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As Personal as Possible News from and about the Department of Audio-Visual Instruction, NEA Summer Convention • Highlights of plans for DAVI participation in the annual NEA Convention in Detroit, June 29-July 4, include the following: (1) A one-day departmental meeting for DAVI members on Monday, June 30. (2) Extensive preview sessions at which will be shown some of the best and most recent audio-visual materials classified according to levels of use and subject areas. This will not be a commercial exhibit but will be planned cooperatively by a committee from DAVI and NAVA. (3) An audio-visual clearinghouse providing an information consultation service to operate during most of the convention. (4) A large group information session on "New Trends in Instructional Materials and Methods." The chief purpose of this session will be to acquaint those present with ways in which new developments in instructional materials programs and methods can contribute to the achievement of basic curriculum objectives. (5) A series of work group sessions concerning problems involved in the practical use of audio-visual materials in connection with specific teaching problems. Plans for the development of this extensive program are now being carried forward under the chairmanship of Roger Zinn, President of the Michigan State Audio-Visual Education Association and Audio-Visual Director for Grand Rapids City Schools. Assisting Roger as members of a Planning Committee are Mary Aceti, Detroit; Robert Lee Anderson, Detroit; Wanda Daniels, Grosse Pointe; Bill Hart, Dearborn; Edward Hoot, Royal Oak; Ford Lemler, University of Michigan; Marie McMahan, Battle Creek; L. D. Murphy, Wyandotte; Tom Roberts, Wayne University; Robert Rowlson, Detroit; Lewis Saks, East Detroit; Charles F. Schuller, Michigan State College; Sam Snyderman. Highland Park; Don White, NAVA. OJclahoma Beckons As we go to press, we still don't know where and when the 1953 DAVI Conference will take place. We can say, however, that the national office and members of the Executive Committee have been deluged with cordial invitations from audio-visual leaders in the state of Oklahoma to have the 1953 conference in "The Boomer State." We haven't a vote on the matter, but if we did it would certainly be hard to turn down such an overwhelming welcome. Incidentally, our pocket dictionary says Oklahoma is called "The Boomer State" because of its rapid growth and energy"! We can believe that! We'd like to thank everyone from Oklahoma who has given us such a generous invitation, but that would mean thanking most of the audiovisual people in Oklahoma. We do know, however, that Earl Cross, Coordinator, Division of Audio-Visual Education, State Department of Public Instruction, Oklahoma City, was largely instrumental in alerting the Oklahoma gang to the fact that DAVI is considering a Midwest location for the conference. Election Results • Elected as national delegates at large for three-year terms during the recent DAVI elections were: A. J. Foy Cross, Director for Field Service, School of Education, New York University; Carlton W. H. Erickson, Director, Audio-Visual Aids Center, University of Connecticut; Francis W. Noel, Chief, Bureau of AudioVisual Education, California State Department of Education. Of People and Places • Johnny Johnson, Supervisor, Teaching Materials Center, Arlington, Virginia Public Schools, got snapped here talking over his budget with Ray Coffman, Chairman of an Arlington County Citizens Committee on Audio-Visual Education. Johnny reports that the Citizens Committee, which also includes several teachers and principals, is giving him real help in the development of an effective county program. • Fred Harris, Associate Professor in the College of Education of the University of Kentucky, reports that there is a bill before the Kentucky legislature to allow 2 per cent of state funds allotted to school districts to be spent for the instructional materials program. This sounds like an interesting development and we are anxious to find out more about the bill. Is there anything in your state moving in this direction? by J. J. McPHERSON Executive Secretary, DAVI 1201 16th St., NW, Washington 6, D.C • William G. Carr has been aj pointed Executive Secretary of tt National Education Association t succeed Willard E. Givens, who retir< August 1. Dr. Carr has been Associat Secretary of the NEA since 1940 an Secretary of the Educational Policit Commission of the NEA and th American Association of School A( ministrators since 1936. • Mel Rizzie, who recently joined th Silver Burdett Company, droppd by the DAVI office to talk over a fe\ things with your national staff, S' we had an opportunity to snap ai informal portrait as he discussed th problems of his new job across th^ | desk from us. ( • 1952 officers of the West Virginii AudioVisual Association are: Presi dent, Hayward Lanhan, Clarksburg Vice-President, Bradford Davis Charleston; Executive Secretary Harold Williams, Morgantown; Re cording Secretary, Virginia Kelly Charleston; Executive Committei Member, John St. Clair, Charleston • Kenneth Mclntyre, head of th( | Bureau of Visual Education of tht I University of North Carolina, is lead j ing an effort in the state to develof ! an effective educational film service j program in the N. C. public libraries | • Bill Allen, of San Diego State Col , lege, informed us after the Boston DAVI Conference that the "virus" I caught up with him the last day of I the conference and his doctor ordered him to take a train for California immediately. The next time we come down with a virus, we plan to see the same doctor. • Nat Williams and George Mecham, both of Lubbock, Texas, are Chairman and Secretary, respectively, of a Steering Committee set up for the j purpose of organizing a West Texas , Cooperative Audio-Visual Services Center for their region of the state, i Others who are working with them , are: Roy Boyd, Lubbock; Jake Edwards, Matador; W. H. Gordon, .A.marillo; Lee Vardy. Slaton; Frank Wil j son, Snyder; and as you could wellj (Continued on page 138) 'i 136 Educational Screen