NAEB Newsletter (June 1958)

authority to program and operate as if it were licensed. The actual license is not expected for several months. Dr. Bernarr Cooper, the university’s direc¬ tor of radio and TV commented, “The important thing is that the station is on the air in record time.” KNME’s instructional programming is well under way with English, biology, mathematics and anthro¬ pology courses aired for credit. Eight New Mexico communities have been participating in the program since last fall by receiving kinescoped classes. The entire project was set up as the result of an original grant of $150,000 from the Ford Fund for the Advancement of Education for use in carrying out a television junior college experiment. NEWS OF MEMBERS GENERAL KUHT, Houston, the nation’s first ETV outlet on the air, celebrated its fifth anniversary on May 23 with a special program featuring representatives from other educational stations and organizations. Included on the speaker’s list were Richard B. Hull, director of Radio and Television at Ohio State University and former NAEB president, and Dr. John C. Schwarz- walder, first general manager of KUHT. y A year-long schedule of programs marks the ob¬ servance of radio station KUOM’s twentieth year of expanded broadcasting. The University of Minnesota station, called WLB before 1945, began major radio activities in 1938 with an average program schedule of 40 hours per week. Prior to that time, since it went on the air in 1922, the station broadcasted approxi¬ mately 8 hours a week. Dr. Burton Paulu, director of radio and television, signed the station on the morning of May 2, starting the year’s plan to repeat programs recalling the sta¬ tion’s history and introduce new programs with an anniversary theme. y Last month’s Newsletter listing of Peabody Award winners omitted one award of significance. Our apologies to KPFA, Berkeley, the first FM station to be presented with such an award. After nine years of broadcasting, KPFA was selected for the Local Radio Public Service Award “. . . for courageous venture into the lightly-trafficked field of thoughtful broadcasting, and for its demon¬ stration that mature entertainment plus ideas con¬ stitute public service broadcasting at its best . . .” y Two NAEB members received one of broadcast¬ ing's top honors last month with the announcement of the winners of the Alfred P. Sloan Highway Safety Awards. Radio station WNYC, New York, and WCET, Cincinnati’s ETV outlet, were both presented with bronze plaques for outstanding safety program¬ ming at the 10th annual Safety awards dinner May 6 at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Only three other broadcasters were honored. PROGRAMS y Eleven outstanding personalities in education join in an effort to arrive at a clearer meaning of the con¬ cept of freedom in the first of a series of TV pro¬ grams sponsored jointly by META, New York and WCBS-TV. The two-hour program entitled “Con¬ cept,” is broken into four segments: interviews, de¬ bates, round-table analyses, and straight lectures. Tape recordings of the program will be made avail¬ able to the U. S. Information Agency for broadcast on Voice of America in 41 languages to a world-wide audience. PERSONNEL y Glenn Starlin, of the University of Oregon, was elected president of the Assn, of Professional Broad¬ casting Education during the APBE annual meeting April 27. W. Earl Dougherty, general manager of KXEO, Mexico, Mo., was named vice president at the same meeting. y Mrs. Ella Will McKinney, co-producer of the Ala¬ bama ETV network telecast, “Let’s Learn More,” was recently named as one of seven women to re¬ ceive a 1957 Golden Mike award from McCall’s mag¬ azine. Mrs. McKinney was cited as the “executive performing the greatest service for youth.” Her teaching on the daily in-school series was cited with “helping to ease the problem of overcrowded and _ under-stuffed primary grades in Alabama.” ^ A “Green Derby” was awarded to Loren Stone during the University of Washington School of Jour¬ nalism’s annual ceremonies to honor an outstanding graduate. Stone, who has been manager of KCTS-TV Seattle, since it went on the air in 1954, was cited for the “outstanding accomplishments” of his station as an educational TV outlet. NEWSLETTER