NAEB Newsletter (August 1, 1963)

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Wichita Falls, Texas; Kenneth L. Stewart, San Antonio; Major John H. Stockwell, Dayton; Benjamin B. Sutton, Jr., Biloxi; Capt. Charles M. Thompson, San Antonio; Noel Ur- quizo, Washington; James C. Webb, Greenville, Mississippi; L. Clinton West, Madison; Lt. Robert L. Winstead, Lack- land AFB, Texas; Major Roy R. Wood, Dayton. Publications • Recently received in the NAEB Publications Office were copies of the 1963 Educators Guide to Free Films and the 1963 Educators Guide to Free Filmstrips. The former, in its 23rd annual edition, costs $9 a copy, and the latter, the 15th annual edition, $6, both from Educators Progress Service, Randolph, Wisconsin. • The Japan Broadcasting Corporation has issued a hand¬ some publication describing its main activities during the year 1962, called NHK Handbook 1963. • History in Sound is a catalog of World War II radio broadcasts by CBS which have been deposited in the phono- archive at the University of Washington. Milo Ryan is the author, and the University of Washington Press, Seattle, the publisher. $15. • The third edition of Television and Radio has been pub¬ lished. Authors of the 658-page volume are Garnet R. Garri¬ son, director of broadcasting, and Edgar E. Willis, speech department, both of the University of Michigan, and Giraud Chester, vice president in charge of TV program adminis¬ tration for NBC. Garrison and Chester wrote the two pre¬ ceding editions. • The August 25, 1963, Houston Chronicle will carry a roto¬ gravure magazine on the University of Houston, which is to become a state-assisted college this year. • Ampex Corporation has issued a file folder containing six booklets on videotape recorders and associated equipment. Write Ampex, 934 Charter Street, Redwood City, California. • RCA has issued a four-page information bulletin on writ¬ ing a TV system specification. Write Educational Electronics, Broadcast and Communications Products Division, RCA, Camden 2, New Jersey. • Studies of Broadcasting is the title of a publication to be published annually by the Japan Broadcasting Corporation. A few copies of the first issue may be obtained by any institu¬ tion or library, by writing to: Editorial Office, NHK Theo¬ retical Research Center, 1-10 Atagocho, Minatoku, Tokyo, Japan. The publication includes articles by Paul F. Lazars- feld, Wilbur Schramm, and Japanese researchers. • Report of the first year’s work of the Northeastern Re¬ gional Instructional Television Library Project. $1 for mail¬ ing and handling, from: 238 Main Street, Cambridge 42, Massachusetts. . • For reprints of “Audio-Visual Education: A Partial Bib¬ liography of 209 American Doctoral Dissertations,” compiled by Franklin Parker, University of Texas, write: William C. Pryor, Jr., Assistant Editor, Film World and A-V News, Sidale Publishing Co., 672 South Lafayette Park Place, Los Angeles 57. • Christian Philosophy contains the text of a series of eight half-hour radio lectures broadcast on the CBC University of the Air. Hard-cover edition $1.75, soft-cover $1. CBC Pub¬ lications, Box 500, Toronto 1, Ontario. • The Department of Radio and TV of the University of Alabama has printed a 28-page pronunciation guide to Ala¬ bama place names. • Two bibliographies may be obtained from Department NA, Television Information Office, 666 Fifth Ave., New York 19: No. 1, “Television and Education,” and No. 2, “Television: Freedom, Responsibility, Regulation.” • 8mm Sound, Film and Education, edited by Louis Forsdale, may be obtained for $2.50 from the Bureau of Publications, Columbia University, 525 West 120th St., New York 27. • Norwood Films has released a supplement to their 1962- 1963 film catalogue. Free from Norwood Films, 926 New Jersey Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. • McGraw-Hill’s new film catalog lists the instructional films available through them for secondary school and col¬ lege. • The USOE has issued a 54-page booklet “New Media for Instruction,” available from the Government Printing Office, Washington 25, D.C., for 25c each. • Also available from the GPO, for $1.25 each, is House Re¬ port No. 281, entitled Television Network Program Procure¬ ment. News Notes PERSONNEL ^ Gene Dillehay has been named manager of WNAD, Uni¬ versity of Oklahoma’s radio station. He was formerly with KWTV, Oklahoma City commercial TV station. ^ Broadcasting reports that Dr. John R. Winnie, of the State University of Iowa, will head the Peace Corps ETV project in Colombia. ^ Dr. Clair R. Tettemer last month left his post at KTCA¬ TV, St. Paul, to become general manager of WFME-TV, new ETV station for the Fargo (N.D.)-Moorhead (Minn.) area. ^ Dr. Halas Jackim, former executive director of the Corn¬ ing (N.Y.) ETV Center, has accepted a professorship at the State University College of Oswego (N.Y.). ^ The Rev. Lawrence W. McMaster, Jr., executive director of the United Presbyterian Division of Radio and Television for the past six years, has been named executive secretary in the Office of the General Secretary of the Board of National Missions, United Presbyterian Church, U.S.A. Named as interim executive director is the Rev. Charles Brackbill, as¬ sociate executive director. y Florence M. Monroe, TV supervisor of the New York City board of education’s WNYE, has been elected president of the city’s chapter of American Women in Radio and Tele¬ vision. ^ Carl Falb Jr. has left the Akron Public Schools to join the staff of the Telecommunications Center at Ohio State Uni¬ versity, to do liaison work between WOSU-TV and the schools which use its classroom instruction programs. Miss Ruth Engman replaces Falb as coordinator of radio-television education for the Akron schools. ^ James K. Petersen, producer-director for the University of Florida’s WUFT-TV, has been appointed director of radio and television for the new Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton. ^ Dr. Kenneth A. Christiansen, director of TV at the Uni¬ versity of Florida, is spending a month in India evaluating the effectiveness of ETV in the New Delhi schools. ^ Dr. Hugh Cordier, head of the radio-TV department, University of Illinois, has been elected vice president of the APBE. ^ Loren B. Stone, manager of KCTS-TV, University of Washington, was honored as “Man of the Year” by the Na¬ tional Community Television Association at its convention in June. NAEB Newsletter, a monthly publication issued by the Na¬ tional Association of Educational Broadcasters, 119 Gregory Hall, Urbana, III. 61803. $5.00 a year, $7.50 including Washington Re¬ port. Editor: Betty McKenzie. Phone 333-0580. Area Code 217. Reporters: Region I —Michael Ambrosino, EEN, 238 Main St., Cambridge, Mass. —Ruane Hill, WAER (FM), Syracuse University, Syra¬ cuse, N. Y. Region II —Shirley Ford, WUOT, University of Tennessee, Knox¬ ville. —Lou Peneguy, AETC, 2151 Highland Ave., Birming¬ ham, Ala. Region III —McCabe Day, WVSH, School City of Huntington, Ind. Region IV —Richard Vogl, KTCA-TV, 1640 Como Ave., St. Paul, Minn. 2 NEWSLETTER