NAEB Newsletter (Aug 1957)

The Ford Foundation-financed Seminar will be preceded by an informal “get acquainted” session im¬ mediately following an evening dinner on August 19k All participants will enjoy the extensive housing and boarding facilities of Allerton House. To assure maximum comfort of all guests, informal sports wear, including shorts, will be the “uniform of the day.” There will be two “normal” sessions each day from 9 to 11:45 a.m. and from 1:30 to 5 p.m. except Sun¬ day, Aug. 25 when only one session will be held. Eve¬ nings will be reserved for informal discussions. The Seminar program will be as follows: Tuesday, August 20 Morning Session—Opening Session—Welcome and remarks by Dr. Harry J. Skornia, NAEB Execu¬ tive Director; Remarks by Earl Wynn, chairman, NAEB Professional Advancement Committee; “Housekeeping Details,” Harold' E. Hill, NAEB Associate Director; General discussion of pur¬ poses, and plan of Seminar. Afternoon Session —Program Problems—George Arms, Operations Manager, KETC, and panel. Wednesday, August 21 Morning Session—Do We Need an ETV Code? —Armand Hunter, Director, WKAR-TV. Afternoon Session—Financial Problems - Dr. John Taylor, Executive Director, Chicago, ETV As¬ sociation. Thursday, August 22 Morning Session—Relations with National Or- organizations - Dr. Skornia, George Hall, Director of Development, ETRC, David Stewart, Assistant Director, JCET, and FCC Commissioner (in¬ vited) . Afternoon Session —Public Relations and Pro¬ motion Problems. Eldon Campbell, Station- WBM, Indianapolis. Friday, August 23 Morning Session—Legal Problems - Leonard Marks (Cohn & Marks, attorneys) Afternoon Session—Audience Problems - Dr. Richard Evans, associate professor of psychology, University of Houston. Saturday, August 24 Morning Session —New Engineering Develop¬ ments - Cecil S. Bidlack, NAEB TV engineer; NBC - ETV Project—Brice Howard, Executive Producer, Educational Television Project, NBC. This session will also devote time to miscellaneous problems raised during the Seminar. Afternoon Session —ETV Looks Ahead - Ray¬ mond Wittcoff, St. Louis ETV Foundation and NCCET (tentative); Richard Hull, Director, Telecommunications Services, Ohio State Uni¬ versity; panel discussion. The following persons are scheduled to attend: Raymond Hurlbert, General Manager, Alabama ETV Commission; Loren Stone, Manager, KCTS, Seattle; Roy Barthold, Acting Manager, KUHT, University of Houston; Haskell Boyter, Director, Radio and TV Education, Atlanta Board of Education; Hartford Gunn, General Manager, WGBH-TV, Boston; Wil¬ liam Harley, Program Director, WHA-TV, University of Wisconsin; Gordon Canterbury, KSLE-TV, Mon¬ roe, La.; Jack McBride, Director, KUON-TV, Uni¬ versity of Nebraska; John Dunn, Director, Oklahoma ETV Authority; James Day, General Manager, KQED, San Francisco; Vernon Bronson, Director, WTHS-TV Miami; Armand Hunter, Director WKAR-TV Michigan State University; Gerald Apply, Director of Communications, Georgia Center for Continuing Education, WGTV, Uni¬ versity of Georgia; Howard Johnson, Executive Of¬ ficer, KRMA-TV, Denver; C. Richard' Evans, Man¬ ager, KUED, University of Utah; James Robertson, Program Director, WTTW, Chicago; Harry Lamb, Executive Director, Toledo ETV Foundation; Wil¬ liam Cumming, Director, WJCT, Jacksonville, Fla.; John Schwarzwalder, Director, KTCA, Minneapolis- St. Paul; Duff Browne, General Manager, WYES, New Orleans; Richard Rider, Assistant Manager, WILL-TV, University of Illinois; Henry Chadeayne, Executive Director, KETC, St. Louis; Paul K. Taft, WMVS, Milwaukee; Earl Wynn, Director of TV, University of North Carolina, WUNC-TV; George Arms, Operations Manager, KETC, St. Louis; H. M. Martin, Managing Director, WKNO-TV, Memphis; Uberto Neely, General Manager, WCET, Cincinnati; Art Hungerford, Director of Operations, META, New York; William Ewing, Supervisor of Programming, WOSU-TV, Ohio State University; Frank Schooley, Director of Broadcasting, Manager of WILL-TV Uni¬ versity of Illinois. MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT —By Burton Paulu Have you read the new NAEB Annual Report? I have—and I was much impressed with it. Harry Skornia and his staff are to be commended for a good piece of work. I have been very close to NAEB affairs since 1949; and the past six months have provided me with almost daily contacts with our members and staff. Yet I was surprised at the extent and variety of our work. Read this report if you possibly can. It will re¬ mind you of the number of our members; the variety 2 NEWSLETTER