NAEB Newsletter (December 1, 1942)

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NAEB NEY.S LETTER...Page 2 . . .. December I , 1942 Association of Educational Broadcasters* He is no? regional vice- president of the Association fop Education by Radio and also a MEMBER OF THE FEDERAL RADIO EoUCATION COMMITTEE OF THE FEDERAL Communications Commission. In accepting the OV. I shortwave post, Mr. McCarty indicated that he PLANS TO RETURN TO V/HA.AS SOON AS HIS SERVICES ARE NO LONGER NEEDED IN THE PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE EFFORT, Three members of the WHA staff are now on leave—McCarty, Engel and Bartell. William G. Harley has been made Acting Director; Walter Krule vitch. Acting Program Supervisor; Joyce Jaeger Kartell; Acting Director of the School of the Air, and Roy Vogelman, Chief Announcer. Other MEMBERS OF THE STAFF v '» LL SHARE INCREASED RESPONSIBILITIES AND NEW TASKS, NAEB LEFTS \U CHICAGO Meeting concurrently with the Sixth Annual School Broadcast in Chicago on November II was NAEB, The meeting vas informal, “ith MEMBERS PRESENT DISCUSSING PROBLEMS PRIMARILY CREATED BY THE WAR situation. Roll by stations indicated that all have increased TROUBLE KEEPING STAFF PERSONNEL, WH ILE AT THE SAME TIME THERE WERE ADDED BURDENS OF CREATING GOOD WAR PROGRAMS FOR THE LISTENERS. Among those attending the NAEB session and attending the Conference '"ere Major Harold W. Kent, Chicago Radio Council; Josef F. Wright, 'A ILL; Mrs. Pearl Broxsam, WSUI; Waldo Abbot, Michigan; Harold Engel, WHA; Gilbert D. Williams, WBAA; Dick Hall, WOI; and others »*hose NAMES WE NEGLECTED TO JOT D0»»No The special committee appointed to study the music situation reported that it was continuing its study and awaiting developments. MICHIGAN PROGRAMS CN THE AIR Twelve radio programs are being broadcast each week from the campus studio as the University of Michigan starts its 18th year of broad¬ casting, it is announced by Professor Waldo Abbot, director of the University*s broadcasting service. Five of the broadcasts are made over WJR, Detroit; four over CAR, Pontiac; and three over WWJ, Detroit. This is the 18th year in which WJR HAS CO-OPERATED WITH THE UNIVERSITY 8Y PROVIDING TIME ON THE AIR FOR THE CAMPUS BROADCASTS. The broadcasting programs include: "Wartime Hymns”, directed by Professor Hardin Van Deursen, of the School of Musio, and featuring the University Choir; Faculty ne^s commentator; "Meet the Emergency," dramatic program; Dramatization, directed by Professor David Owen,