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BOSTON 1 S COOPERATIVE RADIO COUNCIL - 7 - The Cooperative Broadcasting Council, which includes Boston College, Boston University, Harvard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Northeastern and Tufts, produced and presented 412 programs for nearly 115 hours of education in the first year of the Council’s Broadcasting in Boston, Ralph Lowell, trustee of Lowell Institute, who made the announcements, stated that the programs were released hy special arrangement over Boston’s six full-time commercial stations, COLLEGE RADIO MEN MEET UITH NAB EDUCATIONAL GROUP The educational standards committee of the National Association of Broadcasters met with radio representatives from colleges and universities in Washington the first week in February. Purpose was to discuss ways and means of raising the train¬ ing standards for persons entering the broadcast field, Educational broadcasters present were Russell Porter, coordinator of radio at the University of ^enver; Thomas D, Rishworth, director of Radio House, University of Texas; Dr. Kenneth Bartlett, Syracuse University; and Professor Ben Hennecke, University of Tulsa. Commercial radio representatives,(members of the NAB standards committee) present were: Ralph Hardy, KSL, Salt Lake; Judith Nailer, NBC, Chicago; Dr. Willis Dunbar, UKZO, Kalamazoo; F. C. Sowell, ULAC, Nashville; Armand Hunter, UFIL(and Temple University), Philadelphia; and Hazel Kenyon, UTOP, Washington. RADIO LEADERS TO SPEAK AT ”NEU SCHOOL” SESSIONS FCC Commissioner Clifford Durr; ABC vice-president Robert Saudek; and Llewellyn White, will be guest lecturers at a session on radio at the New School for Social Research in New York on February 27. The lectures are part of a course on free¬ dom of the press in print, radio, and films, given by the school with Milton D. Stewart, res-earch director of the President’s Committee on Civil Rights, as chair¬ man. EXPANDED SCHOOL OF THE AIR FOP. STATION WAD IN OKLAHOMA N-A-E-B member station WAD(University of Oklahoma) plans a new and expanded School of the Air series for spring, 1948. The Oklahoma School of the Air now offers 10 weekly broadcasts for in-school listening to service more nupils in Oklahoma’s rural, consolidated, and independent district classrooms^ WTAD director John Dunn ( lalso N-A-E-B vice-president) announces the school program includes such typical features as "Great Figures in American History,” World Incorporated,” "Spotlight on Health,” "End of the Rainbow”', "Making Friends with Music,” as well as an authoritative series of newscasts for elementary grade levels 5 to 8. Director Dunn points out that School of the Air activities are an expanded service .of WAD, serving one more type of special audience. Station WAD 1 s basic program schedule with a fine array of educational, informational, and musical features serves a large audience throughout the state of Oklahoma with programs and services not available from other sources. JOHN DE PROBP0 OF STATION WYC CELEBRATES 30TH ANNIVERSARY On February 6th, John De Prospo, Executive Officer and Assistant to the Director of N-A-E-B member stations, WYC AND WYC-FII, New York, will complete 30 years in the service of the City of New York. Starting as clerk with the Commissioner of Accounts in 1918, he was transferred to Finance, Plants and Structures, and finally to WYC in 1934,