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Office of Executive Urbana, Illi September 16, Secretary NO I S 194 i EN3SL ELECTED PRESIDENT OF NAEB Harold a. Engel, WHA, University of Wisconsin, was elected president of the National Association of Educational Broadcasters as the organization CLOSED ITS ANNUAL CONVENTION ON PURDUE UNIVERSITY CAMPUS, SEPTEMBER 6. £ NGEL, FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS EXECUTIVE SECRETARY OF NAEB, HAS LONG BEEN AN ACTIVE MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATION. Other officers elected were Gilbert 0, Williams, WBAA, Purdue, vice- president; and W. I. Griffith, WOI , Iowa State College. Elected to the Executive Committee were H. H. Leake, WNAD, University of Oklahoma, representing the southerndistrict; Carl Menzer, WSUI, University of Iowa, mid-west district; Allen Miller, KWSC, Washington State College, north¬ west district; Morris Novsk, WNYC, New York City, eastern district, and E. J. O'Brien, KFJM, University of North Dakota, northwestern district. The elected officers were nominated by a committee comprised of the association^ four past presidents in attendance at the convention, W. I. Griffith, Carl Menzer, H. b. McCarty, and Jos. F. Wright. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ORGANIZES FOR WORK After the close of the convention early Saturday afternoon the Executive Committee met in the Audience*studio of VV3AA, and later held an adjourned session in the Union Building*. It was decided to advise the Federal Defense Communications Board, of which James L. Fly, FCC Chairman, is also chairman that NAEB stands ready as an association to serve in the present national emergency and to REQUEST THE DESIGNATION OF NAEB MEMBER STATIONS AS THE ONE IN EACH COM¬ MUNITY TO OPERATE IN EMERGENCIES WHEN IT MAY BE NECESSARY TO CARRY A SIMULTANEOUS BROADCAST TO ALL PARTS OF THE COUNTRY AT ANY TIME. THE Defense Communications Board has been so notified and also advised of the Resolution adopted on the floor of the convention, a copy of which you will find elsewhere in the News Letter. The Committee also voted to promote the exchange of Defense ideas, pro¬ grams, and scripts. Future issues of the News Letter will contain special articles outlining what our stations are doing. The story of WNYC and National Defense will appear October I. t he issue of October 15 will carry the story from Iowa: WSUI and WOI. A new oress for the News Letter was also approved. Watch for the nest issue, SCHOOLEY WAS RE-NAMED EXECUTIVE SECRETARY.