Film and Radio Guide (Oct 1945-Jun 1946)

50 FILM AND RADIO GUIDE Volume XII, No. 5 WHO'S WHO IN AUDIO-VISUAL EDUCATION No. 45: Hardy R. Finch Hardy R. Finch, head of the English Department at Greenwich, Connecticut, High School and editor of Secondary Education, is the author of more than one hundred lively educational articles, many of which have been on audio-visual topics. From 1941 to 1945 he conducted a monthly department in Educational Screen, dealing with school-made films. He has edited two pamphlets on movies in the schools. The Motion Picture and the Teacher, and The Motion Picture Goes to School. He was co-editor of a guide to the screen version of The Mill on the Floss. With Eleanor D. Child, Finch published Producing School Movies, National Council of Teachers of English Monograph No. 12. His other writings include: Roads T o Travel, published by Harper and Brothers ; articles for Scholastic, Everyday Reading, and Youth Today; a monthly column for Connecticut Teacher; special assignments for The Christian Science Monitor, Time, and the Teacher’s Guide to The Reader's Digest; and reviews and articles on English teaching for The English Journal. Finch has been a director of the National Council of Teachers of English, a member of the advisory board of The English Journal, treasurer and president of the Department of Secondary Teachers of the National Education Association, member of the advisory editorial board of Scholastic Magazines, and a consultant on textbooks and films. Hardy R. Finch Finch was born in Salamanca, New York, April 5, 1905; was graduated in 1922 from Greenwich High School, where he received his “G” in football and track ; completed the six-year cooperative course, with alternate periods of work and study, at Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio, receiving his A. B. degree in 1927. Under the cooperative plan, he was an assistant in bacteriology at college; teacher at Pine Mountain, Ky., Settlement School ; and research assistant in the Winnetka, Illinois, Public Schools. In college, he received three varsity manager letters and was liusiness manager of the college paper. While assistant principal and head of English at Ten Broeck Academy, Franklinville. New York, in 1930, he completed his work for the M.A. degree at St. Bonaventure’s College, St. Bonaventure, New York. Since that time, he has done nearly two years of graduate woi’k at Teachers College, Columbia University. While con tinuing his specialization in the English field. Finch is also interested in health and physical education as a member of the State Board of Directors of the Connecticut Tuberculosis Association. No. 46: Samuel G. Gilbert Samuel G. Gilburt, a young man in the New York City school system, has done an outstanding, pioneering job in teaching movie and radio appreciation at the junior-high-school level. Gilburt was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., September 13, 1910. He attended Brooklyn Boys’ High School and the City College, in New York, where he obtained the B.S. degree. While an undergraduate he became interested in movies and was associated with the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures as a reviewer. While studying for his M.A. degree at Columbia University during 1932-33, Gilburt sold luggage and haberdashery at Macy’s. Thereafter he served as a social worker in the New York City Department of Welfare for several years. He next taught English at Boys’ High School on temporary appointment for two years. He was then permanently assigned to Strauss Junior High School, Brooklyn, N. Y., in September, 1940. Gilburt’s principal. Maxwell F. Littwin, asked him to teach a special class in “Creative English.’’ One activity of the group was the creation of cartoons. Gilburt was also made faculty adviser of the Straus Movie