NAEB Newsletter (December 1, 1966)

working outside the home. The family of a school teacher joined her on the program to show how a working wife and mother can arrange time to include all her family activities. KRMA-TV, Denver, Col., has begun telecasting 20 per cent of its evening pro¬ grams in color. The full change-over will take place early next year. In the future, both morning and afternoon instructional programs as well as the evening community shows will take advantage of the color ca¬ pability. Stephen Ailes, attorney, Kermit Gordon, vice president of the Brookings Institute; William L. Lindholm, president of the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co., and Mark Sullivan, Jr., partner, Auchin- closs, Parker & Redpath have been elected public trustees of the Greater Washington Educational Television Association, Inc. “1966: The Year ETV Comes of Age” is a featured story in the November issue of Scholastic Teacher’s Senior Scholastic and News Trails editions. Some 3,000 educators are expected to meet in Washington, D.C., for the 1967 Study Conference of the Association for Childhood Education International, March 26-31. The arts, values, technology and world under¬ standing as they relate to children are among the topics which will be explored at the conference. A five-day auction to raise funds for WTTW, Chicago, will be held next April, Yale Roe, general chairman, has announced. Proceeds from the auction will enable the station to carry on and expand its commu¬ nity programing. During the April 25-29 drive, viewers will bid by phone from their homes for a variety of items ranging from round-the-world trips to electric coffee pots. Personnel Fred Calland, music director, WOSU, Ohio State University, appointed program director, WFCR, Amherst, Mass. Diana Baker Calland, formerly of WOSU and WBNS-TV, Columbus, O., appointed WFCR producer. Michael J. Smith, assistant traffic man¬ ager and studio technician, Delaware Edu¬ cational Television Network, Dover, named production coordinator, National Center for School and College Television, Bloomington, Ind. Robert W. Fox, Delaware ETV Net¬ work’s television curriculum director, moves to NSCT as director of programing. Michael Stelnicki appointed producer-di¬ rector of the newly installed CCTV Instruc¬ tional Center, Kenosha Technical Institute, Kenosha, Wis. Joan Gaines, Washington, D.C., public relations consultant, appointed director of public relations, Music Educators National Conference, a department of the National Education Association, Washington. Douglas N. Batson, director, multilateral and special activities, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, U. S. Department of State, appointed deputy assistant Secretary of State for educational and cultural af¬ fairs. A. William Bluem, associate professor of television and radio, Syracuse, University, Syracuse, N.Y., is abroad on a State De¬ partment grant to deliver a series of lec¬ tures to broadcasting and film executives in the Scandinavian countries for a month ending December 19. William J. Lesco, coordinator of the production and distribution of instructional materials for Pennsylvania’s Department of Public Instruction, appointed instructional television program director for the Mif¬ flin County (Pa.) School District’s 2500 megacycle operation. Philip Bartons appointed program direc¬ tor, WHPR-FM, Highland Park, Mich. David Kenin, WHEN, Syracuse, N.Y., is the third recipient of the Thomas and Leon¬ ard Fellowship, Syracuse University, which carries a grant of $3000 for a 12-month program combining television, film and drama studies leading to an MS degree. Michael M. Palmer, assistant editor, Travelers Research Center, Inc., Hartford, Conn., appointed assistant director of de¬ velopment and public relations, Connecticut Educational Television, Hartford. John R. Shearer, chief engineer and gen¬ eral manager, Vidioflight, Inc., a subsidiary of Sony Corp., named manager of televi¬ sion color film system activities for Visual Electronics Corp., New York, N.Y. Dr. Kenneth E. Oberholtzer, superintend¬ ent of public schools, Denver, re-elected chairman of the policy board of the Great Plains Instructional Library, Lincoln, Neb. Richard Hull, director of radio and televi¬ sion broadcasting at Ohio State University, Columbus, and former chairman of the board of the NAEB, re-elected vice-chair¬ man. Donald C. Miller, former program direc¬ tor, WDSE-TV, Duluth, Minn., named an assistant professor of journalism at the University of Montana. Roger W. Hill, Jr., curriculum materials coordinator with the Hicksville Public Schools, named educational media director, SCOPE — Suffolk Educational Center, Patchogue, N.Y. Robert Fuzy, general manager for the telecommunications department of San Ber¬ nardino Valley College, named program manager, WTTW, Chicago, Ill. John J. Sommers, producer-director, WGBH-TV Boston, joins WTTW as executive pro¬ ducer. William J. McCarter, general manager, WET A, Washington, D.C., elected a vice president. John E. Milkereit, formerly university editor at the University of Akron, appoint¬ ed director of the university’s news bu¬ reau. Available A catalog of recorded television courses from the Great Plains Instructional Tele¬ vision Library has been published by the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Neb. 68508. The publication contains summaries of more than 80 videotape recorded courses. Great Plains has also announced the production of Modern Math for Parents, a nine-lesson telecourse designed to acquaint parents with outstanding features in the new approach to the teaching of mathematics. A new catalog of phonograph records, filmstrips, books and transparencies for kindergarten classes through grade 12 has been published by Educational Record Sales, 157 Chamber St., New York, N.Y. 10007. It is available to educators on request. Learning by Television, a review of the shortcomings of television as an educational tool, has been published by the Ford Foun¬ dation. Copies are available free from the Fund for the Advancement of Education, 477 Madison Ave., New York, N.Y. 10022. The Jim Handy Organization, 2821 E. Grand Blvd., Detroit, Mich. 48211, has pub¬ lished its 1967 catalog of instructional film and filmstrips. ESP: The Human “X” Factor has been produced by NET in cooperation with the WUNC-TV, University of North Carolina. The 16mm film runs 30 minutes. The view¬ er is shown three experimental investiga¬ tions of clairvoyance, psychokinesis and precognition in this study of extrasensory perception. The film may be purchased for $125 or rented for $5.40 from NET Film Service, Indiana University, Audio-Visual Center, Bloomington, Ind. 47401. Four new elementary telecourses and two courses for secondary education will be available in 1967 from the National Center for School and College Television, Box A, Bloomington, Ind. 47401. The four elementary courses are: Tell Me a Story, a 30-lesson series; Stepping Into Rhythm, thirty 15-minute lessons; Meet The Arts, seven 30-minute lessons, and Let’s Investi¬ gate, fifteen 15-minute lessons. The two new NCSCT secondary telecourses are The Communists, providing high school students with information on the development of communism, and Project: History, pro¬ duced as a supplement to American history in the high school classroom. Educational Television and Radio In Bri¬ tain, a study of the present educational television system in England and its future possibilities, is available from the BBC Publications, P. O. Box 123, London, W. 1. Sunday Showcase, a new 19-program se¬ ries, is in production at WNDT, New York. It will be available through ETS Program Service, 317 E. Second St., Bloomington, Ind., for telecast starting the week of Jan¬ uary 22. All of the programs are 90 min¬ utes long and include music, drama, fine arts and some symposiums appraising the world of the arts. 4 NEWSLETTER