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November, tp2^
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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. All matter appearing here is wholly on the authority and responsibility of the Academy.
What the Academy Is
THE National Academy of Visual Instruction is an organization of men and women interested in a wider, more intelligent, and more systematic use of visual aids; in short, in the development of visual education as an art and science.
The Academy is not engaged in promoting visual education commercially. Active membership and the control of the Academy and its actions are vested solely in those engaged in educational, semi-educational, or welfare work, and who are actual users of or are directing the use of visual aids for instructional purposes. No companies, dealers, agents, or persons financially interested in the sale of visual-instruction materials shall be eligible to active nwmbership.
An Invitation
THERE are several types of membership with the fees ranging from one dollar a year up. Full information on this subject can be obtained by writing to the Secretary,
Mr. J. V. Ankeney, University of Mfssouri, Columbia, Mo., who will furnish members with copies of the constitution and by-laws giving full details of the method of working through the National Academy.
We have mentioned in two or three issues of the Educational Screen the development of a new Department of Visual Instruction in the N. E. A. The movement to bring about the organization of this new department was initiated by the officers and members of the National Academy of Visual Instruction,
The question has arisen in the minds of some whether or not we need to have as many organizations in the visual field as are now provided for, and also whether it would not be wise for us all to unite in the one centralized organization in the N. E. A. This may be considered an open question for debate, and discussions pro and con on this topic will be very much appreciated, and we call for opinions on this subject.
Some believe it would be wise to keep the Academv's activities in existence for the pur