NAEB Newsletter (Nov 1957)

Monticello, Ill. ► The Indiana University Radio and Television Service will be host to 75 high school radio broad* casters at a two-day “do-it-yourself” broadcasting clinic Nov. 1 and 2. The clinic is designed to provide practical in¬ struction and guidance to Hoosier high school stu¬ dents who are operating their own school broadcast stations. Members of the University department will in¬ struct in announcing and production techniques, newswriting, sportscasting tape-recording techniques and technical problems. The clinic, under the direction of Prof. George Johnson, stems from a 1949 conference on educational broadcasting at the Indiana University. At that time the late Wayne Coy, then chairman of the FCC, an¬ nounced the creation of “electronic blackboards” by the Commission — the allocation of low-power (10 watts) FM broadcast channels for use by schools for educational purposes. New Albany High School was the first in the country to set up a station. It was followed by the Louisville (Ky.) Public Library. Presently there are 11 such stations operated by high school students and administrative staffs in Indiana. ► A University of Miami-sponsored' seminar, aimed at teaching local ladies engaged in civic work how to behave in front of the TV camera, was held in the studios of WTHS-TV. During the seminar, a group of TV experts, headed by Vernon Bronson, director of the station, showed attendants the role of community organizations in WTHS, how to plan programs with simplicity and effectiveness, how to prepare and display material, how to budget time and money for low-cost produc¬ tion, and other methods of good television. ► “There will not be enough air time to meet the de¬ mand for televised in-school training 10 years from now,” Dr. John W. Taylor, executive director of WTTW, Chicago, told his audience at a luncheon meeting in the Chicago Club. The meeting was a part of the educational TV station’s 1957-58 fund drive whose goal is $340,000. PERSONNEL ► Henry Morgenthau, III, son of the former secre¬ tary of the Treasury, has been appointed as TV pro¬ jects manager of Boston’s noncommercial educational station WGBH-TV. He will be in charge of the devel¬ opments of new programs and arrange for special closed circuit programs planned during the year. Morgenthau comes from WNYC in New York City where he was assistant program director. He has had wide experience in producing, directing and’ writ¬ ing for TV and radio. ► Franklin G. Bousma, program director of televi¬ sion at Wayne State University, has been named exec¬ utive secretary of the Detroit Educational Televi¬ sion Foundation, operator of WTVS. Bouwsma has been active in radio and TV for the past 10 years. A native of Grand Rapids, Bouwsma received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Calvin College in 1948. He was graduated from the Univer¬ sity of Michigan with a Master of Arts in speech in 1950. Presently, he is studying for a Ph. D. in speech in TV at the University of Michigan. ► Six new staff members have been added to KQED’s (San Francisco) growing list of personnel, which now totals 31 employees, according to James Day, general manager of the Bay Area’s community TV station on channel 9. The newcomers are Miss Jean Coffing, secretary to the general manager; Roy Morgan, producer-direc¬ tor; Art Faulks, Jr., engineer; Carroll Martin, en¬ gineer; Clyde Ney, engineer; and John Salvin, en¬ gineer. ► Ralph M. Rourke, former assistant manager of radio station WNAV in Annapolis, Md., has been ap¬ pointed writer-producer at New York University’s Office of Radio and Television, Warren Kraetzer, director, has announced. ► Governor James E. Folsom has appointed Mrs. Bertha S. Roberts, wife of Senator E. L. Roberts, and Nathaniel Welch, vice-president for sales, Orradio In¬ dustries, Inc., as new members to the Alabama Edu¬ cational Television Commission. The commission is licensee of TV channels 2, 7 and 10, the state network’s first three stations on the air. Alabama has been allotted four high-frequency ETV channels which are not yet in use. PROGRAMS ► An informative 23-week series explaining science in laymen’s language was launched Oct. 11 by edu¬ cational TV station KQED in San Francisco. Each half-hour telecast of the series is aimed at giving the viewer a basic understanding of the world of science without attempting to teach physics, chemistry or geology. Program host is Philippe LeCorbeiller, professor of applied physics and general education at Harvard University. He is joined by eminent scientists from NOVEMBER, 1957 5