NAEB Newsletter (Nov 1958)

One of the most pleasant surprises I had at the Convention was the trouble a great many of you took to express your enthusiasm for what I have recently been trying to do in this column. Apparently more of you than I had hoped, like, rather than resent, having challenges thrown at you, and at what some¬ times becomes a sort of collective smugness on the part of all of us. Since “you’ve asked for it,” at least in the persons of many people who have spoken and written to me, I shall continue in this vein whenever possible. The next Newsletter will contain the first part of a two-part effort to try to get at the development of a kind of philosophy which I think should begin to evolve as we become a national movement with a significant following and role. It will be presented in two parts solely for reasons of space, since we do not feel justified in expanding the size of the News¬ letter simply to enable the Executive Director to ramble. I will be most grateful, therefore, if you would let me know what you think of this more sus¬ tained effort, as it will appear in the December and January issues. Once again, our thanks for your many ideas and suggestions, and for the support you all are giving your association and its staff. We shall continue to try to deserve this support. NETWORK NEWS —Bob Underwood The network staff wishes to thank all those who had a good word for the service at the convention. It is encouraging to receive recognition for a job well done, and believe me, your network production staff—engineer, tape duplicating operators—deserve a pat on the back. The next network offering, that for the first quar¬ ter of next year, was late in getting out due to some minor procedural difficulties. However, it is out now, and your order is expected. It looks like a pretty good selection from which to choose. Incidentally, we still can stand some submissions in the quarter-hour area. Surely you have a good fifteen minute series going which could be submitted to the network. Why don’t you send it in today? And, how about some half-hour series, too? Also, between issues of the Newsletter I have had to put out a memo about the lack of tapes coming in to this office. We start on in-school production in a couple of weeks, and this tape load, when added to our normal weekly tape requirements, could cause a shutdown here unless we have more tapes. Your cooperation is needed now! We hope all network members were able to sched¬ ule the special two-hour United Nations Day pro¬ gram the network was able to distribute. It was a fine program, and our thanks to UN Radio for mak¬ ing it available to us. The addition of this special UN Day program to our list of specials for this year makes a very im¬ pressive list. To date we have distributed twenty- nine specials this year, some of which have included five or six programs. We feel this is a needed service, and from the response we have received, it appears that member stations like this type of service. We’ll do our best to keep locating and distributing special programs. Best regards to all from the network staff. APPLICATIONS NOW ACCEPTED UNDER HILL-ELLIOTT BILL The Office of Education announced that it is now prepared to consider applications for Federal funds to support research projects in educational tele¬ vision, radio, motion pictures, and related communica¬ tion media. The National Defense Education Act authorizes $3 million for the first year, and $5 million for each of the three succeeding years to support research in these areas. An initial appropriation of $500,000 was made to get the program under way. Dr. Roy M. Hall, Assistant Commissioner for Research, reported that procedures for fund applica¬ tions are now being prepared. During the time re¬ quired for their completion, applications for research grants or contracts may be made by letter or on the form now utilized by the Cooperative Research Pro¬ gram. Inquiries concerning the new research program should be directed to the Director, Communications Media Research Program, Office of Education, De¬ partment of Health, Education, and Welfare, Wash¬ ington 25, D. C. Dr. Hall announced that the Office of Education invited a number of interested organizations to send representatives to a meeting in Washington October 20 and 21 for the purpose of designing a broad frame¬ work for research in this educational area. IS YOUR DIRECTORY LISTING UP TO DATE? Headquarters will publish a new Directory of Members shortly after the first of the year. If any changes have occurred which should be re¬ flected in this new edition, please let us know im¬ mediately. The Directory is designed to provide helpful and up-to-date information, but can do so only if you will keep us informed of changes. Please check the current Directory to see if your listing is accurate, and if not, advise us right away. 4 NEWSLETTER