NAEB Newsletter (October 1, 1960)

PLACEMENT SUPPLEMENT October I — Desires to manage ETV station. MFA Speech and Dramatic Art. Taught five years in university, followed by six years in all phases of commercial TV. Male, 38, married. Will locate anywhere for a good opportunity. $8000 minimum. Employed as program manager of TV station. October 2 — Ph.D. candidate, married, age 30, winner. of FAE Mass Media Leadership Training Award, desires position with a future. Experience in production, pro¬ graming, and administration in radio and TV. Four years director of broadcasting for northeastern uni¬ versity. Open location and salary. October 3 — Single young man, MS, seeking employment as program or music director. Experienced in both classical and jazz, and has fine personal record library. Stereo broadcasting expert. Skilled announcer, recording engi¬ neer, editor, writer. Willing to go anywhere. $5200. October 4 — Qualified, versatile, creative veteran, 25, single, with B. S. in speech and five years of experience in radio, wants responsible position in educational broad¬ casting. Can do anything but engineering. Will go where opportunity is. $5200. October 5 — Single man, 27, M. S. in communications, looking for ETV producer-director position. Year and a half of experience, also some technical operations and engi¬ neering. Will teach, go anywhere, $5000. Loyal, hard working and responsible. October 6 — Married man, 33, with Ph.D. in music and teaching experience, as well as experience with A-V equipment. Holds first-class commercial radio telephone license. Searching for engineering or management posi¬ tion, or music director, in educational radio or TV anywhere. $6000 minimum. October 7 — Eight years part-time and full-time experience in radio and TV staging, acting, writing, producing, and lighting. Looking for position on production staff of ETV station, preferably in western United States. Single man, 27. $5100. October 8 — Married man, 27, with master's degree and major in Educational Broadcasting, seeking position as pro¬ ducer-director, announcer, program director, camera¬ man, or news director in ETV or radio. Will locate anywhere. $5000 minimum. Attention Employers and Employees: Please let your Place¬ ment Office know when you hire one of our applicants, or when you wish to be placed in the inactive files. JOB NEEDED Miss Astrid Walter, a sound technician and tape editor for RIAS (Radio in American Sector) in Berlin wants a year of training employment in the U. S. in the technical side of radio. Interested persons should write or telephone John Wiggin, at the Voice of America, 330 Independence Avenue, SW, Washington, D. C. OPPORTUNITY IN EDUCATIONAL COMMUNICATIONS The New York State Department of Civil Service will conduct on January 21, 1961, an examination for Associate in Educational Communications. Salary $8220-$9870. Four vacancies in Education Department. Open to any qualified citizen of United States. Requires a master's degree and specialization in educational communications education and five years of experience in edu¬ cation including two years in educational communication educa¬ tion. Completion of the requirements for a doctoral degree in educational communications education may be substituted for some experience. For details contact the Recruitment Unit, Box 4M, New York State Department of Civil Service, The State Campus, Albany, N. Y. NAEB Newsletter, a monthly publication issued by the Na¬ tional Association of Educational Broadcasters, 119 Gregory Hall, Urbana, III. $5.00 a year, edited by Betty M'cKenzie. Meetings October 12-14: Conference of representatives from 20 states on educational use of TV, Ohio State Uni¬ versity. Sponsored by North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools under contract with U. S. Office of Education. October 16-22: 5th international congress on high¬ speed photography, Washington, D. C. October 27-28: Teaching with TV — an institute for medical educators, University of Florida, Gaines¬ ville. News of Members GENERAL ► The University of Wisconsin this fall has in¬ augurated a new long-distance CCTV course in elec¬ trical engineering. Three classes will meet simulta¬ neously — one in Madison and two in Milwaukee. ► Kenneth Harwood, head of the department of telecommunications at the University of Southern California, and R. A. Collison, librarian of the BBC, are planning an international association of research libraries that specialize in radio and TV. As a fol¬ low-up on these plans, the BBC has presented rare books on TV and radio to the University of Southern California library. Among them were two 5-language dictionaries of radio published in 1924. ► On September 26, KQED, San Francisco, went off the air for an hour, advising viewers to watch the Nixon-Kennedy debate on the commercial chan¬ nels. PROGRAMS ^ NAEBers may well want to watch “The Thread of Life” on NBC-TV on Friday, December 9. It is an hour-long colorcast discussing the work of scien¬ tists in the field of genetics, and “it shows a dis¬ tinctive technique in the presentation of scientific information on TV.” ^ WTTW, Chicago, this fall is presenting for its young viewers a book review program illustrated with shadow puppets. Also on WTTW is a program featuring foreign guests who are visiting Chicago under an adult exchange program. The visitors will discuss the way of life in their countries, compared with the American way, and the disadvantages and advantages to be found in both cultures. ^ The Alabama ETV network is broadcasting a 17- week electrical telecourse primarily for home owners. Those taking the course should be able to immediately start repairing their small household appliances. y WEDU, Tampa, is presenting a series of in¬ struction on horseback riding. ^ KQED, San Francisco, recently broadcast a dis¬ cussion between the owner-teacher of a Berkeley nursery school and the chief deputy director of the NEWSLETTER