NAEB Newsletter (Oct 1935)

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, 6 ~ ”Our broadcasting opens the night of October 1, and our initial program is to be a two hour one combining all the talent the University affords at this early date. "We do have a new three mike remote pick-up (portable) whioh is something bet¬ ter than we have ever had here and which should provide ample facility for picking up our most difficult remote programs.” # S, W# Jones of KFDY, South Dakota State College, reports the broadcasting of football games for the first time since the station started. Of the work at KOAC, University of Oregon, L, L• Roberts writes t “Alexander Hull, an Oregon educator widely known in the state for his musical and literary activities, has been added to KOAC’s full time staff of nine persons. Helen Miller Senn, instructor of public speaking in the General Extension Service of the Oregon State System of Higher Education, is another recent staff addition who devotes half time to coaching plays and preparing material for the high school radio guilds, ’’The high school radio guild idea, an educational feature developed by XOAC this year, is meeting with widespread approval in Oregon schools. The purpose is to create and foster interest in better radio broadcasts. This is accomplished by providing guild members with information and suggestions that will help them to study and analyze radio programs as well as to prepare material for presentation over the air. "Referenoes for studying the psychology of the radio audience, and aids for analyzing and writing talks, interviews, skits and plays are supplied by KOAC, including a cheok sheet for scoring the various types of radio presentations. ”KOAC announces this fall its plan for coordinating seme of its programs with correspondence study courses, "We write a story" is the title of the series of broadcasts whioh correlate with the correspondence course on ’Short Story Writing. * ’The ABCs of a homelike home* includes sixteen radio lectures supplementing the ’House furnishings* study course. "These discussions, presented weekly over the air, are keyed te the topics assigned in the study course. Students enrolled for the work listen in and there¬ by gain additional insight and inspiration in the course. In some cases groups form study clubs using the correspondence course outline for guidance and assign¬ ments to club members. They hold meetings for discussion and viewing exhibits at the time of the broadcasts. Enrollments for these courses, which bear college credit, are made through the General Extension Division of the Oregon State System of Higher Education, of whioh KOAC is a unit. "The idea of alternating reviews of books for teen age boys and girls with radio club meetings dealing with problems of parents of adolescents seems to ’click* at KOAC* Club members meet every other Tuesday afternoon to follow an outlined