NAEB Newsletter (September 1, 1963)

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program coordinator for the past year, has been named as¬ sistant to the manager. Theodore Nielsen has become station program manager after serving since 1960 as producer and production manager. Karl Schmidt has been appointed special projects director, in an administrative and developmental ca¬ pacity. He has been on the WHA staff since 1947. ► Col. Robert E. Wood has been transferred to the Pentagon as director of ETV and film, USAF. Col. Thomas C. Cook has succeeded him as director of ETV at Academic Instructors School, Air University, Maxwell AFB. ► Victor Kerns has been named assistant director of school programs for KTCA-TV, Minneapolis-St. Paul. He has been a school and college teacher and curriculum administrator for twenty-three years, and has taught junior high science subjects on the Alabama ETV network for four years. ► Karl Haas, director of fine arts for commercial WJR, De¬ troit, is representing the Ford Foundation as their consultant in Berlin, Germany. While in Berlin he will retain his post at WJR. ► New on the staff of WTTW, Chicago, is A1 Binford, for¬ merly with WMVS and WMVT, Milwaukee. ► Charles Vlcek, CCTV coordinator at Central Washington State College, Ellensburg, has received the NDEA New Media Education fellowship to Michigan State University, for three years of study leading to the doctorate degree. ► New staffers at WMVS and WMVT, Milwaukee are: Larry Long, producer-director, formerly on the staff of KUON- TV, University of Nebraska and Bill Perrin, continuity writer and station announcer, formerly a Milwaukee teacher and also on the staff of several commercial radio stations. ► Ben A. Bohnhorst has been appointed acting vice president of MPATI, following the resignation of B. D. Godbold, who left his post of executive vice president to become staff vice president of the Graduate Research Center of the Southwest at Dallas. Bohnhorst has been MPATI’s director of course development. ► Verne Weber, University of Michigan, has replaced Edward Stasheff as the NAEB representative to the University Film Producers Association. ► NAEB President Harley was the banquet speaker August 19 at an ETV workshop sponsored by the state department of public instruction at the University of North Carolina. ► Mrs. Mary Ann Buddington has joined the NAEB Wash¬ ington staff as secretary to the president. She replaces Pat Watts, who left August 1. STATE AND REGIONAL ACTIVITIES ► Pennsylvania recently appropriated $970,000 for the de¬ partment of public instruction to help establish and operate ETV facilities. GENERAL ► Purdue University’s WBAA has been placed under ad¬ ministrative jurisdiction of university extension. No staff changes are contemplated and no immediate drastic programing changes are planned—although fuller development of college- level credit courses by radio is anticipated. ► New uses of photography and TV in education will be out¬ lined in papers at the SMPTE technical conference in Boston October 13-18. Hartford Gunn, Jr., general manager of WGBH, is topic chairman for the education papers. Among those on the schedule are: Michel Beilis, AT&T; Robert W. Cannaday, Jr., Modern Language Project; Theodore Conant, Ford Founda¬ tion; John A. Maurer, JM Developments, Inc.; Russ Morash, WGBH; and Alan R. Stephenson, 21" Classroom. ► A recent report describes the first year of pay-TV in the Hartford project as “encouraging and enlightening.” The re¬ port says that over 3,000 homes are being served and that program expenditures are consistent and disconnections have been low. NAEB Headquarters: Suite 1119, 1346 Connecticut Avenue, N. W„ Washington, D. C„ 20036. Phone 667-6000. Area Code 202. ► WFSU-TV, Florida State University, has won $500 and a gold plaque for its “—Soon There Will Be 74” entry in the American Federation for the Blind national competition. The program dealt with local blind residents who' have become successful despite their sightlessness. The telecast title was taken from a case history included in the program which de¬ scribes a Tallahassee girl who will soon become the county’s 74th blind person due to an incurable illness she contracted. ► NAEB Industrial Associate Dage Television has become a division of the Harvey-Wells Corporation. In a letter telling of the new affiliation, Dale A. Schonmeyer, regional sales man¬ ager, says it appears that 1963 and on into 1964 will be truly banner years for the Dage Television operation. While Dage is dropping certain camera equipments from the line, he says they are being dropped only in favor of “higher quality, much improved equipment which is being made available to com¬ pletely replace that equipment which may be dropped. In ad¬ dition to this we intend to supply that type of camera equipment which has been manufactured in the past to any of our cus¬ tomers who may wish to continue expanding their present systems with the previously used camera equipments.” ► During the month of August, KUON-TV, University of Nebraska, trained 16 Colombians and 18 U. S. citizens who will take part in the Peace Corps ETV project in Colombia. Ron Hull, KUON-TV program manager, coordinated the training project, which involved three hours of Spanish, three hours of TV production, and three hours of film production each day six days a week. The trainees will operate two TV stations in Bogota, with ITV programs during the day and adult pro¬ grams in the evening. ► DePauw University’s WGRE recently hosted the first In¬ diana Collegiate Broadcasting Conference. Plans are afoot for another meeting at Butler University in October. The purpose of the conference is to better acquaint personnel of Indiana college stations with each other, to discuss problems of common interest, and to explore the possibilities for an Indiana college network. ► A power increase in mid-August doubled the coverage area of WBIQ-TV, Birmingham, according to Raymond Hurlbert, Alabama ETV Commission general manager. ► In reporting on activities at radio station WNAS, Vernon McKown, director of A-V education for the New Albany-Floyd County (Ind.) schools, says that for fourteen years, 22-member student staffs have been planning, writing, and producing weekly programs for use in the elementary classrooms. In 1962-63, these included “Junior Quiz” (science), “Our Community” (local history), “Spell Around,” “Magic Carpet” (stories), and “What Would You Do” (ethics). ► Wanda B. Mitchell, TV department, Evanston Township High School, reports the activities there: A daily radio show of school news and interviews sent via direct telephone line to Evanston’s WEAW for broadcast. This program is written, directed, produced, and engineered by high school students. On PTA open house nights last year, the Radio Workshop used CCTV monitors in the lobby to demonstrate how a radio show is presented, and they also distributed to parents the program schedule of their daily broadcasts. TV activities include fresh¬ man orientation lessons (24 in one week) ; group counseling in course election; remotes from the swimming pool, auditorium, and gym; interviews with college representatives and a member of the College Entrance Examination Board; daily science demonstration; interviews with school personnel; demonstra¬ tions by Junior Red Cross and the industrial arts department; and instruction in every major sport. The radio studio was recently outfitted with a new tape recorder, new board, and new acoustical drapes. ► WJCT, Jacksonville, gained $36,000 from an auction during its recent third annual fund-raising campaign. Fred Rebrnan, general manager, said area merchants donated over a thousand items including a mink stole, a 1963 Thunderbird, a pony, and Caribbean cruises. The most unusual donation (by the Atlantic Coast Line) was a 105-foot tugboat. SEPTEMBER 1963 3