NAEB Newsletter (Sept 1964)

Dr. Burton Dies Dr. May Elizabeth Burton, producer-director and assistant professor in the School of Journalism and Communications at the University of Florida, died unexpectedly at age 39 on July 28. She joined the broadcasting staff at the university in 1957, and for the past six years she directed a summer workshop for TV teachers. She co-produced the series Far Eastern Art and Religion and the Arts for NET. Publications • L. Lane Wells, assistant professor of speech at Georgetown College, Georgetown, Kentucky, writes that he will make available to anyone considering establishing an educational FM station a copy of the handbook developed for Georgetown's WRVG, which has been on the air since November, 1963. The 53-page book contains details on the staff organization and some of the basic premises under which WRVG operates. • Instructional Television in Western Pennsylvania is a new publication developed for the Center for Library and Educa¬ tional Media Studies at the University of Pittsburgh with Jack McBride as chief consultant. The publication is being distributed by the university’s Book Center at $2.25 per copy. • Stephens College has published a 52-page report on the use of the telephone as a medium for interviews and discussions with off-campus authorities. Details are included on how each of Stephens’ telephone lecture courses was planned, how inter¬ views were conducted, etc. Copies are available at $1 each (pay¬ able to Stephens College) from: Office of Educational Devel¬ opment, Stephens College, Columbia, Missouri. • Wireless Observation is the title of a pamphlet published by the Bureau of Publications, Teachers College, Columbia University. Authors of the 32-page booklet are John Herbert and John Swayze. Price $1. • The TIO has published an annotated bibliography on tele¬ vision in government and politics. Single copies free to li¬ braries, educational institutions, and religious organizations from Dept. NA, TIO, 666 Fifth Ave., New York 19. News Notes PERSONNEL y Correction: In the August Newsletter an item appeared an¬ nouncing that B. Eugene Koskey had left Northern Illinois University to join the Peace Corps. This was in error, because Koskey is still fhe supervisor of radio and TV at Northern; the Peace Corps position is in addition to his regular duties. y Marshall McLuhan, director of Toronto University’s Centre for Culture and Technology, recently received the first an¬ nual Fordham University Communications Award. The award cites him for his outstanding contributions to communications theory. y Patrick Callihan has resigned his post at NET to become president of a firm in real estate development in Lansing. y Thomas B. Petry has been appointed executive director of the ETV Council for Central New York. Petry said he will seek to encourage and increase presentation of ETV programs on local commercial stations. He will also take immediate steps to activate a UHF channel in central New York. Petry comes to New York from Washington, D.C., where he has served as assistant director of the ETV program of the USOE for the past year. Earlier he was acting general man¬ ager and program manager of WQED and WQEX, Pitts¬ burgh. y Michael H. Pengra has recently joined the staff of KOAP- TV, Portland, Oregon, as a producer-director of educational programs. For the past two years he has been a producer- director, writer, and cameraman at KLRN, Austin, Texas. y Boris Frank has returned to the University of Wisconsin to become production supervisor for WHA-TV. During the nine years since he left WHA, Frank has been executive assistant to David Susskind; production supervisor and coordinator, Talent Associates-Paramount Ltd., New York; director of Caribbean Operations for Bartell Broadcasting, Inc.; and he has helped produce various series, including one for the NBC network. y Harris S. Greenberg has resigned as radio-TV production supervisor for the Tucson public schools to accept an intern¬ ship in TV production while working for his master’s degree at the University of Texas and KLRN-TV, Austin. y Dave Berkman, director of public relations and education for District 65, Retail, Wholesale & Department Store Work¬ ers, AFL-CIO, has left the union to become assistant profes¬ sor of speech for radio-TV at Nassau Community College, Garden City, Long Island, New York. y Richard J. Meyer has left Kansas to work as a free-lance TV producer in New York City while completing his doc¬ torate at New York University. He was formerly director of ETV at Wichita University, and during the summer he served as consultant for a group of citizens planning to start an ETV station in central Kansas. y David P. Allen has assumed the duties of the newly created post of director of engineering services at WQED and WQEX, Pittsburgh. He left a sales position with RCA. y Robert Whitnah has been named chief engineer for WQED and WQEX, where he has been a staffer since 1959. y Norbert H. Nathanson has left his post as instructor at New York University to become an ETV associate in the state education department’s division of educational commu¬ nications. y Lee Frischknecht, manager, WMSB (TV), Michigan State University, has left the station to join the NET staff as as¬ sistant director of field services. y Anthony Cherubini, program manager of WNED-TV, Buf¬ falo, has left the station to become program manager for the Eastern Educational Network, where he is in charge of pro¬ gram exchange and station coordination. He is also in charge of production of a current affairs series for the network, from Washington, D. C. While EEN’s headquarters are now in Boston, there are plans to move to Washington in the near future. . y William J. Lesko has resigned as director of ETV at Saint Louis University to accept a position as coordinator of pro¬ duction and distribution of instructional materials and services for Pennsylvania’s public instruction department. y Colonel Robert E. Wood has been named chief of a new Air Force organization in which all responsibilities for TV have been consolidated. He says his staff will be working closely with civilian educators in all aspects of TV and mo¬ tion pictures. Anyone requesting information may write to him as Chief, Audio-Visual Systems Group, Directorate of Oper¬ ations, Washington, D.C., 20330. y Harry Ratner, formerly of California State College, has been hired as producer-director of school projects for KCET, new Los Angeles ETV station. NAEB Newsletter, a monthly publication issued by the Na¬ tional Association of Educational Broadcasters, 119 Gregory Hall, Urbana, III. 61803. $5.00 a year, $7.50 including Washington Re¬ port. Editor: Betty McKenzie. Editorial assistant: Skip Robinson. Phone 333-0580. Area Code 217. Reporters: Region I —Michael Ambrosino, EEN, 238 Main St., Cambridge, Mass. —Shirley Ford, WRVR, 490 Riverside Drive, New York City, 10027. Region II —Lou Peneguy, AETC, 2151 Highland Ave., Birming¬ ham, Ala. Region IV —Richard Vogl, KTCA-TV, 1640 Como Ave., St. Paul, Minn. 2 NEWSLETTER