NAEB Newsletter (October 1, 1963)

A E B NEWSLETTER NATIONAL ASSOCIATION O F E D UCATIONAL BROADCASTERS VOL. 28, NO. 10 OCTOBER, 1963 Shayon to Keynote NAEB Convention Robert Lewis Shayon, radio-TV critic for the Saturday Re- view for some fourteen years, will give the keynote address at the NAEB convention on Monday, November 18. His topic will be “Responsibility in Educational Broadcasting.” Shayon has been producer and writer for the radio series “You Are There,” and in 1959 he wrote, produced, and nar¬ rated the series “Everybody’s Mountain,” a series about edu¬ cational mountaintops which was offered to NAEB Radio Network stations. Utilization Committee to Prepare Bibliography Gale R. Adkins, chairman of the NAEB Utilization Commit¬ tee, has asked Newsletter readers to suggest magazine or journal articles to be included in an annotated bibliography being prepared by his committee. The bibliography is to con¬ tain a selected listing and brief annotations of the best ar¬ ticles dealing with the utilization of radio and TV programs. Send recommendations to Adkins at Flint Hall, University of Kansas, Lawrence. Individual Member Addresses Needed The directory of NAEB Individual Members is being pre¬ pared (to appear as part of the January-February NAEB Journal). All who anticipate address changes as of January 1 should notify Mrs. Dotty Templeton, NAEB, 119 Gregory Hall, Urbana, Illinois 61803. Sylvester to Address NAEB Convention Arthur Sylvester, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs will speak on “Broadcasting Public Affairs” at the November 20 general session of the NAEB convention. On that same day he will address a luncheon co-sponsored by the NAEB and the Milwaukee Radio Television Council. His topic will be “Government Information in a Free Society.” Committees to Meet at NAEB Convention Following are those committees whose chairmen have sched¬ uled meetings during the NAEB convention: Sunday, November 17 3:30 p.m.—Radio Network School Committee 4:00 p.m.—Professional Development Committee 6 :30 p.m.—Industry Relations Committee 8 :00 p.m.—Personnel Placement Committee Wednesday, November 20 Noon—ETV Commissions Committee " —Engineering Committee " —Industry Relations Committee " —International Relations Committee " —Membership Committee " —Permanent Convention Committee " —Professional Development Committee " —Publications Committee " —Radio Advisory Committee " —Radio Network Committee " —Research Committee " —Utilization Committee Music Directors to Meet Indiana University’s WFIU will host an NAEB music con¬ ference October 22-23. Station music directors from Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin have been invited. Mrs. Kathryn Fraser, supervisor of music programs at WFIU, reports that the conference will be patterned after last year’s Region III conference at Ann Arbor. There will be sessions on music programing, music recording, and music clearances. A special feature will be the first recital of a new composition written by the I. U. composer in residence, and played by the I. U. quartet in residence. Grant Increased for Utilization Kits The USOE recently granted another $54,000 to the NAEB for production of utilization kits. The kits, “illustrating proper teacher utilization of broadcast materials,” are to be ready for use sometime after the first of the year. The additional money will allow production on film instead of tape. Clair Tettemer, general manager of WFME, Fargo, North Dakota, is director of the NAEB utilization project. Serving on his advisory committee are: Elaine Afton, KETC, St. Louis; Charles Hettinger, Pittsburgh Public Schools; Arlene McKellar, Wisconsin School of the Air; Wanda Mitchell, Evanston Township High School; and Lew Rhodes, Central Michigan University. NAEB Acquires New Industrial Associate Microwave Services International, Inc., has joined the NAEB as an Industrial Associate. The firm headquarters in Denville, New Jersey. Publications • Copies of a speech describing the 2500-megacycle closed- circuit service for ITV are available, free, from the Indus¬ trial Products Division, Adler Electronics, Inc., 1 LeFevre Lane, New Rochelle, New York. 9 Four Theories of the Press is a new book published by the University of Illinois Press. Authors are Fred Siebert, Theo¬ dore Peterson, and Wilbur Schramm. The “four theories” are the authoritarian, libertarian, social responsibility, and Soviet Communist concepts of what the press should be and do. Price of the paperback is $1.25. • Recently received in the Newsletter office was a copy of Exploring the Ways of Mankind, by Walter Goldschmidt. The author states in the preface that the book is designed so that it may be used in conjunction with Album I of the NAEB series Ways of Mankind. Since the books Readings in the Ways of Mankind (printed to accompany Albums I and II) have been out of print for some time, this book provides an alternative. Holt, Rinehart and Winston are the publishers. • Comparative Research on Methods and Media for Pre¬ senting Programed Courses in Mathematics and English is the title of a report recently published by Pennsylvania State University. It reports on the results of a Title VII project there under the direction of C. R. Carpenter and L. P. Green- hill. 1