DOCUMENT RESUME ED 079 531 VT 020 726 TITLE Convention Proceedings Digest (Chicago, Illinois, December 1-6, 1972). INSTITUTION American Vocational Association, Washington, L.C. PUB DATE May 73 NOTE 351p. AVAILABLE FROMPublication Sales, American Vocational Association, 1510 H Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20005 (Order Number 54573, $2.50, quantity discounts) EDRS PRICE MF-$0.65 HC-$13.16 DESCRIPTORS *Conference Reports; *National Organizations; *Professional Associations; *Vocational Education IDENTIFIERS American Vocational Association ABSTRACT This convention digest summarizes the activities occurring during the 6-day, 1972 American Vocational Association Convention. Included are: (1) summaries of the general sessions, (2) listing of awards and citations presented during the convention, (3) minutes of the House of Delegates meeting, (4)policy regulations adopted by the House of Delegates,(5) summaries of the professional meetings of the Association's Research and Evaluation, Special and Related Programs, Supervision and Administration, and Adult, Secondary, Post-Secondary, and Teacher Education Departments, (6) summaries of the professional meetings of the Association's subject matter divisions, and (7) activities of related groups and organizations. A listing of the commercial and educational exhibitors is provided. 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Order from: Publication Sales, American Vocational Association, 1510H Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20005. MAY 1973 BOARD OF DIRECTORS 1972-1973 Aleene Cross, President T. Carl Brown, Past President Lowell A. Burkett, Executive Director C.M. Lawrence, Vice President Agricultural Education John L. Rowe, Vice President Business and Office Education Bernard C. Nye, Vice President Distributive Education Charles G. Foster, Vice President Guidance Dale F. Petersen, Vice President Health Occupations Education Ruth Stovall, Vice President Home Economics Education Ernest L. Minelli, Vice President Industrial Arts Education L.E. Nichols, Vice President Manpower John K. Coster, Vice President New and Related Services Angelo C. Gillie, Vice President Technical Education Joe D. Mills, Vice President Trade and Industrial Education CONTENTS General Sessions 11 AVA Awards and E.E.A.Ship's Citation 31 House of Delegates 35 AVA Policy Resolutions 45 Adult Education Department 55 Postsecondary Education Department 61 Secondary Education Department 75 Research and Evaluation Department . 93 Special and Related Programs Department 109 Supervision and Administration Department 119 Teacher Education Department 123 Agricultural Education Division 133 Business and Office Education Division 151 Distributive Education Division 171 Guidance Division 193 Health Occupations Education Division 269 Home Economics Education Division 227 Industrial Arts Education Division 245 Manpower Division 269 New and Related Services Division 283 Research Section 288 Vocational Instructional Materials Section 293 Technical Education Division 297 Trade and Industrial Education Division 315 Related Groups and Organizations 337 Conference of Officers of Affiliated State and Territorial Associations 338 National Association of State Directors of Vocational Education 340 National Council of Local Administrators 345 State Boards of Education 349 Local Boards Education 351 National and State Advisory Councils 353 AVA Advisory Council 355 Commercial and Educational Exhibitors 357 INTRODUCTION This is the fourth volume in an annual serves of AVA convention proceedings digests As the conventions have grown larger each year, those in attendance have found it impossible to sit in on all of the meetings of Interest to them. This year's convention was tne largest ever, more than 8,500 people attended. Thus, the proceedings digest, more necessary than ever before, reports the essence of professional meetings, workshops, educational tours, speeches, and discussions, as well as resolutions, elections, and other actions taking place at the various business meetings. The gathering and condensation of all the material available depended upon extensive work and cooperation of many people. We are especially indebted to the proceedings recorders, who took the responsibility of contactingcon- tributors, gathering materials, and shaping them into the finished reports often under heavy pressure o. time. Their reports are presented here essentially as submitted; editing has been done for style only. The AVA Convention Proceedings Digest will prove valuable not only for those who attended the Chicago Convention, but for every person who wants to be informed about the current state of vocational education. LOWELL A. BURKETT Executive Director American Vocational Association GENERAL SESSIONS e OPENING GENERAL SESSION Saturday, December 2 Vocational Technical EducationIts Message Must Be Heard Alice Widener Publisher, U.S.A. Magazine Permit me to set the historical background of where we are now. In 1850 to 1860 there was a teacher in Illinois, whose name was Jonathan Turner.- He and I have a great deal in common. He made the same speech for ten years; the subject the intellectual snobbery of the system of higher education in the United States of America, in which at that time only four subjects were considered to be fit for higher education: religion, medicine, law and belles-lettres, the last being mostly the study of Latin and Greek. Turner maintained that engineenng, mechanics, science and agriculture were fit subjects for higher education and that the states should appropriate land for colleges where these subjects could be taught. Turner maintained that not every young person in America was suited to become a lawyer, a doctor, a priest or a writer. In Vermont at this time there was the son of a blacksmith called Justin Morrill, who read Turner's speech, agreed with him and who eventually went to Congress and introduced the Morrill Land Grant Colleges Act. Now let me say that at that time in our country two percent of American youth attended institutions of higher learning. Ont. two percent. And they came mostly from well-to-do-families. One day in 1860, Turner was making his speech to a small audie'ce and a tall, thin man was among them his name was Abraham Lincoln. Impressed by Turner's speech he said that if elected President of the United States, he would sign the Land Grant Colleges Act. In 1859 that act was vetoed by President Buchanan who heeded the intellectual snobs of those times, those who said that cow colleges and poor-boy colleges would create barbarism in America. In 1862 however, Abe Lincoln signed the Land Grant Colleges Act six months before he signed the Emancipation Proclamation; by doing so, he helped to free all youth, black and white, from the tyranny of intellectual snobbery prevalent in those days. Today, we are in a situation in this country concerning, elementary and secondary education that is similar to the situation that prevailed in the middle of the 19th century, and we need an Abe Lincoln, a Turner and a Morrill. We are suffering in our nation now from a mistake as great as that made in the middle of the 19th century. Let me go back just one moment. Had it not been for the cow colleges and poor-boy colleges in the United States and let me hasten to add that few Americans are aware that the great MIT is a land grant college the United States today would be an underdeveloped nation. Had it not been for the great teachers and students at land grant colleges studying agricultural science, our nation would not be the world breadbasket that it is; we'd be a food-poor country. Had it not been for the great inventions in technology, in mechanics and engineering that took place in the poor-boy and cow colleges, we would not be an advanced nation. Today, however, we are at a crucial point in the educational history of the United States. Either our country is going to be strangled by the prevalent intellectual snobbery in education or you ladies and gentlemen are going to free youth from a public education system based on a perversion of a quality. That 12 e perversion is egalitarianism which is a far different thing from equality, and that egalitarian public education system isbest charactenzed by thz following: magazines with full page ads which say at the top, "Insure your child's future. Take out a college education insurance policy." That sd assumes that the child is like every other child. It is not. It is unique. We have in our country a public school education system whose curriculum is oriented toward a four year college course whether or not the child is suited to it, likes it, needs it, wants it or is gifted to it. From one end of this nation to the other I have observed the workings of this system that is cruel to children; but before I discuss it permit me just to give you a few statistics. To the best of my ability as a researcher they are the latest, and I obtained them from the top sources of the United States Government in the concerned departments. You hear talk about unemployment in this country, and there isn't one person in 1000 who knows anything about it, though we are spending billions of dollars to correct the situation.