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

News. (Continued from Page 298) Education; Dr. Fitzwater has for many years headed the Bureau of Visual Instruction there. Hungerford and Miss Lepthien, like Dolnick, are principals with strong AV background and interests; Dr. Mainwaring teaches AV on the college level; Miss Bartz, who has returned to classroom teaching, was a high school AV director; Miller is chairman of the local Suburban High School Council of AV Directors. Harbin Named To Florida Dept. Of Education Post Jim Harbin, director of instructional materials for the past 14 years in the Leon County Schools, Tallahassee, Florida, has been appointed consultant in audiovisual education for the Florida State Department of Education. He replaces Barry Morris who resigned to accept the position of assistant superintendent of schools in Fairfax County, Virginia. Harbin has been active vdth the Florida Audiovisual Association for a number of years, serving two terms as president. He is currently editor of the AV State Newsletter, editor of the Instructional Materials page in Florida Education, ofiBcial publication of the Florida Education Association. He has been a member of DA VI since 1946 and. has served as a member of the editorial advisory board and as chairman of the County and Cooperative Section in 1960-1961. He attended the Okoboji Leadership Conference in 1960 and 1961 and has been invited to attend the '62 conference this svmimer. Photo Society Announces Landscape Competition The third annual Firth Pictorial Landscape Contest has been aimounced by the Pictorial Division of the Photographic Society of America. Prints must be submitted by August 3, 1962, and will be judged during PSA's international convention in San Francisco, August 14-18. Entry forms and complete contest rules are available from Mrs. Gertrude L. Pool, 1628 Mariposa Ave., Palo Alto, Calif., or from Kenneth Rapalee, 150 S. Alfred St., Elgin, 111. Screen i^eflecttons! 40 Years Ago Editor and publisher Nelson Greene said as Educational Screen, reached the halfway mark toward its first birthday: "We believe that this sort of magazine, seeking to prove something rather than to sell something, will afford the finest service to readers, contributors and advertisers. More and more readers, contributors and advertisers are believing the same thing." And they still are forty years later! "It seems improbable that the film can ever equal in range the genuine educational values of the slide." Nelson Greene e o o "Every picture is specific. A general truth may be illustrated by a picture: it is never expressed by one. To make known a judgment, to state a conclusion, to express a general notion, a picture is useless; knguage alone is adequate." Alfred W. Abrams o « « One hundred twenty of 1,592 high schools replying to a questionnaire reported they had both a stereoptican and a motion picture projector. That was 7.5 percent. An additional 41 schools (2.6 percent) reported a motion picture projector only. The questionnaire had been sent to 5000 schools. 2S Years Ago Among the principal speakers at the Detroit meeting of the Department of Visual Instruction were Dean McClusky, Ford Lemler (speaking on "State Wide Visual Work in Indiana"), Edgar Dale, William F. Kruse and Esther L. Berg of New York City's Public School 91. Nelson Greene was president of the Department. In a feature article, Alvin B. Roberts, principal of the Haw Creek Township High School in Gilson, Illinois, summarized the main points to be considered in introducing a visual aid program : ( 1 ) selection of a projector, (2) interesting teachers in the project, (3) the time schedule, (4) rating and apportioning film, (5) preparation of teachers, (6) preparation of pupils, and (7) holding pupils accountable for visual material used. Wesley Greene was departmental editor for a regular section of Educational Screen titled "Foreign Films for Educational Institutions." "A Sound Kodascope" was demonstrated at the spring convention of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers in Hollywood. ". . . research and development of motion picture equipment and techniques show greater acceleration in the last year than at any time since the first several years after the introduction of sound." "With the endorsement of the P.T.A. and other local civic bodies, the National Educational Film Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization, has just been launched to produce a large number of educational films each year." What ever happened to that idea? So far as we can remember, they produced no films. 10 Years Ago Foy Cross retvimed to home base to consult vvdth Mutual Security Administration ofiBcials on the program of audiovisual education he is carrying on in the Philippines. In an article telling about the new Library of Congress film catalog cards. Dr. Seerley Reid of the U. S. Office of Education concluded, "To me, with my bias, the value of the cards seems indisputable. The test will come ten years from now when we say, 'How did we ever get along without LC's film catalog cards?' " » » o Educational Screen editor Paid C. Reed, chief consultant for visual and radio education in the Rochester, New York, Public Schools, has been granted a one-year leave of absence from his Rochester position to serve as assistant director and chief of field services for the Joint Comittee on Educational Television in Washington. 300 Educational Screen and Audiovisual Guide — June, 1962