NAEB Newsletter (Apr 1957)

A E B NEWSLETTER NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EDUCATIONAL BROADCASTERS 14 GREGORY HALL URBANA, ILLINOIS RADIO GRANTS OFFERED This year the NAEB and ETRC will start a 3-year program of grants for educational radio production. The Center will provide funds annually to ac¬ credited educational institutions for development of radio programs intended for national distribution. “Under the 3-year plan all programs will fit the general theme ‘The American in the Twentieth Cen¬ tury’,” said ETRC President H. K. Newburn. “The project is an effort to employ radio broadcasting to aid a better understanding of and a more effective response to the challenges and opportunities of 20th century life.” Formal grant announcements, if not already in your hands, will be mailed with complete application details to the NAEB institutional mailing list within a few days. TIME FOR PRIX ITALIA Competition is open again for the annual Prix Italia. NAEB may submit two literary or dramatic works, with or without music, and a TV documentary, a new classification this year. Since NAEB will be represented on the Music Jury, our stations and production centers are barred from competition in this category. According to the new statutes, the TV documen¬ tary is to be “produced especially for TV, inspired by facts and illustrating events of an artistic, literary, scientific or social character, or by a news item. It may be submitted as a film or telerecording of a live transmission. Documentaries produced partially by both these methods will also be accepted.” Entries must have a minimum length of 13 min¬ utes and not exceed 60 minutes. The film must have a double international sound track. This year’s competition will be held from Sept¬ ember 30 to October 14, 1957. All entries must reach Rome prior to August 15. Closing dates for entries in New York is June 1st, to provide enough time for translations, shipping, etc. Entries in any category should be sent to Seymour NAEB Newsletter Vol. XXII, No. 4 April, 1957 NAEB Newsletter, a monthly publication issued by the National Association of Educational Broadcasters, 14 Gregory Hall, Urbana, III., $5 a year, edited by Mrs. Judith Stevens. Application for 2nd class mail privileges pending at Urbane, Illinois. Siegel, WNYC, 2500 Municipal Building, New York, at the earliest practicable date. TWO GRANTS-IN-AID AWARDED NAEB awarded two workshop grants-in-aid last month to the University of New Mexico and the Uni¬ versity of Miami. The University of New Mexico is using their grant for a workshop in in-class utilization of ETV programs. Summer TV and production workshops will be made possible by the NAEB grant to the Uni¬ versity of Miami. Both grants are made available through funds from the Ford Foundation. THREE SCHOLARSHIPS GIVEN Messrs. F. Craig Johnson and William S. Baxter, both of Ohio University, and Ronald Kostka of the Uni¬ versity of Illinois, were awarded NAEB scholarships to help carry on their work. Johnson, instructor in Radio-TV at Ohio Uni¬ versity, will use his grant for study at the 1957 sum¬ mer session at the University of Wisconsin. Baxter, assistant professor of Journalism at Ohio University, is planning to attend the 1957 summer school at the State University of Iowa. Kostka receives his scholarship for being NAEB Fact Sheet Editor, and he will use. it to further his studies. SKORNIA APPOINTED TO UNESCO COMMISSION Harry J. Skornia, NAEB Executive Director, was one of five prominent American specialists appointed by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles to the U. S. 1