NAEB Newsletter (June 1, 1963)

NAEB Sudan Engineer Returns to Iowa As we go to press, Clarence D. Phillips, studio engineer for the NAEB Sudan project, is expected back on the campus of the State University of Iowa by June 1. He has com¬ pleted a two-year assignment for the Sudanese radio facility, in which he was a consultant and also trained native personnel in basic electronics and in operating and maintaining studio and control room equipment. He was on leave from his Iowa post of chief engineer of the TV center. Competition for Fulbright Awards Now Open Awards for university lecturing in fields of interest to NAEB- ers are being offered for the academic year 1964-65 under provisions of the Fulbright-Hays Act. Eligibility requirements include U. S. citizenship, a minimum of one year of college teaching experience, and in certain cases, a knowledge of the language of the host country. Competition for the awards is open now and will close August 1, 1963. For information and application forms, write to: Committee on International Exchange of Persons, Con¬ ference Board of Associated Research Councils, 2101 Consti¬ tution Avenue, N. W., Washington 25, D. C. • Ethiopia, journalism, October 1964-July 1965. Program in journalism is directed toward providing adequate numbers of well-trained young people to staff newspapers, magazines, radio, television, and advertising organizations as these de¬ velop in Ethiopia. Visiting scholar will be affiliated with Haile Selassie I University, founded December, 1961. As¬ signment details not available in announcement; will be sup¬ plied on request. • Ghana, visual aids, September 1964-June 1965. An experi¬ enced lecturer to advise the Institute of Education, University of Ghana, on new aspects and techniques of visual aids in edu¬ cation. • The Philippines, teacher education, August 1964-May 1965. A lecturer with competence and experience in educational tele¬ vision relating to teaching at the elementary, secondary, or col¬ legiate levels. Affiliation with the Ateneo de Manila, with some lecturing and consulting in other institutions in the Manila area. • Thailand, journalism, May 1964-April 1965. Thammasal University, Bangkok. This is the only institution of higher learning in Thailand that offers instruction in journalism. Re¬ quested is a lecturer qualified to assist in the development of the curriculum and to train potential Thai instructors in the field. Among the subjects on which courses would be welcome are: history, organization, techniques, and responsibilities of mass communication media; history and principles of journal¬ ism; reporting; news editing; radio and television journalism; editorial writing. Lecturer may be invited to stay a second year provided the. arrangement is mutually satisfactory. TV Combats Human Obsolescence At a recent FCC inquiry in Omaha, Dr. Paul Miller, super¬ intendent of Omaha schools, said that television offers a way to combat increasing human obsolescence. He said that the population explosion is easily explained and has been drama¬ tized over the past three years; therefore the public is in¬ formed. Though less well known, the explosion of knowledge is equally dramatic, he said. Considering that the population is doubling every forty-two years and knowledge is doubling every twelve years, he said, the adult population will become obsolete within a decade after graduation; therefore, TV as a medium of adult education has a responsibility to keep the general population up to date and running abreast of the knowledge explosion. In addition, he commented that since surveys show that children watch TV about thirty-seven hours a week (which is more than they attend school, he noted), the educational content of programs should be reviewed in order to help schools also keep children abreast of this knowledge explosion. NAEB' Headquarters: Suite 1119, 1346 Connecticut Avenue, N. W., Washington 36, D. C. Phone 667-6000 Area Code 202. SPECIAL PUBLICATION OFFER For the next two months, you may purchase the following NAEB publications at the reduced rate of two for $1.50 or all four for $2.50. Please order by number. R-17: Conducting a Telephone Coincidental Survey. Research Project Report ff4 —Samuel L. Becker. A study of the telephone survey of listeners to educational broad¬ casting, December, 1958. 15 pages. S-24: High School Radio & TV Curriculum Guide. A guide published by the NAEB in cooperation with the Michigan Speech Association, 1959. By Ethel F. Tincher, Edward Stasheff, and Edgar E. Willis. 38 pages. W-I8a: Children and Television. An annotated bibliography of articles, reports, books, etc., dealing with the effects of TV on children. By Dale B. Harris, June, 1959. 50 pages. W-26: NAEB Research Seminar for Educational Television and Radio. Report of the research seminar for educational TV and radio, Ohio State University, December 9-13, 1957, for research specialists in educational broadcasting. I. Keith Tyler, editor. 31 pages. PAYMENT MUST ACCOMPANY ORDER. Send to Special Publications, NAEBi, I 19 Gregory Hall, Urbana, Illinois. THIS OFFER EXPIRES AUGUST I, 1963. Publications O Tieline is a new mimeographed publication of the Great Lakes Region of the Intercollegiate Broadcasting System. The editors are soliciting papers, articles, and book reviews of in¬ terest to college broadcasters. Tom Bletcher, regional direc¬ tor, writes that mimeograph masters are to be typed by the authors; a complete author’s guide will be sent to interested parties. Write to him at 500 East William, Ann Arbor, Michi¬ gan. • Carl H. Hendershot, coordinator of improvement, Delta College, has just published a bibliography called Programmed Learning : A Bibliography of Programs and Presentation De¬ vices. The bibliographies are available at $2 each, postpaid, from Delta College, University Center, Michigan. New NAEBers ASSOCIATE Anaheim City School District, Anaheim, California; Charlotte- Mecklenburg Board of Education, Charlotte, North Carolina; Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida; Winthrop College, Rock Hill, South Carolina. INDIVIDUALS Charles R. Baddorf, Jr., Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; Rey Barnes, Iowa City; M. Virginia Biggy, Cambridge, Massachu¬ setts ; Junius Brantley, Birmingham; William R. Buccalo, Co¬ lumbus, Ohio; Edwin G. Cohen, New York; Father Francis Conklin, S.J., New Haven; Jeanne L. Davis, Garrison, New York; Lyle W. Durham, Urbana, Illinois; Ronald Eckel, Washington; James Edgy, Middletown, Connecticut; J. W. English, Chicago; Sean G. Finnegan, Madison; Linden Ann Fisher, Athens, Ohio; Robert W. Fox, Austin, Texas; Rob¬ ert A. Fredrickson, Chapel Hill; W. T. Gladmon, Pittsburgh; Archie M. Greer, Athens, Ohio; Peter Alexander Haggart, Lawrence, Kansas; Maxine Haleff, New York; Austin A. Harrison, Weston, Massachusetts; K. Duane Hurley, Salem, West Virginia; Gene Koskey, Bloomington, Indiana; Dr. Maria Lacayo, Tallahassee; Christopher S. Larke, San Fran¬ cisco; Harry Leibowitz, Brooklyn; Hal G. Lord, Littleton, Colorado; Joseph O. Loretan, Brooklyn; Donald A. Lubitz, Honolulu; Morris A. Mayers, New York; Jean Mosier, Cin¬ cinnati; Bruce W. Nelan, New York; Charles M. Northrip, Gainesville; Donald T. O’Brien, Des Moines; Frank W. Oglesbee, Tulsa; Billy B. Oxley, San Antonio; Marjorie Ann Palmer, Adrian, Michigan; Warren Sells Park, Jr., Derry Village, New Hampshire; Richard L. Parker, Tulsa; Ralph E. Patterson, Munich, Germany; William B. Perrin, Jr., Mil¬ waukee ; Kenneth Polyak, Columbus, Ohio; Stuart Roe, Los JUNE, 1963 3