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MAEB Mew® Letter*..Sept* 15, 1959 Page 2 broadcasting should be entirely an enrichment type* They feel that it should supplement the work of the regular classroom* It should bring into the olassroom those features of our- modern social environ¬ ment which are timely, pertinent, and also which lend themselves readily to radio presentation* Some of the school systems that follow this pattern are Detroit, Rochester, Alameda, and my own home town, Chicago*, "‘The other philosophy that ha® been developed is perhaps best exempli¬ fied by Cleveland* The implications of this school are that radio is an opportunity for adequate supervision* Model lessons are presented each weak in a large variety of semesters and subjects* These are carefully articulated with the course of study, and are a regular inherent segment of the curriculum In Cleveland* "Assuming, then, that Chicago goes present its programs with a supple¬ mentary purpose, allow m© to briefly review the story of radio as it has unfolded in these past twenty-three months of the life of the Radio Council* "Previous to October, 1957, one radio school after another had been tried with that final successful punch lacking, due to the fact that there was no department within the school system itself constructed on the proper lines to encourage the us© of the radio programs in the schools* "Coming back to October, 1957, a poliomyelitis epidemic had just run itself off, and Dr* Johnson, our Superintendent of Schools, decided that if the commercial stations and the newspapers could see so much value in radio education that it might not be a bad idea if the education department looked into the business* "The present set-up, therefor©, was organized at that time as a bureau of radio education paralleling bureaus of art, music, physical education, visual education, and many others* As such. It enters into the line- staff organization in the city as a staff unit which implies a purely curricular function having the aspects of advisory and subject procedure by including none of the line functions of administration and execution* The radio bureau, which works under the title, Radio Council, has a full-time staff of twenty-three people; the director; a continuity department consisting of an editor and three writers; a producer; an engineer; a consultant in utilization — which is really a very pretty title; and also a teacher in evaluation* We have two civil service clerks; and there are two WPA clerks loaned to us by the Child Study department; and an Office of Education project of nine people; five actors, two writers, one research editor, and on© additional clerk* Beyond this, we have a large number of curriculum and content committees set up, where the part-time services of the large number of principals and teachers are utilized in the planning and preparation of programs* "One word about the actual Integration of activities should be offered at this time* Weekly staff meetings which last for several hours are held every Tuesday morning* In this staff meeting, the germs which later become full-grown radio programs are introduced* Everybody on the staff attends and lends his voice to an emphatic criticism of any idea offered; and befor© the idea finally gets out of the meeting—if it gets out at all — it has worked Itself into something that Is