NAEB Newsletter (August 1, 1964)

Committee Invites Archives Proposals The NAEB History and Archives Committee is seeking specific proposals from institutions interested in becoming the repository for the NAEB archives. Several agencies have indicated an interest, but the committee needs more specific information on how the institution proposes to collect, evalu¬ ate, and preserve the historical materials. Send proposals or inquiries to the committee chairman, Harold Engel, WHA, University of Wisconsin, Madison. Individuals May Obtain Certificates At the suggestion of an Individual Member, the NAEB is now offering certificates of membership to its Individual Members, at a cost of $5 each. Members should order from Mrs. Dotty Templeton, 119 Gregory Hall, Urbana, Illinois, 61803—enclosing check and exact spelling of name for the certificate. New NAEB Institutional Members RADIO DIVISION & NETWORK Augustana College, WVIK (FM), Rock Island, Illinois. INSTRUCTIONAL DIVISION Community Television of Southern California, KCET-TV, Los Angeles; Kentucky Authority for Educational Television, Lexington. INSTITUTIONAL AFFILIATE Northeastern University, Boston. Winthrop College, Rock Hill, South Carolina, has joined NERN as an Associate Member Affiliate. INDIVIDUAL , In the last two months, there have been 98 new Individual Members. Project 2500 Described An audio tape-filmstrip presentation describing developments in 2500mc TV broadcasting can be purchased for $10 from: Division of Educational Communications, Bureau of Mass Communications, State Education Department, Albany, New York, 12224. Make checks payable to Regents’ Fund. Conference Announced Those interested in electronic information handling will meet in Pittsburgh October 7-9 to discuss the problem and plan for the future. The program will cover shortcomings of present systems, large-scale systems under development, operational experiences, and the end uses of information. Organizers of the conference are the University of Pittsburgh, Goodyear Aero¬ space Corporation and Western Michigan University. Fur¬ ther information is obtainable from: Knowledge Availability Systems Center, University of Pittsburgh, Room 270, Hotel Webster Hall, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 15213. Publications • Broadcasting in Japan 1963-4 has been published by the Japan Broadcasting Federation, 10, 8-Chome, Ginza-nishi, Chuor-ku, Tokyo. The 82-page magazine-type handbook has been issued to give readers throughout the world an idea of Japan’s broadcasting, telecommunications and electronics in¬ dustries. • Screen Education: Teaching a Critical Approach to Cinema and Television is a new 100-page UNESCO publication. It’s a study by A. W. Hodgkinson derived from an international meeting in Norway in 1962 on film and TV teaching. • The Florida ETV Commission has issued an annual re¬ port for 1962-63. The 27-page booklet contains a financial report and highlights and activities for the year. • McGraw-Hill has announced publication of a book by Marshall McLuhan called Understanding Media. McLuhan conducted an NAEB-USOE project on the same subject sev¬ eral years ago. News Notes PERSONNEL ^ H. B. McCarty, director of the division of radio-TV edu¬ cation at the University of Wisconsin, has announced a num¬ ber of promotions and administrative changes: Lee S. Drey¬ fus becomes associate director of TV, after having served as WHA-TV general manager for two years. He will have special ITV responsibilities, and will continue to teach com¬ munications courses in the speech department. Steven Mark- strom, WHA-TV assistant manager since October, has been promoted to station manager. George Schneidewind has been named program supervisor, and will carry on many func¬ tions of Ted Nielsen, program director, who will be on leave to do graduate study. Gary Gumpert, senior producer-director, will have increased responsibilities in developing closed-cir¬ cuit ITV. Lee O’Brien has joined the directing staff. y On the WHA radio staff, the following were announced: Cliff Eblen, former radio program director, has become WHA station manager. Karl Schmidt, WHA production manager and WHA-TV special projects director, assumes new responsibilities for developing special projects in radio as well as TV. He will continue teaching in the speech depart¬ ment also. Kenneth Ohst is now WHA production super¬ visor. ^ Robert M. Reed has resigned from WHA-TV to accept a permanent appointment at the University of Hawaii, where he has been on leave of absence serving as associate director of the Communication Center and associate professor. ^ Ronald Bornstein, program and production manager at the University of Michigan, will take a leave of absence be¬ ginning in September to accept an appointment as production supervisor of TV and assistant professor at the University of Hawaii. ^ Robert C. Boston has left the KETC staff, St. Louis, to become assistant manager of WILL-TV and supervisor of TV service at the University of Illinois. ^ Sheldon P. Siegel has resigned as station manager and pro¬ gram director of KAET, Phoenix, effective September 1, to become station manager for the Lehigh Valley ETV Cor¬ poration, which will activate a new ETV channel in early 1965 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. ^ Lawrence Frymire has resigned as chief of the FCC’s ETV branch to move to Sacramento, where he is the California television coordinator. ^ M. Russell Jolly has succeeded the Rev. Robert Sanders as eastern area director for the United Presbyterian TV-radio division. Jolly was a commercial broadcaster before he joined the staff of the Wichita Council of Churches in 1959. He was named executive director in 1960, a post he held until his resignation in July. ^ Robert E. Summers will join the radio-TV faculty at Ohio University in September as professor and department chair¬ man. He is currently on leave from the University of Texas, making a world tour to study foreign systems of broadcast¬ ing—with focus on ETV in Nigeria. y James G. Saunders, former graduate student at Ohio Uni¬ versity, will become an instructor in radio-TV there in Sep¬ tember. He will also serve as administrative assistant to C. E. 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 —Lou Peneguy, AETC, 2151 Highland Ave., Birming¬ ham, Ala. Region IV —Richard Vogl, KTCA-TV, 1640 Como Ave., St. Paul, Minn. 2 NEWSLETTER