NAEB Newsletter (Sept 1957)

^ The Department of Education for the State of Alabama has appointed Dr. James Y. Moultrie as coordinator of the Alabama Educational Television Network’s Special Educational Television Project. The project, which is aimed at encouraging the ex¬ perimental use of TV teaching in classrooms, is an in-school and in-service teacher training program. ^ Frank W. Norwood has joined the faculty of San Diego State College as assistant professor of speech arts and coordinator of instructional television. Norman has held positions as assistant to the director of the Institute for Education by Radio-TV, Ohio State University, and writer-producer at the St. Louis Board of Education FM station. ► Gale R. Adkins, director of the Bureau of Re¬ search in Education by Radio-TV, University of Texas, was appointed to the faculty of the University of Kansas. Prof. Adkins will head the University’s radio-TV research activities, teach in the departments of speech and journalism and serve on the committee which supervises the school’s broadcasting training. ► Steward S. Rowe, vice president of the Illinois Institute of Technology, Technology Center, Chicago, was elected president of the Chicago Chapter, Public Relations Society of America. ► The Illinois Institute of Technology has named Donald P. Anderson its new audio-visual coordinator and radio-TV assistant. A graduate of Northwestern University, Anderson formerly worked for the NBC in New York City and for station WMAQ in Chicago. ^ Robert W. Schlater, a former NAEB Fellow at the State University of Iowa, was named program manager of KUON-TV and assistant director of educational TV at the University of Nebraska follow¬ ing three years as KUON-TV producer-director. He also participated in the NAEB Program Planning Seminar at the University of Wisconsin in 1956. ► Veteran NBC producer-director Edward King is the new staff director of META, according to Dr. Alan W. Brown, META’s president. King’s first assignment following his appointment was the direc¬ tion of The Living Blackboard, a daily educational series to be introduced Sept. 30 over WPIX in coop¬ eration with the city’s Board of Education. ► The Adult Education Assn, of the U.S.A. has re¬ elected Dr. Harry J. Skornia, NAEB executive direc¬ tor, as delegate-at-large, an office he held during 1955-56. Among the duties assigned to Dr. Skornia in this capacity are the serving on committees of the Dele¬ gate Assembly and the maintaining of two-way com¬ munications between the national AEA and its state constituencies. ^ Kenneth D. Wright has rejoined the staff of WUOM-FM, University of Tennessee, after spending a year on the ETRC’s program staff at Ann Arbor. He has been replaced as the Center’s program asso¬ ciate by Ray Stanley of the University of Wisconsin who will maintain radio program liaison with the NAEB. ^ James Day, general manager of KQED, San Fran¬ cisco, has announced the appointment of Richard Barnett as KQED’s new public relations manager. For the past three-and-a-half years, Barnett served as the Central California director of the Na¬ tional Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. In his new job, he will be primarily concerned with increas¬ ing public support of the station. PROGRAMS ^ The 1957-58 Lowell Television Lectureships will give poetry and art lovers in the Greater Boston area an opportunity of viewing lectures on these subjects by two distinguished Harvard scholars over Boston’s noncommercial station WGBH-TV. Prof. I. A. Richards, critic and teacher of lan¬ guages, who will lecture on poetry, is well known for his pioneering ideas in teaching French and Spanish through TV. The art lectures will be presented by Prof. Jakob Rosenberg, a native of Berlin, Germany, and an authority on the Dutch masters. The Lowell Television Lectureships were esta¬ blished by Harvard in 1956 to enable outstanding scholars to prepare for TV “a college course of in¬ struction selected both for its intellectual content and for the excellence of its manner of presentation.” ► What makes the broadcasting industry tick? Twelve radio and TV executives will provide answers to this question during a series of lectures beginning this month at the Indiana University Television Department. Prof. E. G. Sulzer, department head, has invited all persons interested in the field to attend. ► A statewide in-school teaching-by-radio program consisting of 12 broadcasts each week will be launched Sept. 23 by the Wisconsin School of the Air over WHA, Madison, WLBL, Auburndale, and State FM Network. The broadcast, which will cover a variety of subjects, will be heard in schools at 9:30 a.m. each Tuesday. ► In a unique celebration of its 35th anniversary, Michigan State University’s radio station WKAR, third oldest station in the state, reintroduced to its listeners the familiar voices of more than 60 former announcers—some of them dating back to 1934. SEPTEMBER, 1957 5