NAEB Newsletter (May 1, 1965)

WQED Hosts 7,000 Persons, Over 600 Scripts As shown in the photograph, hundreds had to wait in line to tour the facilities of WQED, Pittsburgh, during the annual open house March 13 and 14. Some 7,000 visitors observed station operations, saw themselves on TV, and talked with TV personalities such as Miss Frances Jordan, WQED’s kin¬ dergarten teacher. • WQED can boast another overwhelming success—its playwright contest, in which 615 writers submitted scripts. Although publicized only in Pennsylvania and in trade jour¬ nals (such as the NAEB Newsletter, January issue), the competition pulled scripts from all over the world and from all ages and walks of life. WQED hopes to announce the win¬ ners shortly after May 1, and the selected plays will be pro¬ duced this summer. NYSERTA To Meet The New York State Educational Radio and TV Association will meet May 3-4 in Syracuse. Chalmers Marquis, executive director of NAEB-ETS, will keynote the conference, speak¬ ing on the new federal education legislation and its potential for educational communications. There will be panel discus¬ sions on CATV and the future of networking in educational radio and TV. ETV Facilities Applications Accepted The following applications for federal assistance in the con¬ struction of new ETV stations have been accepted for filing. Figures represent total estimated project costs. Nebraska ETV Commission, Ch. 16, Omaha ($215,949); Georgia State Board of Education, Ch. 20, Wrens ($1,643,703), Ch. 14, Pelham ($592,711), Ch. 25, Dawson ($575,186), and Ch. 15, Cochran ($592,711); WGBH Educational Foundation, Ch. 44, Boston ($976,836) ; and the Greater Washington ETV Association, Ch. 50, Washington, D.C. ($557,395). Summer ITV Workshops Offered Boston University. July 13 to August 20. Half lectures, half practical projects. In latter, small groups, will plan a 13- week series in a specified curriculum for specific grade level. Each group will complete one program. Write: Dr. Murray R. Yaeger, School of Public Communication, Boston Univer¬ sity, 640 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02215. San Francisco State College. June 21-25. In cooperation with KQED. Write: Dr. John Fell, Chairman, Radio-Televi- sion-Film Dept., San Francisco State College, 1600 Holloway, San Francisco, California 94132. SUMMER STUDY ABROAD New York University. June 1-30. International ITV field workshop—including Montreal, Rome, Munich, Paris, Lon¬ don. $1259 cost includes tuition, university fees, transportation, room, breakfast, dinner, gratuities. Communication Arts Group, New York University, Washington Square, New York 10003. Boston University. June 14 to August 31. In-depth study of cinema and TV in Great Britain, France, Italy. Boston University School of Public Communication, Film Department. NEW SUMMER COURSE Indiana University. For the first time this summer, a course will be offered in the planning and administration of closed-circuit TV systems. NAEB Headquarters: 1346 Connecticut Ave., N.W., Wash¬ ington, D.C., 20036. Phone 667-6000. Area Code 202. TWX 202- 965-0299. News Notes PERSONNEL ► Mark Damen has been named program manager of WUFT- TV, University of Florida. Prior to coming to WUFT in 1963, he was a free-lance writer and producer for TV, and had been director of special projects for WQED, Pittsburgh. ^ Robert A. Mott is the new chairman of the Washington State University communications department, replacing Allen Miller who resigned and went on a sabbatical leave to Eu¬ rope April 1. Miller will continue as director of information services and professor of communications when he returns in September. Mott joined the WSU staff in 1956 as news director of the radio station; since 1962 he has been radio-TV services manager. ^ James Etheridge, Jr., executive secretary of the Florida ETV Commission since its inception in 1957, has resigned to enter private business. William W. Galbreath has been ap¬ pointed to the post. ^ Frank R. Jamison, director of ETV at Colorado State College, has been appointed broadcasting consultant to the Wyoming Fish and Game Commission. He will conduct a workshop and help evaluate a weekly radio and TV series. ^ Lawrence M. damage, director of TV for Wayne State University, was one of five recipients of a 1965 award from the Detroit American Women in Radio and TV. The awards are for outstanding initiative, creativity, and responsibility. ^ William J. Hanford, of the Wayne State University hu¬ manities department, has been appointed director of Dela¬ ware’s newly established ETV network. He will assume his new position July 1, after completing his Ph.D. in mass com¬ munications. ^ Mrs. Elizabeth Marshall has been appointed director of radio-TV for the Chicago Board of Education. ^ Keith Engar has left his position as director of radio-TV services at the University of Utah to become chairman of the department of theatre and ballet and executive director of the Pioneer Memorial Theater. Rex Campbell, formerly assistant director of radio-TV services, succeeds him. STATE ^ Recent action in the Texas Legislature brings state sup¬ port for ETV closer. Identical bills in the state Senate and House were unanimously voted to the floor, without being sent to subcommittee; this amounts to a suspension of the rules requiring all bills to go to subcommittee. The bill would allow money being spent by local school districts for ETV services from ETV stations to be matched up to 75c per pupil in average daily attendance. ^ In New York, it looks as if the plan for a state-wide ETV network may suffer a setback if the $625,000 for the first leg of the network has to be cut from the governor’s budget. MAY 1965 3