Atlantic City CONVENTION 1948 Official Report— American Association of School Administrators BRADLEY . OMAR r D , v Security Belongs to You WALTER H. JUDD America's Expanding International Role We Need the World View WALTER A. WITTICH Using A udio - Visual Materials in the Classroom GERALD WENDT The Readjustment of Education to the Atomic Age OTHER ADDRESSES by H. Roe Bartle, Lyman Bryson, Erwin D. Canham, Eva Carmichael, Marquis Childs, James Lee Ellenwood, Oscar R. Ewing, Paul B. Jacobson, David J. Rose, T. V. Smith, R. E. Stewart, Herman B. Wells 'IE 6th 5 ItutiprHttg of $iat\bu Htbrartps ^n Library OFFICIAL REPORT The_American Association of School Administrators A Department of the Nationol Education Association of the United States 74 th ANNUAL CONVENTION ATLANTIC «,JKr CITY, N.J ATLANTIC CITY AUDITORIUM FEBRUARY 21-26 1948 1201 Sixteenth Street, Northwest, Washington 6, D. C. April 1948 Price $1.50 Per Col<\ 2/0- 4. 1BU» CONVENTION THEME The Expanding Role of Education —— CONTENTS GENERAL SESSIONS SUNDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 22, 1948 Page In Memoriam —Pills bury ... 7 My America Is at the Crossroads —Hurtle 9 SUNDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 22, 1948 America's Expanding International Role —Judd 19 MONDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 23, 1948 The Convention Exhibit —Stewart 40 Appraisal of the Schools: Tlie School Board's Opportunities —Rose 43 A Job with Youth —Ellenivood 51 Newspapers and Schools Appraise Their Common Purposes Canham . 57 MONDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 23, 1948 Friendship Hour 61 MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 23, 1948 Concert by Boston University Band 62 Our Educational Stake in Germany — Wells . 62 Security Belongs to You — Bradley . 72 TUESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 24, 1948 Education in a Democracy—Presentation of the 1948 Year- book, The Expanding Rule of Education —Jacobson 78 Education—An Investment in People —Etving 86 Amendments to the Constitution and Bylaws —Kulp 94 TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 24, 1948 Building International Goodwill through Teacher Exchange Car rni< had 98 Introduction of Foreign CJutsis 105 Home Lessons from Educational Adventuring Abroad . ... Smith 105 - — WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 25, 1948 Page Using Audio-Visual Materials of Instruction in the Classroom Witt'ich .... 115 How Good Are the New Tools for Teaching? —Bryson 134 WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 25, 1948 Associated Exhibitors Scholarship Fund —Stewart .... 146 Presentation of the American Education Award to Paul G. Hoffman —Stewart 147 Acceptance of the American Education Award —Hoffman 14S Fred Waring and His Pennsylvanians 152 THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 26, 1948 Presentation of Past-President's Key to Herold C. Hunt . —Sexson 153 We Need the World View —Buck 1 54 America Must Choose —Childs 165 THURSDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 26, 1948 The Readjustment of Education to the Atomic Age —W endt 174 Closing Ceremonies 187 OFFICIAL RECORDS Annual Report of the Executive Secretary 191 Report of the Board of Tellers 212 Resolutions 214 Report of the Audit Committee 219 Certificate of List of Securities 220 The Constitution and Bylaws 222 Program of the Atlantic City Convention 227 Index 253 OFFICERS, 1947-48 American Association of School Administrators President Herold C. Hunt, General Superintendent of Schools, Chicago, 'Illinois First Vicepresident Henry H. Hill, President, George Peabody College for Teachers, Nashville, Tennessee Second Vicepresident Alfred D. Simpson, Associate Professor of Education, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts Executive Secretary Worth McClure, 1201 Sixteenth Street, Northwest, Washing- ton, D. C. Executive Committee Irby B. Carruth, Superintendent of Schools, Waco, Texas Hobart M. Corning, Superintendent of Schools, Washington D. C. George E. Roudebush, Superintendent of Schools, Columbus Ohio Paul Loser, Superintendent of Schools, Trenton, New Jersey I he President, First and Second Vicepresidents, ex offi>Cl'l — ::":":": TRAYMORE TRAYMORE i * in k v ;;;! fy COURTESY NATION'S SCHOOLS OUR POLICY The American Association of School Administrators endorses no individual or group of individuals or any sentiment expressed by any speaker or other participant in its programs, ex- cept by resolution or by motion approved by a vote of its members. FIRST GENERAL SESSION Vesper Service Sunday Afternoon, February 22, 1948 The First (lateral Session of the Seventy-Fourth Annual Convention of the American Association of School Administrators convened in the Ballroom of the Auditorium, Atlantic City, Nezv Jersey, on Sunday after- noon, February 22, 194S, at four o'clock, President Ilerold C. Hunt, Gen- eral Superintendent of Schools, Chicago, Illinois, presiding. jQRESiDENT Hunt: I take great pleasure in calling to order this Seventy- ^ Fourth Annual Convention of the American Association of School Ad- ministrators, with its associated departments. Our vespers musical program of praise and adoration is to be sung for us this afternoon by the Montclair College Choir of the New Jersey State Teachers College of Upper Montclair, New Jersey, under the able direction of Dr. Carl F. Mueller. (See page 228 for complete program of music.) IN MEMORIAM Tribute by W. HOWARD PILLSBURY, PAST-PRESIDENT, AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS President Hunt: Long has it been customary to pause during the first general session of our annual convention to pay tribute to those who have served in our ranks and who, during the year, have answered the final roll call. Dr. W. Howard Pillsbury, superintendent emeritus of the Schenectady, New York, Public Schools, and a past-president of this Association, will speak at this time in memoriam, with particular refer- ence to that great leader of our Association, Dr. Sherwood Dodge Shank- land, who just a year ago appeared on this vesper service program. To speak in tribute to all of the great leaders of our Association who have left us during the year, we recognize at this time Dr. Pillsbury. Mr. Pillsbury: Since last the American Association of School Ad- ministrators met here in Atlantic City a considerable number of its members has gone to "that undiscovered country from whose bourne no traveler returns." Some had enjoyed a brief respite from the arduous labors of an exacting profession. Others were stricken* while still in active service on the firing line. For us the living, it is altogether fitting to begin our proceedings with a tribute to the memory of these—our fallen comrades—who have fought the good fight, finished their course, and enriched us by their contributions to American education. Foremost in this group was our Executive Secretary Emeritus, Sherwood Dodge Shankland, In honoring him we simultaneously memorialize that [7 ] — 8 American Association of School Administrators goodly company of lost leadership, his fellow administrators, whose fate he shared and whose achievements and qualities he so admirably exemplified. Selected a full quarter of a century ago to guide the destinies of a struggling Department of Superintendence, he provided a brand of leader- ship which became the direct cause in the rapid growth of the Department a growth which has brilliantly justified the faith which prompted this venture. That small uncoordinated department has become the American Association of School Administrators, a well integrated power in American education. It has quadrupled its membership. Its annual convention brings together those who shape practices in American schools in numbers un- paralleled in any other profession. Joint enterprises with such organizations as the United States Chamber of Commerce, the Commission on Teacher Education, and the National Association of School Boards have obviated the danger of administrative isolationism. The reports of its numerous commissions and its long list of significant yearbooks have furnished rich content for administration as a profession. In cooperation with the National Education Association, the Educational Research Service has been firmly founded and provides authoritative, up-to-date information on administrative policies and prac- tices. Also in cooperation with the National Education Association, the Educational Policies Commission was created and the organized thinking of the profession became articulate throughout the land. Such achievements typify the growth and progress of our Association under the leadership of its first executive secretary. And yet, it is as a wise counselor and loyal friend that Sherry Shankland will live longest in our memories. Endowed with an uncommon fund of common sense he never lost touch with reality. A skilful planner and organizer, wise in the ways of men, he knew full well how to develop the initiative and resourcefulness of his colleagues. His steadfast sincerity, staunch loyalty to a friend or a cause, his outgoing personality, and extraordinary capacity for friendship irresistibly drew men to him and inevitably created a loyalty to his leader- inspired ship. He attracted by his frankness ; he charmed by his courtesy ; he by his selfless devotion to the cause which he served. Positive in his con- victions he was yet flexible in the means of achievement. He had a flair for public relations but an innate modesty which kept him in the background whenever possible. In conference he was a good listener, spoke seldom, was always constructive, usually laconic, and frequently picturesque. His boom- ing voice and blunt manner cloaked a surprisingly tender heart and warm sympathy. ( Possessed of such qualities he was eminently fitted to wear the shoulder straps as the chief administrator in the affairs