NAEB Newsletter (Aug 1958)

BOSTON UNIVERSITY HOSTS INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR Sixteen broadcasting experts from ten foreign coun¬ tries are now participating in the 1958 International Seminar on Radio and Television at the Boston University School of Public Relations and Com¬ munications. The seminar, under sponsorship of the Inter¬ national Educational Exchange Service of the U. S. Department of State, started July 17 and will extend until November 13. During this time, the group will tour representative studios in commercial and educa¬ tional radio and television, visit the Voice of America facilities in Washington, D. C., as well as attend seminar meetings at Boston University. For further “mutual exchange of professional ideas,” the participants will spend a month working individually at local studios throughout the country for the purpose of gaining first hand infor¬ mation. THIRTEEN BROADCASTERS CLAIM "PIONEER" STATUS A number of responses have come in to our query of last month about “Radio Pioneers.” We were happy to hear from so many people who, as one respondent said, “admitted” eligibility requirements of at least twenty years experience in radio and/or television. To date, membership in the Pioneers Club has been claimed by: Cecil S. Bidlack, NAEB’s Tele¬ vision Engineer; Mrs. Gertrude Broderick, radio and TV educational specialist from the Office of Educa¬ tion, Washington, D. C.; Robert Coleman, former di¬ rector of WKAR-AM-FM at Michigan State Uni¬ versity, East Lansing; Marguerite Fleming, manager of Board of Education station KSLH (FM), St. Louis, Mo.; Roy Flynn, director of radio-TV at Florida State University, Tallahassee; Burt Harrison, program man¬ ager of KWSC (AM), State College of Washington, Pullman; and H. B. McCarty, director of WHA-AM- FM-TV, University of Wisconsin, Madison. Also included in membership are: Carl Menzer, station director of WSUI(AM) and KSUI(FM), State University of Iowa, Iowa City; Allen Miller, general manager of KWSC (AM), State College of Washington, Pullman; Frank E. Schooley, director of university broadcasting, WILL-AM-FM-TV, Uni¬ versity of Illinois, Urbana; Loren Stone, manager of KCTS(TV), University of Washington, Seattle; Elmer Sulzer, director of radio-TV at Indiana Uni¬ versity, Bloomington; and Luther Weaver, NAEB member, founder and instructor of the first radio writing course at University of Minnesota, frequent writer on broadcasting, president of Weaver-Gardner, Inc., St. Paul, Minn. If you are qualified for membership in this group of “Pioneers” we’d like to hear from you. Contact the Newsletter Editor at NAEB Headquarters. NEWS OF MEMBERS GENERAL Alabama’s ETV Network is the first educational television operation to receive a citation from the General National Federation of Woman’s Clubs in its newly added awards category of educational TV pro¬ gramming. The honor was given recently on behalf of the networks adult programming. ^ An Ampex video-tape recorder was delivered to WGBH-TV, Boston, last month as a gift of the Spaulding Foundation. PROGRAMS ^ A new summer series from WTTW, Chicago, takes the form of an anthology of editorial comment on a variety of subjects. Entitled “Montage,” the series includes programs on the story of the circus in Chicago, social climbing, and the values of a street gang. The programs, written and researched by WTTW staff members, were telecast in July and will extend through August. PERSONNEL y J. Daniel Logan is the new station manager of WDET, Wayne State University. His 15 years of professional broadcasting experience includes serv¬ ice to Ohio University as chairman of its radio-TV de¬ partment. Since 1954 he has been radio program di¬ rector of WDET. ^ Dr. Harry J. Skornia, NAEB executive director, has been named a member of the Executive Com¬ mittee of the U. S. National Commission for UNESCO, according to Max McCullough, executive secretary of the commission. Dr. Skornia recently at¬ tended a study group meeting to discuss the role of the commission. ► Norbert J. Hruby leaves the office of radio-tele¬ vision at the University of Chicago to become as¬ sociate dean of the University College of the Uni¬ versity of Chicago. All programs that he has been associated with are now produced by Burton Moore and Alec Sutherland, director of broadcasting. To See You All NEWSLETTER