NAEB Newsletter (June 1, 1961)

SPECIAL PUBLICATION OFFER Each month the NAEB offers a special sale on a partic¬ ular NAEB publication, at less than one-half the normal price. This month's special: NAEB RESEARCH SEMINAR FOR EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION AND RADIO — 49c A report of a research seminar at Ohio State University, December 9-13, 1957. Edited by I. Keith Tyler. Payment must accompany order. Send to: Special Publi¬ cation, NAEB, I 19 Gregory Hall, Urbana, Illinois. THIS OFFER EXPIRES JULY 15, 1961. Program Bulletins and Promotion Pieces Wanted Many visitors to NAEB Headquarters in Wash¬ ington ask about activities of the constituent mem¬ bers of NAEB. A display of program bulletins and promotional brochures is planned, to help answer such inquiries. NAEBers are therefore asked to send to Wash¬ ington single copies of your latest program bulletin and such explanatory brochures regarding your de¬ partment, station and/or plans as you would like to have on view. News of Members GENERAL y NAEBers receiving IERT radio awards were KRFK, Los Angeles; KSLH, St. Louis; and WBGO- EM, Newark—each with two awards—and KPFA, Berkeley; KUT-FM, University of Texas; and WGBH-FM, Boston—with one award each. Those receiving television awards were WGBH- TV, Boston, with six awards; KQED, San Fran¬ cisco, with two; and the following, with one each: Indiana University; WMVS-TV, Milwaukee; KVIE, Sacramento; New York City and Regents ETV project; KNME, Albuquerque; KETC, St. Louis; University of Texas; and WUFT-TV, University of Florida. y Wayne State University will host an invitational conference on televised instruction June 19-22, in cooperation with RCA. ► Construction is expected to begin within the i}ext few weeks on the transmitter tower for KLRN- TV, for the Southwest Texas ETV Council. Offices and studios will be located at the University of Texas in Austin. y Included in the educational “master plan” an¬ nounced recently by the University of Southern California is a Center for the Arts, which would in¬ clude the tele-communications department, as well as the school of music and the departments of drama and cinema. This building is among those given highest priority. y Purdue University will host an international semi¬ nar on instructional TV October 8-18, in cooperation with UNESCO. y The KUON-TV bulletin announces that Nebraska now has a state-wide advisory committee on ETV. ► Dedicatory exercises for Georgetown University’s WGTB-FM were held April 29. This is the first educational radio station in Washington, D. C. The well-known Georgetown University Forum is a regu¬ lar feature on the NAEB Radio Network. ► With a $5400 grant from the Ford Foundation, Montana’s ETV committee sent twenty-five educa¬ tors to visit ETV stations and installations in Cali¬ fornia, Oregon, Utah, and Washington. ► On a USOE grant, the NETRC is conducting audience surveys to try to determine the size and type of the national ETV audience. Six areas will be studied in the survey, which is to be conducted by Dr. Wilbur Schramm. Participants will be Alabama’s ETV network, Denver, the University of Nebraska, Ohio State University, Pittsburgh, and San Fran¬ cisco. Typical questions will be: “Do you think people who watch ETV are: intellectual, snobbish, insecure, ‘eggheads,’ dull, youthful?” “How many books have you read since last summer?” PERSONNEL y NAEB President Harley presented a paper at the International Television Symposium of the world’s first International Festival of Television Arts and Sciences in Montreux, Switzerland, May 17-20. Har¬ ley presented his paper, “The Techniques of Televi¬ sion in the Educational Process,” at the request of the State Department. With NAEB Legal Counsel Leonard Marks, Harley also will attend the European Broadcasting Union’s meeting in Copenhagen June 2-5. Between the two meetings, he planned to discuss U. S. educa¬ tional broadcasting with RAI officials in Rome and RDTF officials in Paris . . . and also to visit Khar¬ toum, Sudan, in connection with the NAEB’s proj¬ ect there. ► Wells Chapin, formerly with Dage Division of Thompson-Ramo-Wooldridge, has been appointed manager of marketing for communications, Elec¬ tronics and Ordnance Division, Avco Corporation, Cincinnati. Y Kenneth L. Yourd has resigned as business and legal affairs vice-president for NETRC. ► Joseph Sagmaster, director of WGUC-FM, Uni¬ versity of Cincinnati, recently received the Rosa F. and Samuel B. Sachs Prize, which is awarded annual¬ ly to a Cincinnatian contributing the most in art, music, science, literature, education, medicine, sculp¬ ture, architecture, or research. Sagmaster was honored “for his . . . personal sacrifice in leaving an executive post in the newspaper world in order to become direc¬ tor of broadcasting ... so that the community might receive additional radio programs of high musical and educational value . . .” Sagmaster established the university’s FM station. y Charles Vaughan, assistant general manager, WCET, Cincinnati, will leave that post to direct the production of science programs for the NETRC. JUNE 1961 3