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Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the National University of Australia. ^ New York University and WCBS-TV have re¬ ceived the Good Citizenship citation of the Sons of the American Revolution for their 26-week series “Our Nation’s Roots,” an educational public affairs presentation on the history of immigration. The series was presented in cooperation with the ETRC, Ann Arbor, Mich. Film recordings of each show are being distributed to ETV stations through¬ out the nation. SHERWOOD AWARDS The deadline for submission of entries in the third annual competition for the Robert E. Sherwood Awards for TV programs on freedom and justice is May 31, 1958. The awards, consisting of a $10,000 first prize and four $1,000 prizes, were established in 1955 by the Fund for the Republic in memory of the noted play¬ wright. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt will be among the judges. Inquiries regarding the awards should be directed to the Fund for the Republic, Inc., 60 East 42nd St., New York 17, N. Y. UNM'S TEMPORARY SOLUTION TO LICENSE PROBLEM Despite a prolonged waiting period for FCC approval of a new educational TV channel, the University of New Mexico is carrying out as scheduled its experi¬ ment of teaching freshman classes through TV ac¬ cording to the University’s News Bureau. Courses which are presently taught are kinescoped and sent for showing on a 16mm projector to as¬ sembled classes in outlying towns. This method of keeping out-students abreast of campus classes will be continued as long as the application is pending. Members of the first international educational television seminar, sponsored by Boston University’s school of public relations and communications, chat before addressing the general session. Above are, from left to r.ght, John W. Taylor, J' rec tor at^WTTW in Chicago who spoke on "Television as a Means of Instruction for Credit m Chicago; Dr Thomas C. Pollock, dean of the Washing ton Square College of Arts and Sciences at New York University who spoke on Television as a Means of Instruction the College Classroom;" Dr. Earl Herminghaus, research director of the St. Louis public schools who spoke on Educational Television in St. Louis" and Dr. Jerry Briscoe, assistant professor of communications at Boston University, hortjoMfc. jemmar.^ ^ 6 NEWSLETTER