NAEB Newsletter (April 1, 1963)

A E B r' r NEWSLETTER NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EDUCATIONAL BROADCASTERS VOL. 28, NO. 4 APRIL, 1963 NAEB Membership Rises 36% During the last six months, Individual Membership in the NAEB has risen almost 36%. On March 13, the number of Individual Members stood at 1,217, an increase of 321 over the September 15 figure of 896. March Busy Month for NAEB March saw two regional meetings of NAEBers, plus a meet¬ ing of NAEB officials and ETV station managers in con¬ nection with the affiliates’ meeting of the NETRC in New York on March 19. The latter was set up with the coopera¬ tion of the NETRC and its affiliates committee, as a follow¬ up to recommendations at the Philadelphia NAEB conven¬ tion that such a session be arranged. As we go to press, some 200 delegates are expected to at¬ tend the Region II meet in Tampa March 29-30. This will be reported in the next Newsletter. The Region III meeting is reported elsewhere in this issue. Brown Heads Industry Relations Committee W. S. Brown, AT&T product marketing supervisor, has been named chairman of the NAEB Industry Relations Committee. John Wentworth, manager of educational electronics for RCA, will fill Brown’s unexpired term on the committee. Former committee chairman L. L. Lewis has resigned from RCA to establish his own consulting firm. Who Are Individual Members of NAEB? An informal survey of occupations of the 1,085 Individual Members on January 22, 1963, indicated a heterogeneous mem¬ bership, with the largest group comprising only 25 per cent of the total. Following are the figures for the 778 Individual Members whose occupations are known: Educational station personnel . 197 College instructors (mostly radio-tv & allied fields) . 103 Students, graduate & undergraduate . 85 A-V or radio-TV consultants for schools & colleges . 49 CCTV & production center staffers . 46 Electronics industry & telephone company personnel . 41 Commercial station staffers . 29 Personnel of associations in allied areas (NAB, school boards, teacher organizations, etc.) . 27 Public & private school administrators . 27 College administrators . 23 ETV association personnel . 21 Military ETV personnel .. 18 State & county education department personnel . 18 ETV teachers . 11 U. S. Government employees (HEW, USOE, etc.) . 11 NAEB staffers. 10 Religious radio-tv personnel . 8 Advertising, PR, legal firm personnel . 8 Foreign station personnel . 7 Elementary & secondary school teachers . 6 TOTAL 778 Miller Gives NAEB $1000 On March 11, Harold C. Miller, president of Miller Asso¬ ciates, Inc., presented the NAEB with $1000 to help support the general activities of the association. Instructional Broadcasters to Meet Next Month The NAEB is sponsoring a national conference on instruc¬ tional broadcasting May 13-15 at the University of Illinois. Co-chairmen Charles J. McIntyre, University of Illinois, and Leslie P. Greenhi'll, Pennsylvania State University, have asked those with specific suggestions for topics for the conference to notify McIntyre immediately. Announcements were sent to all NAEBers in mid-March; Newsletter readers who would like to attend the conference but have not yet notified Mc¬ Intyre should do so at once. Each participant will pay his own expenses plus a $5 registration fee. Anyone who is in¬ terested in the field may attend, and professional practitioners are being encouraged to invite administrators, school board officials, and legislators so that they may learn more about instructional broadcasting. Other members of the conference committee besides the co- chairmen are: William Ewing, Ohio State University; Bart Griffith, University of Missouri; Stephen Hathaway, Miami University of Ohio; Roy J. Johnson, University of Miami; Lynn Kalmbach, South Carolina ETV Center; Robert Lesher, Hagerstown; and Lt. Col. Robert E. Wood, Air University, Maxwell Air Force Base. These are the people who met in Washington to discuss such a conference, and who were named in the Washington Report of February 8, 1963. New members of the committee are Robert R. Suchy, Milwaukee Public Schools, Mrs. Kath¬ leen Lardie, Detroit Board of Education, and Clair R. Tet- temer, Sr., Twin City Area Educational Television Corpora¬ tion, St. Paul, who were chosen to give adequate representa¬ tion from the schools. Convention Session Topics Needed For two successive years, NAEBers who have attended the national convention have voted the special-interest sessions as the most popular feature. These sessions are currently being planned for the Milwaukee convention this fall, and the com¬ mittee needs suggestions for specific topics, as well as sug¬ gestions as to who should be asked to present the papers. Please send all such recommendations to Jack McBride, chair¬ man of the Permanent Convention Committee, at KUON-TV, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, with a carbon copy to NAEB Vice President Harold Hill. California Approves NAEB Membership At its meeting in Los Angeles on February 14, 1963, the California State Board of Education passed a resolution ap¬ proving the NAEB for membership by schools and by county superintendents of schools. The resolution carries specific ap¬ proval for the school years 1962-63, 1963-64, and 1964-65. Representatives of school systems in the state have reported in the past that California schools could not join an organi¬ zation without such approval. 1