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Page 66 The Educational Screen iDuzizL C::7jmOna ^CJUX±ZLiJE± Notes from and by the Department of Visual Instruction of the National Education Association. PROGRAM Winter Meeting of the Department of Visual Instruction of the N. E. A. San Francisco, February 23-24,1942, Veterans Building Monday, February 23, Room 314 (Mr. Boyd Rakestraw presiding) Morning Session 9:30-11:30 Address of Welcome—Mr. John Brady, Chief Dep- uty. San Francisco Public Schools President's Report Social Services —Mr. R. R. Ford, British Library of Information. (Illustrated with wartime films.) Afternoon Session 2:15-4:45 The Motion Picture Industry in National Defense — Mr. Kenneth MacGowan, Director of Production, Motion Picture Section, Office of Coordinator of Inter-American Aiifairs. (To be illustrated with a film designed for Latin-America and one for the United States.) Industry and Notional Dejensc —Randall Irvin, Di- rector of Industrial Relations, Lockheed Aircraft. Audio-Visual Aids and Civilian Defense —Colonel W. P. Burn, Office of Civilian Defense, ^^'ash- ington, D. C. The Use of Audio-Visual Aids in Training our Armed Forces (Possibly Lt. Colonel Charles Stodter, liaison officer of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer with the motion picture industry in Hollywood.) Tuesday, February 24, Room 314 (Mr. Gardner Hart presiding) Morning Session 9:30-11:30 Introduction to group leaders and three group meet- ings with a general discussion period or report from tlie chairman of each group at the end of the session. A. Classification of Audio-Visual Aids—Mr. H. M. McPherson, Superintendent of Schools, Napa, California and Co-Chairman. Room 311 B. School Production of Museum Materials —Mr. Francis W. Xoel, Director, Visual Education De- partment, Santa Barbara Public Schools and Co- Chairman. Room 313 C. What Siiould Wc Teach in Our Audio-Visual Aids Courses —Chairman, Mr. Gardner Hart, Oakland Public Schools; Co-Chairman, Miss Marian Evans, San Diego City Schools. Room 314 Luncheon Meeting 12:15-2:00 Corinthian Room, Hotel Whitcomb (Miss Margaret Girdner presiding) Dean Frank N. Freeman, University of California School of Education, will address this meeting on The Bottleneck in Visual Education Conducted by JAMES D. FINN Colorado State College of Education, Greeley Afternoon Se.ssion 2:45-4:45 Room 314 Audio-Visual Aids in California —Miss Margaret Girdner, San Francisco Public Schools. Transcriptions in Education —Mr. Thomas Rish- worth, National Broadcasting Company. The Natioval Association of Visual Education Deal- ers and its Relation to the Field —Mr. C. R. Rea- gan, President of this organization. To the Silent Zones: I refuse to believe that silence gives notice that some Zones are asleep. I really think that you are doing things in Oklahoma. Massachusetts, Washington, and Michigan. But why keep quiet about it ? That goes for all ten zones and all forty-eight states. Please write to me, fellow zoners. You are doubtless doing much tliat will l)e helpful to another zone halfwa\- across the country. How can we give out the news if we don't get it? JDF From the National Office H. J. Daily, the national secretary, has been very kind about keeping us informed on the state of the DVI. At the risk of being repetitious, I'm including some information about the war and the DVI. As i^robably most of you know, national president Gayle Starnes has left his post at the University of Kentucky to serve with the Signal Corps at the Depot near Lexington, Kentucky, but continues as President. Don White, formerly director of the Audio-Visual Aids Department of the Division of General Extension at the University of Georgia has gone into the Air Corps as a visual information specialist. Mr. White also relinquished his position as secretary-treasurer of Zone X. Mrs. Bernice Minis. Department of Visual Aids, General Extension Division. University of Flor- ida, Gainesville, Florida is the new secretary-treasurer for Zone X. Mr. Daily included a very pertinent paragraph in his last letter which sums up some of the problems relating to the war and the DVI. I quote, "It seems very clear that we have a multitude of problems in continuing our work. Our visual aids dealers are hav- ing great difficulty in obtaining materials which may further the eflfective use of visual aids. On the other hand such materials as those being produced through the Office of Education clearly indicate the Govern- ment's recognition of the importance of visual aids in defense training. The present situation reminds me of a football game at the half with the score 0-0. We have been on the defensive and emphasized defense training during the first half, now at the beginning of the second half we must immediately lay our plans to take the offensive. This change from training of