NAEB Newsletter (Mar 1940)

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NAEB NEWS LETTER.. • .MARCH 15, 1940. ...Page 4 The National Association of Educational Broadcasters and the National Association of Teachers of Speech will hold closed meetings Monday evening*, Ed Kirby will preside at a joint session of the National Association of Broadcasters, and the educational directors of CBS and NBC stations. George V. Denny, Jr., and Frank E. Mason, NBC Tice President and Assistant to the president, will be chairman of two sections devoted to special problems. These will be held Monday evening. Mr. Denny is to preside at a discussion on Adult Education by Radio, and Mr. Mason will be chairman of the section Pre-Professional Training of Radio Personnel. Other special sections will discuss Classroom Utilization of Broad¬ casts, presided over by Elizabeth Goudy, director of radio for the County of Los Angeles Schools, and Schoolroom Supervision of Radio, with H. M. Buckley, Cleveland Assistant superintendent of schools, as chairman. This year’s demonstration of utilization of a classroom broadcast will be on the secondary level. The demonstration will be presented Tuesday morning, at the Social Administration Building on the Ohio State University campus. An evaluation of the demonstration will follow. Following the dinner Tuesday evening, round-table discussions will be held on eight general topics. Ed Kirby of the National Association of Broadcasters, will lead the discussion on Handling Controversial Issues, The section on News and Special Events will have as chairman A. A. Schechter, NBC news editor and special events director. Subjects of other round-table discussions are Writing for Radio, Radio Production, Radio Workshops, Educational Script Exchanges, Recordings for School Use and Engineering Quiz Section. On Wednesday morning the Institute will hear Guy Hickock, manager of the International Division of NBC, who is to speak on ’’Developments in International Broadcasting.” At the same session, Leonard Power, coordinator of research for the Federal Radio Education Committee, will discuss the activities of the FREC. An orchestra and a cast of radio actors will close the Institute Wednesday afternoon, May first, with demonstrations of two types of educational broadcasts. "Fortunes Washed Away," a program on soil conservation, will be presented by a cast of actors from 7LW, Cincinnati. An orchestra from the Cincinnati College of Music will present "Music of the Masters,” a program in music appreciation. Joseph Ries, WLW educational director, will speak on the topic, "Planning and Production of the Program." As in previous years, proceedings of the Institute will be published in a yearbook, "Education on the Air." All sessions will be held in the Deshler-Wallick Hotel except on Tuesday and Wednesday mornings, when meetings will be held at the Social Administration Building on the campus of Ohio State University.