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Page 16 The Educational Screen DEPARTMENT OF VISUAL INSTRUCTION NOTES CONDUCTED BY ELLSWORTH C. DENT, SECRETARY Branch Activities California The Visual Aids Section of the California State Teachers Association, Southern Section, met on Thursday, December 22, to discuss various phases of visual instruction work and opportunities. The pro- gram included the following: 1. "California History in the Cornwell Murals as Shown in the Los Angeles Public Library" (Illustrated with slides)—Dean Cornwell. 2. "New Visual Conceptions through Aerial Pho- tography" (Slides)—Leon T. Eliel. 3. "The Use of Visual Aids in the Development of Literature"—Miss Ettie Lee, assisted by Students of Mount Vernon Junior High. Following the program, a personally conducted trip through the new Doheny Library was made. Massachusetts The Winter Meeting of the Massachusetts Branch of the Department of Visual Instruction will be held on Saturday, February 11, 1933, at the Brookline High School, Greenough Street, Brookline, Massachusetts. The theme of the meeting will be "The Use of Teaching Aids." There will be a speaker of note for the morning session, an interesting display of teaching aids used by the teachers, and in addition a commercial display of teaching aids made by those commercial houses who care to present an exhibit at that time. An opportunity will also be given for a complete inspec- tion of the new John C. Packard Laboratories where the most modern building planning and science equip- ment have been installed. All teachers and administrators, whether members of the Department of Visual Instruction or not, are cordially invited to attend. The President, Mr. Kras- ker, under whose able direction last year's meeting in Quincy proved so successful, is very busily engaged in planning a program for this meeting which will of- fer many things of value to every teacher present. An attempt will be made to notify the commercial houses that space for exhibiting will be allowed them without cost, and any company interested in securing the details of this will be requested to communicate with the secretary, Mr. J. V. Jewett, Brookline High School, Brookline, Massachusetts. A" more detailed notice will be published later, but it is hoped that this advanced notice will enable those interested to reserve the date of Saturday, February 11. 1933, for this meeting. Oregon The Department of Visual Instruction of the Ore- gon State Teachers Association met on Thursday and Friday, December 29-30 at Portland. Oregon. The program was under the direction of U. S. Burt, Chair- man of the Department and Director of Visual In- struction for the General Extension Division of the Oregon State System of Higher Education. Miss Carolyn Brown of the Portland Public Schools is sec- retary of the Oregon Department. The program in- cluded the following. Thursday, December 29 Preview of Motion Pictures—George Washington Bicentennial Pictures, Mother Goose Rhymes, Life Functions of Animals—The Frog. The Evolution of the Book—A library demonstra- tion given by Shattuck School (Portland) students. Business discussion regarding relation of Depart- ment to that of National Visual Instruction Depart- ment of N. E. A. Friday, December 30 Preview of Films and Slides—The Byrd Antarctic Expedition, "Life in Little America and on the Trails"; General Science Series—Plants. Animals. Joint Session with Geography Department—Illus- trated lecture on Alaska by Professor Warren D. Smith, University of Oregon. The Possibilities of Pupil Made Lantern Slides— illustrated by Linden McCullough, Northwestern Rep- resentative of Keystone View Co., Corvallis. Oregon. The Unified Visual Instruction Service of the Ore- gon System of Higher Education—Dean Alfred Pow- ers. A Trip through the Holy Land—A Geography Dem- onstration given by Sabin School, Portland (6B stu- dents under the direction of Grace Sweeney). Discussion. Preview of Films—A Microscopical View of the Blood Circulation, The Holy Land, Christmas Carol. New York State The New York State Branch of the Department of Visual Instruction met at the County Center, White Plains, New York, on November 6. Homer G. Shat- tuck of the Rye Public Schools acted as chairman of the meeting. The program included a demonstration of the use of home-made slides by Miss Ruth Furlong of Fox