NAEB Newsletter (Nov 1957)

financed by the communities at large, while the re¬ maining stations are supported by state institutions ahd statewide networks. Other speakers at the meeting included Richard B. Hull, director of radio and television, Ohio State University, who gave a history of educational tele¬ vision from its start at the University of Iowa in 1932 to the present date; Dr. Harry J. Skornia, exe¬ cutive director of the NAEB, who outlined the history of the NAEB and its contributions to the field of ETV through grants-in-aid to stations, scholarships, and conducting of seminars and workshops; and Dean Max R. Goodson of Boston University’s School of Education. In his remarks, Goodson termed television as a “promising instrumentality for increasing educational power in our time.” “But,” he warned, “there is one limitation — tele¬ vision will never replace the principal instrument of education, the personality of the teacher, and we should think of TV as enhancing the power of and not replacing the teacher.” The late October convention rush has prevented President Burton Paulu and Executive Director Harry J. Skornia from writing their monthly columns. Their messages will be resumed in the December Newsletter issue. NETWORK NEWS —Bob Underwood Since a complete annual report of network ac¬ tivities was just given at the Convention, there is little need for me to go into that subject any further except to say that we are “in-between seasons” here right now, sort of a lull before the storm of in-school distribution and year-end summaries. And it is a good thing we are having a lull: we have had the flu or some variation thereof. First Underwood, his wife and son; then Jesse Trump and his wife; George Langberg, one of our student dup¬ licator operators, has been out twice recently due to severe colds, once in the hospital. Between illnesses George got married so he has had a busy month! As of this writing, only George, Jesse’s wife and Un¬ derwood’s son are still under the weather. If you haven’t been receiving many communications from us during the past few weeks, this will explain why. The 1958 in-school series are about to be distri¬ buted, but not too many of the expected orders are in. Will you please forward them as soon as possible. Remember, if your order arrives after we begin ship¬ ment you will be charged an extra dubbing fee for back programs. We were forced to send out another bulletin on tape returns recently, and we are pleased to report a good response. Convention work and staff illness have prevented our working on the tape balance sheets save for an hour or so. However, with the Con¬ vention being over and our health returned we now hope to get the balance sheets out to you soon. In the interval we expect to receive many, many returns. Best regards to all from the staff. —N A E B— DULLES COMMENDS ETV Just prior to the opening telecast of the META Board of Education television series “Spotlight on Asia” Oct. 1 over WPIX, META received this greet¬ ing from Secretary of State John F. Dulles: “During the past two decades Americans have come to realize that our national security and the security of like-minded nations can be achieved only through cooperative international efforts. Our government has played a leading part in bringing about the present alignment of free nations dedicated to the principles of international peace and order. It is not enough, however, that this task be dele¬ gated entirely to government officials in Washington and our representatives abroad. To be meaningful and to reflect our national aspirations the fashioning of a better and peaceful world requires the active participation of responsible Americans of all ages. But before there can be participation, a firm basis of understanding must exist. To this end, it seems to me that educational television focussed' on Asia provides valuable service to us all by bringing be¬ fore us some of the fundamentals of knowledge of Asian history, culture, and human values with the vividness of sight and sound. This will lead to firmer mutual understanding. It will thus help the free world’s collective security efforts in Asia, and increase the unity and determination we all need in the great task of waging peace.” On the initial “Spotlight on Asia” program on Pakistan, His Excellency Mohammed' Ali, Pakistani ambassador to the U.S., discussed his country’s prob¬ lems and future. —N A E B— 2 NEWSLETTER