NAEB Newsletter (July 1958)

Mo.; Michael Ambrosino, station WGBH, Lowell Co¬ operative Institute, Cambridge, Mass.; Harper Beaty, College of Education, University of Houston, Tex.; Mrs. Marye Benjamin, University of Texas, Austin; Herbert Coon, University School, Ohio State Univer¬ sity, Columbus; Jean Eicks, station WYNE, New York Board of Education, Brooklyn; T. Ross Fink, College of William and Mary, Norfolk, Va.; Paul Hansen, University of Utah, Salt Lake City; John Henderson, station WBAA, Purdue University, La¬ fayette, Ind.; Dr. Margaret L. Hiatt, Oregon College of Education, Monmouth; Howard Holst, station WKNO-TV, Memphis, Tenn.; Dr. Helen Holt, Uni¬ versity of Toledo, Ohio; and J. Allen Lamer, Central California ETV, Sacramento. Others selected are: Lillian Lee, station WABE, Board of Education, Atlanta, Ga.; Ronald Lowder- milk, U. S. Office of Education, Washington, D. C.; Harry Lyle, Birmingham Area ETV, Alabama; Arlene McKellar, station WHA, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Ted Milligan, station WCET, Cincinnati TV Foundation, Ohio; Lewis Rhodes, station KUON- TV, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Donald Schein, Mohawk-Hudson Council on ETV, Schenectady, N. Y.; Raymond Schultz, Florida State University, Tal¬ lahassee; William Spencer, New York University, New York; Melvin Timmerman, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque; Mrs. Elaine Tucker, Oklahoma City Public Schools, Oklahoma City; Jay Van Trees, station KRMA, Denver Public Schools, Colorado; and Harry Webb, College of St Thomas, St. Paul Minn. The seminar, made possible by a Ford Founda¬ tion grant, was planned, and is being conducted by the NAEB Utilization committee, chaired by Gale R. Adkins, Director, Radio-TV Research, University of Kansas. The committee also selected the twenty- six participants for whom expenses will be paid. In keeping with other NAEB seminars, the con¬ ference program has been planned in the best way possible to benefit those in attendance. For this meeting, sessions primarily will be concerned with the classroom utilization of instructional broadcasts prepared specifically for in-school use. Conference goals are to increase educators’ awareness of the real potential of radio and' television as instructional tools and to stimulate improved preparation and training of future teachers in the use of these tools. The five-day seminar will give participants an op¬ portunity to exchange ideas among themselves and also to discuss problems under the advice and leader¬ ship of outstanding educators and broadcasters who will act as consultants. Consultants named to date are: Gale R. Adkins, director of Radio-TV Research, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kan., and chairman of the NAEB Utilization committee, which planned the conference. Arthur W. Foshay, executive officer, Institute of School Experimentation, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York City. Helen Heffernan, head of the. Bureau of Element¬ ary Education, California State Department of Edu¬ cation, Sacramento, Calif. Clair R. Tettemer, director of school programs for station KETC, St. Louis, Mo. Charles Hettinger, supervisor of Television Edu¬ cation, Pittsburgh Public Schools, Pittsburgh, Pa. George C. Johnson, director of Radio and TV Ed¬ ucation, Indiana University, Bloomington, Ind. Elaine Afton, elementary school program con¬ sultant for station KETC, St. Louis, Mo. Ryland Crary, director of education, Educational Television and Radio Center, Ann Arbor, Mich. William B. Levenson, deputy superintendent, Cleveland Public Schools, Cleveland, Ohio. Gerald Willsea, director of the Department of Radio-TV of the Denver Public Schools, Denver, Colo. MEMO FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR —Harry Skornia In keeping with recent practice, essential news items are not included in this column. Therefore notice of the resignation of Burton Paulu as President of the NAEB, the promised' report on our recent Wash¬ ington Conference, and other such items, will be found elsewhere in this issue. Instead, I should like to pursue with you several other problems about which I believe it is absolutely essential that we should be thinking, as an association. The first of these was partly revealed in our Washington meeting. But I have found the same dis¬ quietude beginning to appear as rumblings at many other meetings and in many conversations with people who are equally as sincere as we are about the goals of American education, and ways in which we can best achieve them. This problem can probably best be stated in the form of a question: Is television, as an instrument or tool of education, to be used to do the same job of education we are now doing, only more cheaply (and more efficiently) or does it challenge us to use it to do things, essential to education in our era, which printed media and other tools and procedures can’t NAEB N ewsletter, a monthly publication issued by the Na¬ tional Association of Educational Broadcasters, 14 Gregory Hall, Urbana, III. $5 a year, edited by Jane Lombard. 2 NEWSLETTER