PURPOSE AND GOALS

THE GENERAL PURPOSES AND GOALS OF THE ARKANSAS ASSOCIATION OF INSTRUCTIONAL

MEDIA SHALL BE THE IMPROVEMENT OF EDUCATION AND THE PUBLIC WELFARE

THROUGH THE USE OF EDUCATIONAL MEDIA.

HISTORY

• 1953 organized as AAVA (Ark. Audio Visual Assoc.)

• 1954 first met as a section at AEA Fall Conference

• 1966 Affiliated nationally with DAVI (Division of Audio Visual Instruction now called AECT -The Assoc. of Educational Communications and Technology)

HISTORY (CONTINUED)• 1966 First issue of the official publication mailed

called News and Views; Dr. Bumpass was editor 66-73 and it was one of top 5 journals in the nation

• 1972 First spring conference (always before held in fall in conjunction with AEA Convention) in Russellville in April

• 1974 First Summer Leadership Conference held at Marble Falls

• 1975 First Student Media Festival with 30 entries• 1988 Name changed to AAIM (Ark. Assoc. of

Instructional Media) although straw vote in 1980• 1989 First Outstanding Media Program Award

Dr. Donald Bumpass,

Was AAVA President in 1968; shown here doing a slide show of “Our Audio-Visual Heritage” at Conference

This was at 1968 meeting.

Polly Orr and Iris Tucker were members way back then. They haven’t missed a conference.

1969 Officers: Gene Aist, Bill Lincoln, Sarah Hundley, Pauline Rankin

Gene Aist

Dr. Herb Lawrence

& Dr. Bumpass

1969 AAVA Conf.

Pauline Rankin, Herb Lawrence, Donald Bumpass about 1974

Herb Lawrence at early conference.

Dr. Ward Ankrum

President AAVA

1960-1961Pauline RankinPresident1972-1974Became Dr. Rankin in 1978

1973: This is Heloise Griffon, after whom our AAIM Scholarship is named, at Conference. She was State Dept. AV Director for 30 years from ’47 to ’77. Instrumental in 1953 in bringing together the AV Directors from around the state to form AAVA, she served as Sec. and President.

John Cheek

Wanda

Dr. Kirby

AAVA 1977

IS THAT

IRIS TUCKER BEHIND THOSE FOSTER GRANTS?

CIRCA

1972

Jim Shuff and John Cheek from AAVA Journals from

early 1980’s.

OUR MENTORS

Dr. Kirby

from UAPB

President of AAVA

1976-1977

Joyce McCain working registration at convention.

Mary Miller, President

Gladys Sachse received an award from ArLA

1981

John Cheek & Dolly

’90 AECT

Miss Kitty & Marshall Dillon

AAIM ‘91

Sharon, Pat,Jean, Ferrell, and Ann

AAIM ‘91

Sharon and Ferrell

Pat

&

Burt

In 1982 Iris Tucker ran for the AAVA Board

First AAVA Outstanding Leadership

Award went to Dr. Herb Lawrence

at Riverfront Hilton in NLR

on April 25, 1988.

Herb 1989 Conference

Herb at Conference

1991

Herb & Ferrell

Herb, Dr. Shuff & Pat McDonald

Other Awards Instituted 1991

• School Library Media Specialist of the Year

• Outstanding Individual Achievement

• AAIM Leadership Award

1981 AECT Region VII Conf. in Arkansas

1981

Jim Shuff

MORE HISTORY

• 1991 With the publication of the 100th issue, the name of our official publication was changed to Ark. Assoc. of Instructional Media Quarterly

• 1997 First issue of the AAIM Newsletter

• 1999 Publication title changed to Ark. Assoc. of Instructional Media Journal

1982

1988

Dr. Selvin Royal, UCA, 1970’s

Kay Bland & Pat McDonald at

Conference Event in 1993

Rachel and Pat at AECT 1995

Ferrell presenting in 1991at AAIM Conference

Judging the Media Festival Entries: Kay Bland, Barbara McKinney, Retta Patrick, Georgia Branscum---1987

Dr. Bumpass, Herb, Pat

1991 Conference

Pat and AETN Crew 1991

Ann, Pat, Margaret at Conference n 1989

Ann Ayres & Barbara Stripling at Awards Ceremony

1991

Presidential Reception 1991 at the Camelot

Rhetta Patrick who helped

write “Information Power” on left; she was national AASL president from ’89-’90

Mrs. Sue Shepherd (on right) at her retirement party in 1981 from Pulaski-Perry Regional Library; she was early AAVA member and AV pioneer trying to promote filmstrip and other AV use in public schools.

At first, the presidents had to serve until they could “find” someone to take their places.

Membership in AAVA was $1.00 per year.

At first, the conferences alternated between the colleges now called HSU and UCA.

Once (1972) three members (Rankin, Lawrence, and Garrison) underwrote expenses for the whole conference which was in Russellville and a huge success!

TRIVIA

Herb Lawrence was Treasurer from 1978 to 1993 and Pat McDonald took over

serving from then till now---AAIM won’t let you go!

Pauline Rankin has been a member since 1967 and is now a professor at La. State University.

She was president of AAVA when Ferrel James became a member

when he was a student at UofA.

MORE TRIVIA• Ferrel James got involved by designing an

early journal cover and writing an article

• He went to conference and met Herb, Cecil Garrison, Heloise Griffon, and AG Kirby and knew Bumpass as a professor at UofA

• Ferrel thinks his involvement with AAVA helped him get his job at UCA where he was before UALR

1975 saw Dave Spillers come to UALR, Ferrel James to UCA, Dennis Fleniken to

Tech, and Jim Shuff to HSU; Garrison was at UCA and Herb at AETN

and Kirby at UAPB Heloise Griffon was in charge of the ADE

AV Service film library John Cheek has been President twice—the

only brave soul

Djuna Dudeck is John Cheek’s daughter so our President elect now will be the second generation AAIM President in her family. That is why

we are emphasizing the history of AAIM and ‘The Next Generation’ in 2004 as she grew up with a lot of her

dad’s peers who are active AAIM members.

1983 Conference

John Cheek

Djuna Dudeck

2004 Conference

AND . . .

•POLLY ORR OF BISMARCK and IRIS TUCKER OF BENTON HAVE ATTENDED EVERY CONFERENCE SINCE THEY STARTED HAVING THEM ABOUT 1972

•Joyce Schneider, Betty Brown, Barbara Stripling, Mary Miller, Kay Bland, Suzy Gordon and others were members back in the 70’s

•Ferrel was an AECT intern at their conference early on, and Rachel received the Region 7 AECT Mini grant and Fulton Awards

•AAIM won the AECT Region 7 Bumpass Award for Affiliate Excellence the last time Rachel was President and it is named after our Dr. Bumpass

Joyce McCain joined in 1975 and has been active ever since and is now

Historian and keeps our archives; she even keeps printouts of our discussions

on the AAIM Listserv!

1988 Dr. Herb Lawrence

1989 Dr. Donald Bumpass

1990 Dr. Kay Bland

1991 Joyce Schneider

1994 Dr. Ferrel James

1995 Judy Wheetley

1997 Pat McDonald

1998 Barbie James

1999 Iris Tucker

2000 Joyce McCain

2001 Barbara Williams

2002 Connie Zimmer

2003 Karen Richardson

1983 Heloise Griffon Scholarship Winner – Janie McRae

With Francis Kuykendal, who was AAIM President later

1991 Dr. Selvin Royal

1992 John Cheek

1993 John Heath

1995 John Cooper

1997 Rachel Shankles

1998 Carolyn Schumacher

1999 Dr. Kay Bland

2001 Dr. Glenda Thurman

2002 Bonita Poe

2003 Dr. Ferrel James

New Faces Announced by UCA

1985

Dr. Jody Charter 1985

1989 Pulaski Co. Sp. Schools

1990 Road Runner Reporter, Ravenden Sps,

1991 Brainstorms and Blueprints Barbara Stripling and Judy Pitts

1992 NW Ark. Co-op Grace Donoho

1993 Vilonia Primary School

1994 Lakeside High Sch Rachel Shankles

1997 ASMS Sylvia Chudy

1998 Writing th Objectives: Textbook Approach, Katherine Powell, Dumas

1999 Nettleton Intermed., Suby Wallace

2000 Lakeside Middle Sch, Tanna Clark

2001 LRSD, Lucy Neal

2002 Lakeside High Rachel

Shankles

2003 Truman High School

Sherry McAnally

1989 Conference

Pat McDonald

Jim Shuff

1989 AAIM Conference

AAIM for Excellence

Pat McDonald, Chair

At the old Camelot Hotel in LR

1997 Rhonda Rolen

1998 Karen Richardson

1999 Rachel Shankles

2000 Darlene Ott

2001 LaWanda Dale

2002 Carolyn Brooks

2003 Ann Ayres

2001 Peggy Walters, SAU

2002 Don Benton, Hot Spgs School District

2003 Scott Adams, Ark. Tech. University

1998 Barbara Williams

1999 Loveida Ingram

1976 Sherry Price

1977 Mike Lucas

1978 Sandy Lockridge

1979 Cheryl Dietrick & Julia Henderson

1980 Barbara McKinney

1981 Kathy Baxter

1982 Clair Sandler

1983 Janie McRae

1984 Melissa Beatty

1985 Suzanne Bennett

1986 Francis Kuykendall

1987 Aquilla Roberts

1988 Marla Moore

1989 Kimberly Lambert

1990 Beverly Braswell

1991 Rosie Tate

1992 Audrey Roberts

1993 Carol Barton

1994 Jessie Pierce

1995 Melissa Cook

1996 Djuna Dudeck

1997 Karen Mullenix

1998 Gina Rogers

1999 Paige Laws

2000 Marcia Key

2001 Barbara Haven

2002 Shannon Bruner & Stephanie

Maxwell

2003 Robin White

WILLIAM FULTON AWARD

1974 Larry Alexander

1976 Donald Bumpass

1982 Beatrice Murphy

1988 Kay Bland

1995 Pat McDonald

1999 Rachel Shankles

BUMPASS AWARD

1996 Rachel Shankles

Region 7 of AETC AWARDS:

ARKANSAS WINNERS

For a good example of how AAIM ropes you in, look at me, for instance. I have been a member since 1988 and since then I have served as Membership Chair (for 10 years), Media Festival Chair twice, President once in ’95-’96 and next year again---and Board Member several times. I have written articles for almost all AAIM journals since 1989 and presented at all conferences since I joined. I even had time to scan the old archive photos and author this slide show. So I know---when you get involved in AAIM—YOU GET INVOLVED!