NAEB Newsletter (August 1, 1964)

Kantner, director of the School of Dramatic Art & Speech. ^ Robert L. Davy, former sales promotion planner for the Boeing Company, is now an assistant professor of communi¬ cations at Washington State University. He replaces John Brower, who resigned earlier to work at WETA-TV, Wash¬ ington, D.C. Davy is also a writer-producer for KWSC-TV and KWSC. ^ Charles McIntyre has been appointed director of the new office of instructional resources at the University of Illinois. The office is a consolidation of the former office of instruc¬ tional research and the office of ITV. ^ A Baptist minister, James R. Swedenburg, has been elected president of the Alabama ETV Commission. He is the fourth president of AETC since its creation in 1953. ^ Robert B. Schweikart, former assistant manager and pro¬ gram director of WOSU Radio, Ohio State University, has been named director of communications of the university’s Center for Continuing Medical Education. He will coordi¬ nate the Ohio Medical Education Network, now encompass¬ ing 36 hospitals served by eight FM stations (seven commer¬ cial and one noncommercial). ^ Bill Oxley is serving as TV program director for Univer¬ sity of Texas radio-TV and KLRN-TV. He moves to Aus¬ tin from San Antonio, where he had worked three years as production supervisor of the KLRN office there. Replacing Oxley in the latter post is Bill Moll, promoted from the po¬ sition of news editor on the KLRN Austin staff. ^ Lyn Jarvis has joined the University of Alabama broad¬ casting services staff as a producer-director. He was for¬ merly employed by commercial WSFA-TV, Montgomery. ^ John De Prospo, executive officer of WNYC, New York City, recently received a citation from a Norwegian-Ameri¬ ca committee which is conducting a year-long celebration of the 150th anniversary of Norway’s constitution. The citation was for fostering better understanding between the men and women of both countries. De Prospo has been with the Mu¬ nicipal Broadcasting System since 1934. ^ B. Eugene Koskey has left Northern Illinois University to be coordinator of technical studies, Sabah Radio, for the Peace Corps. This summer eight radio technicians are being trained in operation and maintenance of transmission equip¬ ment and tower construction. In the fall they will go to Sabah (formerly North Borneo, and now a state in the Fed¬ eration of Malaysia) to work for Sabah Radio. ^ Joe Johnson has accepted a position at the University of Utah, and is leaving his post as associate sports editor, WKAR, Michigan State University. ^ Gordon Gainer has been promoted at WKAR from news editor to program’ director. Two new staffers at WKAR are Richard Arnold, farm editor, and Lowell Newton, news edi¬ tor. ^ David Robertson, former studio supervisor for WMHT, Schenectady, has been named production manager for the station. Brita Peterson is a new WMHT staffer, serving as production assistant. ^ Rudy Bretz, vice president of National Education Sciences, recently returned from three months in southeast Asia. Sent by the Department of State as a TV specialist, he spent three weeks with Televisi Republik Indonesia in Djakarta, a month with Telivishen Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur, and two weeks in Singapore. He gave an advanced course in production tech¬ niques to staff personnel, with daily lectures, studio demon¬ strations, and critiques of the local entertainment programs on the air. Enroute, he visited the staff at the NAEB Samoan ETV project. ^ Elmer G. Sulzer has resigned the posts of chairman of the radio-TV department and director of radio and TV commu- NAEB Headquarters: Suite 1119, 1346 Connecticut Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C., 20036. Phone 667-6000. Area Code 202. nications at Indiana University. He will devote more time to teaching as a regular faculty member. Pending the selection of a successor, George C. Johnson will be acting chairman. ^ Marion Corwell, associate director of school relations for the Dearborn schools, has been elected chairman of the De¬ troit chapter of the Michigan School PR Association. ^ Two members of the Chicago staff of the United Presby¬ terian radio-TV division have been named to the unit’s New York headquarters staff. Donald Roper is new associate chair¬ man of the division for operations, and Robert Norris is di¬ rector of field services. ^ Jay J- Heitin is new executive editor of the NAB’s TIO. For the years 1952-1963 he was sales director for WNBC- TV, and he spent the last year teaching in the English de¬ partment, City College, Santa Barbara, California. REGIONAL AND STATE ^ Services of the new ETV station in Richmond (scheduled to go on the air in September) will include schools in the Wil¬ liamsburg area. Colonial Williamsburg recently contributed $10,000 to the Central Virginia ETV Corporation, operators of the station. ^ In Hawaii, a governor’s advisory committee on ETV has recommended immediate establishment of a state-wide ETV system of three VHF and six UHF stations. The network would be licensed to the University of Hawaii and operated jointly by the state education department and the university. Legislation may be introduced in the 1965 session to finance the ETV system. PROGRAMS y KUED, University of Utah, is producing a program for NET on current Utah school crises. Called “A House Divid¬ ed,” the half-hour program is the first of seven special pro¬ grams on local issues. It will be released on NET stations the week of August 31. Titles of the other six programs selected from among ideas submitted are: “Poverty: The Survival of a Region,” WQED, Pittsburgh; “The Far Right in Southern California,” KCET, Los Angeles; “The Chamizal Story: Return of U. S. Property to Mexico,” KUHT, Houston; “Cattle Crisis,” KUON, Lincoln, Nebraska; “School Desegregation,” WNDT, New York; and “The Wilderness Controversy,” KNME, Albuquerque. ^ Modern Math for Parents is a five-week series being pre¬ sented by the Mohawk-Hudson Council on ETV this sum¬ mer on WRGB, Schenectady. Programs are being video¬ taped for the New York state education department. ^ WNED-TV, Buffalo, received a first prize award for 1963 from the American Association for State and Local His¬ tory and Broadcast Music, Inc., for the TV program “The McKinley Assassination.” ^ The University of Michigan TV Center won the American Bar Association’s Gavel Award for the 20-part series, A Quest for Certainty, which probes the nature and values of the American legal system. This is the second time in four years that the center has received the award. ^ The University of Illinois Medical Center, Chicago, re¬ ports that a new weekly 15-minute series on WTTW has been well received. After fourteen shows during the summer, they hope to continue the series in the fall. GENERAL ^ Chicago’s two ETV stations, WTTW and the new WXXW, are requesting permission from the FCC to relocate their transmitters and antennae atop a 55-story apartment building now under construction. Developers of the building have of¬ fered the ETV stations a rent-free lease, valued in excess of a million dollars over the next 10 years. ^ WMUB-TV, Miami University (Ohio), plans to use its grant under the ETV Facilities Act to obtain new transmis¬ sion equipment to extend its coverage. A second videotape recorder will also be purchased. ^ The Los Angeles Home Show committee gave the new AUGUST 1964 3