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59 Appendix 3 REPRESENTATIVE STATEMENT BY RECIPIENTS OF PROGRAM GRANTS-IN-AID Uni versity of Michigan — " 'They Fought Alone* received a first award from u'iG Institute for Education by Radio In 1953 in the highly competitive 'regional* classification,•,. Subsequent queries about the series from the Voice of America resulted in 'They Fought Alone* being broadcast to all English-language areas in the world , Theodore Streibert, (then) chief of the U. S, Information Agency, publicly declared it to be one of the outstanding radio contributions ever to come out of educational circles. Ever since its production, programs from the series have been used as audio aids in University classes on the History of Education... The first such series, to our knowledge, ever to become a recognized part of a graduate-level course in this University, “The success of this series naturally reflected great credit upon the Univer¬ sity of Michigan, and gave tangible proof to administrators and faculty alike that radio broadcasting, adequately supported, could produce significant con¬ tributions to academic and public life • This resulted in greater cooperation from both in the development and fulfillment of new program ideas, A grant- in-aid convinced the University administration that given adequate financial aid the educational FM station is a powerful public relations and educational medium which results in more liberal budget attitude Stanford University (Regarding TV grant-in-aid at the time NAEB handled these grants, prior to ETRC activation) — "Because of the grant we were able (to produce the type of) educational program which compared most favorably with commercial programs. As a matter of record our program moved in popularity from third place to second and was bested only by the telecast of the fights from Madison Square Garden, New York. This we considered a monumental achievement in view of the nature of our serious discussion of geopolitics.,. To sum up, I should say that with the grant-in-aid Stanford produced an edu¬ cational television series that won local, national and international attention. The grant made possible the joint effort of people knowledgeable in educational television and the scholars of Stanford University,... We have shown that educational television can be made exciting with financial help." Bost on University — "This grant-in-aid (for the series entitled 'New England Renaissance*) increased the stature of Boston University’s Department of Radio in the Division of Communications Arts.... Nine organizations, ranging from the Universalist Church to the Thoreau Society offered active support in creating contacts for material and in promoting the broadcasts. While the series was being broadcast....tourist attendance at Brook Farm in West Roxbury rose by six hundred percent. After the series was released nationally, we had letters from all parts of the United States asking whether or not the programs and/or scripts might be used in the classroom for discussions on