Educational screen & audio-visual guide (c1956-1971])

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Name Address Zone .State AS PERSONAL Continued one of the crackerbarrel sessions of the Chicago Convention grew a proposal for preparing a manual for the school personnel responsible for the task of organizing and training the student corps. Fred Winston, of New York City, is the first chairman of the committee being appointed to undertake this task. Of People and Places Seth Spaulding, formerly fundamental education specialist with the Pan American Union, is now on a special mission to Burma. His address there is care of Ford Foundation, P. O. Box 1397, Rangoon, Burma. Roy Wenger, of Kent State University and co-chairman of our National Committee on Teacher Education, is spending this year at Christian University in Japan. His address is 1500 Osawa, Mitaka-shi, Tokyo, Japan. His responsibilities at Kent State University are being assurned by Ralph H. Hall. Bob Fisler, of River Falls State Teachers College, Wisconsin, is now in India on a mission for the Foreign Operations .Administration. Clarence Williams, Director of Audio-Visual Aids for Kirksville College of Osteopathy and Surgery, Missouri, recently presented two sets of slides showing Indian carvings found near Holliday, Missouri, to the Kansas State Teachers College Bureau of .Audio-Visual Education. Paul Vanderbilt, Executive Director of the Graphic History Society of America, P. O. Box 4402, Washington, D. C, has prepared a slip A-V CONFERENCE CALENDAR OCTOBER 14-17 — 1954 Audio Fair, Hotel New Yorker, New York, N.Y. OCTOBER 19-21 — Texos Association of Audio-Visual Directors Second Annual Conference, Kilgore College, Kilgore, Tex. (write Ernest Tiemonn, Director, Visual Instruction Bureau, University of Texas, Austin, Tex.) OCTOBER 21-23 — Pennsylvania AudioVisual Instruction Directors' Association Conference, Harrisburg, Penna. (write Jesse Brown, York Film Library, York, Penna.) OCTOBER 27-30 — 30th Annual Convention of Notional Association of Educational Broadcasters, Hotel Biltmore. New York City NOVEMBER 5 — Connecticut AudioVisual Education Association Conference (write George Ingham, Director, Audio-Visual Instruction, Board of Education, Westport, Conn.) NOVEMBER 5-6 — Washington AudioVisual Directors Conference, Washington State NOVEMBER 7-9— Fourth National Conference of the Adult Education Association of the U.S.A., Hotel Morrison, Chicago file of all illustrated pictorial books published since January 1950 and cataloged in the Library of Congress. Joe Nerden, of the Connecticut State Department of Education, has just received his Ph.D. degree from Yale University. His dissertation was on the subject, "Factors .Affecting the Teacher Use of Motion Picture Films in Public Schools." The study encompassed the entire teacher population of Connecticut at the start and finally simmered down to 24 towns where detailed investigations concerning the factors affecting teacher film use was carried on. Unesco Treaty Frees A-V A UNESCO-SPONSORED international Agreement to overcome tariff and trade restrictions on the movement of educational films, filmstrips, sound recordings, and other visual and auditory materials went into effect on August 12. The Contracting States are Cambodia, Canada, Haiti, Iraq, Norway, Pakistan, the Philippines, Salvador, Syria and Yugoslavia. Eleven additional countries have signed the Agreement but have yet to ratify it. They are .Afghanistan, Brazil, Denmark, Dominican Republic. Ecuador, Greece, Iran, Lebanon, Netherlands, United States of America, and Uruguay. The United States Government has submitted the Agreement to the Senate for ratification. A number of other signatory countries have likewise initiated action with a view to ratification. The convention is entitled the ".Agreement for facilitating the International Circulation of Visual and .Auditory Materials of an Educational, Scientific and Cultural Character." It grants exemption from import duties and quantitative restrictions and from the necessity of applying for an import license. It applies to films, filmstrips, recordings, glass slides, wall charts, maps and posters. In addition, imported materials will receive the same favorable treatment as domestic prcxlucts with regard to sales regulations, transport, distribution, processing and exhibition. 314 Educational Screen