NAEB Newsletter (Oct 1935)

-5- ' '•If any member station of the Association of College and University Broadcasting Sta¬ tions has not received the Iowa State College Publication, Volume XXX, No. 7, Bulletin 105, entitled "The Location and Elimination of Radio Interference" by J. K. McNeely, may I suggest that you get in touch with Iowa State College at once and secure the bulletin. Valuable information is included in this publication covering methods of locating radio interference, methods of eliminating radio interference, interference caused by Summation frequencies of broadcast stations, etc. Below vie are quoting a carbon of a letter addressed to Professor R. C. Higgy of Ohio State University, President of the Association, by Dr. Charles A. Culver, Professor of Physics, and Director of Broadcasting, Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota: "We are in receipt, through the office of our Executive Secretary, Mr. Beaird, of several copies of the radio play, ’An Ohio Enoch. Arden.’ We desire to thank vou very much for this dramatic material. I have passed it on to the professor who has charge of our radio dramatic productions, and I am sure that he will be glad to use the material. We will advise you with regard to the reactions which we receive as a re¬ sult of our presentation of this play on the air. "I am very sorry that we do not have any similar material, at the present time, to send in exchange. However, one of our professors in the English Department has considerable ability, and it is possible that we may be able to reciprocate in the near future. Professor Hunter, to whom I have just referred, has written two or three short plays which we have put on the air with very satisfactory results. One of them at least is suitable for production at any time and place. Unfortunately, however, from the stand¬ point of rad'o broadcasting, the play has been copyrighted and sold. Nevertheless, I am getting in touch with Mr. Hunter in an effort to learn what arrangements can be made with the publishers for its use by educational stations. Personally I felt that the play was an excellent piece of work and particularly suited for radio presentation. I will advise you as soon as I secure further information in this connection. ’’The exchange of program material is, I believe, a service which we should work up among our member stations. I have had in mind for some time a desire to work up a weekly news bulletin of scientific events, along somewhat different lines from that sent out by the Science Service Office. Thus far, I have not had time to do anything with such a project. It has occurred to me that possibly each one of our member sta¬ tions could work up some particular feature which could be distributed among our member ship, and thus the burden would not be great on any one station. "It has also occurred to re that it might be well to consider the possibility of the Association subscribing to one of the leading news-gathering ogranizations with the thought of establishing a central short-wa.ve station from which we could relay this material to our member stations. The writer would be interested to learn your reac¬ tions in this connection. I am sending a copy of this letter to Secretory Beaird, and also to the Washington office." FROM MR. GEORGE R. FAINT, PROGRAM DIRECTOR, STATION WJBU, BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY, LEWISBURG, PENNSYLVANIA! "I have appreciated the bulletins you have sent me from time to time. The fact that I have not written you before does not indicate that I am not interested in the problems concerning radio stations, but is due to the pres¬ sure of work at the University. "We appreciated the receipt of the mimeographed copies of ’An Ohio Enoch Arden.’ In fact it has enabled me to revive interest in studio productions in one of our dramatic organizations on the campus, and I am expecting them to organize a group of students to present plays over our station. "As is the case -with practically all of the college stations, we are in need of funds and are hoping to get them."