NAEB Newsletter (Oct 1957)

bids to President Paulu with a copy to Dr. Skornia, and to submit them by Nov. 4, to enable Board action by Nov. 15. Wayne Coy Dies Of Heart Attack We deeply deplore the passing of a long-time friend and promoter of educational TV and radio, Wayne Coy, 53, president of WFBM Broadcasting, Inc. Mr. Coy, who died on Sept. 24, a few hours after being stricken by a heart attack during a reception at the Indianapolis Athletic Club, was a former chair¬ man of the FCC and a special aid to President Roos¬ evelt. In 1952 he left the government to become president and manager of KOB and KOB-TV, Al- querque, N. M., owned by Time, Inc. He returned to his native Indiana as president of WFBM when Time acquired the broadcasting company early this year. NEWS OF MEMBERS GENERAL The largest number of weekly pupil viewers of in¬ school TV in any community in the country is claimed by Philadelphia. According to a survey of pupil audi¬ ences from Oct. 1, 1956, to June 1, 1957, conducted by the Philadelphia Public Schools’ Division of Radio- TV, 160,000 pupils per week view the in-school tele¬ casts while 410,000 pupils utilize the radio broad¬ casts. ^ The completion of its production center in the Carnegie Endowment Bldg. 345 East 46th Street, has been announced by META. The center is New York City’s only TV facility devoted exclusively to the production of noncommercial programs for the metropolitan area. In its new studio, META, a non-profit organiza¬ tion dedicated to furnishing a cultural-informational- educational TV service for the community, will pro¬ duce both live and recorded programs for presenta¬ tion over existing local stations and' for distribution to other ETV stations across the country. The center was made possible by grants from the New York Foundation, Avalon Foundation, Fund for Adult Education, Rockefeller Brothers Foundation, Old Dominion Foundation and the Carnegie Endow¬ ment for International Peace. ► To extend the effective range of educational sta¬ tion WUNC-TV, Chapel Hill, N. C., three North Carolina stations WSOC-TV, Charlotte, WLOS-TV, Ashville, and WUNC-TV, Chapel Hill, have joined to relay the latter station’s signal, Harold Essex, vice president-general manager of WSJS-TV, Winston- Salem has announced. He said the new arrangement will provide a nearly statewide network. PERSONNEL Miss Judith Waller, NBC’s director of education and public affairs, will be among 10 prominent persons to serve as judges in the 1957 Grocery Manufacturers of America Life Line American Trophy Awards Com¬ petition. ► The judges, including William R. Hearst Jr. Hearst Newspapers; Andrew Heiskell, publisher of Life Magazine; and Ivy Baker Priest, U. S. treasurer, will select one newspaper food editor and one radio food editor to receive a trophy for outstanding food reporting as a public service to U. S. homemakers. The awards will be made Nov. 11-13 at the Wal¬ dorf-Astoria in New York City. ^ The University of Alabama has announced the ap¬ pointment of Walter Heeb Jr., and Carlos R. Beisang to its broadcasting staff. Heeb, a former staff di¬ rector for WBIR-TV in Knoxville, Tenn., was named producer-director for the University TV studios. Bei¬ sang, who just completed his work in the UA Depart¬ ment of Radio and TV, is the new traffic manager for WUOA-FM. ► Dr. Erling S. Jorgensen, formerly on the faculty of Michigan State University, has joined the University of Montana staff as acting director of the school’s radio and TV studios and associate professor of journalism, responsible for the radio and TV teach¬ ing program. ► The appointment of two men to major staff posi¬ tions was announced by Dr. Sydney W. Head, chair¬ man of the University of Miami’s (Florida) Radio- TV-Film department. Shannon R. Wallace, former WTJV, Miami, pro¬ ducer-director, will instruct advanced students of TV ana supervise production as associate professor. Wilson P. Griffith, also from WTVJ, will be producer- director and teach TV production and direction tech¬ niques. ► Civic leader Philip S. Boone and Dr. Glenn S. Dumke, president of San Francisco State College, have been named new directors of the Bay Area Educational Television Assn, at the organization’s meeting of the board of directors. ► Veteran NAEBer Waldo Abbot has been awarded an honorary lifetime membership in the Michigan Assn, of Radio and Television Broadcasters. The award was made in recognition of Abbot’s pioneering work in college broadcasting. He celebrated his 69th birthday on Sept. 13. OCTOBER, 1957 7