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-3- One of the most critical situations to develop during the last year, and briefly alluded to above, was the strong possibility that a splinter organization for educational television only would be formed. This possibility has now been avoided, but the cost in money and efforts has been high. In recent meetings of the NAEB President and Executive Director with the Joint Committee on Educational Television (JCET), the National Citizens Committee for Educational Television (NCCET), the Educational Television and Radio Center (ETRC), and the American Council on Education (ACE) Television Committee, during the past few weeks and months, we have been gratified to find our unique position firmly established and the NAEB recognized as the permanent and central association in educational wireless communications. For it would be a great tragedy if modestly financed and under-staffed stations were expected to support a multiplicty of organizations, all alleging to be their indis¬ pensable protectors and sponsors. All but one of the educational stations on the air in the United States are NAEB members and an increasing proportion of NAEB TV officers are television directors or television station managers. It is now increasingly apparent that the NAEB is here to stay, with no need for it to affiliate or compromise with other groups in any way which will significantly impair its independence and freedom of action. It is now recognized as a leader instead of a follower, and the NAEB Board meetings scheduled during the next year, with America’s leading School Superintendents, College and University Presidents, and other leaders, will insure that its course will increasingly be educationally responsible and carefully considered. Through the aid granted by the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, educational broadcast¬ ing has strengthened its position in the United States. Adequate ’’delivery facilities” for educational materials have been assured and greatly improved. This strengthening and improvement have come mainly from the broader scope of activity and wider sphere of influence which the grant made it possible for the NAEB to exert. Since the beginning of the W. K. Kellogg Foundation grant, the NAEB Network so tentatively launched in 1950 has become world-renowned. Present plans for at least one commercial network, NBC, call for careful consideration of converting to a tape network for radio instead of an inter-connected one. This would put the NAEB at least three years ahead of commercial radio. Steady programs of workshops, seminars and scholarships have helped several hundreds of present and future educational radio and TV staff members to secure more adequate training and inspiration. NAEB scholarship certificates now hold a place of honor comparable to those of Guggenheim, Rockefeller and other such groups on the walls of the offices of many fine educators. The first real headquarters for educational broadcasting in the world is conducting itself with dignity and honor, making American educational broadcasters the best informed broadcasters in the world. In a tribute of imitation, a “University of the Air”, (of which the NAEB is probably the most honored member), has been created in Europe, whereby programs are exchanged by all the 21-nation members. One reason for the greatly increased productivity of NAEB committees is that, with Kellogg Foundation assistance.they have been able to meet and carry on their business on a face-to-face basis. The same is true of regional meetings to develop educational radio and television locally. The first NAEB regional meeting in the history of educational broadcasting was held in Norman, Oklahoma, March 2B-30, 1952. Since then such meetings have also been held in North Carolina, Michigan, and Oregon, with plans for two additional ones during the next year.