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N o ve mber, T 945
FILM AND RADIO GUIDE
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heavy and it soon became evident that, while listeners were grateful for high-budget commercial shows, they were weary of many coinmercial practices. Listener after listener wrote
that he either tuned out commercials or had trained his mind not to hear them.
That radio will allow crticism of its source of income is convincing proof that radio at heart
is good. It is growing up, and once through this period of juvenile delinquency, it will become what it once promised to be, one of the truly great gifts of science to mankind.
WHO'S WHO IN RADIO EDUCATION
No. 6: Harrison B. Summers
Harrison B. Summers, wellknown manager of the Public Service Division of the Blue Network (now the American Broadcasting Company), is a product of the Midwest. He was born at Stanford, Illinois, March 19, 1894. He attended the public schools at Paxton, Illinois, and Wichita, Kansas. In 1917 he received his A. B. degree at Fairmont College (now the University of Wichita) ; in 1921, his A. M. from the University of Oklahoma; in 1931, his Ph.D. from the University of Missouri, majoring in economics and sociology.
During five years following his college graduation in 1917, Dr. Summers taught in various midwestern high schools. During the next eighteen years (192240) he taught in midwestern colleges. His special teaching field was speech, with excursions into journalism, history, and economics. In 1931 Dr. Summers organized one of the first college-credit courses in radio broadcasting at Kansas State College, Manhattan, Kansas. During the next decade (1931-40) he continued his development of courses in broad
Harrison B. Summers
casting at Kansas State College and served as a member of the college committee which conducted Station K S A C. His activities from 1937 to 1941 included four annual radiolistener surveys in Iowa and Kansas, with single studies in other states. His surveys summ a r i z e d personal interviews with more than 100,000 families of the Midwest.
In the fall of 1 9 3 9, Dr. Summers joined the National Broadcasting Company as Director of Public Service Programs, Eastern Division. In February, 1941, he was appointed to his present position, where he has
general supervision over educational, cultural, and religious programs of the Blue Network. His publications have blazed new trails in the study of listener attitudes and the analysis of problems in radio. Dr. Summers is widely consulted by school and college executives interested in utilizing radio in education. Under his leadership, the cultural programs of the American Broadcasting Company have become of greater and greater interest to teachers and students everywhere.
No. 7: George Maynard
George Maynard, who teaches the NBC-Columbia University course in advanced production of radio drama jointly with Frank Papp, was born in New York City in 1905. He has lived in London, Paris, and Berlin, and spent some time in Texas. He was on General Eisenhower’s staff in London as a Lieutenant in Army Intelligence.
In his youth he served as a correspondent in Berlin for Musical America and as an assistant stage manager for the Metropolitan Opera Company and for Paramount Pictures.