NAEB Newsletter (May 1, 1961)

this study by notifying the NEA of any “packaging” plans they know of by schools or businesses. Write to Lee E. Campion, Associate Investigator, Technolog¬ ical Development Project, National Education Associ¬ ation, 1201 Sixteenth Street, N. W., Washington 6, D.C. George Jennings Dies George Jennings, Chicago educational broadcaster, died April 4, 1961. He had been director of radio and television for the Chicago Public Schools for fifteen years, joining the staff in 1938. Also under his supervision was the operation of WBEZ, the FM radio station of the schools. Mr. Jennings was instrumental in the planning and development of Chicago’s ETV station, WTTW. He also inaugurated and directed the School Broadcast Conference, which pioneered in classroom utilization of radio and TV. Speech Association To Meet The Speech Association of America will convene in New York City during the Christmas vacation this year. Sectional meetings will be devoted to specialized areas of speech and theater, and there will be a general session for new members. More than 2,000 teachers are expected to attend. For further information, write the Speech Association of America, Indiana Uni¬ versity, Bloomington. Summer Employment Needed African students who are studying in this country need summer employment in order to continue their education in the fall. All of these students speak English, and most of them will be available from June 1 to September 1. If you have or know of such sum¬ mer employment opportunities, please write African American Students Foundation, Inc., Suite 3308, 375 Park Avenue, New York 22. Region II Members Convene NAEB President William Harley and John Schwarz- walder, general manager, KTCA-TV, St. Paul, were featured speakers at the Region II conference April 21 and 22 in Birmingham. Individual conferences were scheduled for production, utilization, and engi¬ neering. SPECIAL PUBLICATION OFFER Each month the NAEB offers a special sale on a particular NAEB publication, at less than one-half the normal price. This month's special: TELEVISED INSTRUCTION—99c A report of a conference on the use of television in instruc¬ tion, Purdue University, August 25-September 5, 1958. Edited by James S. Miles and Raymond E. Wolf. Payment must accompany order. Send to: Special Publi¬ cation NAEB, 119 Gregory Hall, Urbana, Illinois. THIS OFFER EXPIRES JUNE 15, 1961. 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 McKenzie. State ETV Commissions Respondents to the request in the February News¬ letter for listings of states with ETV commissions named Utah, Tennessee, Vermont, South Carolina, and Pennsylvania. These are in addition to Alabama, Florida, and Oklahoma. News of Members GENERAL y For the third straight year, the Detroit Council on ETV and Radio has given “Musicale,” a Wayne State University TV series, a first award as the outstanding cultural music program on TV. ► Six California state colleges are being equipped with CCTV systems by RCA. Full-scale operations are planned for the fall term, with major emphasis on TV as an instructional aid in teaching the humani¬ ties and other courses which lend themselves to lec¬ ture-demonstration presentations. ^ Dr. Erling S. Jorgensen, on leave from the Uni¬ versity of Montana, is traveling around the country studying the type of ETV network to recommend to his state’s legislature. ► The New York State Board of Regents has pre¬ sented to the New York legislature a plan to encourage TV usage there. ^ Ampex demonstrated in March a new, low-cost tape recorder designed specifically for CCTV. An ap¬ praisal of the recorder by Rudy Bretz and Ken Winslow will appear in the May-June issue of the NAEB Journal. ^ April was designated as Educational Broadcasting- Month by Governor John B. Swainson of Michigan. March 29 marked the 39th anniversary of broad¬ casting from the University of Michigan. PROGRAMS ^ Florida’s Governor Bryant chose the state’s five ETV stations as a means of talking with employees of the road department recently. The program was videotaped and distributed to the stations for simulta¬ neous broadcasting. Employees over the state viewed the program in rooms especially equipped for the oc¬ casion. y WJCT, Jacksonville, televised “live” the principal sessions of the annual convention of the Florida Edu¬ cation Association which met in that city. ^ The art of simply reading a book to children is not dead, according to a release from the Wisconsin State Radio Council. Using no music background and providing characterizations by his voice alone, Norman Michie reads from a book each weekday to the chil¬ dren of the state. ^ Governor Patterson became Alabama’s first governor to be seen on a live press interview program over a statewide TV network when he appeared on the ETV network one day in April. ^ KSLH, St. Louis, is presenting a program to answer questions of school parents. Queries are sent 2 NEWSLETTER