NAEB Newsletter (Apr 1957)

National Commission for UNESCO. The 100-member National Commission serves to advise the State Department on UNESCO affairs in relation to American policies. Members are selected to represent national voluntary organizations and federal, state and local governments. Terms are for three years and members may be re-appointed. Appointed to the National Commission with Dr. Skornia were Howard Hanson, Director of the East¬ man School of Music at the University of Rochester; Herman Finkelstein, General Attorney for the Ameri¬ can Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers; Joseph Dainow, Professor of Law at Louisiana Uni¬ versity, and The Very Reverend Monsignor Francis J. Lally, editor of the Pilot , a weekly newspaper pub¬ lished in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese in Boston. FAE GRANTS ANNOUNCED The Fund for Adult Education has announced names of the,.53 newspapermen, radio-TV broadcasters, edu¬ cators and other persons chosen for their fellowship grants. Nearly a quarter of a million dollars has been granted for study and training during 1957-58. Interesting to note among the grant recipients were names familiar to NAEB members. Graydon Ausmus, director of broadcasting at the University of Alabama, will work on his doctoral dissertation on educational broadcasting in the U. S., at New York University. Clarence Flick, director of radio-TV at the Uni¬ versity of Nebraska, will study writing and pro¬ duction at UCLA with interneship at commercial network production centers. Nazaret Cherkezian, as¬ sistant to the director, Office of Radio TV, New York University, will study public service TV programming in Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, and other cities. Also, applications for the 1958-59 Leadership Training Awards Program opened the first of this month. Recipients of the grants are expected to par¬ ticipate in a one-week institute in July, 1958. Apart from this, candidates are free to propose any program of study they deem appropriate. Application blanks are available from: Leader¬ ship Training Awards (Mass Media), The Fund for Adult Education, 320 Westchester Avenue, White Plains, New York. GREETINGS FROM THE PRESIDENT —Burton Paulu What does the president of NAEB do? The constitution says he is “responsible for the man¬ agement of the affairs of the Association and . . . (for) carrying out the policies . . . (set by) the Board of Directors.” That’s a pretty broad statement! For me, the NAEB presidency has meant, among other things, a lot of reading (you ought to see my mail!), much writing (at times it takes two secre¬ taries to keep up with my output), and a good deal of traveling (despite a firm resolution to hold trips to an absolute minimum). Impressed with the magnitude of my task, I set out in December, while still president-elect, to orient myself for the new office. First I went to NAEB headquarters in Urbana, where I talked at length, and with great profit, to retiring president Frank Schooley, as well as to Executive Director Harry Skornia and his excellent staff. I wish every NAEB member could visit Urbana, so that “14 Gregory Hall” w r ould become an experi¬ ence rather than Just an address. Never have I seen a harder working, more conscientious group of people, than our Headquarters staff. They are short of space, short of help and short of funds—but long on work and marked by devotion to the cause. December also took me to Washington, New York, East Lansing and Ann Arbor. In the middle of January, as February’s News¬ letter has already reported, the Executive Committee came to Minneapolis to lay its plans for 1957. Later that month I spent a day in Columbus with Keith Tyler and the committee planning the IERT meeting. (It seemed strange to be in Columbus with snow on the ground!) I was impressed with the attention Keith and the other committee members (including NAEB Vice President Dick Hull, and honorary member Judith Waller) gave to the criticisms sent in after last year’s Institute. This year’s IERT should be a good one. Watch the increase in commercial station participa¬ tion, and note especially the NAEB utilization pro¬ gram on May 8, and luncheon on May 9. From Columbus I went directly to Purdue for the Region III meeting. The program was good; but what pleased me most was the large number of new faces. This is very important, since it indicates the exten¬ sion of our membership far beyond the so-called “old guard.” (By the way, just who are the “old guard”? I hear the term used implying both praise and criticism, but don’t know exactly to whom it refers, nor whether I am old—or new—guard.) In February I went to a meeting in Ann Arbor. There Dick Vogl (chairman of the Program Accept¬ ance Committee), Ned Rosenheim (chairman of the Grants-in-Aid Committee), Harry Skornia and I met with representatives of the ETRC to discuss their exciting new proposal to spend up to $100,000 a year for 3 years to support radio programs. (Who says educational radio is dead?) By now announcements of the first year’s plans have been distributed. 2 NEWSLETTER