NAEB Newsletter (June 1944)

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N A E 8 NEWS LETTER NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF Frank E. Schooley, Editor, EDUCATIONAL Station WILL June I, BROADCASTERS Urbana, III. 1944 NAEB MEETING IN COLUMBUS Well, many of us naeBers met prof stably in Columbus in connect son with THE ANNUAL OHIO STATE INSTITUTE. And, IF MY NOTES, KEPT JOINTLY B.Y Allen Miller and myself, can be interpreted, I 8 ll try to give you the GIST OF THE HAPPENINGS. KIBITZERS WaLDO AbBOT AND CaRL MENZER, PLEASE KEEP QUIET NOW. IN ABSENCE OF THE PRESIDENT, GILBERT D 0 WILLIAMS, PURDUE, ALLEN MlLLER, KOAC AND NAEB VICE-PRESIDENT WAS PRESIDING AT OUR SuNDAV SESSION. The Association voted to ask the United States Office of Education to REPRESENT NAEB ON THE RADIO TECHNICAL PLANNING BqaRD. The OFFICE IS NOW REPRESENTED ON SOME OF THE RTP8 PANELS AND IT WAS THOUGHT THAT NAE8 COULD BE PROPERLY AND PROFITABLY SERVED THROUGH THIS SOURCE. MOTION WAS made by Abbot. The acting president was AUTHORIZED TO APPOINT a SPECIAL COMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE AND REPORT TO THE FULL MEMBERSHIP ON THE PROBLEMS AND RELATIONSHIP INVOLVED WITH THE MANY SCHOOL BROADCAST STATIONS AND NAEB. IT WAS POINTED OUT THAT THERE ARE MUTUAL FIELDS OF INTERESTS, AS WELL AS SOME DIVERGENT INTERESTS. FILLER APPOINTED BqS COLEMAN, WKAR, chairman, Waldo Abbot, Michigan, and George Jennings, WBEZ, and asked THEM TO REPORT BY JULY I. OlSCUSSION WAS HELD ALSO ON POSSIBLE AFFILIATION WITH FMBI, NAB, AND AER. The Executive Secretary was instructed to investigate the POSSIBILITIES OF AFFILIATING WITH NAB AND FMB I , AND TO ACT UNDER CERTAIN CONDITIONS. IF POSSIBILITIES FOR AFFILIATION EXIST OUTSIDE OF THE PRESCRIBED CONDITIONS, THE EXECUTIVE SECRETARY WAS INSTRUCTED TO REPORT BACK TO THE ’WHOLE ORGANIZATION. There was much expression of members present for the need of a Fall MEETING OF NA£B e AFTER CONSIDERATION OF MANY PROBLEMS, THE ASSOCIATION VOTED TO MEET IN LATE SEPTEMBER OR THE FIRST WEEK IN OCTOBER. The EXACT TIME AND PLACE ARE TO BE DETERMINED BY THE NAEB EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. An INVITATION TO HOLD THE MEETING IN DETROIT WAS EXTENDED BY WaLDO A0BOT. After a recess, the Association reconvened with Elmer Sulzer of Kentucky ON THE FLOOR. ELMER POINTED OUT THE NEED FOR MEMBERS KEEPING ON THEIR TOES, ESPECIALLY IN THE POST-WAR PERIOD, AND KEEPING UP TO DATE ON EQUIPMENT, SOME OF WHICH MIGHT BE AVAILABLE THROUGH GOVERNMENTAL SOURCES. Elmer was appointed a committee of one to advise NAEB members. A discussion of promotion was held. Harolo McCarty of WHA agreed to GET OUT A TYPICAL MEMBER-STATION REPORT BY JULY 3 WHICH COULD SERVE AS A MODEL FOR ALL. IT WAS DEEMED ADVISABLE TO FURNISH THE ASSOCIATION WITH