NAEB Newsletter (Feb 1958)

parative literature met their professor, Dr. Floyd Zulli, for the first time Jan. 18 while taking their final examinations. The course, “Sunrise Semester,” was presented over WCBS from 6:30 to 7 a. m. on weekdays from Sept. 23 to Jan. 10. Students, who came from communities within a 50-mile radius of New York City, were enrolled for three points of degree credit. They had previously submitted a term paper and taken home quizzes. The course covered 16 works by novelists from Stendhal to Hemingway. ^ Due to the many viewer requests for increased programming on WTVS, Franklin G. Bouwsma, exe¬ cutive secretary of the Detroit Educational Televi¬ sion Foundation, has announced that starting the week of February 10 WTVS will broadcast 64*4 hours of programs each week. To do this, Saturday pro¬ gramming has been discontinued, but programs will be carried continously from 9:00 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. Mondays through Fridays and from 6 to 9:30 p. m. on Sundays. PERSONNEL ^ Dr. Keith M. Engar, program director of KUED, the University of Utah’s educational TV station, has accepted an invitation by President Burton Paulu to serve as NAEB liaison officer with the American Educational Theatre Assn. ^ Appointment of Garnet R. Garrison as director of broadcasting at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, has been approved by the Regents. Prof. Garrison, a member of the Department of Speech faculty since 1947 and director of TV since 1950, will serve as the administrative head for both radio and TV which up to now have operated inde¬ pendently under two directors. ^ Samuel B. Sullivan, long-time Illinois school ad¬ ministrator, has joined the ETRC as a consultant on school uses of TV, ETRC President H. K. Newburn has announced. The appointment is for six months. Sullivan served from 1943 to 1956 as superinten¬ dent of the DeKalb (Ill.) Public Schools in which capacity he directed a curriculum development pro¬ ject for all class levels. He left school administration in 1956 to become consultant to an architectural firm which designs school buildings and has served in that capacity until coming to Ann Arbor. ^ Two NAEBers, Dr. Burton Paulu and Seymour Siegel, will participate in a seminar on educational broadcasting and the dedication and formal opening of FM radio station WYSO to be held Feb. 8 on the campus of Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio. Purpose of the seminar, whose moderator will be Dr. Edgar Dale of Ohio State University, is to “ar¬ rive at a broad understanding of educational broad¬ casting and the opportunities presented to WYSO and other stations.” PROGRAMS ^ The first news conference at the White House since Oct. 30 with President Eisenhower answering vital questions posed by the nation’s press was tele¬ vised Jan. 17 on KQED, San Francisco. It was the 124th conference of this kind held by the President since he took office five years ago. The long interval since this regular weekly pre¬ sentation was aired on the Bay area’s community TV station was due in part to the minor stroke suffered by the President Nov. 25. ^ “Discovery,” a series produced for the ETRC by WGBH-TV in Boston, has won the Sylvania Award as the outstanding local educational children’s pro¬ gram. Another Sylvania Award went to the ETRC for making it possible for ETV stations throughout the country to receive films and kinescopes of educa¬ tional programs of outstanding merit. Also honored with a Sylvania Award was the National Broadcast¬ ing Co. for the educational TV project which it con¬ ducted jointly with the Center. This project involv¬ ed the provision of live educational programs for ETV stations last year. The Sylvania Awards were established by Syl¬ vania Electric Products, Inc., to annually honor out¬ standing TV personalities and programs. ^ Each Wednesday evening at 7:30 through March 5 the Merrill-Palmer School in Detroit will present a TV program about camping in a series titled “Giant Step,” on WTVS, Channel 56, Detroit’s educational TV station. The programs are designed to provide information of value to parents and to people interested in camp programs for children. ^ “University,” New York University’s educational TV series, has been selected by the Department of Defense for re-showing to servicemen and their fami¬ lies at overseas bases throughout the world. Kinescopes of the half-hour programs will go to armed forces TV stations at 23 isolated bases where commercial video is not available,. The filmed shows will be distributed by the Office of Armed Forces In¬ formation and Education of the Department of De¬ fense. The series, designed to illustrate the aims and contributions of an institution of higher learning in NEWSLETTER