NAEB Newsletter (May 1958)

Ralph Lowell, chairman of the Center’s Board of Directors, in expressing his regret at Dr. Newburn’s decision said, “The success of the Center to date and the fact that there are now 29 educational stations in operation are due in large part to Dr. Newburn’s leadership. His broad educational experience along with his steady guidance have helped greatly to pro¬ vide a sound educational basis for national educa¬ tional television.” ^ Recently appointed Dr. Keith M. Engar will as¬ sume duties as station manager of KUED, the Uni¬ versity of Utah station in Salt Lake City, according to an announcement by University President A. Ray Olpin. Dr. Engar succeeds C. Richard Evans, who will devote his time to his private electronics business while remaining consultant to KUED. Dr. Engar has been in radio broadcasting since 1939 and in television since 1948 when he served as production manager at KDYL-TV, now KTVT. He also was the NAEB Fulbright research scholar in France during 1956-57. ► Elmer G. Sulzer, chairman of the radio-TV de¬ partment at Indiana University, has been elected vice-president for FM radio of the Indiana Broad¬ casters Assn. He is the first representative of edu¬ cational broadcasting to be chosen an officer of the association which is composed of the radio and TV interests of the state. Prof. Sulzer is also a new Kentucky Colonel. This honor was bestowed on him by Gov. A. B. (Happy) Chandler for “pioneering work in the development of educational broadcasting.” A native Hoosier, Prof. Sulzer spent 17 years as director of radio and public relations at the University of Kentucky before coming to Indiana University in 1952. ► Franklin G. Bouwsma, executive secretary of the Detroit ETV Foundation, has announced the appoint¬ ment of Joseph Jankowski, Jr., to the position of chief engineer of WTVS. A former employee of the Foundation, Jankowski has most recently been on the TV engineering staff of Wayne State University. ► A one-year exchange of personnel between KVOK, Honolulu, Hawaii, and WGRE, Greencastle, Ind., will be affected next year. Miss Elizabeth Turned will take the position of Robert Ritterhoff at KVOK, and he will assume her duties as instructor of radio at DePauw and program director of WGRE. The Hawaii station is located in the Kamehameha School for Girls. It is not at present a member of the NAEB, but it is a 10-watt FM non-commercial sta¬ tion similar to WGRE. ► Raymond Hurlbert, general manager of the Ala¬ bama ETV Commission, has been invited to act as consultant for an organization for establishing ETV by the University of New Hampshire. He was re¬ cently advisor in a series of seminars held in Dover, N. H. University President Eldon Johnson anticipated developing an ETV network in New Hampshire based on Alabama’s present network. ► NAEB member Wells R. Chapin will be in charge of the new General Electric Co. regional headquarters for sales of radio and TV broadcast equipment at Detroit, Mich. Chapin was formerly manager of marketing administration and product planning for the company’s Technical Products Department at Syracuse, N. Y. ^ The Alumnae Assn, of Huntingdon College has selected Miss Evelyn Walker, producer-coordinator of radio-TV activities in the Birmingham (Ala.) schools, as winner of its 1958 Achievement Award. The award recognizes her interest and achievement in televised education, exemplified by her interest in the NAEB and her service to the Alabama ETV network. Miss Walker attended NAEB’s first production workshop. She has been head of broadcasting activities in Bir¬ mingham since 1944. TV TECHNICAL TIPS —Cecil S. Bidlack Thirty engineers from educational television stations and production centers will attend the NAEB Video Recording Workshop to be held May 5 - 9 in the studios of WTTW, the Chicago Educational Televi¬ sion Assn, station. The Workshop is made possible by a grant from the Ford Foundation and is sponsored by NAEB to provide attending engineers an ap- portunity to increase their technical knowledge and ability in video recording. Much of the programming supplied educational television stations by the ETRC, Ann Arbor, Mich., is recorded on film by the kinescope process. While a major portion of the workshop program will be de¬ voted to kinescope recordings of television programs, a comprehensive technical description of the Ampex Videotape Recorder will be given, followed by a demonstration of the equipment at WGN-TV, The Chicago Tribune station, where installation has just been completed. The possibility of a change to record¬ ing programs on magnetic tape is one that has in¬ trigued educational station administrators since the initial announcement of this process two years ago. Over one hundred of these video tape recorders will be in service at network centers and commercial sta¬ tions by the end of this month. 12 NEWSLETTER