NAEB Newsletter (March 1, 1966)

groes, and he added, “It is my hope that through this financial assistance to worthy students we can encourage Negroes to fill these vacancies in the industry.” News Notes PERSONNEL y G. H. Strimel, Jr. recently became gen¬ eral manager of the Northeastern Pennsyl¬ vania ETV Association, Wilkes-Barre. The association has received a $200,000 HEW grant and has been donated $262,000 of equipment from the Taft Broadcasting Company to put the new UHF station on the air. Strimel was formerly with Buck- nell University where he was educational media specialist on a school improvement project, and faculty advisor to WVBU- FM. y Richard F. Hartzell, formerly director of the TV-radio-film office at Washington University, St. Louis, has become execu¬ tive producer for the instructional re¬ sources center, State University of New York at Stony Brook. The new center will emphasize research and development in the design of new instructional materials. y J. Michael Collins has become general manager of WNED-TV, Buffalo. Collins has been with the station since its begin¬ ning and has served in every capacity. He is also president of the New York State Educational Radio and Television Associa¬ tion. Collins replaced Les Martin. y Halas L. Jackim left the State Uni¬ versity College at Oswego, New York, for Rio de Janeiro in late January. He will be an advisor to the Brazilian Ministry of Education on elementary school administra¬ tion for two years. y Robert Davy, television writer-producer, has become acting manager of KWSC-TV, Washington State University, Pullman. He replaced Calvin Watson, who is on leave in England to study British broadcasting and English theater. He will also investigate TV in four other European countries. y Oregon Educational Broadcasting re¬ cently announced the following promotions: Roger W. Widness to fill a new promo¬ tion and development position; Ralston E. Smith, formerly traffic and continuity man at KOAC-AM-TV, to replace Widness as information representative; and Thomas Doggett, to replace Bob Hinz as TV pro¬ duction manager at KOAC radio and TV; Hinz became general manager last fall. y Robert D. Smith has been appointed director of programing for WETA, Wash¬ ington, D.C. He was formerly director of program development. y William Manschot was recently appoint¬ ed to the newly created post of program manager of WTTW, Chicago. He will be in charge of coordinating and supervising all non-engineering aspects of program pro¬ duction. y Jim Huebner recently joined the engi¬ neering staff of the department of radio and TV at St. Petersburg Junior College. He was a former student in the department and will serve as assistant to the chief en¬ gineer, Joe Mieldazis. y Jerry Miller has joined the staff of KUSD, radio and TV, University of South Dakota, as continuity and public relations director. He was formerly with KELO in Sioux Falls. David Weinkauf has been ap¬ pointed a part-time producer-director for KUSD-TV. y The Georgia Educational Television Network production center in Atlanta has announced the following additions to its staff: David McMurtrey, formerly with WUFT-TV, as art director, and Ray Carl¬ ton, also with WUFT-TV, as studio super¬ visor. Guy Cochran has transferred from GETN’s WJSP-TV, Columbus, to WABW- TV, Pelham, to become chief engineer for the station which is under construction. Roy Smith has become a transmitter engi¬ neer for WJSP-TV. INTERNATIONAL ^ WHA, University of Wisconsin, and AID are cooperating in a project on health and nutrition problems in eighteen Latin- American nations. WHA will provide radio programs, spot announcements, posters, flip- charts, and other materials dealing with such practical problems as how to mix pow¬ dered milk, how to store food, how to have a home garden, how not to feed rats, etc. ^ A new airborne TV operation patterned after MPATI began broadcasting from Saigon late in January, with AID assist¬ ance. One transmitter will broadcast pro¬ grams for American troops, while another will broadcast to the Vietnamese people in their own language. STATE AND REGIONAL ^ Hawaii’s ETV network will begin broadcasting in April. When complete, next year, it will serve 98% of the public schools, 95% of the private schools, and 95% of the population at home. The net is a cooperative service of the University of Hawaii and the state education department, and the univer¬ sity has announced the personnel for its Di¬ vision of ETV Broadcasting: Robert Reed, director, Tames John, producer-director, Vincent Molinare, graphic artist, and Mrs. Carol Barnhill, program assistant, all were formerly with the university itself. From the mainland came Nicholas Carter, pro¬ ducer-director, and Charles Hamilton, graphic art supervisor, both from Florida Atlantic University; Cliff Eblen, program manager, formerly with WHA, University of Wisconsin; Lyle Mettler, studio facili¬ ties supervisor, from Washington State University; and Gordon Tuell, production manager, from the University of Wash¬ ington. Chief Engineer Henry Cronin was formerly with the Samoan ETV project, and the other engineers all came from KHVH-TV, Honolulu—Katsumi Asaeda, studio engineer; Hiroshi Nakamoto, VTR engineer; and Akio Sakata, engineering supervisor. Bob Hirata, administrative as¬ sistant, and Miss Helen C. Simmons, traffic continuity supervisor, complete the staff. South Dakota’s legislature has appro¬ priated $400,000 (to be matched by federal funds) to establish the first phase of the proposed state ETV network. Phase I will expand KUSD-TV to full power covering areas of four states, will establish Ch. 8 at full power in Brookings, and will activate Ch. 9 in Rapid City. The bill was amended to memorialize next year’s legislature to appropriate the remaining $400,000 to es¬ tablish the remainder of the net. y The Kentucky legislature passed a $359,- 000 allocation to establish an ETV net there. The planned sale of $5.3 million in bonds to add to the ETV funds was also approved. Now the ETV authority hopes to obtain $1 million in matching funds and another $1.7 million from the President’s Appalachia program, y In Pennsylvania, within the next year seven ETV stations are expected to be operating nine channels; this depends upon activation of a channel at Erie and one in the Wilkes Barre-Scranton area. Specifica¬ tions have been completed for a state net in¬ tegrating all stations. Pennsylvania also plans statewide use of radio for education. PROMOTION y To encourage contributions to the sta¬ tion, WHYY, Philadelphia, is offering to all contributors of $25 or more a copy of Mastering the Art of French Cooking. Ju¬ lia Child, star of the popular French Chef program, coauthored the book, which re¬ tails for $10. y In his TV column in the Washington Evening Star recently, Bernie Harrison compared two lists of programs he had received—one from Washington’s ETV station, WETA, and the other from ABC- TV. He compared by quoting the informa¬ tion as received, including brief descrip¬ tions of the programs. For lack of space here, w'e will list only some titles. WETA: “Cineposium” (contemporary film¬ makers), “Music for America” (folk sing¬ ers), “Parents and Dr. Spock,” “U.S.A.— The Novel,” “U.S.A. Photography,” “Eng- lish—Fact and Fancy.” ABC: “Rat Patrol,” “Silver Springs” (comedy), “Attack!” “Long Hunt of April Savage” (western), “The Clumbsbys” (comedy), “Ace of the Mounties,” “Them Monroes.” AWARDS y WMEB-TV, University of Maine, was one of two winners in a recent competition in Maine sponsored by United Press-Inter¬ national. The station’s entry, “Trial by Jury vs Trial by Press,” placed second in the competition which saw* entries from six of Maine’s nine TV stations. ^ Western Michigan University, Kalama¬ zoo, won the distinguished service award from the Institute of International Educa¬ tion and the Reader’s Digest Foundation. ^ KRMA-TV, Denver, won two awards for its We the People series—from the American Bar Association and from the MARCH, 1966 3