NAEB Newsletter (September 1, 1963)

NEWSLETTER NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EDUCATIONAL BROADCASTERS VOL. 28, NO. 9 SEPTEMBER, 1963 NAEB Seeks Teachers for Samoa Qualified elementary teachers are being sought for the new ETV system which the NAEB is installing in American Samoa. Teachers with experience in TV teaching or as TV teaching supervisors, who are interested in going to Samoa, should write to Vernon Bronson, NAEB director of research and develop¬ ment, 1346 Connecticut Avenue, N.W., Washington, D. C., 20036. The positions will be open around the first of the year. DESIGN ENGINEERING COMPLETED Smith Electronics, Inc., has successfully completed the design engineering phases of the Samoan ETV system, and further engineering phases of the project will be contracted for as the situation warrants. Cecil Bidlack, NAEB TV engineer for over four years in 1954-59, was in charge of the project at Smith Electronics. In announcing completion of this project phase, Vernon Bronson said, “Smith Electronics has solved some unique prob¬ lems of television propagation in Samoa that will be of con¬ tinuing value as TV systems are developed in other remote areas of the world.” 75 Meet at Lake Okoboji Some 75 leaders in the field of uses of mass media in edu¬ cation met in August at the ninth Audiovisual Leadership Conference, Lake Okoboji, Iowa. Topic of the session was “Learning Theory as it Relates to New Media and the Learner.” Burton Paulu, NAEB Radio Board member from Region IV, attended the by-invitation-only conference as the NAEB repre¬ sentative, while NAEB Vice President Harold Hill attended as the representative of the Educational Media Council. Information Wanted A Newsletter reader is seeking information on television in education in the following areas: nursing, dentistry, post¬ doctoral, industrial training—such as management seminars, scientific seminars, and worker retraining. He is looking for information similar to that in the SREB brochure “Television in Education for the Health Professions in the South,” recently mailed to all NAEB members. Please send any such information to the Newsletter. Readers' Almanac Passes 1,000 On July 11, Warren Bower was on the air with his 1,000th broadcast of The Readers’ Almanac, the NAEB Radio Network program on which he interviews writers, publishers, critics, teachers, and others for whom books are the major business of life. He began the program in November, 1938. Programs are taped in the studios of New York University, where he is assistant dean of the Division of General Education, and dis¬ tributed to 65 NAEB stations from Florida to Alaska. Edwin Adams Dies Edwin Adams, pioneer educational broadcaster, died in Au¬ gust. He was formerly an NAEB Board member and com¬ mittee chairman, and had been on the staff of KUOW, University of Washington. 1963 NAEB Convention Notes • November 17-20, Hotel Schroeder, Milwaukee. Ken Lofgren, special effects coordinator, WMVS and WMVT, is chairing the local convention committee. o Members will receive early in September copies of the ad¬ vance program. Enclosed with this Newsletter is a flyer about the scheduled social events and the automatic insurance coverage for all who register before November 1. • Bruce Raymond, director of the English Radio Network for CBC, will speak at the session on radio programing Tuesday at 10:45 a.m. A. H. Partridge, CBC’s international exchange officer, says of Raymond: “He has many ideas regarding the role of radio and its place in society and has been bringing a completely fresh outlook to' the CBC network.” • The all-day technical session on Tuesday, November 19, will include the following papers (these are in addition to special- interest sessions of the regular convention) : “Television Camera Modifications,” Roger Penn, American University, Washington, D. C.; “Relating Technical Radio and Television Standards and Educational Needs,” John Renner, director, Jansky & Bailey Systems Division, Atlantic Research Corporation; “New FCC Logging Rules,” Harold Kassens, assistant chief, Broad¬ cast Facilities Division, Broadcast Bureau, FCC; and “Remote Control Operation for AM-FM Transmitters,” Rob Beldon, WILL, University of Illinois. There will also be a technical tour of WMVS facilities. Congressional Record Prints NAEB Program One of the NAEB Radio Network’s programs on the wheat referendum was reprinted in its entirety in the Congressional Record in July. The program was Washington Report No. 114, “An Attempt to Clarify the Results of the Recent Wheat Referendum,” produced by John Lewis, and released to network stations on June 9. Journal Contributions Help Fill Gap In response to the item in the July Newsletter, requesting copies of old NAEB Journals in order to complete the Pub¬ lications Office file, issues were received from Hugh Greene, University of Texas; John R. Haney, University of Florida; and Raymond Wyman, University of Massachusetts. Their copies, plus those previously contributed by Tracy Tyler, filled the gaps in all but the first two volumes. Still missing are Vol. 1 No. 1, Sept., 1941; Vol. 1 No. 2, Oct., 1941; and Vol. 2, No. 4, Dec., 1942. If anyone has copies of these he is willing to give up, please send to the NAEB, 119 Gregory Hall, Urbana, Illinois, 61803. 1