John M. Culkin

1974
  

"The Day They Changed the Alphabet", article from The Study of Current English originally in Japanese.
 Edited version by Ken Anderson

1977 
John Culkin, director of the graduate programs in media studies at the New School for Social Research. wrote an article for the The New York Times about UNIFON. It was published on  WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 1977 see article

1981                                                                                                                                                                        

John R. Malone turned over the project to John M. Culkin, Executive Director of The Center for Understanding Media.

The Center for Media Literacy includes an article on John Culkin       

John M. Culkin, Executive Director of The Center for Understanding Media  wrote about UNIFON  in this article for the Science Digest, August 1981. (see article at John Culkin)

In an educationally deprived section of South Chicago, 1st graders were reading by Christmas with the UNIFON method. This class continued to have the highest level of reading proficiency of any class. 

Biography of one of the teachers at Howalton Day School (1947-1986), Ethel Darden / Using John R. Malone's UNIFON alphabet and trained by Dr. Margaret Ratz, Howalton, as cited by John Culkin in the New York Times of July 20, 1977 demonstrated the highest first grade reading scores in the Chicago area from 1974 to 1975



 In Conversation with John Culkin - Edited by Ken Anderson

 From Television & Children Journal, summer 1981. Much of this article describes Dr. Culkin’s interests outside of 
 UNIFON. The entire article is reprinted here to help us understand his philosophical perspective, his wide range
 of interests, and how he merged UNIFON into the “big picture” of media study.


1982
 Alfubet for the Computer Age by John Culkin - August 1982, Science Digest

1986



Initiatives: Making the Case for a Single World Alphabet by John Culkin  





1993
John Culkin died and most of the UNIFON publications were lost at that time.
John Culkin's Obituary
 

  
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