NAEB Newsletter (August 1, 1964)

■ A E B NEWSLETTER NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EDUCATIONAL BROADCASTERS VOL. 29, NO. 8 AUGUST, 1964 NER Music Personnel to Meet The University of Minnesota and KUOM (AM) will host the third annual NAEB music personnel conference Septem¬ ber 30 and October 1. In making the announcement, Confer¬ ence Chairman Harry Wdliver pointed out that this is a switch from the original plan announced in December. This year’s conference will include all NAEB-NER mem¬ bers, rather than being limited to those in one region. Burton Paulu (director of radio-TV broadcasting) and Russell Walsh (KUOM) are planning the program, assisted by other committee members: Kay Fraser (WFIU, Indiana University), Ann Bums (WBAA, Purdue), and Welliver. Meetings will be in Coffman Memorial Union and the Center for Continuation Study. Program content will be presented in the September Newsletter. Convention Info Later this month, NAEBers will receive more information on the October convention, including advance registration cards and hotel reservation cards. Delegates are urged to make reservations early, particularly for air transportation, as noted elsewhere in this issue. In a mailing last month, key convention speakers were announced to NAEBers. Carl T. Rowan, director of the U. S. Information Agency, will speak at the banquet, and Lester F. Beck, psychology professor from Oregon, will keynote the convention. Tuesday, October 27, will be devoted to NAEB Divisions, with each Division planning its own program, business meet¬ ing, and luncheon. There will be no regional luncheons this' year. Tuesday night all will converge for a Texas barbecue. Free Radio Programs Available • NASA offers a new series, The Peaceful Uses of Space, ten half-hour programs on a recent Boston conference on the subject. Among the participants are Hugh Dryden, NASA deputy administrator; Wernher von Braun; James R. Kilian Jr.; and Astronaut L. Gordon Cooper. Also available for free loan to educational broadcasters are radio production aids, including a tape of satellite and telemetry sounds and tapes of historical moments in the space program. The latter includes excerpts from each Proj¬ ect Mercury flight, the voices of Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson, and NASA officials. Stations may dub these onto their own tapes. Request from NASA, Educational TV and Radio Pro¬ gram, Code AFEE-4, Washington, D.C., 20546. • Radio Nederland’s series featuring musical excerpts from the 1963 Holland Festival of Arts is free to broadcasters. Order the Holland Festival, 1963, album containing four half-hour programs from: Willard C. Wichers, Director Midwestern Division, Netherlands Information Service, Neth¬ erlands Museum, Holland, Michigan, 49423. NAEBers: Reserve Space Now Airlines authorities have advised NAEBers to reserve plane space now for the NAEB convention, October 25-28, in Aus¬ tin, Texas. Since daylight savings time ends on the 25th, that is the day when all airlines will make a major schedule change. Carriers review their reservations records at the time of a schedule change and protect passengers on alternate flights, we have been told. There is no jet service into Austin, just to Dallas or San Antonio. Braniff and Trans Texas operate flights from Dal¬ las to Austin. From San Antonio, the best method seems to be to rent a car and drive the 65 miles on four-lane highway to Austin. NAEB Sets ITV Conference Charles McIntyre, chairman of the NAEB Instructional Board, has announced plans for the third annual NAEB ITV conference. The meeting will be May 8-11, 1965, at the Deau¬ ville Hotel, Miami Beach. Tentative plans call for registration to begin at noon on Saturday, May 8, and for the conference to end with a lunch¬ eon on May 11. The hotel will provide special rates for par¬ ticipants and their families and these rates will apply for two days before and after the meeting, if rooms are available. NAEB Produces "Fifth Freedom" The NAEB is currently producing, through the facilities of WRVR, New York, a series of book programs of a new and different kind. They are not book reviews, author inter¬ views, or discussions centering around one book. Rather, each program will deal with a topic, and guests will refer to var¬ ious books in discussing the topic. Provocative subjects are being discussed, and participants are bringing at least four or five books into the discussion. Each program will have two guests and, as host-moderator, Ralph Backlund, Virgilia Peterson, Leo Rosten, or Gore Vidal. The National Educational Radio Network will distribute the twenty-six 30-minute radio programs to its members, and to commercial stations for use in public service time. Made possible through a grant to the NAEB, the series is jointly sponsored by NAEB and the American Library Association. On the ad hoc advisory committee for the series are Richard Bye, R. R. Bowker Co.; Eleanor Smith, Brooklyn Public Library; Jack Summerfield, general manager of WRVR-FM; William Harley, NAEB president; and Virginia H. Mathews, National Book Committee. Petersen Joins NAEB Board Institutional Affiliates of the NAEB have elected as their representative on the NAEB Board James K. Petersen, di¬ rector of television and radio at Florida Atlantic University. The election to fill this slot was postponed at the time of the other Board elections in December. 1