NAEB Newsletter (July 1957)

NEWSLETTER NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EDUCATIONAL BROADCASTERS 14 GREGORY HALL URBANA, ILLINOIS NAEB-SUPPORTED TV SUMMER WORKSHOPS The University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Neb., and the East Carolina College, Greenville, N. C., have an¬ nounced the opening of their NAEB-financed summer workshops for in-school teaching by TV. Classes started June 17. The purpose of these workshops is primarily to insure the best possible professional training for the staffs and management of U. S. ed¬ ucational TV stations. Both schools will feature in their two-week pro¬ grams a number of distinguished speakers in the field of ETV. The U. of N. makes its own station, KUON- TV, available for the workshop while ECC has been given access to the facilities of WNCT-TV, Channel 9, in Greenville. Other institutions which established NAEB-spon- sored workshops are the University of New Mexico, Purdue University, Michigan and Florida State Uni¬ versities, WKNO in Memphis, Tenn., the University of Miami, the University of Minnesota and the Tol¬ edo (Ohio) Public Schools. The total amount granted by the NAEB for the establishment of workshops is $17,000. WALDO ABBOT RETIRES Prof. Waldo Abbot, longtime NAEBer and longtime Director of Broadcasting at the University of Mich¬ igan, retired from the Wolverine staff on July 1, 1957. Waldo was the recipient of a special NAEB Citation at the Convention last fall in Atlanta. He is a former Board member of the Association, and is the author of the Handbook of Broadcasting , the most recent edition published with the assistance of Richard L. Rider. In his years of service, Waldo has seen, and super¬ vised, the growth of Michigan’s radio service. He es¬ tablished station WUOM which produces numerous series of programs each year for broadcast by com- NAEB Newsletter Vol. XXII, No. 6 July, 1957 NAEB Newsletter, a monthly publication issued by the National Association of Educational Broadcasters, 14 Gregory Hall, Urbana, III., $5 a year, edited by Hans J. Massaquoi. Application for 2nd class mail privileges pending at Urbana, Illinois. mercial stations throughout the state and provides a special school programming service for these stations. Later, he added another station, WFUM, at Flint. More important, in a personal way, is his lovely wife who with Waldo resides on Washtenaw Avenue in Ann Arbor, where we assume NAEBers may visit Waldo and Em if they can find them at home. Waldo tells us that he expects to spend the summer at his cottage near Omena, Michigan. —Frank E. Schooley NEW TV LEGISLATION After three defeats in the California state legislature, a bill was passed early last month giving school dis¬ tricts and state colleges the right to contract for TV programming services. The bill was supported by various school and civic groups. ^ A bill, restoring budget funds for continued opera¬ tion of WHA-TV, Madison, Wis., has been sent to Gov. Vernon W. Thomson after it passed' the state Senate 22 to 7. The Bill also provides for a transfer of the ETV station’s operation from the State Radio Council to the University of Wisconsin. —N A E B— The American Assn, of Colleges for Teacher Educa¬ tion has released its fourth issue of a series of bulletins discussing the uses of TV in education. Persons in¬ terested in obtaining copies may write to: The Ameri¬ can Ass. of Colleges for Teacher Education, 11 Elm St., Oneonta, N. Y. I