NAEB Newsletter (Mar 1944)

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NAEB NEWS LETTER Page 7 . «► * .March I » I 944 More than 12,000 British schools regularly use the educational radio pro¬ grams PRESENTED BY THE BRITISH BROADCASTING COMPANY, M|SS EvELYN Gl9B3 told the FR£C 0 This is approximately one third of all British schools. Miss G iaes and Sir Gerald Campbell, British Minister, described the BBC EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS WHICH NOT ONLY ADDRESS ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOL CHILDREN BUT ALSO SERVE OUT-OF-SCHOOL TEEN AGE GROUPS AND ADULTS* BBC* s EDUCATIONAL STAFF WORKS WITH A NATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE OF EDUCATORS TO DEVELOP A BALANCED AND SERVICEABLE PATTERN OF DAILY EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS WHICH HAVE GROWN STEADILY *N POPULAR 8 TY « ADULT AUDIENCES FOR THE EDUCATIONAL RADIO PROGRAMS ARE KNOWN TO BE IN EXCESS OF 3,000* 000 o . SCHOOL AOMINISTRATQftS MEET \H CHICAGO The Radio Section of the Wartime Regional Conference of the American Association of School Administrators met February 29th in the Auditorium of the Board of Education Building at 228 North LaSalle Street, Chicago* There was a display of equipment, both FM and AM, exhibits of work done BY SCHOOL CHILOREN AFTER HEARING RADIO PROGRAMS, AND A PHOTOGRAPH EXHIBIT OF STATION W8QE, BOARD OF EDUCATION STATION AT CLEVELAND IN CONNECTION WITH THE MEET® Planneo were: the General Electric ^ilm, “Listen, Jt°s FM tt to be shown FOLLOWING THE MEETING IN THE STUDIOS OF WBEZ, STATION OF THE CHICAGO Public Schools® Warren Bow, Superintendent of Schools, Detroit, Michigan was to be chairman of the panel made up of: Charles H a Lake, Superintenoent, Cleveland Public Schools; George Jennings, Acting Director, Chicago Badso Council - WBE3, Chicago Public Schools; Judith Waller, Director, Public Service, Central Division, NBC and William Dow Boutwell, Director, Information Service, U® S 0 Office of Education® Anna Bell Robinson, teacher from the Medill Elementary School and Austin *£« Ryan, Principal of the Scammon School were to act as recource persons, telling OF THEIR EXPERIENCES WITH RADIO IN THE CLASSROOM, ACCORDING TO PLANS MADE FOR THE MEETING* DOTS AND DASHES Capt. Harold a. Engel, assistant director-qn-leave from WHA, visited the STATION EARLY IN FEBRUARY, EN ROUTE FROM SEATTLE TO A POOL OF EDUCATIONAL OFFICERS ON THE EAST COAST« By Ffs* 10 CaPT„ £nGEL WAS BACK IN MaOISON ON A 30-DAY ASSIGNMENT TO THE ArmY*S EXTENSION AND CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL* the Army Institute headquarters at Madison*.**Wallace Garneau, Western State College, Kalamazoo, Michigan has forwarded two scripts for the NAEB Script Exchange: “Would You End War?” and “Building for Peace. w .<,** Garneau also reports that We have filed application with the FCC for an FM station. H o•..Received just a day too late for the February 1st News Letter was this note from £. W 0 Ziesarth, Acting Oirf.ctor of WLB, University of Minnesota: "I'd like a man who can make a fairly decent appearance on the air for a half-time job* He could do graduate work THE REST OF HIS TIME, OR THE JOB COULQ PROBABLY BE MADE A THREE-QUARTER” TIME PROPOSITION IF HE PREFERRED* IF YOU HAVE ANYONE IN MIND, WILL YOU TELL HIM TO SHOOT ME AN APPLICATION AS SOON AS POSSIBLE .".*.* INCI DENT ALLY, Burton Paulu, Oirector of WLB, is on leave of absence with OWI*... o WNA0, University of Oklahoma, joineo the Associated Press “PA" wire on February 57*