NAEB Newsletter (November 1, 1963)

NEWSLETTER NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EDUCATIONAL BROADCASTERS VOL. 28, NO. 11 NOVEMBER, 1963 Convention Offers Variety for Wives Wives of NAEBers attending the convention in Milwaukee may choose to participate in all, or some, of the activities planned for them by the local convention committee. Following is an outline of the schedule: Monday afternoon, November 18—Tour of Mayfair Shop¬ ping Center. Tea at Marshall Field’s Tea Room. Tuesday afternoon, November 19—Luncheon at a rustic country inn in Thiensville, Wisconsin. Looking and shopping in the exclusive shops there. Wednesday morning, November 19—Tour of the Greek Orthodox Church designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Con¬ ducted tour of exhibition at the Milwaukee Art Center on the shore of Lake Michigan. Lunch in the Victorian dining room of the stately Hotel Pfister. Tickets will be available in the registration area. Smith Replaces Sylvester at Convention David A. Smith will address the NAEB convention in Mil¬ waukee in place of Arthur Sylvester, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs, who will be unable to attend. Smith, who is from Sylvester’s office, will speak on “Broad¬ casting Public Affairs” at the November 20 general session. He will also address a luncheon co-sponsored by the NAEB and the Milwaukee Radio Television Council. Music Directors Meet Indiana University’s radio-TV department hosted a confer¬ ence of Midwest educational broadcast music directors Octo¬ ber 22 and 23. Representatives from ten radio stations in seven states attended. They appointed a committee, chaired by Harry B. Welliver, WUOM, University of Michigan, to start plan¬ ning for next year’s conference, and also to petition for quasi¬ official NAEB status for the group. This was the directors’ second meeting, the first having been in November, 1962, at the University of Michigan. The next one is scheduled for October, 1964, in Wisconsin. Mrs. Kathryn Fraser, WFIU, arranged the program, which consisted of several discussion sessions and a tour of the new radio-TV building at I.U., as well as individual speeches. Walter Kaufmann, of the I.U. music school, talked about some aspects of broadcasting music in India, and Ross Allen, stage director for opera at the music school, presented exam¬ ples by some of the students in the school. Don Gillis, cur¬ rently working on a series about the legend surrounding Tos¬ canini, talked about the man and the legend. Elmer G. Sulzer, director of radio-TV communications at I.U., and Ted Grubb, music director, Station WHAS, Louis¬ ville, led a discussion of music clearance problems. Those on the panel discussing music programing for educational radio were Herbert Seitz, program supervisor, Indiana University; Harry Welliver, music director of WUOM; and John White, of the I.U. School of Music. On the panel at the session on technical problems involved in recording classical music for broadcast were Louis R. Bur¬ roughs, vice president of broadcasting and recording for Electro-Voice, Inc.; George Gaber, I.U. School of Music; and William H. Kroll, technical supervisor, WFIU. Burroughs also demonstrated different kinds of micro¬ phones. A problem session was chaired by Kenneth Cutler, supervisor of music, WILL, University of Illinois. Highlighting the conference was a radio recital by the Berk¬ shire Quartet, in residence at the university, featuring com¬ positions by three composers in residence. The composers and Mrs. Elvis Stahr, wife of the president of Indiana University, were guests at the conference dinner. FCC Approves Form 330P On October 24, 1963, the FCC approved the form for “Appli¬ cation for Authority to Construct or Make Changes in an Instructional Television Fixed Station.” Authorization estab¬ lishing this new class of ETV service for the transmission of instructional and cultural material to multiple receiving loca¬ tions on channels in the 2500-2690 me band was granted by the FCC on July 25. Forms are now available. Conventioneers to Hear Reorganization Plan NAEBers who attend the convention and the business meeting on Monday, November 18, will hear details on the proposal for reorganization of the NAEB. The proposed structure calls for four semi-autonomous divisions — Radio Station Division, Tele¬ vision Station Division, Instructional Division, and Individual Member Division. Each division would elect its own board and the four divisional boards would constitute the NAEB Board of Directors. All members will be allowed to comment on the proposal during the business meetings, but existing by-laws provide that only Active and Associate members can vote on the recom¬ mendation. They will vote at the final business meeting, on Wednesday, November 20. Active and Associate members have already received the specific proposed amendments to the by¬ laws and constitution, based on the structure approved by the Board of Directors at its meeting in June. NAEB Member Directories Individual members of the NAEB will be listed in the January- February issue of the NAEB Journal. Please send any address changes — and Zip Codes — before December 1 to Mrs. Dotty Templeton, at the Urbana office. Copies of the Directory of Institutional Members were mailed in September to all NAEB institutional members. Following their release, the following have come to light: Zoel J. Par- enteau should be listed as Program Manager at Kansas City’s KCSD-TV. The University of Denver should be listed among those members who operate CCTV. Roy J. Johnston should be listed as Director of the Division of Communications Services at the University of Miami. 1