NAEB Newsletter (December 15, 1941)

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NEWS NAEB GETTER NATIONAL ASSOCIATION •- EDUCATIONAL BROADCASTERS Frank E. Schooley, Editor, Station WILL, Urbana, Illinois NAEB PLEDGES AID IN WAR if December 15, 1941 On the day that Japan bombed Uniteo States posse :sions,the FOLLOWINQ TELEGRAM WAS SENT TO PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT ON BEHALF OF NAEB: “In the Present emergency our educational radio STATION REAFFIRM THEIR FAITH IN DEMOCRACY, PLEDGE THEIR FACILITIES TO SERVE OUR COUNTRY AND AWAIT THE ORDERS OF OUR COMMANDER-IN~CmIEF«“ FALL CONVENTION TO WISC ONSIN NAEB MEMBERS, MEETING IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE FIFTH SCHOOL BROAD¬ CAST Conference in Chicago on December 4, voted to approve the MAIL VOTES OF THE NAEB MEMBERS, ELECTING TO MEET AT MADISON, Wisconsin nest fall,, The meeting also set the meeting dates for September 10, II, and 12, 1942, The convention will convene at noon on Thursday. present at the meeting were President Harold Engel, WHA; h. B. McCarty, WHA; Jos. F. Wright, WILL; C A rl Menzer, WSUI; Gilbert D. Williams, NAEB Vi ce-President^ WBAA; Luke Roberts, former KOAC, AND Frank Schooley, WILL, NAEB Executive Secretary. Waldo Abbot with six other meetings to attend, also was present for a portion of the business session. Bibbs Williams reported that WBAA is going to lose Fred Conger to'tbs ahwy. He was looking for a successor. It was informally announced at the meeting that Mac McCarty has BECOME ENGftGED TO A CHARM! NG YO.U&G- LADY FROM WISCONSIN. Lyman Bryson: “Radio is as flexible as the flexibility of its USERS.” There were others with NAEB connections at the School Broadcast CONFERENCE, TOO, SUCH AS MAJOR HAROLD KcNT, ®'°«® = Keith TYLOR. WlB PETTEGREW (who FORGOT THE EXACT DATE OF THE NAEB meet)? Freely Heimlich, Mrs. Pearl Broxham, Georgia Gaddis, WSUI o Others seen about at these educational meetings were also