NAEB Newsletter (Oct 1957)

A E B NEWSLETTER NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EDUCATIONAL BROADCASTERS 14 GREGORY HALL URBANA, ILLINOIS MEET YOU IN ST LOUIS! Time is drawing near for the NAEB’s 33rd Annual Convention to be held October 29 through November 1 at the Statler Hotel in St. Louis. The bustling activities and’ tireless efforts of those entrusted with program arrangements are presently paying off in the emergence of a fun and excitement- packed program schedule that is sure to please even the most discriminating conventioner. However, if you haven’t had an opportunity to take a look at the program, and if you are still undecided whether you should attend, here is a description of what St. Louis holds in store for you. Judge for yourself whether you can afford to miss it. First Day — VISITS TO GRANT'S FARM AND ST. LOUIS EDUCATIONAL STATIONS Following registration, beginning, Tuesday morn¬ ing and special meetings of NAEB committees and Board, buses will leave for Grant’s Farm, estate of Mrs. August A. Busch Sr., for a three-hour visit. The 275-acre tract, which embraces land formerly farmed by the famous Ulysses S. Grant, contains a number of noteworthy attractions including a cabin built by Grant, a Bauernhof (farm yard) modeled after the central building of European estates and a miniature zoo with a honest-to-goodness elephant. Visitors will be transported to each of these points by miniature sight-seeing trains with a seating capa¬ city of 58 each. While on the farm, registered visitors will be serv¬ ed a luncheon through the courtesy of Anheuser- Busch, Inc., which maintains and operates the farm as a public service. The buses will leave Grant’s Farm at 2:30 p. m. to take visitors on a tour of the St. Louis educational stations KETC and KSLIL By 4:30 visitors will re¬ turn to the Statler where the remaining hours until the 8 p. m. General Session will be taken up by com¬ mittee meetings. NAEB Newsletter Vol. XXII, No. 10 October, 1957 NAEB Newsletter, a monthly publication issued by the National Association of Educational Broadcasters, 14 Gregory Hall, Urbana, III. $5 a year, edited by Hans J. Massaquoi. The General Session of the day, presided over by President Burton Paulu, will feature welcoming re¬ marks by Mayor Raymond R. Tucker of St. Louis; Dr. Philip J. Hickey, president of the American Assn, of School Administrators; and Raymond Wittcoff, chairman of the St. Louis Educational Television Commission. The session will include an address by Dr. Harold C. Hand, University of Illinois professor of education, who will speak on the subject “The Process of Change in Public Education.” An informal get-together at 9:30, for which a number of St. Louis commercial stations will furnish refreshments, will bring the first Convention day to a close. Second Day — NAEB LUNCHEON AND NBC BANQUET An NAEB noon luncheon in the Statler’s im¬ pressive Missouri Room and a banquet at which the NBC will be host to the NAEB, will highlight the second Convention day. During the luncheon the focus will be on speaker George R. Town, director of the Television Alloca¬ tions Study Organization. Program arrangements for the NBC banquet are still in progress at the time of this writing, but tentative plans point toward grand entertainment replete with music and speaker. Preceding the two events are a morning session for members only, which will be devoted exclusively to Association business, and a period during which a number of study groups will hold individual sessions until noon. 1