The Educational screen (c1922-c1956])

People Education & Government • W. Arthur Irwin has been reappointed chairman of the National Film Board of Canada and Canadian Government Film Commissioner. Formerly editor of Maclean's Magazine, Mr. Irwin was named to his present post in December 1949. His first term as Commissioner expired January 31, 1952. • Robert H. Shreve. formerly Director of AudioVisual Education for the Appleton School System, Wisconsin, has been appointed Principal of the Senior High School in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin. • Virgil M. Rogers. Battle Creek, Michigan, superintendent of schools, has been elected president of the American Association of School Administrators. Dr. Rogers, who succeeds Kenneth E. Oberholtzer, takes office March 15. • Helaine S. Levin, secretary of the Chicago Film Council, is now assistant librarian at the American Dental Association in Chicago where she is helping build up a library of dental films, filmstrips, slides, and other audio-visual materials. Miss Levin is also teaching a course on "Learning to Use Films" at the Central YMCA in Chicago. Business & Industry • Robert Daker, formerly director of the March of Time Forum Films, joined the staff of Association Films recently, according to an announcement by .1. R. Bingham, Association Films president. Mr. Daker will head a newly created subsidiary of Association Films as executive vicepresident for the procurement and sale of educational and documentary film material. The new company will take over existing films produced by Association Films and other material for which the parent company now has the distribution rights. The new com pany will also engage in a production program of educational films and filmstrips. • Election of Edwin Dorsey Foster as vice president and director of planning for the RCA Victor Division, Radio Corporation of America, was announced recently. Vice Admiral Foster (U. S. Navy, Ret.) will consult with product department executives on business and economic trends as they affect long-range planning of products, services, and markets. • Hollis D. Bradbury has been appointed National Manager of Film Recording Sales of the RCA Engineering Products Department, according to a recent announcement by the Radio Corporation of America. A veteran of 24 years in the engineering, service, and sales activities of RCA, he was formerly Eastern Manager of Film Recording Sales. Everett Miller succeeds Mr. Bradbury as Eastern Manager of Film Recording Sales, located in New York. Mr. Miller has been supervisor of sales engineering of the RCA Film Recording Section since 1948. Before joining RCA in 1942, he was Supervisor of the Visual Aids Service of the University of Minnesota. • New advertising and sales promotion manager of Argus Camera Company is Arnold D. Macdonald, formerly of International Silver Company. • Bill DeVry, head of Chicago's De Vry Corporation, has been elected to the executive board of the Theatre Equipment and Supply Manufacturers' Association and also has been elected to the Young Presidents' Organization, a national organization of men who have become president of an industrial or service organization before reaching the age of 39. • The Rek-0-Kut Company of Long Island City, New York, manufacturer of recording and playback equipment, has announced the appointment of Avery Yudin as director of audio education. Formerly a staff member of New York University's Graduate Division of the School of Education, Mr. Yudin plans to cooperate with educational leaders in exploring and developing new audio techniques. At present he is formulating a program of Audio Workshops at which Rek-0-Kut equipment will be demonstrated to educators in cities throughout the U. S. • Paul L. Hoefler, of Paul Hoefler Productions, and Mrs. Hoefler arrived in New York in January after a nine months' safari in Africa. They have brought back about 25,000 feet of color film plus over 1000 stills. A-V CONFERENCE CALENDAR When possibla, iourc* of further in»ofm«tion about conference programs and retervations ii given in parenflieief after each listing. Send announcements for the Conference Calender to EDUCATIOMaL screen. M E. Lake, Chicago I. APRIL 5-9 — American Association of School Administrators Regional Convention, Mechanics BIdg., Boston, Massachusetts (write Worth McClure, AASA, 1201 16th St., N. W., Washington 6, D.C.) APRIL 14-18— Second Annual Midwest Audio-Visual Workshop (sponsored by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of Churches, the Indiana Council of Churches, and the Bloomington, Indiana, Council of Churches), First Methodist Church, Bloomington, Indiana (write Rev. C. Richard Dawson, 222 South Downey Ave., Indianapolis 7, Indiana) APRIL 21-25— Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers Convention, Hotel Drake, Chicago, Illinois April 24-25 — National Film Distribution Conference sponsored by National AuJioVisual Association, Hotel New Yorker, New York City (write Harold Baumstone, Sit i Fifth Ave., New York 18. N.Y.) MAY 3 — Annual Film Festival of the Film Council of Greater Boston (write Mrs. Muriel C. Javelin, Boston Public Library, Boston 17, Mass.) MAY, SECOND OR THIRD WEEK— Annual Film Festival of the Cleveland Film Council (write Dale R. Cannon, White Sewing Machine Co., 11720 Berea Rd., Cleveland II, Ohio) JUNE 30-JULY 5— Annual Meeting, National Education Association, Detroit, Michigan (including summer meeting of the Department of Audio-Visual Instruction — write J. J. McPherson. DAVI, 1201 16th St., N.W, Washington 6, D.C.) • Mrs. Nonie Hunter has been appointed to handle the customer relations and publicity programs of Ampro Corporation, according to an announcement by Ampro general sales manager Howard Marx. Mrs. Hunter ' was formerly public relations director for Magnecord Inc. • Edwin H. MacArthur is now Associate Director of Education for the National Association of Credit Men of New York City. Previously he served as president of the Great Neck, New York, Education Association and was a member of the Advisory Committee to the Great Neck Board of Education. In 1945 he was appointed Director of the Education Division of the Universal-International Films, where it was his function to produce and distribute educational films. Among those he helped produce was "The Earth and Its Peoples." • Paul Baran has been appointed Field Engineering Representative for the Audio & Video Products Corporation (730 Fifth Ave., New York). His duties will include the installationengineering, operating-instruction, and field service of the special-purpose i magnetic tape recorders manufactured I, by the Ampex Electric Corporation '| and represented by the Audio & Video ^j Products Corporation. 128 Educational Screen