NAEB Newsletter (April 1, 1964)

Publications • ETV Across Canada, the second annual report of the Metropolitan ETV association of Toronto, has just been re¬ leased from the association’s office at 84 Queen’s Park Cres¬ cent, Toronto 5. • The third edition of Capitol and Angel Records Education¬ al Catalog is available from the Education Department, Capi¬ tol Records Distributing Corporation, 1750 North Vine Street, Hollywood, California, 90028. • The fifth edition of Free and Inexpensive Materials on World Affairs is now ready from the Bureau of Publications, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York. Leonard S. Kenworthy lists 78 pages of books and pamphlets all cost¬ ing 65c or less. • The Report of the 1963 Sigma Delta Chi Advancement of Freedom of Information Committee takes issue with the at¬ titude of the Federal Government. Minnesota’s Robert Lind¬ say, in the November 15, 1963, issue of Static, takes issue with the attitude of the Report. The 60-page SDX booklet, which also criticizes state and Latin-American governments and the American Bar Association, may be obtained from 35 E. Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois, 60601. Static is done for the AEJ Council on Radio-Television Journalism at the School of Journalism, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 53706. • A listing of U. S. Government films makes up the second supplement to the 1962-1963 Norwood Films catalog, available free from 926 New Jersey Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. • Edward G. Hudon, in Freedom of Speech and Press in America, analyzes First Amendment rights and includes the story of major Supreme Court decisions regarding freedom of speech, press, and the movies. Public Affairs Press, 224 pages. • Using Current Curriculum Developments, a 118-page re¬ port of ASCD’s Commission in that area, costs $1.75. Order from Association for Supervision and Curriculum Develop¬ ment, NEA, 1201 Sixteenth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036. • Two reprints are newly available from TIO: “The Ameri¬ can Family and Mass Communications” by Roy Danish, and “A Summary of Yearly Studies of Televiewing—1949-1963” by Paul A. Witty. The Danish article appeared in the August, 1963, Marriage and Family Living, the Witty article in the October, 1963, issue of NCTE’s Elementary English. Write to TIO, Department NA, 666 Fifth Avenue, New York, 10019. • The 250-page National Compendium of Televised Educa¬ tion, Volume 10, compiled and edited by Lawrence E. Mc- Kune for the Michigan State University Continuing Educa¬ tion Service, is available from The University of the Air, Kellogg Center, East Lansing, Michigan, for $4, payable to Michigan State University. Earlier Compendiums are still available: Volumes 5 (which includes all listings of previous volumes), 6, and 7 at $2, and Volumes 8 and 9 at $4. • An outline of ITV work among California colleges and universities is available from the Television Committee of the California Commission on Teacher Education. Write to Ed¬ win H. Lombard, Television Coordinator, Fresno State Col¬ lege, Fresno. • Preparation of Inexpensive Teaching Materials (102 pages, $2.25) by John Morland and Planning and Producing Audio¬ visual Materials (232 pages, $6) by Jerrold E. Kemp, both of San Jose State College, and Operating Audio-Visual Equip¬ ment (73 pages, $1.75) by Sidney C. Eboch of Alameda State College, are available from Chandler Publishing Company, 604 Mission Street, San Francisco 5, California. • A 240-page report, “Designing New Apparatus for Learn¬ ing,” has grown out of a conference of experts in audiovisual education. Their report, which calls for a “systems” approach to the design and use of A-V devices, has recently been put in final form by the Society of Motion Picture and Tele¬ vision Engineers under contract with the U. S. Office of Education. SMPTE’s December Journal, containing confer¬ ence highlights, is available for $2 from SMPTE Headquar¬ ters, 9 East 41st Street, New York, 10017. • In this country over the past year there has been a 15 per cent increase in the number of recorded teilecourses reported by owners as available to others for broadcast use. These 312 telecourses are described in the 1964 edition of Instructional Television Materials: A Guide to Films, Kinescopes, and Video¬ tapes Available for Televised Use. Free copies are ready al the U. S. Office of Education-sponsored National Instructional Television Library, 10 Columbus Circle, New York, N. Y. • “Readings in Public Communications,” an 18-page bibli¬ ography for candidates for the M.S. in television and radio at Syracuse University, gives suggestions for readings in art, philosophy, history, economics, and American culture, in ad¬ dition to straight communications. The readings were com¬ piled and edited by A. W. Bluem, editor of Television Quar¬ terly, at the request of the Syracuse University Television and Radio Center. • The American Council on Education has issued its 1963-64 Publications Catalog, available from 1785 Massachusetts Ave¬ nue, N.W., Washington, D.C., 20036. • The monthly report of the Japan Broadcasting Corpora¬ tion, What Is NHK Doing, is free from the Public Relations Board, Nippon Hoso Kyokai, Tokyo, Japan. News Notes PERSONNEL ^ Lewis A. Rhodes, formerly director of TV at Central Mich¬ igan University, has been appointed director of the Central Michigan ETV Council. He replaces Martin G. Atkins, who resigned to become superintendent of schools, Bridgeport, Michigan. ^ James M. Pettyjohn has been appointed executive producer, WHYY-TV, Wilmington, Delaware. He has been associated with Philadelphia TV and radio stations for over fifteen years. ^ WHYY has also announced the appointment to its board of directors of Richard P. Gousha, newly appointed state super¬ intendent of public instruction for Delaware, and Mrs. John Biggs, Jr., well-known civic leader in the state and in Phil¬ adelphia. ^ Robert Petranoff, assistant professor of radio and TV at Indiana University, has been appointed to a new position with the university news bureau as coordinator, radio-TV. The new post was set up in response to a request from state broadcasters for more news and features from the university prepared especially for radio and TV use. ^ Harvey Herbst, manager of KLRN-TV, southwest Texas ETV station, has been named associate director of radio/tele- vision at the University of Texas. In addition to his KLRN duties, he will have executive responsibilities in connection with the Texas Educational Microwave Project, KUT-FM, closed-circuit classroom instruction on the university campus, and radio and TV production for educational and commercial broadcasters. ^ Robert R. Leu has been promoted to the post of senior pro¬ ducer-director at WHA-TV, University of Wisconsin. He received his B.A. from the university in 1960. 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. Editorial assistant: Skip Robinson. 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, AETC, 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