NAEB Newsletter (Nov 1957)

Page scan 0007 from NAEB Newsletter

Record Details:

Title:
NAEB Newsletter
Date:
Nov 1957
Publisher:
National Association of Educational Broadcasters
Volume:
NAEB newsletter (November 1957)
Leaf #:
0007
Language:
English
Collection:
Broadcasting & Recorded Sound
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
{"Underwood, Robert Jr.","Dulles, John F.","Bidlack, Cecil S."}
Sponsor:
National Endowment for the Humanities
Coordinator:
Maryland Institute for Technlogy in the Humanities
Description:
The official newsletter of the National Association of Educational Broadcasters (NAEB) -- the predecessor to NPR, PBS, the CPB. Led primarily by faculty and staff at large Midwestern universities, the NAEB envisioned uses of broadcasting to improve society and educate both children and adults. The newsletter chronicles the NAEB's activities in advocating to the FCC for educational stations to obtain greater access to the public airwaves, coordinating the distribution of educational recordings, and planning the production of ambitious programs, such as 'People Under Communism' and 'The Jeffersonian Heritage,' which starred Claude Rains as Thomas Jefferson. This newsletter was digitized as part of the 'Unlocking the Airwaves' project, a collaboration among the University of Maryland, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Wisconsin Historical Society, with funding from the NEH. -- Stephanie Sapienza & Eric Hoyt, 2019.
Date Added:
October 27, 2022
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EDUCATIONAL RADIO SERIES A HIT IN MILAN A series of radio programs intended for the purpose of teaching American students about Italy has turned out to be a real hit in teaching Italian students about the United States, according to Miss Marie C. Scan¬ lon, supervisor of radio and' TV, WBGO, Newark, N. J. The switch occurred, Miss Scanlon explained, when an Italian exchange teacher, Dr. Renzo Pivetti of Milan, became enthusiastic about a series of broad¬ casts over WBGO. The series, called “Ecco ITtalia,” traces the adventures of a fictitious American high school girl as she travels around Italy with her Italian relatives. Dr. Pivetti returned to Italy with a tape recorder and two programs of “Ecco ITtalia.” Soon afterward he wrote Miss Scanlon that the tapes has been played again and 9 /gain in schools and families with a terrific success^ahd that his audience wanted' more programs. The Columbia Civic League, an Italian-American organization in Newark, contributed tapes for the recordings and the entire series of 15 programs was sent overseas to Milan. In another letter Dr. Pivetti writes that the American highschool girl has gained “increasing sym¬ pathy to your country and the ideals it represents.” “Ecco ITtalia” won First Award at the Institute for Education by Radio-Television at Ohio State Uni¬ versity in 1955. It has also been offered for distri¬ bution by the NAEB. r* HUM STUOfWTS USrt NW, - TO * ■ LLLO LfTQUP Former exchange teacher, Dr. Renzo Pivetti of Milan, Italy, a nd a group of Italian students pose for a picture intended to ex¬ press their appreciation of the American educational tape program, "Ecco I’ltalia." NEWSLETTER