NAEB Newsletter (May 1, 1966)

a steering committee at work. The produc¬ tion group has elected to assess members $2 a year to support its activities, and forty- nine have paid the fee. These groups help plan meetings for re¬ gional and national conventions, develop in¬ formation services to members (including possible articles in the Journal and column in the Newsletter), recruit promising people into the field, develop regional or state or¬ ganizations of professional interest groups, and define goals of the sections. An NAEB Individual Member who would like to participate in one of the sections should contact the national chairman or secretary. These are: 1. Engineering. Ch.—Ronald Stewart, 1624 Alexandria Drive, Lexington, Ky. 2. Graphics. Ch.—Jerry Tiemann, Art Director, South Carolina ETV Center, 2712 Millwood Ave., Columbia, S.C. Secy.—Pat¬ rick A. Dilley, Illustrator, South Carolina ETV Center, 2712 Millwood Ave., Colum¬ bia, S.C. 3. Production. Ch.—Charles de Loache, Jr., South Carolina ETV Center, 2712 Mill- wood Ave., Columbia, S.C. Secy—John Mandelbaum, 28 Court St., Geneseo, N.Y. 4. Research. Ch.—Warren F. Seibert, Head, Instructional Media Research Unit, Audio-Visual Research Unit, Purdue Uni¬ versity, Lafayette, Ind. Secy.—J. Christo¬ pher Reid, Acting Director, Instructional Television, University of Missouri, 409 Jesse Hall, Columbia, Mo. 65202. 5. Studio Teachers. Ch.—Robert W. Fox, Curriculum Director, Delaware ETV Network, Box 697, Dover, Del. Secy.— Doris H. Platt, State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 816 State St., Madison, Wis. 53706. 6. Utilisation. Ch.—Miss Marion Lowry, Board of Public Instruction of Broward County, Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Secy.—Onei¬ da P. Carpenter, Director, Educational Television, Pensacola Junior College, Pen¬ sacola, Fla. 32504. Meetings • Georgia will host the first national con¬ ference on ETV for state department of education officials. A $28,450 grant under Title V of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act will finance the meeting, to be in Atlanta May 10-12. The chief state school officers and the administrator in charge of ETV in each of the fifty states and Puerto Rico are being invited. Richard Bell, director of NAEB’s In¬ struction Division, is serving on the con¬ ference planning committee, along with Duane Mattheis, Minnesota education com¬ missioner; Lee Campion, director of New York state’s division of educational com¬ munications; Charles Trotter, ETV spe¬ cialist from the USOE; and representa¬ tives from the Georgia ETV network. • Technical papers, panel discussions, and a lighting progress show will highlight the second annual Theatre, Television and Film Lighting Symposium at the Edgewater Beach Hotel, Chicago, May 9 and 10. The Illuminating Engineering Society sponsors the meeting. News Notes PERSONNEL y Ron Hull, program manager of KUON- TV and Nebraska ETV network, has re¬ quested a year’s leave of absence from his dual post to direct a South Vietnamese TV training project for the USIA. He will help establish an ETV station in Saigon and will be responsible for training Vietnamese nationals in all phases of TV station opera¬ tion. Hull has been associated with Nebras¬ ka ETV for more than ten years, first as producer-director and later as production director before promotion to his present posts. Fred H. Harrington, president of the niversity of Wisconsin and member of the NAEB Board of Directors, has been elected to the Board of Directors of the Foreign Policy Association. ^ J. W. Warfield, associate professor of speech and mass communications at Wayne State University, has been awarded a Ful- bright Lectureship at the University of Chiengmai in Northwestern Thailand. Starting in June, he will spend ten months there, teaching mass communications and serving as adviser on that curriculum. ^ Richard B. Hull, chairman of the NAEB Board of Directors, is serving on the Com¬ mittee of Awards of the Alfred I. duPont Awards Foundation in the field of radio- TV and allied sciences. He met April 8 and 9 with other members of the commit¬ tee ; awards will be presented May 16. ^ Richard Brundle, former studio produc¬ tion manager and producer-director for WQED, Pittsburgh, has become supervisor of production operations at WMSB, Michi¬ gan State University. He replaces Gordon Lawrence, who has joined the staff of WOUB-TV, Ohio University, as operations manager. ^ In addition to Lawrence, WOUB has announced the following staff appointments: Arthur Hastings, staging and lighting di¬ rector, previously with the Detroit Board of Education; Tom Holleron, remote shop supervisor, formerly with WLW-C, Colum¬ bus ; Chuck Cox, engineering operations su¬ pervisor; and Stan Morris, who joined the staff in September as producer-director, promoted to production supervisor. ^ Henry H. Mamet, executive director of the Broadcasting Commission of the Chi¬ cago Board of Rabbis, recently received the “We Try Harder” community service award from the Avis Rent-a-Car Company. The award was for outstanding service to youth and various community activities, particularly in broadcasting. ^ David E. Platts, instructor and producer- director, St. Petersburg Junior College, has received a graduate fellowship jointly awarded by Florida State University and the Pinellas County Board of Public In¬ struction. He will take a year’s leave of absence to begin work toward his Ph.D. at Florida State. ^ Mrs. Virginia Bartlett has joined the programing department of WQED, Pitts¬ burgh, as public affairs producer. She has had extensive experience in TV production, and has won two Gold Mike Awards. In 1960 she visited more than a hundred TV stations and traveled more than 30,000 miles on a mass media fellowship to study public service programing. ^ Robert E. West, CCTV engineer at the Chicago campus of the University of Illi¬ nois, has been named chief broadcast engi¬ neer for Northern Illinois University. He will serve as chief engineer for WNIC (FM) as well as assist in expansion plans and experimental projects. STATE AND REGIONAL y With the expected activation of stations at Erie and Scranton by September, Penn¬ sylvania ETV coverage will reach 97 per cent. The Nebraska ETV Council for Higher Education, Inc., was formed in mid-March to extend the use of ETV to every univer¬ sity, college, and junior college in the state. Presidents of twenty-four institutions of higher education were named as incor¬ porators. Plans call for the council to be¬ gin broadcasting programs for higher edu¬ cation over the state’s ETV net this fall. Five of the state’s proposed seven ETV channels will be operating by then. ^ KTWU, Ch. 11, Topeka, Kansas recent¬ ly received gifts and equipment in excess of $40,000 from two commercial stations. KTWU, licensed to Washburn University, is the first noncommercial ETV station i'n Kansas, and is seen as the first link in a state-wide ETV network. AWARDS ^ Among the awards presented March 29 by the Thomas Alva Edison Foundation for distinguished contributions in the mass media were the following: “Best radio pro¬ gram for youth,” to WNYC, New York, for “Teen Age Book Talk”; “Special Cita¬ tion for an historical TV series,” to NET for “History of the Negro People”; and “Special Citation for an educational film,” NAEB Newsletter, a monthly publication issued by the Na¬ tional Association of Educational Broadcasters, 119 Gregory Hall, Urbana, III. 61803. $5.00 a year. Editor: Betty McKenzie. Phone 333-0580. Area Code 217. NAEB Headquarters: 1346 Connecticut Ave., N.W., Wash¬ ington, D.C., 20036. Phone 667-6000. Area Code 202. TWX 202- 965-0299. 2 NEWSLETTER