NAEB Newsletter (Feb 1935)

"A bulletin is printed each quarter describing the courses offered, and giving general information concerning the broadcasts. These bulletins will be dis¬ tributed to any college or university station requesting same from WOSU." # Garland Powell, Director of WRUF at the University of Florida, says: "I f eel that our organization should be more cooperative in sending copies of programs to the various university stations. I realize however that there is a great deal of work to a thing of this kind and it may be that most of the universi¬ ty stations are like WRUF, having little or no money with which to operate. It might be interesting to note that WRUF is now operating on an annual average of 13-g- hours a day and using 38 students and four full time men to operate the station, giving us a staff of 42. We take great pride in the fact that seven boys who have graduated from the University of Florida and who worked at the radio station have gone into the radio field and secured employment immediately, even in view of the fact of the great number of radio men out of employment; so we are contributing in a small way to the development of radio men." # W. I. Griffith, president of N.A.E.B., Director of WOI in the state of the tall corn, reports as follows: "The WOI Book Club is going strong and we have circulated about 26,000 vol¬ umes in the five years in which the club has now been organized. We have approxi¬ mately 1800 members and find that it is rendering a real service in supplementing the library facilities of our radio friends. This is particularly true to our friends who live on farms and in villages and find it hard to get suitable reading material in any other manner." # Professor Brackett reports for KUSD of Vermillion, S.D., as follows: "As has been done for several past years, KUSD is again broadcasting a series of programs featuring humorous readings in the Low German Dialect. Very great appreciation is shown by those in our territory who once used this language but in many cases have not heard it spoken for a very long time." # Forensic Ted Beaird, Director of the University of Oklahoma station, WNAD, tells us about the broadcastings and doings of his station: "We have introduced a new feature over WNAD this year which may be of interest to some of the fellows as it has proven quite satisfactory in our work. Each Thursday promptly at 2:00 p.nu we have a feature for 15 minutes known as the ’man with the traveling mike.’ One of our staff announcers has a portable mike and ’scouts around' among students, faculty members and others in the student union building and presents a series of questions, picking for the particular interviews any person who may be near the mike at that time. Various and sundry questions are presented by the man with the traveling mike, and you can imagine that he gets various and sundry answers to these questions. This feature has proven quite novel not only with our student body here but to all our radio audience. We have consid¬ erable comment on this feature and we can highly recommend it to any of the boys in similar work. "Our revised (and may we hope modern) practical landscape garden series pre¬ sented once each week for the season, is proving of great interest. This is under the auspices of the landscape gardener of the University and his staff. The mater¬ ial he is presenting is proving to be practical, and this is the first time we have been able to work it out where we felt it was practical to our listeners.