NAEB Newsletter (October 1, 1963)

^ Mark Damen, free-lance writer and producer, has been named producer-director for WUFT-TV, University of Flori¬ da. He is a native of The Netherlands and formerly was spe¬ cial projects producer for WQED, Pittsburgh, and special projects director for WYES-TV, New Orleans. He also was producer of This New House, NET series on the European common market. ^ Ray Carlton is the new facilities supervisor-technician for WUFT-TV. He was formerly studio supervisor and lighting director for KLRN-TV, Austin, Texas. y Karl Haas, director of fine arts for commercial WJR, De¬ troit, has been appointed by the governor of Michigan as chairman of a new State Council for the Arts. ^ James K. Buckalew has begun his duties as radio-TV jour¬ nalism instructor at the University of Iowa. For the last three years he has been with WTHI-TV, Terre Haute, In¬ diana, producing and presenting news shows and working with public affairs programs, as well as serving at times as announcer and director. ^ Martin E. Pinsker, supervisor of network operations for CBS, this fall is teaching a course in announcing, speaking, and newscasting for New York University. He will stress practical broadcasting skills, using tape recordings, individual analysis of performances, discussions of styles, and review of professional requirements. ^ H. Lee Marks has been named chief engineer of WTV1, the Charlotte, North Carolina, ETV station scheduled to be¬ gin operations next year. Marks has been assistant chief en¬ gineer for KTCA-TV, Minneapolis-St. Paul. ^ Murrell F. Jones, superintendent of Monroe County schools, Indiana, has been named field associate for MPATI. He will work with all schools in southern Illinois and four southern Indiana counties. ^ Jack D. Hewett, former commercial radio station executive and announcer, has been appointed admissions counselor at Ithaca College, New York. ^ Jonathan Schiller, formerly program director of WIAA-FM at the National Music Camp, Interlochen, Michigan, is now the coordinator of music communications for the School of Music at the University of Illinois. ^ George Gerbner has written, for the October Phi Delta Kappan, a critical essay on the new NBC series about a high school teacher, Mr. Novak. On the whole he seems to feel that the series is a promising one, one which will generally present the teacher in a realistic light. ^ Jack Jennerjahn, WHA-TV producer-director, has resigned to join the staff of KTCA, St. Paul-Minneapolis. ^ WFSU-TV, Florida State University, announces new staff¬ ers : Richard Heuer, production manager, formerly producer- director at WMSB, Michigan State University and free-lance film cameraman in New York City; Ron Whittaker, staff producer-director, formerly producer-director in New Bruns¬ wick, Canada; D. Keith Carlson, also staff producer-director, formerly WFSU studio supervisor; and Ron Bissland, studio supervisor. ^ Richard B. Sessoms has joined Colonial Williamsburg as a general assistant in the press bureau. Among his duties will be handling television liaison. ^ William Scott, formerly with KCSD-TV, Kansas City, has joined the staff of WETV, Atlanta, Georgia, as producer- director. ^ Harold Lowery has been promoted to producer by the Birmingham studio of the Alabama ETV network. His former position as film editor has been filled by Eric Smith, Jr., who had a similar job with the network’s Auburn studio. ^ Added to the St. Petersburg Junior College radio-TV com¬ bination teaching-production staff are David Platts and Ken¬ neth Stein. In August the department moved into its own modern classroom-studio building. NAEB Headquarters: Suite 1119, 1346 Connecticut Avenue, N. W., Washington, D. C., 20036. Phone 667-6000. Area Code 202. INSTRUCTION ^ Last month the Wisconsin School of the Air began its 33rd year of broadcasting programs for in-school listening. Through the ten stations of the state broadcasting service, the School of the Air reached some 235,000 pupils during the 1962-63 year. This year’s schedule includes thirteen series of programs covering creative activities, health, music, science, and social studies. ^ Meantime, WHA-TV, the University of Wisconsin tele¬ vision station, is offering twelve courses for in-school view¬ ing. WHA-TV coverage was extended in May, 1963, to cover an eleven-county area. The Wisconsin School of the Air- Television courses are in arithmetic, French, algebra, kinder¬ garten, nature, science, and Exploring the News. ^ TV College of the Chicago City Junior College will be on the air on WTTW for its eighth consecutive year. College courses for the fall trimester will be in biology, physics, art education, German, English composition, speech, psychology, slide rule, and world literature. ^ Stanley P. Lapin, of Adler Electronics, predicts that teach¬ ing by TV is likely to become as familiar as the use of text¬ books by 1970. Lapin made the comment in a speech before the third annual ETV conference at Fordham University in August. ^ Dr. Seymour A. Smith, president of Stephens College, has announced the ten colleges and universities that will partici¬ pate with Stephens in the telephone network linking their classrooms (see August NAEB Newsletter, page 3). For the first semester of 1963-64, these will participate: Drury Col¬ lege, Springfield, Missouri; Kansas Wesleyan University, Salina; Langston University, Langston, Oklahoma; LeMoyne College, Memphis; Morehouse College, Atlanta; and Wilber- force University, Wilberforce, Ohio. During the second se¬ mester these four will join the telephone network: Grambling College, Grambling, Louisiana; Jackson State College, Jack- son, Mississippi; Southern University, Baton Rouge, Louis¬ iana; and Tougaloo Southern Christian College, Tougaloo, Mississippi. y The University of Texas announces that an octagonal lec¬ ture hall in its new undergraduate library and academic cen¬ ter will allow almost limitless possibilities in imaginative teaching. From his lectern, the lecturer can call forth visual projections, recorded sounds, and ETV presentations—or bring into view a demonstration set up in advance on a revolving stage. Lectures can be translated simultaneously into four lan¬ guages for individual headsets, and microphones are distrib¬ uted throughout the auditorium so that students can ask or answer questions. GENERAL ^ September 12 was dedication day for the Philadelphia area’s new ETV outlet on Channel 12, WHYY-TV. Among the roster of guests on the opening program was FCC Chairman E. William Henry, introduced by NAEB President William Harley. A number of programs on the new station originate in the Wilmington studios—including a series of weekly news analysis programs to be produced by the Wilmington news¬ papers. ^ September, 1964, is the target for large-scale programing by the Charlotte-Mecklenburg (N.C.) station, WTVI. Work¬ ing drawings for the station are finished and construction bids are being received. Georgia’s fourth ETV station, WVAN, Pembroke, began roadcasting September 9. It transmits videotapes originated by WGTV, University of Georgia. ^ Northwestern University’s “Reviewing Stand” begins its thirtieth year of continuous broadcasts with the program of October 13. It is radio’s longest-run discussion-interview series, and one of broadcasting’s oldest programs still on the air. It began as a cooperative venture of commercial WGN and Northwestern University, and two years later Mutual Broad¬ casting began carrying the weekly programs. Today it sup¬ plies the series to some 125 of its affiliates. October, 1963 3