NAEB Newsletter (August 1, 1965)

Bird, NET’s John Fitch interviewed young¬ sters about their classes, lessons, school problems. A Britisher similarly interviewed pupils from a school in Newton, Massachu¬ setts. Early Bird also enabled students of West Bend (Wis.) High School, and Lycee Henri IV Ecole in Paris to chat about various things, including fast cars, the Beatles, and American jazz. The videotaped program was shown on WHA-TV, and other Wis¬ consin TV stations used portions of it in news reports. Named for special credit for the program were WHA staffers Charles Huber, Gary Gumpert, and Ted Nielsen. It has been reported that the American Broadcasting Company may use an Early Bird type of satellite for transmission of TV programs in the United States . . . and, if so, that they would make one channel available to NET, at no expense, for trans¬ mission of programs for ETV stations throughout the country. Convention Keynote Speaker The Honorable Wi'lbur Cohen, Under Secretary of HEW, wdl be the keynote session speaker at the NAEB convention. He will speak on the special opportunities and responsibilities educators have in using broadcasting to further policies and pro¬ grams which our government has determined are in the nation’s best interest. Publications • Boston University’s School of Public Communication is offering printed copies, at cost, of a series of essays on broadcasting and film prepared by students at the school. The latest is by Frederic Underhill, en¬ titled Post-Literate Man and Film Editing: An Application of the Theories of Mar¬ shall McLuhan. For a list and prices, write to the school, 640 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02215. • Limited copies of an appendix to the ACE Report on Copyrights, Clearances and Rights of Teachers in the New Educational Media by Fred Siebert are available from the NAEB Washington office for $2 to cover mailing and handling. This publica¬ tion is Appendices on Selected Policy State¬ ments and Selected Legal Forms. Here and There • NET will commemorate the third-sea¬ son opening this fall of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts by producing a one-hour special—a drama, ballet, and opera all based on the same theme. NET stations will air the program, commissioned by the Lincoln Center Fund for Creative and Ar¬ tistic Advancement, during September. Playwright Frank Gilroy, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Drama Critic Circle Award, will write the drama. The ballet and opera will both interpret the theme of the play. Jac Venza, producer of the award-win¬ ning “Carmina Burana,” will produce and Kirk Browning will direct the program. • Louisiana hospitals plan a CCTV sys¬ tem to connect all state-operated mental, tubercular, and charity hospitals, state schools for the retarded, plus the central of¬ fice and two medical schools. The system will provide continuing medical training. • Britain’s House of Commons debated for five hours whether or not to allow TV into its deliberations, but reached no deci¬ sion. • Advanced graduate students and schol¬ ars seeking to engage in study and research in the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Czedhslo- vakia, and Hungary during 1966-67 may re¬ ceive information from: Dr. Howard Meh- linger, Inter-University Committee on Travel Grants, 021 Lindley Hall, Indiana University, Bloomington. Applicants must be either American citizens or permanent U. S. residents. • On April 15, the Japan Broadcasting Corporation celebrated the 30th anniversary of the commencement of its nationwide school broadcasts. As of May 1, the radio network devoted mainly to school and edu¬ cational broadcasts had 127 stations, and the ETV network 250 stations. In radio school broadcasts, 84 programs are trans¬ mitted per week, for a total of 20 hours 40 minutes; in TV school broadcasts, 104 programs a week, for 36 hours 20 minutes Among the primary schools of Japan, 25,580 (96.8%) have radios and 24,650 (93.3%) have TV receivers. In junior high schools, 11,970 (95.7%) have radios, and 11,350 (90.8%) TV. In the early days, school broadcasts were not officially recognized. Teachers who adopted school broadcasts in their class¬ rooms were warned that they would not be promoted to schoolmasters. There were those who believed that the broadcasts would cause teachers to be dismissed. Some frowned upon bringing radio sets into class¬ rooms. • Belgium has announced the 5th Inter¬ national Labour and Industrial Film Trien¬ nial. Films (cinematographic films, film cartridges, filmstrips or series of slides, kinescopefilms or videoscopes) entered must have been produced after January 1, 1963. Final date for film registration is January 31, 1966. Information from: 5° Triennial, Frankrijklei 128A, Antwerp, Belgium. • KREP, commercial FM station in San¬ ta Clara, Calif., has presented scholarship checks totaling nearly a thousand dollars to two Stanford University students who are participating in a Stanford volunteer proj¬ ect in Hong Kong this summer. One stu¬ dent teaches English in a Chinese college and rooftop school, the other teaches and supervises students at an orphanage. This is the third year that Stanford students have organized their own service project in Hong Kong, but the first time that a busi¬ ness firm has helped support the volun¬ teers, who pay their own expenses. News Notes PERSONNEL ^ William H. Ewing, associate director of Ohio State University’s telecommunications center, will leave in September for a nine- month stay at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. He has received a Fulbright grant to serve as lecturer and consultant there, and he will help initiate an ITV program. ^ Cliff Eblen, manager of WHA, Univer¬ sity of Wisconsin, has resigned. He and his family will go to England. y Col. Robert E. Wood, of the U. S. Air Force, has been named manager of TV en¬ gineering for the program development de¬ partment of CBS Laboratories. ^ Martin J. McGowan, Jr., editor and pub¬ lisher of the Appleton (Minn.) Press, and a state legislator, has become a full-time staffer for KTCA-TV, St. Paul. His du¬ ties will be to help develop ETV partici¬ pation in present and future education and welfare legislation. ^ Aline Hazard, of the daily homemakers’ program on WHA for more than thirty years, retired from broadcasting July 1. Her program received a top national IERT award in 1946. ^ Ronald Salak, has joined the KFME (Fargo, N. D.) staff as producer-director after serving with the Air Force. Formerly he was at Michigan State and Iowa State universities. ^ James R. Treble has been appointed school services coordinator for the ETV council of central New York. He was in¬ volved with in-school use of TV for four years while teaching in the Niagara Falls elementary schools. ^ Mel Chastain has been appointed pro¬ gram director of the ETV program at Texas A&M University. ^ John D. Mandelbaum has been named associate in instructional resources and pro¬ ducer-director of television at the State Uni¬ versity of New York College at Geneseo. y Former CBS newsman Roger P. Smith has been named executive producer of WTTW, Chicago. His appointment was made possible by a Harris Foundation grant, established to upgrade locally pro¬ duced cultural programing for national dis¬ tribution and to investigate new program development directions at WTTW. ^ John C. Schwarzwalder, general manag¬ er of KTCA-TV, St. Paul, has been elect¬ ed to fill the new position of executive vice president of the station’s parent organiza¬ tion, the Twin City Area ETV Corporation. ^ John K. MacKenzie, formerly producer- director for the Anaheim ITV project, is now program director for the ITV depart¬ ment of Portland (Ore.) State College. PROGRAMS ^ WNED-TV, Buffalo, recently offered its second annual international TV festival, featuring 26 entries from 18 countries. The station presented awards for the best docu¬ mentary, the best performance entry, and AUGUST 1965 3