NAEB Newsletter (July 1948)

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RUTGERS UNIVERSITY CONTINUES OUTSTANDING FORUM SERIES Rutgers University, N-A-E-B member in New Brunswick, N. J, presents a challenging and unusual program series each Tuesday over seven cooperating commercial stations in New Jersey. Titled the "Rutgers University Forum", the program originates from the University Commons, On Tuesday. August 2nd, the Forum will mark its 136th broadcast with a discussion by four leading authorities in sociology and philosophy of society's inability to readjust itself at a rate comparable with technical development in the atomic age* Participants in the Forum will be Max Birenbaum, co-director of the Human Relations Workshop at Rutgers* Dr. Joseph Neyer* philosophy professor, at Rutgers, and Dr. Leon Wolcott, co-director of the Human Relations Institute and professor of sociology at Trenton State Teacher's College, Dr, Mason Gross will be guest moderator. WSUI STARTS RURAL 'SCHOOL CF THE AIR 1 NAEB station WSUI (University of Iowa) will begin something ne?7 in educational radio this fall—radio programs will be broadcast daily to supplement classes in rural schools for eastern Iowa pupils. Director Carl ttenzer of the Iowa City stations says WSUI and KSUI-FM will carry two 15-minute programsdaily beginning September 20th, They will be designed for rural elementary pupils--not formalized classes—but imaginary tours of the 4$ states and foreign countries as well as music appreciation work. Pilot plan was worked out with Johnson County (WSUI home county) superintendent of schools Frank Snider, whose 97 schools are 40 percent radio equipped, U,S.D.A, TELEVISION PROJECT FORMALLY APPROVED Formal approval under the Research and Marketing Act has been extended to a television research project of the Radio and Television Section, Office of Information, United States Department of Agriculture, Heading the project will be Ken Gapen, Assistant Director of Information in charge of Radio & Television* Dana Reynolds will be Operations Manager? Tom Noone, Television Information Specialist, and Maynard Speece (N-A-E-B station KUOM, Minneapolis) Program Director. Project will study television utility as a means of conveying to farm and city people benefits of agriculture and home-economics research. Realistically con¬ ceived it will explore techniques and methods with audience appeal and compre¬ hension as major objectives. N-A»E-B ANNUAL MEETING OCTOBER 10-11-12 AT ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY IN URBANA FOR DETAILED INFORMATION—ADDRESS FRANK SCHOOLEY, STATION WILL, URBANA, ILL.