NAEB Newsletter (November 1, 1965)

VOL. 30, NO. 11 WASHINGTON, D.C. NOVEMBER, 1965 NCSCT Advisors Named Fourteen educational leaders have been named to the advisory board of the new National Center for School and College Television based at Indiana University. They are: Kenneth A. Christiansen, direc¬ tor of TV, University of Florida; Rev. John M. Culkin, S.J., TV consultant, Na¬ tional Catholic Education Association, Washington; Lawrence T. Frymire, ETV coordinator, State of California; Robert O. Hall, director of instructional resources, California State College at Hayward; Rob¬ ert B. Hudson, vice president of NET; James R. Jordan, assistant to the president for university relations, Indiana University; Lawrence O. Larson, director, Audio-Visual Center, Indiana University; Jack McBride, general manager, Nebraska ETV Commis¬ sion; John Meany, assistant to the chancel- lor, University of Texas; Lloyd Michaels, superintendent, Evanston Township High School, Evanston, Illinois; Wendell H. Pierce, superintendent, Cincinnati public schools; Harold E. Wigren, ETV consult¬ ant, NEA; Lee Wilborn, assistant commis¬ sioner for instruction, Texas Education Agency; and Elizabeth Wilson, director of curriculum services, Montgomery County Public Schools, Maryland. The new advisors met early in October to consider the status of TV in education and ways of increasing the availability of quality programs. The NCSCT was estab¬ lished (in August under, a USOE grant) to acquire and distribute highly effective TV materials for use in classrooms throughout the country, and to serve as a central in¬ formation source about the use of TV in education. U. of Georgia Studies Learning Potential A new research and development center at the University of Georgia will study learning limits and attempt to establish new norms for learning; develop and field test new curriculum materials (textbooks, vis¬ ual aids, etc.) ; and distribute findings and materials to elementary and secondary school teachers and administrators—aiming to im¬ prove education practices. The U. S. Office of Education is pro¬ viding about 3.2 million dollars under a five- year contract; the university will spend 1.8 million during the same period. NAEB History Printed NAEB History, Volume I, is now ready for distribution from the NAEB publica¬ tions office, 119 Gregory Hall, Urbana; the price is $2 each. This is a reprint of the history by Harold Hill, which has been out of print for some months, and covers the period 1925 to 1954. Volume II, covering the years 1954 to 1965, by Wayne Alford, will be off the press in several months. Utilization Contract Extended The USOE has extended its contract with the NAEB for the utilization project until September 30, 1966. The project, which involves preparation of kits to show teacher utilization of broadcast materials, was ini¬ tiated in February, 1963. Clair Tettemer, general manager of KFME, Fargo, N. D., directs the project. Harley Elected EMC Prexy Members of the Educational Media Coun¬ cil, meeting in Washington October 4-6, elected NAEB President William G. Harley as EMC president for the coming year, succeeding James D. Finn. The NAEB is one of 14 member associations of the EMC Appalachia Group Plans Communications System NAEB’s Appalachia Broadcast Commit¬ tee has presented a plan for a regional communications system to the Appalachian Regional Commission. In a report prepared for the committee by the Kentucky ETV Authority and the Kentucky Area Devel¬ opment Office, the group sets forth its plan for a network of interconnected edu¬ cational radio and TV stations, and calls for speed in putting the system into opera¬ tion. The report suggests a working council of representatives from each of the 11 states involved, the council to apply for funds to support a three-pronged study: (1) of the technical feasibility and require¬ ments of such a system, (2) of the program services the system should attempt to pro¬ vide, and (3) to determine ways and means to involve and stimulate the people of the region and motivate them to utilize pro¬ gram offerings. NAEB Filing Helps Indiana ETV The FCC recently denied a Kentucky commercial broadcaster’s petition to delete Channel *9 as a reserved channel at Evans¬ ville, Indiana, and reassign it for commer¬ cial use. The NAEB and others had op¬ posed the petition. This channel is the one which the South¬ western Indiana ETV Council plans to ac¬ tivate. In its filing, the NAEB pointed out that there is not a single ETV station in operation in Indiana and that a station on Channel *9, the only VHF reserved chan¬ nel in the state, might be in the forefront of ETV activation and development in the state. OTHER RECENT NAEB FILINGS 1. The NAEB filed reply comments in the matter of regulation of CATV, urging the FCC to adopt measures to avoid cur¬ tailing local initiative and interest, local contributions, and local ETV service. 2. The NAEB opposed a petition to permit one-way paging on unassigned TV channels. 3. The NAEB supported the allocation of Channel 8 to Medford, Oregon, and its reservation for educational use. NAEB's 41st Convention As we go to press, the NAEB annual convention is still in the future, October 31- November 3, in Washington, D.C. Though the convention will be over by the time readers receive the Newsletter, because of the timing we cannot report on happenings at the convention in this issue. But we can make a few comparisons with previous conventions: 1. As we go to press, there are already over 1,000 advance registrants for the 1965 convention. This is twice the number who actually attended the previous convention in Washington, in 1961. 2. NAEB now has almost 2,000 Individ¬ ual Members. It was at the 1962 conven¬ tion, in Philadelphia, that membership reached the 1,000 mark. 3. From the Journal of the AER (predecessor of the NAEB Journal ) of October 1952, we learn that then Senator Hubert H. Humphrey keynoted the annual convention for that year, in Minneapolis. Vice President Humphrey was slated to 1