NAEB Newsletter (Jan 1957)

□□□□«* NEWSLETTER NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EDUCATIONAL BROADCASTERS 14 GREGORY HALL " URBANA, ILLINO^ n NAEB DIRECTORS ELECTED For the first time, a NAEB Director-at-Large was elected by individual members of our organization. Mrs. Gertrude Broderick, Radio-TV Section of the U. S.Dept. of Health, Education & Welfare, will rep¬ resent all individual NAEB members, most of whom are former AERT members who joined with us in the merger. Elections were held in Regions II, IV, and VI. This is the first group of directors nominated and elected by mail from their regional members only. Formerly Regional Directors were nominated at Con¬ vention and elected there by all members voting. Vernon Bronson, Station WTHS-FM-TV in Mia¬ mi, Florida, is the new director for Region II. He succeeds Earl Wynn of the Communication Center at the University of North Carolina. New Region IV Director is Richard Vogl, WOI- AM-FM at Iowa State University, who succeeds Bur¬ ton Paulu of KUOM, new NAEB President. Edwin Adams, School of Communication at the University of Washington in Seattle, succeeded himself for another term as Director of Region VI. An election was held in Region V to fill the one- year vacancy caused by John Schwarzwalder moving from Region V to Region IV. Robert Schenkkan, Director of Radio-TV at the University of Texas, took over the one-year post. —NAEB— ASSOCIATION NEWS GREETINGS FROM THE PRESIDENT —By Dr. Burton Paulu The president of the National Association of Ed¬ ucational Broadcasters holds a challenging position. His task is difficult because of the many important developments in educational broadcasting with which NAEB is involved. Yet it is satisfying: educational broadcasting is important, and NAEB members are devoted to its cause. NAEB Newsletter Vol. XXII, No. I January, 1957 NAEB Newsletter, a monthly publication issued by the National Association of Educational Broadcasters, 14 Grego-y Hall, Urbana, III., $5 a year, edited by Mrs. Judith Stevens. Application for 2nd class mail privileges pending at Urbana, Illinois. Ours is a democratic organization. We share our problems, and proceed cooperatively towards their solution. The President, therefore, is never alone. Nevertheless, like committee chairmen, he inevitably must bear more responsibilities than do most mem¬ bers of the organization. Your judgment of my performance will be severe because of the high standards set by my immediate predecessors. Frank Schooley, Graydon Ausmus, Sey¬ mour Siegel and Richard Hull - - to name only the last four incumbents - - displayed ability and devo¬ tion of a high order. Fortunately, these and other recent officers are still available for counsel and assistance. Frank Schooley, the able and popular retiring president, will continue to be much involved in NAEB, since he automatically became a member of the Board of Directors on January 1. Also I can call upon the knowledge and experience of our executive director, Harry J. Skornia, and of the entire headquarters staff. To prepare for my new duties, I recently visited Urbana, Washington, New York, East Lansing and Ann Arbor. I talked to retiring president Frank Schooley; treasurer Robert Coleman; executive direc¬ tor Harry J. Skornia, and members of the headquart¬ ers staff. I called upon representatives of the JCET, the U. S. Office of Education, the BBC, RTF, and the ETRC, and talked to NAEB members at WNYC, New York University, the University of Illinois, Michigan State University, and the University of Michigan. NEWSLETTER Page I