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

AS PERSONAL Continued on a request from the Texas Education Agency to outline plans for a state-wide audio-visual program. This project will be undertaken cooperatively with other professional organizations in the state including the Texas Association of School Administrators and the Texas Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. PENNSYLVANIA New officers for PennAVID are: President, Norman W. Morgan, Scranton; Vice-President, J. Mitchell Blose, High School, Kittaning; Executive Secretary, Daniel Rohrbach, Junior High School, Boyertown; Secretary-Treasurer, Franklin Hoy, Bellefonte. New officers of the MICHIGAN Audio-Visual Association are: President, Lewis Saks, Audio-Visual Director, East Detroit Public Schools; First Vice President, Marie McMahan, Audio-Visual Consultant, Battle Creek Public Schools; Secretary -Treasurer, Ford Lemler^ Director, Audio-Visual Center, University of Michigan. Past president is Lloyd J. Cartwright, Director, Saginaw County Audio-Visual Center. Executive committee members are: Kenneth Bonine, Audio-Visual Director, Kalamazoo Public Schools; Byron Clendening, Audio-Visual Director, Central Michigan College of Education; Wanda Daniel, Crosse Pointe Public Schools; Newell Remington, AudioVisual Director, Bay City Central High School; and Charles Schuller, Director, AudioVisual Center, Michigan State College. In RHODE ISLAND the State Department of Education inaugurated a new radio series last November, 1954. The series was titled, "Let's Visit Our Scliools," and was developed from tape recordings made of actual classroom activities. When the ALABAMA Legislature recently appropriated one-half million dollars to a,ssure educational television for the people of the state, Raymond Hurlbert, President of the Alabama Educational TV Commission, commented, "Why? Well, it was like a man who can't afford expensive surgery — but can afford less not to have it. Alabama could not afford to let go by default a public domain rightfully belonging to the future citizens of the state and we consider educational television in the long run an economical investment of the public money. Why? In terms of capital outlay, operational cost, and number of people served. educational television is economical public edtication." Over 300 persons took part in the state conference of the NORTH DAKOT.4 .Audio-Visual Education .Asso ciation in Fargo last fall. This is an exceptional achievement for a state as sparsely populated as North Dakota. Judith H. Rue, who was re-elected ])resident of the .Association, also reports that her .Association adopted unified dues with D.AVI so that every meml)er of the North Dakota Association is now a D.AVI member. Incidentally, the goal for state membership in D.AVI has been set for 200 in 1955 and an active campaign is being carried on under the direction of O. S. .Anderson, of Fargo, North Dakota. Of People and Places Don't blame the University of Syracuse if the United States is not making an all-out effort to assist with audio-visual education in the .Middle Don Williams & Co. East. Here are some of the L'niversity of Syracuse graduates shown on location in Beirut. .Seated left to right: B. Gelabert, Don Williams, and D. Hubbard. Standing: Mike Guido, Mel Rizzie, Don Jordan, and K. Niejid. Walter Bell, President of the Georgia Audio-Visual Education .Association, announced in the last issue of the Georgia Education Journal that his Audio-Visual .Association hopes to move up to first place in D.AVI membership representation this year by persuading a majority of the schools in the state to take out School Service Plan subscriptions to DA VI. At the present time Georgia is ninth largest affiliate of DAVI. Walter ended his statement with these words, "Membership in NE.A-D.AVl brings the Educational Screen magazine to your school each month and other NEA audio-visual publications and services. Let's move Georgia up to the top in audio-visual education. Let's help the Audio-Visual Education .Association of Georgia and D.AVI of NE.A to promote adequate audio-visual education programs!" .And knowing those folks Walter Bell from Georgia, they just might do it in one year! John Payne, of Pueblo, Colorado, reports that the use of the film Human (howlh has been opposed in his community by a comparatively small but vociferous group of citizens after the film has been in continuous use for five years. John wants to know what experience other communities have had along this line and what steps might be taken in Pueblo to combat the ellort of a small minority to "censor" films used in the schools. Recent visitors to the national office include Roy Barron, Santa Barbara County Schools, California; Ken Lilley, Chairman of the Board of N.AV.A; Irv Boerlin, Pennsylvania State Llni\ersity: Thomas Batson, McKinley High School, Washington, D. C; Foy C^ross, New York University; Howard Kresge, Paris, France; Paul Ritter, Western Carolina State Teachers College: Robert L. Shoemaker, of the DuKane Corporation: Jack Waller, of the Bell & Howell C>ompany, Fred Winston, New York City; and Don White, of NAVA. Claude L. Reeves, Co-Chairman of the D.AVI Convention in Los Angeles, has been named superintendent of Los Angeles City Schools. D.VVI representatives who will fake part in the Curricidum Clinic at the Conference of the .American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education in Chicago, February 24-26, are: L. C. Larson, Indiana University; Philip Lewis, Chicago Teachers College; Sam Madden, Virginia State College: W. C. Meierhenry, University of Nebraska; Paul Ritter, Western Carolina State Teachers College: and Edward Sewell, Harding College. From Ralph Hall, Director of the National Tape Repository at Kent State University comes word that after the National Tajie Recording Catalog had been i.ssued for a month, his center was receiving requests for the rerecordings at an average of fifteen programs per day. 60 Educational Screen