NAEB Newsletter (Sept-Oct 1952)

- 7 - UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA NAMES HARWOOD RADIO HEAD Dr. Kenneth Harwood has been named head of the University of Alabama Department of Radio. He also was promoted to the rank of full professor. During the 1951-1952 academic year Dr. Harwood was acting head of the department and associate professor of radio. He joined the University of Alabama faculty in 1950 director of radio and television research with rank of assistant professor. The department operates carrier-current station WABP and is an associate member of. NAEB. Alabama Documents Series Continued The Radio Broadcasting Services of the University Extension Division will again pro¬ duce the "Alabama Documents" series this fall. The series which won national recog¬ nition last Spring will again be.directed by Walt Whitaker and written by LeRoy Bannerman. In the past, Alabama’s natural resources have been the subject of the program. This fall* the "Alabama Documents" series will go.beyond the state and will analyze the natural resources of the deep South as well. . Faculty Summer Activities Two professors in the University of Alabama Department of Radio have completed summer study of radio-TV topics. Assistant professor W. Knox Hagood, who has been a radio-television combat corres¬ pondent in Korea, studied television at Ohio State University in the summer. He hold a Northwestern University, master's degree in radio. As a part of his summer research Professor Hagood designed a student-operated television station. Don C. Smith, veteran newscaster and assistant professor of radio, began a year’s leave of absence with summer study at Ohio State University. During his leave for pre-doctoral work. Professor Smith is specializing in program research. His master's degree in radio was earned at Ohio State. JOHN BACHMAN TAKES OVER AS SPEECH--AUDIO-VISUAL HEAD AT UNION THEOLOGICAL The Rev. John Bachman, appointed recently Head of the Speech Department and Director of the Audio-Visual Program at Union Theological Seminary, began his work this fall. Professor Bachman was formerly Chairman of the Radio Department at Baylor University., Waco, Texas. Professor JBachraan is a graduate of Capital University, Columbus, Ohio, where he later was Chairman of the.Department of Speech.' He received a'master’s degree in speech and radio from Ohio State University. In April this year, Bachman was elected Vice- President of the University Association of Professional Radio Educators. He has served on the Faculty of Workshops sponsored by the Radio and Film Commission of the National Council of Churches and has represented the American Lutheran Church on the same Commission. He is also a member of’the Educational Committee of"the Broadcasting and Film Commission of the National Council of Churches, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Junior Town Meeting League of America, and an Associate Editor of Player's Magazine . Erection of the Mills Memorial Audio-Visual Center of which Bachman will have charge was made possible by a Davella Mills Foundation grant of •$165*000. It occupies 68,000 cubic feet on the. ground floor of Auburn Hall, a five-story addition to the Seminary Administration Building dedicated a year ago. The center includes a lecture room for choral practice and .lectures, a music studio for recordings and reproductions, and a preaching studio for teaching and practice in all aspects of public worship. There Is also a radio control room, a music record library, a film library, and two studios for individual practice and listening.