NAEB Newsletter (October 1, 1963)

• September 5 is publication date for The People Look at Educational Television, by Wilbur Schramm, Jack Lyle, and Ithiel de Sola Pool. The 210-page hard-cover book is an audi¬ ence survey of nine ETV stations. $5.50 from Stanford Univer¬ sity Press. • The NEA has issued a directory of CCTV installations, with some perspectives for the future, written by Lee Campion and Clarice Kelley. Called “Occasional Paper No. 10,” copies are for sale through DAVI. • Soon to be published by Asia Publishing House, 119 West 57th St., New York, is Understanding Indian Music. The pre¬ publication note says it is probably the first book of its kind, and that Author Baburao Joshi “explains clearly and concisely the intricate and subtle nuances of Indian classical music.” Price was not given. • Kliegl Bros, has a 12-page brochure on “Lighting for the Vidicon Camera,” prepared especially for ETV and CCTV use by the Illuminating Engineering Society. Complimentary copies available from the TV department of Kliegl Bros. NOTE their new address: 32-32—48th Avenue, Long Island City 1, New York. • Two free reprints are available from Educators Progress Service, Randolph, Wisconsin: “Audio Materials and the Changing Classroom or Audio Materials and Their Challenge to the Present Day Teacher,” by Walter A. Wittich (from the new 1963 Educators Guide to Free Tapes, Scripts, and Tran¬ scriptions, $5.75 from Educators Progress) ; and “Learning, Teaching and the Curriculum Guide,” by John Guy Fowlkes (from the new Elementary Teacher 1 : Guide to Free Curriculum Materials, $7.50). • Jam Handy has announced a new series of six filmstrips “Using Punctuation and Capital Letters,” designed to help m teaching English in Grades 3 to 6. For description and order blank, write Jam Handy, 2821 East Grand Boulevard, Detroit 11. • The July issue of EBU Review is a special agricultural broadcasting number. Single copies available for 70 cents from EBU, 1, rue de Varembe, Geneva, Switzerland. New NAEBers ACTIVE . Eastern Mennonite College, Station WEMC, Harrisonburg, Virginia. AFFILIATE Central Virginia Educational Television Corporation, Rich¬ mond. INDIVIDUALS Thomas F. Baldwin, East Lansing; Arthur Allan Bartfav, Flint; Mrs. Virginia K. Bartlett, Sandwich, Massachusetts, Ensign Paul E. Bell, Jr., New York; Don R. Browne, Bos¬ ton; Elmer Brunsman, Jr., Allston, Massachusetts; Mrs. V- D. Cahill, Kent,- Ohio; Anthony Chapp, Kansas City, Mis¬ souri; John B. Cooper, III, Philadelphia; Charles J. Cope¬ land,’Columbus; Mrs. Rosita E. Cota, Tucson; George Des- sart, Philadelphia; Norman Finkelstein, Chelsea, Massachu¬ setts; Alexander J. Friedman, Cambridge; Mrs. Alice Gill, Nashville; John Glade, Lafayette; William Hawes, Fort Worth; William J. Hetzer, Jr., Brookline, Massachusetts; W. P. Hilliker, Tr., Cambridge; Joel M. Hochberg, Brooklyn; R. A. Isberg, Berkeley; Ronald I. Katzin, Calgary, Alberta, Canada; Vann M. Kennedy, Corpus Christi; Harry Kublin, Newton, Massachusetts; Russell C. Janson, Canton, Ohio; Esther M. Joyce, Youngstown, Ohio; L. Joseph LeBritton, Waverley, Massachusetts; William B. Lenz, Boston; Franzi Ascher-Nash, Elmhurst, New York; Takaya Machida, Bos¬ ton ; Jeremiah F. Madden, Madison; Herbert L. Nichols, Wash¬ ington; V. Gerard Noonan, Brookline, Massachusetts; Iola Parker, Chapel Hill; G. G. Petersen, Fairhope, Alabama; Doris H. Platt, Madison; Ebrahim Rashidpour, Bloomington, Indiana; Oscar Reed, Jr., Silver Spring; Joseph M. Ripley II, Madison; Robert C. Rowe, Albany; Aaron L. Shansky, Milwaukee; John S. Snell, Athens; Dr. Richard J. Stonesifer, Philadelphia; George H. Strimel, Jr., Bloomington, Indiana; Dr. J. W. Warfield, Detroit; Robert C. Wiegand, Colum¬ bus; Charles G. Woodhouse, Klamath Falls, Oregon. Regional Meetings Scheduled for Convention Members of the NAEB will have a chance to discuss Board agenda items with their regional directors at meetings on Tuesday, November 19. The Board will not meet to take action until after the convention, on Thursday, November 21. Luncheon meetings at noon on November 19 have been scheduled for Regions I, III, IV, and V. Members of Region II will meet at 12:45 p.m., after members have lunched separately. The price for the luncheons will be $3.50. Bretz Joins National Education Sciences Staff Rudy Bretz, until recently head of ETV at UCLA, has joined the National Education Sciences Corporation as vice presi¬ dent in charge of television systems planning. The organiza¬ tion was formed early this year by David M. Snow, Ana¬ heim (Calif.) school board member, who was responsible for the launching of the Anaheim ITV project. NES announces itself as the first consulting firm specializing in the new edu¬ cational methods and media. Arthur Heiss Dies Arthur S. Heiss, A-V consultant at Maxwell Air Force Base, and an NAEB member, died August 25. WRVR Programs Acclaimed The radio documentaries recorded last May in Birmingham by a team from WRVR, the FM station of the Riverside Church in New York, have received acclaim from the public and from reviewers. Jack Gould, in the Nezv York Times, called the series a “. . . first class journalistic coup ... a remarkable social document for the ear . . .” Herm Schoen- feld, in Variety: “. . . radio journalism at its best . . .” John Horn, in the New York Herald-Tribune : “. . . fine example of radio-journalism enterprise ...” NAEB network stations have been offered the series, and fifty members have ordered it to date. A number of other stations have ordered the programs direct from WRVR. Tapes have been made available for broadcast by the Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, the BBC, the Swedish Broad¬ casting Corporation, and the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation. Listener mail in response to the tapes has been arriving at WRVR from all over the United States. Characteristic of the general public opinion was a letter which labeled the series “magnificent journalism” having “intensity that no TV re¬ portage could ever match and vividness well beyond what is possible for the newsman depending upon the written word.” A number of tapes have been rented or purchased for use by discussion groups, and tapes are being used directly for instruction in high school social studies classes, university seminars, and in advanced social science research. News Notes PERSONNEL ^ James Robertson, vice president for network affairs, NETRC, has resigned his position in New York and will assume the duties of general manager of the forthcoming Los Angeles ETV station on or before November 1. 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. Region II —Shirley Ford, WUOT, University of Tennessee, Knox¬ ville. —Lou Peneguy, AET'C, 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