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January, 1 944 Page 25 Department of Visual Instruction PROBABLY no Department v,f tlie National Education Association has suffered such disruption by war conditions as the Department of Visual Instruction. The extraordinary use of visual methods of teaching and training, as developed in the past two years for Army. Navy, and Air Forces, is a phenomenon without precedent in American education. It required a heavy draft of talent and experience from the whole visual field. The number of DVI members thus called away from their peacetime posts is not known, but it comprises a very considerable proportion not only of regular members but particularly of the Staff Officers of the ten Zones. New appointees to such vacancies are themselves often called into service. To keep the Staff personnel complete and efficient is impossible under such conditions. Smooth functioning, therefore, of the national Department of \'isual Instruction during the war emergency is out of the question. Incidentally, this situation should be cause for immense satisfaction to every DVI member — for the exigency of war has brought "visual education"' into the limelight as never before in its history. For the benefit of DVI members, old and new, we give below the latest corrected list of National and Zonal Officers, with but one vacancy still existing. It is hoped that it may stand for the duration. Our primary aim — when annual meetings are suspended and membership campaigns are seriously interrupted — should be to maintain DVI membership at the maximum possible during the war period. Present members can play a major role to this end — simply reneiv your mernhership now. It is not worth wondering or inquiring "when your membership expires." What possible difference can that make? With the brilliant promise now ahead for the visual movement, every DVI member must want his membership to be continuous and permanent. Don't risk even an approach to your expiration date. Move it ahead, constantly, and keep your membership safe against carelessness or oversight. Send in another $2.00 fee to your Zone Secretary now, and keep present DVI membership at its present figure, ready for real growth to record totals in postwar days. N.L.G. Zone II to Meet with School Administrators In February Word has just been received that there will be a meeting of Zone II, with the Metropolitan New York Branch as hosts, at the Penn.sylvania Hotel on the afternoon of February 23r<l, in conjunction with the regional meeting of the American Association of School Administrators. The session will be devoted to a discussion of the topic : "'Visual Education, Today and Tomorrow." A dinner meeting at Town Hall Club will follow the afternoon program. National Officers President : Mrs. Camilla Best, Director, Division of .^udio-Visual Aids, Orleans Parish School Board, New Orleans, La. , Secretary-Treasurer : Miss Lelia Trolinger. Director, Bureau of Visual Instruction, University of Colorado, Boulder, Col. Zonal Officers Zone I (Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont) President: Edward F. Wheeler, Department of Education, Bristol, Conn. Secretary: Miss Dorothy A. Allard, 8 Wells Road, Reading, Mass. Zone II (Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia) President: Miss E. Winifred Crawford, Mont clair City Schools, Montclair, N. J. Secretary : James S. Kinder, Pennsylvania College for Women, Pittsburgh, Pa. Zone III (Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, West Virginia) President: H. B. Allen, West Virginia University, Morgantown, W. Va. Secretary : William G. Hart, Fordson Board of Education, Dearborn, Mich. Zone IV (Illinois. Iowa, Missouri, Wisconsin) President : Alvin B. Roberts, Haw Creek Township High School, Gilson, 111. Secretary: H. L. Kooser, Iowa State College, Ames, la. Zone V (Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota) President : Dr. Ella C. Clark, Winona Teachers College, W'inona, Minn. Secretary: V. F. Ellies, Winona Public Schools, Winona, Minn. Zone VI (Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington) President: Alan Finstad, Fife School, Route 2, Tacoma, Wash. Secretary: Miss K. S. Klise, Sunnyside High School, Sunnyside, Wash. Zone VII (Arizona, California, Nevada, New Mexico) President: Boyd B. Rakestraw, Extension Division, University of California, Berkeley, Cal. Secretary: George M. Jamieson, Jr.. 815 South Hill St., Los Angeles, Cal. Zone VIII (Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, Utah, Wyoming) President: Dr. J. R. MacNeel, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyo. Secretary: Leo Arnoldi, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyo. Zone IX (Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Texas) President: Dr. B. F. Holland, University of Texas, Austin, Tex. Secretary: D. W. McCavick, Bureau of Visual Instruction, University of Texas, Austin, Tex. Zone X (Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi. North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee) President: (to be appointed to succeed Oscar Sams). Secretary: Mrs. H. L. Harris, University System of Georgia, 223 Walton St. N.W. Atlanta, Ga.