NAEB Newsletter (Oct 1957)

MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT —Burton Paulu Vacations are over, and it’s time to go back to work. I hope you had as enjoyable a vacation as I did; if so, then you too are returning to the office with increased enthusiasm and zeal. For three weeks in August, the Paulus (children, Sarah (10), Nancy (7) and Tommy (5); mother, Frances; and father, Burton), took a 4200 mile drive from Minneapolis to Oregon and back. We saw the South Dakota Badlands, the Black Hills, the Big¬ horn Mountains, Yellowstone Park, and the Grand Tetons. Then, after an enjoyable six days at an Ore¬ gon ranch, we returned via Glacier Park. This was my third visit to these places, and my wife’s second. Yet we enjoyed them more than ever before. Maybe this was because we’ve seen enough other things to realize how significant and impressive these really are. Certainly one factor, though, was the enthusiasm of the children, to whom it was all new. For them, the 80 bears counted in Yellowstone Park were a great experience; for Frances and me, watching them count the bears was the big thing. Surely we shall long remember the return trip, on which we cooked out and lived in a tent during six of our seven nights on the road (it was too cold and rainy the seventh night to attempt it). This does not make for fast traveling; but if the weather is good, it is an en¬ joyable way to go on vacation with a family. Ten days after returning to the office, I attended a seminar on instructional television, held in Washing¬ ton, D. C., September 9 through 13, under the auspices of the Division of Audio-Visual Instruction of the National Education Association. Funds were supplied by the Fund for the Advancement of Educa¬ tion. There were twenty-five participants from all parts of the country, representing school administra¬ tors, curriculum specialists, teachers and audio-visual experts, as well as a few people active in NAEB, in¬ cluding Elizabeth Golterman, Clair Tettemer, I. Keith Tyler and Armand Hunter. This was a very good meeting. We of NAEB are doing our best to draw in more and more people from related fields. It was interesting, therefore, to take part in discussions oriented around the interests of these other groups. September 15 was dedication day for the Twin Cities Area Educational Television Corporation’s new station, KTCA-TV (needless to say, an NAEB member). As NAEB president, I contributed a two minute greeting (John Schwarzwalder, KTCA-TV director, was very insistent that only Dr. Clarence Faust talk more than that!) The Minneapolis public schools, the St. Paul public schools and the University of Minnesota are the major contributors. Since the University programs the periods from 9:00 to 10:00 p. m., Monday through Friday, the week of Septem¬ ber 16-20, therefore, was another busy one. Before we gather in St. Louis, I shall go to Colum¬ bus for a meeting of the advisory committee to the Institute for Education by Radio-Television; to Washington for a session of the executive committee of the Joint Council on Educational Television; and to State College Pennsylvania for a meeting on television courses for credit, to be held under the auspices of the American Council for Education. As I have written before, the president of NAEB leads a busy life! Yet it is a rewarding one, because of the work he does and the people he works with. But the really high point of any NAEB president’s year is the annual convention. So, I hope to see you in St. Louis on October 29, 30 and 31 and November 1. NAEB NOMINATING COMMITTEE APPOINTED President Burton Paulu has announced the appointment of eight members to the committee which will make nominations for the four national NAEB offices ( president, vice president, secretary and treasurer ) during the convention in St. Louis. They are Richard B. Hull, chairman; Miss Martha Gable; Howard L. Johnson; Harry Lamb; H. B. McCarty; James S. Miles; James Robertson; and Edward Wegener. MEMO FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR —Harry Skornia Since this is Convention month, and we shall be re¬ porting to the membership in person at that time, our report this month will be very brief. As a result I’m devoting most of this column to the discussion of two matters which, we trust, will be of interest to many of you - Fulbright Scholarships and the UNESCO National Commission 6th Annual Con¬ ference. But first . . . My participation in the All Alaska Workers Con¬ ference (Board of National Missions, Presbyterian Church) was, I believe, useful to NAEB and general educational broadcasting objectives. Copies of my addresses are being distributed by the Board to those OCTOBER, 1957 3