NAEB Newsletter (June 1957)

GREETINGS FROM THE PRESIDENT —Burton Paulu The spring meeting of the Institute for Education by Radio-Television provides us of NAEB with our best chance of the year to get together, except for our own annual convention. As those of you who went to Columbus last month know, a good many NAEB activities were scheduled in connection with the Institute, and many of our members contributed in an important way to the In¬ stitute, itself. To start off, the NAEB Board of Di¬ rectors met for several hours Monday evening, May 6, and during most of May 7. Wednesday noon, under the capable direction of Gale Adkins, ably assisted by Gertrude Broderick and other members of the Utilization Committee there was an NAEB-sponsored luncheon at which Dr. Alexander J. Stoddard addressed a capacity group of 150. Then came an afternoon session on utilization arranged by NAEB, in the tradition begun by AERT in previous years. These first fruits of the NAEB- AERT merger were very successful. Wednesday evening the Organizational Liaison Committee had a dinner at the Maramour Restau¬ rant, attended by our officers and headquarters staff, and representatives of some of the broadcasting and audio-visual education groups with which we have frequent professional contacts. Special guests in¬ cluded Don McGannon of the Westinghouse Broad¬ casting Company, one of the speakers at the opening session of the Institute, and Dr. and Mrs. I. Keith Tyler. On Thursday noon we held' an NAEB luncheon and open business meeting, with short re¬ ports from officers, committee chairmen, and head¬ quarters personnel. In addition to these NAEB-arranged meetings, there were many Institute sessions in which our mem¬ bers had major roles. There were many NAEB com¬ mittee meetings, too. For example, the Professional Advancement Committee met all day Saturday to draw up plans for the Television Management Sem¬ inar scheduled for Allerton House on August 20-25. On Saturday and Sunday, a number of ETV sta¬ tion managers and program directors went from Columbus to Ann Arbor for a meeting of ETRC af¬ filiates. On Tuesday afternoon, May 14, the NAEB- ETRC Liaison Committee met with ETRC Presi¬ dent Harry Newburn. It seems to me that NAEB’s contributions to the Institute were outstanding. What do you think? Nevertheless, I’d like to hear from all NAEB officers and members as how we might better organize our contributions to future IERT meetings. At the same time, let’s look forward to our own convention from October 30 to November 2. Let our motto be: “See you in St. Louis!” MEMO FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR —Harry Skornia This month, like May, is a busy one for your Head¬ quarters staff. The Radio Programming Seminar was, indeed, a great success. So, we believe, will be the Seminar to be held in late August for ETV station Managers and Directors which we are working on now. The assistance given the whole movement by the generosity of Foundations like the W. K. Kellogg and Ford Foundations would be difficult to exaggerate, for they have provided many of the essential rungs in the ladder to what we. hope will one day be a strong national movement of which the entire Ameri¬ can public will be aware and proud. The Board meeting at Columbus was well-at¬ tended and expeditiously handled. President Paulu will undoubtedly report more fully on that. The evening of May 9 and a part of May 10, Frank Schooley and I spent with Dr. Maurice Seay of the Kellogg Foundation in discussions of our pro¬ gram and general possibilities for the future. We were graciously received, had a fine discussion, and had the pleasure of spending some time with Dr. Emory Morris, President of the Kellogg Foundation. Frank Schooley, as Foundation Committee Chair¬ man, has more recently conferred with Ford Founda¬ tion officials on plans for the future, and we have reason to believe that these conferences, too, were both pleasant and useful to all concerned’. Because of our crowded agenda, we were forced to miss the NAEB’s IERT luncheon on Thursday of that week. From all we’ve heard, however, it was a suc¬ cess, and Harold Hill more than adequately handled the Headquarters reporting provided for those in at¬ tendance. I know that the Wednesday NAEB luncheon and the Liaison Committee meeting, handled by Gale Adkins and Gertrude Broderick, respectively, were enthusiastically received. One of the highlights of the former, as we expected, was the address of Dr. Alex¬ ander Stoddard of the Fund for the Advancement of Education. The Institute was also generally agreed to be an¬ other very successful one, and we were pleased to note, once again, the number of awards won by NEWSLETTER