NAEB Newsletter (Dec 1948)

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- 7 - KQAC OREGON’S CMT STATTPH Tlie Oregon State Broadcasters Association at its mooting last week in Portland appointed JaF.cs M. Norris, program manager of the state-owned station KOAC, as executive decretory of the organization. The now appointment of an executive secretary xor the organization was made folloimlng a report of a special committee neaded by Lee Jacobs, of stations KBKR, KLBN, and KSRV, named by President Frank Loggan of KBND, Bend, to study the proposals to affiliate the state broadcasters association with the Oregon State System of Iiigher Education, Headquarters for the association will be maintained in the KOAC business office located in Corvallis and annual meetings of the association will be held at both the University of Oregon and Oregon State College. T l 10 ^ 0W / XGCUtive secrotar y Oregon State Broadcasters became a member of the staff 01 the state-owned station in 192$ and was named program manager of the sta¬ tion 2f years ago. Ir. Morris also servos the National'Association of Educational broadcasters as western regional director and is Northwest President of the Associ¬ ation for Education by Radio. PORTLAND PUBL IC S CHOOL K -B-P-S SALUTED EY OFFICE OF EDTT fl ATTm\T City school station, KBPS, Portland’s NAEB member was hailed as one of the finest in the country by Franklin Dunham, chief of radio for the U.S,Office of Education in a recent visit there, Dunham, on hand to confer with Portland educators, on the use of radio in teaching, pointed out KBPS, the only AM city-school outlet in the country, was the first school radio station in the U.S*.and explained success of the local radio plan because it was shaped to fit the needs of the curriculum, Dunham pointed out there are m ^ pridian --’65 educational rad io stati ons in the U.S. of which 35 have sprung up since the last"'war. Many of these, ho said, have shuped their program after the Portland plan. With Patricia L. Green,.KBPS director and assistant supervisor of radio in the public schools,Dunham visited several schools and wa.s guest at a luncheon with school administrators and Portland commercial station representatives. Miss Cecil NcKcrchor, president of the Portland Chapter of the AER, arranged a special meet¬ ing for Portland school principals and teachers to hear Dunham’s address on "Utiliza¬ tion of Radio by the Classroom Teacher," Dunham.who recently visited Europe, is enthusiastic about the use of radio in educating Gorman youth. Educational programs arc being aired over many German stations and a .,>100,000 fund has been raised by the NAB in the U.S. to help pay for radio receivers in German classrooms. Franklin.Dunham, chief of radio for the U. S. Office of Education, Washington, D.C. visited KOAC this past week end. While in Corvallis the radio educator also attended some oi the sessions of the audio-visua.l aids conference held on the Oregon State College Campus. It was Ir. Dunham’s first visit to Corvallis and to the state-owned educational radio station KOAC. Mrs. Dunham was with her husband on a five-weeks tour up the west coast and returned to Washington, D.C., by way ox Denver and Salt Lake City, While in Oregon he also conferred with radio educators in Eugene and ortland.