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DAYI AS PERSONAL AS POSSIBLE NEWS News from and about the Department of Audio-Visual Instruction, National Education Association Meet Us in St. Louis, DAVI! • As we reported in November, St. Louis was the location finally selected by the DAVI Executive Committee for our winter conference after a bumper student enrollment at the University of Oklahoma absorbed much of the housing space which would have been needed for our group. The dates are February 24-28. The St. Louis conference program, developed by a widely representative committee with Earl Cross (Director of Audio-Visual Education for the State of Oklahoma) as chairman, should be the best in terms of interest coverage and over-all quality of general sessions and section meetings that the Department has ever had. Judging from the increased number of preconference inquiries, attendance at the convention will exceed by fully forty per cent that at our Boston Conference last February. Watch for an outline of the program in the January issue of Ed Screen. In spite of the excellent general sessions and a good commercial exhibit, we still believe that the greatest value of the winter conference is to be found in the fact that it will give those who come to the conference an actual opportunity to confer in problem areas of great concern to them. A changed plan of scheduling section meetings at this conference will make it possible for every person to work continuously in at least two different sections. Here are the areas in which sections will meet: City Programs, College and University Programs, County and Rural Programs, State by J. J. McPHERSON Executive Secretary, DAVI 1201 16th St., NW, Washington 6, D.C. Programs, Teacher Education, Adult Education, Archives, Buildings and Equipment, Instructional Materials, Professional Education, Radio and Recordings, Research, Television in Education. As at the Boston Conference, leadership for these section meetings is being given by members of national committees working in these areas. A special feature of the conference will be a tour of the superb St. Louis Audio-Visual Center. There will be no racial discrimination in Hotel Jefferson, conference headquarters. P.S. A ruling from the U.S. Treasury Department received in May of this year at the NEA states, "The Treasury Department has consistently held that expenses of travel, meals, and lodging incurred by teachers in attending teachers' conventions constitute allowable deductions for Federal income tax purposes . . ." Well, what are we waiting for? Preview of the Review • Volume 1, No. 1 of the new AudioVisiial Communication Review is scheduled to appear February 1, 1953, in ample time to enable you to tell us at the St. Louis Convention just what you think of it. Here are some vital NEW DAVI AFFILIATES. Lined up here are some of the old and new officers of the Pennsylvania State Audio-Visual Directors Association, which recently affiliated with the Department of Audio-Visual Instruction. Left to right: J. D. South, new secretary; J. M. Jones, secretary for the past year; Norman W. Morgan, member of the Penn-AVID executive committee; Andy Bradac, president for the past year; and Daniel A. Rohrbach, new president. statistics concerning the new jouinal: Editor, Bill Allen, San Diego State College; Advisory Editors: Edgar Dale, Ohio State University; Jim Finn, USC; Elizabeth Golterman, St. Louis Public Schools; Charles F. Hoban, Jr., University of Pennsylvania; J. J. McPherson, DAVI national office; Kenneth Norberg, Sacramento State College; Paul Witt, Teachers College, Columbia University. An editorial advisory board composed of audio-visual leaders representing all parts of the nation is now being appointed. The tentative table of contents for the first issue includes the following: "A Concept of Communication" (Edgar Dale), "Use of Models in Training Films" (Charles F. Hoban), "Professionalizing the Audio-Visual Field" (James D. Finn), "A Theoretical Orientation for Instructional Film Research" (C. R. Carpenter), "Implications of Perception Research for AudioVisual Education" (Kenneth Norberg), "Some Unanswered Questions on Audio-Visual Research" (Walter Wittich), "Review of Foreign Literature" (Andrius Denium), Book Reviews, Research Abstracts. The new Review will be sixty-four pages in a 6 X 9" format. DAVI members will have an opportunity to subscribe to the new journal at a special introductory price of $3.00 for four issues. The regular subscription rate will be $4.00 with single copies priced at $1.25. The editors report that it will be of enormous aid to them if DAVI members indicate as soon as possible an interest in subscribing to the publication. Attn: Teacher Ed Reps • If you are in teacher education and can represent the audio-visual cause for DAVI at one of the regional conferences sponsored by the National Commission on Teacher Education and Professional Standards during Januaiy, rush us word. Here are dates, places, and states covered: Jan. 2-3, Hotel New Yorker, New York, for Conn., Del., D.C, Me., Md., Mass., N.H., N.J., N.Y., Pa., R.I., Vt., W. Va. Jan. 9-10, Henry Grady Hotel, Atlanta, for Ala., Fla., Ga., Ky.. Miss., N.C., S.C, Tenn., Va. Jan. 19-20, Hotel Sherman, Chicago, for 111., Ind., Mich., Minn., N.D., Ohio, S.D., Wise. Jan. 23-24, Town House Hotp], Kansas City, foi Ark., la., Kan., La., Mo., Neb., dkla., Tex. Jan. 26-27, Broadmoor Hotel, Colorado Springs, for Ariz., Colo., Ida., Mon., N.M., Utah, Wyo. Jan. 30-31, Bellevue Hotel, San Francisco, for Calif., Nev., Ore., Wash. (Continued on page 414) 412 Educafional Screen