Program of the Annual Meeting of the National Vocational Guidance Association
NEWS AND COMMENT
The Annual Meeting of the National Vocational Guidance Association is to be held at the Hotel Chalfonte, Atlantic City, New Jersey, on February 20, 21 and 22, 1930. The complete program is given below. The discussion of objective methods in vocational guidance, to which the morning and afternoon sessions of Friday, February 21, will be devoted, should be of special interest to workers in the field of clinical psychology.
Of additional interest is the joint meeting with the Staff of the Vineland Training School to be held at Vineland, New Jersey, on Saturday afternoon, February 22, at 2:30 p.m. Those attending the meeting of the International Council for the Education of Exceptional Children have been invited to attend the Saturday afternoon meeting at Vineland, and to make the tour of the Vineland Training School which will be one of the features of the meeting. Following the meeting supper will be served. Those who expect to attend this meeting and to stay for supper are asked to communicate with the undersigned, so that the Training School may be furnished with an approximation of the number to be expected.
The cordial hospitality characteristic of the Vineland Training School should help make this a memorable event. Morris S. Viteles, University of Pennsylvania.
Chairman,?Program Committee, National Vocational Guidance Association. PROGRAM Annual Meeting of the National Vocational Guidance Association February 20, 21, 22, 1930 Hotel Chalfonte Atlantic City, New Jersey Thursday Morning, February 20, 1930 Chairman: Arthur J. Jones, University of Pennsylvania 10:00 The Role of Guidance in Public Education Richard D. Allen, Asst. Supt. of Schools, Providence, Rhode Island 10:30 Guidance, the Basis of Effective Vocational Education and Adjustment Edwin A. Lee, Division of Vocational Education, University of California 11:00 The Social Significance of Individual Guidance R. W. Bruere, J. C. Penney Foundation, New York City 11:30 Discussion: Susan J. Ginn, Boston Placement Bureau, Boston 12:30 Get-Together Luncheon
Chairman: H. D. Kitson, Teachers College, Columbia University Speaker: R. G. Reynolds, Columbia University,’’ Publicity for Guidance’’ Discussion Leaders: Emma Pritchard Cooley, Director of Vocational Guidance, New Orleans Public Schools, New Orleans, Louisiana Robert Hoppock, Public Schools, Rahway, New Jersey Thursday Afternoon 2:15 Round Table Sessions Section I.?How to Organize and Administer a Vocational Guidance Department in a Public School System. Chairman: Mary H. S. Hayes, Bureau of Vocational Adjustment, New York City Discussion Leaders: Helen Dernbach, Vocational Guidance Bureau, South Bend, Indiana Anne S. Davis, Director of Vocational Guidance, Chicago Public Schools, Chicago, Illinois O. Latham Hatcher, Southern Women’s Educational Alliance, Richmond, Virginia Emma Pritchard Cooley, Director of Vocational Guidance, New Orleans Public Schools, New Orleans, Louisiana Edward Rynearson, Director of Vocational Guidance, Pittsburgh Public Schools, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Discussion Adjournment at 5:00 Section II.?Vocational Guidance by Agencies Outside of the School Chairman: C. C. Robinson, National Council, Y.M.C.A., New York City Discussion Leaders: L. A. Emerson, Central Y.M.C.A., New York City Fred C. W. Parker, Secy., International Kiwanis, Chicago, Illinois Frances Cummings, Educational Secy., National Federation of Business and Professional Women’s Clubs, New York City George Fisher, Boy Scouts of America, New York City Helen Fuller, Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor Owen Pence, National Council, Y.M.C.A., New York City
Discussion Adjournment at 5:00 Section III.?Vocational Guidance in the Continuation School Chairman: Franklin J. Keller, East Side Continuation School, New York City Discussion Leaders: Paul L. Cressman, State Department of Public Instruction, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania George E. Hutclierson, Supervisor of Guidance, State Department of Education, Albany, New York Bertha Gallup Dailey, Vocational Counselor, Bronx Continuation School, New York City NEWS AND COMMENT 293 Anthony J. Goldberger, Professor of Vocational Education, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Carroll W. Robinson, Principal, Continuation School, Springfield, Massachusetts Discussion: J. Edward Mayman, Testing Counselor, East Side Continuation School, New York City Adjournment at 5:00 Occupational Studies Section Meeting Chairman: Barbara H. Wright, Board of Education, Minneapolis, Minnesota Reports on: “Education and the World’s Work,” David A. Robertson, American Council on Education “Occupational Studies as Coordinated by the National Vocational Guidance Committee on Coordination.” Mary P. Corre, Cincinnati, Ohio. ‘1 The Use of Occupational Information in Secondary Schools.’’ Grayson Kefauver, Teachers College, Columbia University Adjournment at 5:00 4:30 Informal Round Table Session: “Placement Problems” Chairman: Edith D. Gwinn, Junior Employment Service, Philadelphia. 4:30 Informal Round Table Session on Vocational Guidance of College Students Joint Meeting with National Association of Placement and Personnel Officers Thursday Evening 7:45 Business Meeting Presiding: Richard D. Allen, Providence, Rhode Island Address: Daniel A. Pohling, President, J. C. Penney Foundation, New York City
Secretary’s Report
Treasurer’s Report
3. Reports of Committees: Committee on Revision of the Principles Committee on Revision of the Constitution Committee on Securing a Grant from a Foundation Committee on Certification of Counsellors Legislative Committee Committee on Guidance in Rural Schools Publicity Committee Nominating Committee Friday Morning, February 21, 1930 8:00 Breakfast Conference?”State Activities in Guidance” Chairman: Harold L. Holbrook, Department of Public Instruction, State of Pennsylvania 8:00 Breakfast Conference?Occupational Studies Section Chairman: Barbara H. Wright, Minneapolis, Minnesota 294 THE PSYCHOLOGICAL CLINIC Objective Methods in Vocational Guidance Chairman: John M. Brewer, Harvard University 9:30 Objective Methods in the Personal Interview in Vocational Guidance B. V. Moore, Department of Psychology, Pennsylvania State College 10:00 The Measurement of Interest in Vocational Guidance Douglas Fryer, New York University 10:30 The Measurement of Vocational Qualifications Clark Hull, Yale University 11:00 Validation of Guidance Procedures L. J. O’Rourke, U. S. Civil Service Commission, Washington, D.C. Adjournment at 11:45 12:30 Luncheon Chairman: Meyer Bloomfield, New York City Speaker: Max Hausmann, Switzerland,’1 Guidance Activities in Europe’’ Friday Afternoon 2:15 Round Table Sessions Section A.?Objective Methods in the Personal Interview in Guidance Chairman: B. V. Moore, Pennsylvania State College Discussion Leaders: Mabelle B. Blake, Personnel Director, Smith College “Objective Facts Needed in Preparing for Guidance Interviews ‘’ Esther A. Gaw, Dean of Women, Ohio State University “Analysis of Interviews as a Method of Improving Them” Gladys C. Schwesinger, School Psychologist, Friends School, Brooklyn, New York “Facts Revealed by the Vocabulary of the Interviewee.” Donald Snedden, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University “Measuring Intelligence by Interviews” Agnes B. Leahy, Girl Scouts of America, New York City “A Method for Classifying and Recording Facts Obtained from Interviews” Discussion Adjournment at 5:00 Section B.?The Measurement of Interest in Guidance Chairman: Douglas Fryer, New York University Discussion Leaders: Edward K. Strong, Jr., Professor of Psychology, Stanford University “Making Occupational Scoring Keys for Use with the Interests Inventory in Vocational Guidance” Frank K. Shuttleworth, Graduate School, Yale University “Various Experiments with the Inventory in Selecting Group Interests’’ Harry D. Kitson, Professor of Education, Teachers College, Columbia University “A Rating Scale of Interests” NEWS AND COMMENT 295 Kathryn McHale, Professor of Education, Gouclier College, Baltimore, Maryland ‘’ An Information Test of Interests’’ A. J. Morrow, Brooklyn, New York “An Inventory of Universal Interests” Karl M. Cowdery, Registrar’s Office, Stanford University, California “The Interest Inventory in College Personnel Procedures” Discussion Adjournment at 5:00 Section C.?The Measurement of Vocational Qualifications Chairman: Clark Hull, Yale University Discussion Leaders: Don H. Taylor, New York University “The Abilities of Printers” Roy N. Anderson, Columbia University “The Status of Tests for the Measurement of Clerical Aptitude ‘’ John H. Donnelly, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania “The Significance of Industrial Tests in Vocational Selection” Beatrice Candee, Vocational Service for Juniors, New York City Discussion “The Use of Tests in the Selection of Pupils for Rapid Advancement in Junior High Schools” Adjournment at 5:00 Section D.?Validation of Guidance Procedures Chairman: L. J. O ‘Rourke, U. S. Civil Service Commission, Washington, D.C. Discussion Leaders: Mildred Lincoln, Munro Junior High School, Rochester, N.Y. Joseph V. Hanna, New York University, New York City Joseph Miller, Director of Guidance, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania George F. Meyers, Professor of Vocational Education and Guidance, University of Michigan Helen H. Ringe, Vocational Service for Juniors, New York City Discussion Adjournment at 5:00 Friday Evening 7:00 Annual Dinner of the National Vocational Guidance Association Speaker: Saturday Morning, February 22, 1930 8:00 Breakfast Conference “College Courses for Teachers in the Field of Vocational Guidance” (Continuation of Harvard Conference) Chairman: Frank M. Leavitt, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 9:30 Joint Meeting of Organizations Interested in Personnel and Vocational Guidance Subject: “Industry’s Stake in Guidance” 296 THE PSYCHOLOGICAL CLINIC Chairman: W. V. Bingham, Personnel Research Federation, New York City I.?Industrial Personnel Research as an Aid in Guidance at the College Level “Success in College and in Business,” Donald S. Bridgman, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., New York City Discussion led by: W. H. Cowley, Bureau of Educational Research, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio Grace E. Monson, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan II.?Guidance in Earlier Years “What Organized Labor Expects of Guidance,” John Edelman, Director of Research, American Federation of Full-Fashioned Hosiery Workers, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Discussion led by: Dorothea de Schweinitz, Industrial Research Department, University of Pennsylvania ‘’ Guidance and Placement Today and Tomorrow,’’ Howell Cheney, Cheney Brothers, South Manchester, Connecticut Discussion led by: L. S. Hawkins, Vice President, Rossman Company, New York City 12:30 Joint Luncheon with Other Organizations Saturday Afternoon Vocational Guidance of the Mentally Defective Joint Meeting with the Staff of the Vineland Training School, to be held at the Vineland Training School, Vineland, New Jersey 2:15 Tour of the Vineland Training School 3:15 Meeting Chairman: E. A. Doll, Director of Research, Vineland Training School 1. The Significance of Vocational Training in the Guidance of Mentally Defective Children Speaker: Emily Burr, Vocational Adjustment Bureau for Girls, New York City Discussion led by: Gladys G. Ide, Department of Special Education, Philadelphia Public Schools 2. The Social and Industrial Success of Subnormals After Training Speaker: Dr Charles Bernstein, Rome State School, Rome, New York Discussion led by: Dr George L. Wallace, Superintendent, Wrentham State School, Wrentham, New York 3. Social and Industrial Failure of the Untrained Feeble-Minded Speaker: Clare Harrison Town, Children’s Aid Society, Buffalo, New York Discussion led by: William J. Ellis, Commissioner of Institutions, State of New Jersey 4. Clinical Problems in Vocational Guidance of the Mentally Defective Speaker: Morris S. Viteles, Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania 6:00 Supper served by The Vineland Training School
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