NAEB Newsletter (Mar 1935)

page 5 - Bulletin - March 2Y onEdubation by Radio. One very valuable part of its work is conducted by Director of its Service Bureau, Mr i Armstrong ’Perry. Mr. Perry kindly submitted the following statement with reference to the Service Bureau* "The National Committee on Education by Radio maintains a Service Bureau in the Na¬ tional Press Building, Washington, D« C., for service to educational stations. It is a clearinghouse for information on education by radio. One of the most success¬ ful radio attorneys in the country is made available, free of charge, for advice on legal matters. "In the past four years the Federal Ettdio Commission and its successor, the Federal. Communications Commission, have reported over 1500 applications affecting the facili¬ ties of educational stations. The Service Bureau has been able to save considerable amounts of money for the educational stations. "Cooperation among the educational stations is necessary if their rights are to bo adequately protected and their service fully developed. The National Association of Educational Broadcasters is represented on the National Committee on Education by Radio and in the opinion of the Service Bureau every educational broadcasting station should be a member of the Association. BROADCAST OF ELEMENTARY GERMAN BY KFKU We acknowledge receipt of a copy of a very fine radio address on the subject, "Radio as a medium for foreign language instruction," presented over KFKU by Professor E. F. Engel, professor of German at Kansas University, Lawrence, Kansas. Professor Harold G. Ingham says that this is the third year that this radio course in elementary Ger¬ man has been presented. It consists of 50 fiftecn-aaohte periods each. Professor Engel has been identified with higher education for forty years. He is a radio en¬ thusiast with a vision of the expanding possibilities of radio for human progress and culture. Professor Engel has agreed to make this course available to other stations for the cost of the mimeograph material. There is absolutely no financial return to him except the possibility of a very small royalty on the sale of a text that he has developed as a result of thirty years of teaching. If you are interested we suggest you write to him c/o KFKU, Lawrence, Kansas, at once. COLUMBUS RADIO MEETING Are you so adjusting your time and program that it will be possible for you to attend the radio meeting in Columbus, Ohio, May 6, 7 and 8? This is an unusual meeting. The Sixth Annual Institute for Education by Radio combines with the Fifth Annual Assembly of the National Advisory Council on Radio in Education. Dean Yf* YT. Charters Dr. Levering Tyson and Dr. George Zook, Director of American Council on Education, form the program committee and judging from the tentative program it will be well worth your attention. The writer of this bulletin has been asked to provide the program for Monday after¬ noon, May 6th, and has been fortunate in securing the acceptance of Miss Judith Trai¬ ler, Educational Director Central Division NBC, who will address us on the subject, "What'I would do if I were running an educational broadcasting station;" Pres. Herman James, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, S. Dakota, "Democracy and Radio;" State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Agnes Samuelson, Des Moines, Iowa, "The Radio as an agency in interpreting education." Tib know you will enjoy the addresses and the discussions that will follow* By the way, do you recall that Dean Charters asked you to send or bring any samples of recordings that you have made of any typical programs that you have broadcast.