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See the October issue of Educational Screen and Audiovisual Guide for added features on the National Audiovisual Convention and Exhibit.
1 HE final tally for the 20th annual National Audiovisual Convention and Exhibit showed 3,170 registered in attendance. This exceeded advance estimates, and surpassed the 1959 show by 2.3 percent.
Those attending the big show at the Morrison Hotel in Chicago, August 6-9 represented users, producers, equipment manufacturers, and dealers of non-theatrical motion pictures, film strips and recordings for teaching and selling.
Harvey W. Marks, partner in the Visual Aid Center, Denver, Colorado was elected president of the National AudioVisual Association. Marks was installed by outgoing president W. G. Kirtley of the D. T. Davis Company of Louisville, Kentucky, who now becomes chairman of the NAVA board of directors.
Mahlon H. Martin, Jr., M. H. Martin Company, Massillon, Ohio, was installed as first vice president, and Harold A. Fischer, Photosound of Orlando, Orlando, Florida, was made second vice president of the association. Robert P. Abrams, Williams, Brown & Earle, Inc., Philadelphia, Pa., and Earl Harpster, Harpster AudioVisual Equipment, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio, were
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elected secretary and treasurer respectively Each of the officers will serve a one year term
Marks, former first vice president, was genera! chairman of the convention.
The keynote speech of the convention waf presented by James W. Hulfish, Jr., Fairfax Virginia, director of information of NAVA. Usinf three slide projectors and tape recordings anc a "wide screen" Hulfish described the develop ment of the audiovisual industry and deliverec a prediction of the future of the use of audio visuals in the next decade.
His presentation featured recorded interview: with a score of men and women prominent ir the audiovisual fields of business, education religion, medicine and manufacturing.
Discussing the growth of the .\V industr\Kirtley said that "the audiovisual field repre sents an investment in excess of .$2..5 billion ii the United States since World War II."
"The annual dollar volume," he said, "was esti mated to be over a quarter-billion dollars ii 1958 and in 1960 is expected to pass the .$30( million mark."
"The most dramatic growth is taking place ii education, where expenditures have been ac celerated as the direct result of the Nationa Defense Education Act of 19.58 which channel: federal funds to the purchase of instructiona materials, "he said.
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Officers of the newly forineil National Audio-Visual Association of CiiiKi.hi .NWAC) are bark row, from left): Peter AUinger, Vancouver, B.C., renional director; Marvin Melnick, Winipeg, Man., vice president; Ben Etkinson, Montreal, Que., director; Ray Guthrie, Hamilton, Ont., treasurer; (front row) Gordon Stewart, Toronto, Ont., director; George (Jihson. Toronto, president; Arch Stewart, Toronto, secretary.
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