NAEB Newsletter (Oct 1957)

y Seymour N. Siegel, director of WNYC, New York City, has left for the Prix Italia meetings in Taormina, Italy. While abroad, he expects to make a flying trip to Israel and Turkey and also to visit the BBC in London on his way back. y Miss Marguerite Fleming, manager of radio sta¬ tion KSLH, St. Louis Public Schools, aided by mem¬ bers of her staff, conducted a radio workshop at North High School, Evansville, Ind., on Sept. 19. The work¬ shop was sponsored by the Evansville Teachers Assn. y Mrs. Harriet Davis Dry den has resigned her posi¬ tion as META’s program supervisor, according to Dr. Alan Willard Brown, president of the organization. For the past ten years Mrs. Dry den has been as¬ sociated with public service broadcasting at NBC, CBS and the Ford Foundation. y Two new radio-TV instructors have been ap¬ pointed to the faculty of New York University’s Di¬ vision of General Education, Dean Paul A. McGhee has announced. Randy Kraft, free-lance TV and radio announcer, and Donald Collins, chief engineer for META, will instruct during the fall semester in the Division’s TV- radio curriculum. PROGRAMS ► The “Minnesota Private College Hour,” which in¬ itiated its first telecast on KTCA-TV, Minneapolis- St. Paul, on Sept. 16, will offer seven credit courses 'during the current academic year. Of the 14 private colleges which participate in the project, several combined their efforts for the pro¬ duction of educational program series. The “Minnesota Private College Hour” may be viewed from 8 to 9 p.m. Mondays through Fridays over channel 2. ► Seven-hundred students in 22 Nebraska high schools will receive their instruction this year by TV from the University of Nebraska’s educational sta¬ tion KUON-TV. The figures indicate a sharp rise in Nebraska’s ETV activity over last year when only six high schools used the University’s TV instruction for 125 algebra students. The boom in Nebraska’s TV teaching, according to Dr. K. O. Broady, University of Nebraska Extension Division director and chairman of the Nebraska Ed¬ ucation Television Committee, is stimulated by the success of last year’s TV teaching, the teacher short¬ age and by the fact that the Nebraska plan combines TV and correspondence class methods. This combina¬ tion, Dr. Broady holds, gave rise to a $115,000 grant from the Fund for the Advancement of Education to insure the operation of this year’s Nebraska project. y “Fundamental Economics, a round-table study, is a new TV series on the Windy City’s WTTW-Channel 11, combining the uses of TV with direct in-plant training conferences. Each of the 10 TV sessions, 20 minutes in length, will immediately precede longer conferences taking place in industrial and business organizations all over the Chicago area. The series is produced by WTTW in cooperation with the Commerce and Industry Division of the Henry George School of Social Science and partici¬ pating Chicagoland companies. y The ETRC has distributed to its affiliated stations a series of 48 kinescoped programs entitled “French Through Television.” The programs, which were aired live earlier this year over educational station WGBH-TV, Boston, make up an introductory course in French. At least 23 communities around the coun¬ try will have an opportunity to view the lessons this fall. y “Problems of Everyday Living” is a META-pro- duced series of TV programs which can presently be viewed over WPIX, New York City, on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 11:30 to noon. The series, termed by a META spokesman “a major educational project in community mental health,” is designed primarily for women who make up the largest TV daytime audience. Without pre¬ tending to be a panacea for the vast emotional stres¬ ses of our times, the programs bring to the open many of the anxiety-provoking questions of normal every¬ day living. y The University of Alabama expects to bustle with TV activity during the coming year. Thirty live pro¬ grams and 20 film programs are scheduled for weekly production. For in-school viewing throughout the state, the University will televise complete courses in high school Spanish and chemistry as well as eight enrich¬ ment courses in eight other subjects. To adult evening viewers, cultural and informa¬ tional programs will be presented’. All University of Alabama programs are televised simultaneously on educational channels 2, Andalusia; 10, Birmingham; and 7 Munford. They can be viewed by about 75 per cent of the state’s set owners. y To help encourage young people to enter careers in science, New York University in cooperation with the NBC is presenting a weekly TV science series en¬ titled “Watch Mr. Wizard.” Dr. Morris H. Shamos, chairman of NYU’s Physics Department, serves as advisor to the pro¬ gram’s host and creator, Don Herbert. Producer of the program is Jules Power. “Watch Mr. Wizard” is designed to present science 8 NEWSLETTER