NAEB Newsletter (Oct 1941)

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NAEB NEWS LETTER ■ 6 - 0CTOBER I, 1941 HOME BUILDING AND DECORATION, GARDENING, CHARM THROUGH PHYSICAL CULTURE, MUSIC, LAV/ FOR WOMEN AND MANY OTHER PHASES OF HOMEMAKtNG. AN ARMCHAIR TRIP TO ONE OF THE TWENTY LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES WILL BE MADE each Tuesday evening, starting in November. K F K U HAS BEEN ONE OF THE PIONEERS IN OFFERING LESSONS IN SPANISH. FOR TEN years Spanish has been given from the Unive&sity*s broadcasting station as A SUPPLEMENTARY RADIO COURSE TO THE CLASSES IN THE SECONDARY SCHOOLS AND FOR ALL ADULTS WHO ARE INTERESTED IN LEARNING THE LANGUAGE OF OUR NEIGHBORS TO the south. This year the Spanish lessons may be heard on Tuesday and Thurs¬ day AFTERNOONS AT 3:15. FAMILY LIFE FORUM RETURNS TO W N A D First Family Life Forum broadcast of the school year will be given on W N A 0, Oklahoma University radio station, on Monday, October 20, Miss Alice Sowers, director of the Oklahoma Family Life Institute, has announced. The broadcasts, round-table discussions by groups of state high school studenti with miss Sowers as leader, this term will center upon the Oklahoma bill of RIGHTS—LIFE, LIBERTY AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS. Two new programs becoming bopular with the listeners this year of W N A 0, Oklahoma University radio station are the daily campus news broadcast and the DAILY SPORTCAST. BOTH PROGRAMS ARE PRESENTED BY STUDENTS IN THE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF JOUNALISM 8 S RADIO NEWS CLASSES DIRECTED BY CHARLES H. BROWN, JOURNALISM PROFESSOR, AND ARE PREPARED IN CO-OPERATION WITH THE OKLAHOMA Daily, Oklahoma University student newspaper. Noel Kaho, Claremore, author of "The Will Rogers Country” and formor news¬ paperman, HAS JOINED THE STAFF OF H A D, AS HEAD OF THE SCRIPT DEPARTMENT. The 35 YEAR OLD WRITER WILL AID STUDENTS IN PREPARATION OF MATERIAL FOR BROAD¬ CASTING. William Edmund Durham, former band and orchestra director at Berea College, Berea, Kentucky, will direct the musical programs of W N A D this term. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS OFFERS DISKS A NEW SERIES OF DOCUMENTARY RECORDINGS, OF A TYPE WIDELY EMPLOYED IN ENGLAND, BUT AN INNOVATION IN THIS COUNTRY, WILL BE MADE AVAILABLE TO RADIO STATIONS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY ABOUT THE MIDDLE OF OCTOBER, IT HAS BEEN ANNOUNCED. THE RECORDINGS, OF EITHER 15 OR 30 MINUTE DURATION WILL BE DISTRIBUTED ON A COST BASIS, WITH STATIONS PAYING A80UT $1.25 FOR EACH RECORD. The SERIES, TENTATIVELY CALLED ”AMERICA—SUMMER OF 1941 M * IS THE FIRST ATTEMPT TO FORMULATE A COMPREHENSIVE PICTURE OF THE AMERICAN SCENE THROUGH ON-THE- SPOT INTERVIEWS WITH NATIVES OF VARIOUS SECTIONS OF THE COUNTRY, SHOWING THE DIFFERENT ASPECTS OF THElR CULTURE, IDEALS, ACTIVITIES, ETC., IN RELATION TO THE REST OF THE OOUNTRY. WORK AND FOLK SONGS OF VARIOUS LOCALITIES AND