oakland in July. The start for this program was made at our annual meeting in Cleveland last February, when Superintendent H. B. Wilson, of Berkeley, California, was asked to act as Chairman of the Program Committee for the July meetingi He accepted the task and carried the work through in a very successful manner and much to the satisfaction of all present.
Opinions do not alter facts as a general rule, but facts should sometimes change opinions. We were on our second year of affiliation with the N. E. A., and from the statements in Section V of Article II of the By-Laws of the N. E, A,, we believed v\^e were whol.ly w'ithin
the sphere of consistent action in starting a visual program for the Oakland meeting. After the program had been decided upon and speakers chosen, the officials of the N. E. A, ruled that the Academy could not put on a program under its name, notwithstanding its being an affiliated organization of the N. E. A.; but that its members, as individuals, might take part in a program sponsored by the N. E. A. If you are well trained in visual work, you, by careful study, may see the point raised.
To make it easy to get up a visual program, those officials asked Superintendent Wilson to act as chairman of a conference on visual instruction and to secure speakers for the same. He accepted that duty and went ahead with the program he had already arranged. It went off in good shape. There were two sessions