The Educational screen (c1922-c1956])

January, 1947 Silver Anniversary ISiimber Page 19 CORDIAL AND COMFORTING WE are pardonably proud fo print below some of the communications received from outstanding figures in the field anent our Silver Anniversary. They were addressed, by custom, to the Editor but they are, expressly and unmistakably, messages to the entire staff. We would naturally resent the accusation, even the implication, that the magazine is or ever was a "one man job". As such, Educational Screen would never have survived nor been long remembered. Most of the burden was and is borne by the loyal, tireless personnel devoted to the ideal of an ever better Educational Screen. On behalf, then, of this entire personnel, past and present, numbering by scores through the years, the Editor accepts with grateful appreciation these heartening words of approval and goodwill from our colleagues in the great and growing audiovisual field of American education. NLG i N anticipation of the fact that the December issue will round out Volume XXV of The Educational Screen, allow me to offer sincere congratulations on the completion of a quarter century of solid achievement. To you as Editor-in-Chief the silver anniversary will represent a personal triumph of no mean proportions; to those whom the Screen has served the date will stand as a shining mile-post along the road of progress and improvement. Amidst the ruck of educational journals, the Screen has managed to preserve its uniqueness of character. The service which it has rendered has not been duplicated by any other journal. In a specialized field, replete with fads and faddists, the Screen has held a straight course toward the one significant goal — the improvement of educational practices. To the Screen, its editors and staff, best wishes for a Happy New Twenty-Five Years! WARD C. BOWEN, Chief Bureau of Radio and Visual Aids University of the State of New York I N honor of the Silver Jubilee of The Educational Screen ' we shall invite all teachers in our twelve secondary schools to share in a celebration during January. A bound volume of The Educational Screen, a recent issue, will be placed on display in the library of each school. It will also be the feature attraction of a set of travelling libraries. Each box contains samples of other periodicals in the field, other magazines giving space to our problems, and a variety of catalogues. We shall invite teachers to observe the ever-broadening scope of visual education as shown historically by these publications. We shall urge our leaders in education to try to envision even greater contributions which are destined for the future if all of us continue our efforts to satisfy the needs of our children. HENRY E. CHILDS, Supervisor Nature Study and Visual Education Providence Public Schools IN checking our back files of The Educational Screen I notice that with the December 1946 issue you have completed twenty five years of publication. Congratulations to the Staff of Educational Screen and to its editorin-chief. Nelson L. Greene, for a great contribution to education. In the editorial section of Volume I , Number I , dated January 1922, is the following statement: "This magazine intends to get at the truth about visual education— in all its phases and in its broadest aspects — and serve it up in a form palatable to thinking Americans". The staff of Educational Screen has kept its promise through its twenty-five years, and education has profited. Throughout the golden twenties, the depressing thirties, and the early war-torn forties, the Educational Screen has given us leadership. We know that it will continue to give leadership through the late reconstruction forties and into what we all hope will be the peaceful fifties. Thanks, for the years of devotion and leadership in the field of visual education. It has been a job well done. LEE W. COCHRANE, Executive Assistant Extension Division The State University of Iowa r\URING the first twenty-five years of its life The ^^ Educational Screen has made a pioneer contribution to the whole field of instructional materials. I feel confident that the influence of the journal during the next twenty-five years will be even greater. Please accept my personal congratulations on your excellent work as Editor, and my best wishes for the future. STEPHEN M. COREY Department of Education The University of Chicago ON behalf of the members of the National Association of Visual Education Dealers, I want to extend our sincere congratulations and best wishes on the occassion of your 25th Anniversary. Your span of leadership in visual education has seen its growth from little more than an idea to its present acceptance as a standard tool for education and information. The visual education dealers of the United States are proud to call you our friend. We look to you and the magazine for many more years of leadership. BERNARD A COUSINO President of NAVED Toledo, Ohio JANUARY marks completion of a quarter-century of meritorious service in the audio-visual field by Educational Screen. This, therefore, is an occasion for expressions of appreciation for work well done — for pioneering and leading the way, not just reflecting the Status Quo. Educational Screen is to be commended for its very constructive influence during the crucial formative stages in the development of audio-visual instruction and for its contributions in elevating audiovisual materials a big step further toward recognition as an integral part of formal instructional materials. Best wishes for continued success. VERNON G. DAMERON, Director Division of Audio-Visual Instructional Service National Education Association