NAEB Newsletter (May 1, 1964)

PERSONNEL ^ Bill Utter will return to WMUB-TV, Oxford, Ohio, in July as program director following a year of graduate study at Ohio State University. ^ Robert Falkner will become a producer-director at WOUB- TV, Ohio University, this summer. He is an Air Force vet¬ eran of 22 years. ^ Richard Reinauer has been named executive director of the Academy of TV Arts and Sciences Foundation. ^ Paul Reed, editor of Educational Screen and Audiovisual Guide, has been elected chairman of the board of trustees of the Empire State FM School of the Air. Reed, also super¬ vising director of instruction for the Rochester Public Schools, founded the one-station Rochester School of the Air which in 1947 became the statewide school of the air. ^ Armand L. Hunter has been named director of continuing education at Michigan State University, succeeding Howard R. Neville, who has been named provost of the university. Hunter will continue as professor and director of broadcast¬ ing services; for the past year he had also been associate di¬ rector of continuing education. ^ M. McCabe Day, director of WVSH, Huntington, Indiana, announces his retirement effective June 12. He completes 43 years in the Huntington schools, where he was a teacher in the high school for 25 years before becoming full-time audio¬ visual director in 1946. Since 1950, the year WVSH went on the air, Day has attended 13 of the 14 NAEB conventions. He served for nine years on the in-school selection committee of the NAEB Radio Network, and was a participant in the school managers seminar at Allerton House in 1952. Follow¬ ing retirement, he will become lay minister for the First Methodist Church in Huntington, where his father served as minister. ^ George Gerbner, associate professor at the University of Illinois communications research institute, will become dean of the Annenberg School of Communications, University of Pennsylvania, July 1. ^ Former ABC vice-president Sterling Quinlan has joined the executive staff of Field Enterprises, Inc., where he will survey the electronic communications medium for its possi¬ bilities in education, communication, and entertainment. Field Enterprises publishes the Chicago Sun-Times and Daily News and the World Book Encyclopedia. ^ Kenneth L. Clark has been appointed general station man¬ ager for KFJC, Foothill College, Los Altos Hills, California. He will also serve as broadcasting instructor. Most recently he was writer-producer for the ABC TV network in Holly¬ wood. ^ Murray R. Yaeger, who has been a visiting professor at the State University of Iowa this year, will return to Boston University in the 'fall. He will serve as acting chairman of the communication arts division of the School of Public Com¬ munication for the first semester, while D. Hugh Gillis is on leave of absence. Jeffrey Field, student station manager of WERS-FM, merson College, recently received the Tom Phillips Award, presented each year by the UPI Broadcasting Association of Massachusetts, to honor the best news stories, editorials, and features broadcast by Massachusetts stations. The award, the first time that a college radio station has received such an honor, was made for the program “Pornography and Youth.” This was also the first time that a full-time student has re¬ ceived the award. ^ Bob Shackleton has resigned from his post as assistant manager of WKAR, Michigan State University, to become coordinator of an athletic scholarship fund at the university. He has been associated with WKAR nearly 19 years, where he was a student announcer and, after graduation, the sports editor, a position he occupied until recently when he was pro¬ moted to assistant manager. NAEB Headquarters: Suite 1119, 1346 Connecticut Avenue, N. W., Washington, D. C., 20036. Phone 667-6000. Area Code 202. ^ Spindler & Sauppe, Inc., Los Angeles, has announced the retirement of George A. Sauppe, one of the firm’s co-found¬ ers. During the 40 years since the establishment of the firm, he has participated in many improvements—introduction of the first 750w and 1200w 35mm slide projector, wide angle rear projection techniques, the random access slide projector with instant image retrieval, etc. He has attended many audiovisual meetings through the years. ^ William J. Moreland, general manager of NAEB Indus¬ trial Associate Conrac Division, has been elected vice presi¬ dent of Giannini Controls Corporation, parent company of Conrac. ^ Hugh V. Cordier, head of the department of radio-TV at the University of Illinois and chairman of the NAEB Publi¬ cations Committee, has assumed the duties of president of the Association for Professional Broadcasting Education. ^ WDCN-TV, Nashville, announces that Clyde Reaves has been appointed operating engineer; Steve Wolf, former stu¬ dent part-time staffer, has joined the station as a full-time employee. Publications • Comeback, Inc., has issued a report on its pilot demon¬ stration on the potential of UHF for recreation-rehabilitation of the chronically ill and handicapped in metropolitan areas. Digests of the report are available free, and the complete re¬ port for $1.25, from Comeback, Inc., 16 West 46th Street, New York 36. • Articles: “ETV: The Uncertain Trumpet,” by Doris Wil- lens, February 1964 Television magazine. “Administrative Goals of ETV,” January 1964 American School & University. • A booklet describing the first decade of the Alabama ETV network is available free from the ETV Commission, 2151 Highland Avenue, Birmingham, 35205. The 16-page 46-picture brochure is called “Ten Years of Service.” • The EMC is offering a directory of 1964 summer courses on the educational media to anyone sending a stamped, self- addressed standard #10 business envelope to the Educational Media Council, 250 West 57th Street, New York 10019. Summer ETV Workshops & Courses Boston University. Beginning July 15, 6-week workshop in creation and utilization of ITV programs. Six graduate credit hours in education or TV. Write Murray R. Yaeger, School of Public Communication. University of Colorado. Television in Education, three-hour graduate or upper-division. Designed to provide expe¬ rience for teachers in preparing and presenting materials via TV. Richard H. Bell, June 29-July 17. Radio-TV Production, three-hour undergraduate course in pro¬ duction techniques and their application to basic broad¬ casting formats. James A. Dryden, June 15-July 17. Fordham University. August 17-21, 5-day ETV conference. Also three ETV courses July 6-August 14: Television in the Service of Education, credit; ETV Production, credit; ETV Studio Operation, no credit. The three courses designed to offer complete introduction to theory and practice of ETV, including special working ses¬ sions arranged in cooperation with communications ex¬ hibits at the World’s Fair. Hofstra University. Summer TV Workshop for Teachers and Administrators, June 29-July 17. Six-hour graduate. Limited enrollment. Write Frank Iezzi, Director, Sum¬ mer TV Workshop. Stanford University. A specialized ETV program involving mass communications study, noncommercial station op¬ eration, TV teaching and production. June 22-August 15. Part of the 22nd Radio-Television-Film Institute. Syracuse University. Workshop in ETV, three credits. Cov¬ ers role of TV i'n curriculum, TV as medium of adult learning, and preparation of materials for studio use. August 10-22. MAY 1964 3