NAEB Newsletter (September 15, 1939)

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Offloe of.Executive Secretary Urbana, Illinois Septo15, 1939 INGHAM TQ HEAD NA3SB Prof 0 Harold Go Ingham* KFKU 9 University of Kansas* Lawrence, Kansas, was elected president of IfAEB at th© closing session of the convention which was held September 1 and 2 at Ames, Iowa* The ©lection of officers ^01 imaged a fine convention on the campus of Iowa State Col-lege* Upon recommendation of the nominating committee composed of Jos* F* fright, Station WILL, Wo lo Griffith, Station WOX, and M» R. White, Station KWSC, the following officers were elected for the coming year: President—Professor Harold. G* Ingham, KFKU, Lawrence, Kansas; Vice« President—Mo Ho White, KWSC, Pullman, Washington; Treasurer—-Professor Wo I® Griffith, WOI, Ames, Iowa 0 Members of the Assoc lotion Executive Coismittee ares Carl Menzer, VSUI, Iowa City, Iowa; Me S* Novik, Municipal Broadcasting System, Hew York City; Harold Engel, WHA, Madison, Wisconsin; Homer Heck, WNAD,. Norman, Oklahoma; Mo C* Jensen, WCAL, Northfleld, Minnesota; Luka L» Roberts, KOAC 9 Got val1is, Oregon 0 OPENING SESSION Getting back to the opening of th© convention, your secretary reports Wo I « Griffith, WOI , presiding* An address of welcome was made for Iowa State by Dean Harold V. Gaskill 9 Dean of Science Division in the absence of President Friley«, President Carl Menzer responded for NAEB* Then came th© talk by Harold Kent« WHAT CHICAGO RADI O COUNCIL IS D OING Harold W Q .Kent, Director of the Chicago Radio Council of the Chicago Public Schools, had a real story to tell about what is being done in Chicago* The text of his talk follows? ** Ladle© and gentlemen, the topic for discussion this morning is, ’What the Chicago Public Schools are Doing in Radio in Education,, * Before 1 enter into that, 1 should, perhaps, for a general, better understanding;, explain in th® simplest fashion possible, the philosophy underlying the various types of educational broadcasting* I need to dwell upon the differences between th© basic ; en@4>3 oi network broadcasting to schools, and those which govern the production and presentation of programs on local stations; but there have bean two rather widely differentiated schools of thought growing up about the question of how to use radio In education* These two schools of thought are firsT, that group of people who maintain that