NAEB Newsletter (Apr 1957)

Thence to Boston, for the Westinghouse Broad¬ casting Company’s conference on Public Service Pro¬ gramming. Here were representatives of all the West¬ inghouse stations, plus people from a hundred more stations, together with such NAEB’ers as Judith Waller, Sy Siegel, Parker Wheatley, Dick Hull, Keith Tyler, Jim MacAndrew and Gertrude Broderick. It was interesting to hear commercial program directors discuss the problems we educators have so often talked about. The Westinghouse meeting was unquestionably one of the best conferences I have ever attended - and twenty years in the business has taken me to a good many. I hope we have some good commercial participation in our St. Louis convention next fall; we could learn a lot from some of these people! Mid-March took me to Chicago for a stimulating one-day meeting with the Ad Hoc Committee which set up the Fourth Allerton House Seminar on Radio Programming. Lee Dreyfus and Harold Hill joined the group which had previously met in Ann Arbor to discuss grants-in-aid. The high level of discussion at this and the other NAEB sessions I’ve recently at¬ tended impressed me very much; we have learned to give, take, and compromise in order to set up work¬ able procedures. St. Patrick’s day found me flying to Washington for a session of the JCET, one of the several organiza¬ tions advancing the cause of educational broadcast¬ ing to which NAEB has contributed so much, both in its formative and operational stages, (thanks to such able representatives as Sy Siegel, Gray don Ausmus, and Frank Schooley). As this goes to press, I shall be in Urbana, where the Foundations Committee (Frank Schooley, chair¬ man; Dick Hull; and Jim Miles) is scheduled to meet to review and assemble suggestions from members and staff on foundation requests for the coming year. The next day Marguerite Fleming will join us to talk over plans for this year’s convention. Can I stay home now to help clean house, work in the garden, or repair children’s bicycles? No - not for a while. The Radio Programming Seminar will meet at Allerton House on April 22-24; and that’s a project close to my heart, after having managed an educational radio station for 20 years. In May, of course, I’ll be at the IERT, where I hope to see many of you. Finally, of course, there’s our own convention, October 30 to 31, and November 1, in St. Louis. These meetings are important, and often exciting. Our organization couldn’t carry on its manifold ac¬ tivities without frequent conferences among its of¬ DIRECTORY CHANGES p- I 122 Active Members 86 Associate Members 78 Affiliate Members 289 Total Membership FM-Radio only 83 (I) .... these 122 members .... construction permits for 155 stations. 5 KRMA-TV Add: Howard Johnson Delete: James Case WTUM (FM)* University of Tampa Add: W. Ernest Vincent, Director Radio-TV WFSU-FM Florida State University Add: University Broadcasting Service II WMCR (FM)* Western Michigan University 12 Under Missouri Add: KCUR (FM) University of Kansas City (Kansas City) C. J. Stevens, Director Radio-TV 5100 Rockhill Road Delmar 7878 29 Under Missouri Delete: University of Kansas City C. J. Stevens, Director etc. 32 Ohio Department of Highway Safety Delete: U.C. Felty Add: Gordon Jeffery, Director 37 Under Raymond D. Cheydleur Add: University Broadcasting Service 40 Under Minnesota Add: The Evangelical Lutheran Church Office of Public Relations James V. Anderson Radio Television 422 South Fifth Street Minneapolis 15, Minnesota 42 Delete: Columbia University Erik Barnouw (New York) Editor, Center for Mass Communications, 1125 Amsterdam Avenue University 5-2000 45 Under Virginia Kansas City, Missouri 51 WMCR (FM)* Western Michigan University ficers, committee members and staff. But, like all recent NAEB presidents, I find these demands on my time and strength terrific. In addition, directing radio and television at the University of Minnesota takes a little time, too—as do Frances, Sarah, Nancy and Tommy Paulu at 5908 Queen Avenue South in Minneapolis! But it’s fun as well as work, because I believe in our objectives and enjoy working with our members. —NAEB— NEA’s Department of Audio-Visual Instruction went on record last month as being against any switch or change in ETV channel allocations and for an ex¬ periment to see how subscription ETV would work. APRIL, 1957 3