NAEB Newsletter (November 1, 1966)

Akron ITV director, appointed director of instructional media. University of Iowa film professor Dr. Raymond Fielding was elected president of the University Film Producers Association. Guy Rauer, director of engineering, Radio YVEJL, Scranton, is now national public relations director for the Society of Broad¬ cast Engineers. Jay M. Brill, audio-visual communications specialist, joined Allstate Communications as director of marketing. Mrs. Mitzi Miller Rhea, former radio and television supervisor for the Dade County Board of public instruction in Mi¬ ami, appointed Chicago Area School Tele¬ vision consultant. Recent additions to the speech and dra¬ matic art faculty at Syracuse University: as associate professor of drama, Daniel Krempel, author of soon-to-be-published The Theatrical Image: Its Meaning, Crea¬ tion and Criticism; as an instructor in radio and television, Bruce F. Elving, who re¬ ceived a B. A. cum laude with distinction from the University of Minnesota; as lec¬ turer in radio and television, Richard B. Barnhill, former executive vice president of Tech-Tel Corporation, New York, a closed circuit television production service. WQED, Channel 13-WQEX, Channel 16, Pittsburgh announce staff expansion: In the newly created position of assistant to the president, Robert K. Avery ;> producer- director of “Misterogers’ Neighborhood” is David Fu-Ying Chen; producer-director for WQED’s management training courses is David Harlan; Richard H. Barnes will di¬ rect development of the station’s school services program. Mrs. Patricia V. Hughes is 13’s 3rd “QED Kindergarten” teacher; John Richard Callow will host an experi¬ mental program dealing with science; Max¬ ine Jones will anchor “News ’66,” a 20- minute current events report for youngsters. The newly organized division of instruc¬ tional resources at State University College, Brockport, New York, incorporates televi¬ sion, audio-visual, multi-media instructional services of the college. Named to the staff: Melvin P. Smagorinsky, director; Jack B. Frank, associate director; Bernard Lynch, chief engineer; Paul Mullen, engineering supervisor; Frank Filardo and Ren A. Laf- ferty, producer-directors; Donald Talarico, graphic artist. From the Georgia Educational Television Network: Recently named to the Network staff—David O’Keefe, as production man¬ ager ; O. Max Wilson, as utilization admin¬ istrator; Olan Cosper, as utilization special¬ ist; Clyde Reaves, control engineer; Travis Hardin, broadcast technician; Beverly Fer¬ guson and Jean Masters, secretaries. Guy Cochran named WABW’s chief engineer; Preston Jordan and Floyd Robertson named engineers for WABW. At WDCO, Wallace Lynch appointed chief engineer and Johnny Green, associate producer director; Vance Carter assigned to WVAN engineering. Don Thomas ap¬ pointed WJSP chief engineer. At WCES, Guy Freeman and Jack Griz¬ zle, engineers; Guy Newsome as a junior engineer, and David Wright transferred to the station. At WACS, Jerry Allnoch named chief engineer; Winfred Chson and James Speer, engineers. At the Atlanta production center, Janies Brooke appointed broadcast technician, Hiram Bulluck joined the art department. Russell Aiken assigned as field engineer for South Georgia. KRME, Channel 13, Fargo-Moorehead, North Dakota, named Duologue series host Lou Marget director of developments. U. of Texas Report Radio-Television-Film Department Cur¬ riculum Revision: Department chairman Dr. Stanley T. Donner announced that there are 13 new or reorganized courses, with a total of 17 offered for credit. Four courses were not changed. Enrollment for the fall semes¬ ter doubled, has led to faculty expansion— there are now three times the original num¬ ber of full-time teachers. Radio Tutorial Programs in Chemical Engineering: Professor and department chairman Dr. Howard Rase announced that the experimental radio study supplement in¬ troduced last spring proved so successful that fall semester air time has been length¬ ened ten to twenty minutes per broadcast to cover quizzes and reviews. Radio sessions are prepared as follows: From about 2:30- 4:00 o’clock students phone in questions and problem analyses to a three graduate student-team, who produce the shows based on the phone exchanges of information. KUT-FM station manager Joe Gwathmey is coaching the three mc’s on broadcast techniques. NER Publishes Quarterly The first issue of the NER Reporter, the new official publication of National Educa¬ tional Radio, was presented at the recent Wingspread Conference on Educational Ra¬ dio as a National Resource, held at Racine, Wisconsin. Pieces include “Radio’s Second Chance,” by Charles A. Siepmann, professor of education and chairman, department of communication i'n education, New York University; “The Electronics Revolution,” by Raymond Swing; assessments of Al¬ bert Schweitzer’s contributions by Saturday Review editor Norman Cousins and Walde- mar Nielsen, of the African-American In¬ stitute. For single copies and information about subscription write Jerrold Sandler, NER executive director, 1346 Connecticut Avenue, N. W., Washington, D. C. 20036. A Wingspread Interim Conference Re¬ port, compiling plenary session recommen¬ dations is scheduled for publication shortly. News Notes The State Department has opened rec¬ ords up to thirty years ago in the National Archives. The new rule also means that the date will be advanced a year on each Jan¬ uary 1. Researchers seeking to use these resources should write the National Ar¬ chives and Records Service, Washington, D. C. 20408. On certain subjects, qualified researchers may consult state records for the period 1936-1943. For further informa¬ tion write the Historical Office of the State Department, Washington, D. C. 20520. KLRN, Channel 9, San Antonio-Austin, is now reporting weather forecasts and cor¬ rect time at station breaks; has also pro¬ gramed silent movie classics for Sunday night viewing. National Educational Television is boost¬ ing better general knowledge of mental ill¬ ness via “Search for the Lost Self,” the second of two hour-long documentaries aired on NET Journal. The show was filmed at the Brooklyn League for Serious¬ ly Disturbed Children, traces methods aimed at reducing disability. WTTW, Channel 11, Chicago, premiered Soapbox last month—weekly forum for dis¬ senters, featuring specialists on topics under fire: upcoming issues to be examined in¬ clude draft, reform of the narcotics laws, and wiretapping. WQED, Channel 13, Pittsburgh, produced a five-program music appreciation series for grades 4-9, called Concerts for Young Peo¬ ple. Christine Skoda, Pittsburgh Public School music supervisor is the television classroom teacher. Producer—Larry Wal- coff, WQED school services assistant di¬ rector; Jack Rominger, director. The se¬ ries was funded by a grant from the city of Pittsburgh. What WNYC-AM & WNYC-FM audi¬ ences are hearing on Cooper Union Forum, discussions and courses which began last month: twenty-one lecture series entitled Happenings and Environments —“American world policy” looked into first by Saul K. Padover, chairman, department of political social science, New School of Social Sci¬ ence Research. Author of Behind Closed Doors. Edward N. Costykian also guides listeners in scrutiny of politics. Other pro¬ grams cover “Psychological Backgrounds of Love and Hate,” “Linguistic Appetizers,” “Unity of Life in Shakespearean Early Plays.” WIAN-FM, Indianapolis: live broadcasts last month included high school football games, coverage of the general sessions of the Indiana State Teachers Association convention from Cadle Tabernacle. WETA, Channel 26, Washington, D. C., now telecasting on Saturdays. NAB study shows that the public favors radio-television coverage of Senate and House happenings; less than half of those NOVEMBER, 1966 3