NAEB Newsletter (October 1, 1964)

NEWSLETTER NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EDUCATIONAL BROADCASTERS VOL. 29, NO. 10 OCTOBER, 1964 NER - ETS - ECS - NERN - ???????? This pre-convention time seems a good one to recap some of the alphabetization that has been going on within the NAEB lately. Readers will recall that at last year’s convention voting members approved a reorganization of the NAEB, setting up four semi-autonomous divisions: Individual Member, Radio Station, Television Station, and Instructional. (Members of each division then elected their own six-man board of di¬ rectors to run the affairs of the division. These boards, plus the NAEB president and one representative elected by the NAEB Institutional Affiliate members, constitute the NAEB Board of Directors.) During the year, both the Radio and Television divisions established administrative offices at NAEB headquarters in Washington, D.C. These divisions also sought names for themselves that would be more descriptive of their specific functions than would be “The — Division of the NAEB.” Therein, perhaps, lies a certain amount of confusion for the reader who is not a member of one of those divisions. The following is an attempt to clarify things: • ETS stands for Educational Television Stations —the TV Division of the NAEB. C. Scott Fletcher is president of ETS, and Gerard L. Appy is vice president. • NER stands for National Educational Radio —the Radio Division of the NAEB. Jerrold Sandler is executive director of NER, and John P. Witherspoon is associate director. • NERN stands for National Educational Radio Network —■ the NAEB’s radio tape network, formerly called the NAEB Radio Network. Robert E. Underwood, Jr., is the NERN manager, with offices in Urbana. • ECS stands for Educational Communications System —a plan for nationwide electronic interconnection of educational institutions. In addition to a nationwide live educational radio network, the system would allow c>ther communications serv¬ ices such as the sharing of faculty and instructional resources, cooperative research efforts, rapid collection and exchange of information and technical data, cooperative use of computers, etc. The NAEB is studying ECS implications and implemen¬ tation under a contract from the U. S. Office of Education. James A. Fellows, assistant to the NAEB president, is di¬ recting the project. "NAEB History" To Be Updated W. Wayne Alford, graduate student at George Peabody Col¬ lege, is researching NAEB events since 1954, to bring the his¬ tory up-to-date. Material which readers feel might be relevant to the study should be sent to him at 1503 - 17th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee, 37212. The only printed history of the NAEB available is that written by Harold Hill, which takes it from the organiza¬ tion’s beginning to 1954. Convention Phone Number: GReenwood 6-3455 NAEB conventioneers in Austin will have the services of a Message Center provided by the Southwest Bell Telephone Company. This will be the best way for home offices to reach anyone at the convention during the hours 8:30 a.m. to 5 :30 p.m. The number is GReenwood 6-3455 (Area Code 512). Norwood Elected to Radio Board Members of the NAEB Radio Board have elected Frank W. Norwood, manager, KEBS (FM), San Diego State College, to the post vacated by John Witherspoon when he was ap¬ pointed associate director of the Radio Division. Bronson Heads Individual Members Albert P. Fredette, chairman of the Individual Member Divi¬ sion Board, has announced the appointment of Vernon Bron¬ son as executive director of the Individual Member Division. Bronson will continue as director of the NAEB Office of Research and Development, a post he has filled since the of¬ fice was established. Ludwig to Join NAEB Staff Coy Ludwig, executive secretary of the Empire State FM School of the Air, has been appointed assistant director of the NAEB Office of Research and Development. He is expected to join the NAEB staff in Washington about mid-October. Ludwig replaces James A. Fellows, who has been named as¬ sistant to the NAEB president. NAEB Receives Grants from NHLF Grants to the NAEB from the National Home Library Foun¬ dation, Washington, D.C., were announced last month. The funds will be used by the radio division for creative program production, and by the TV division for a national TV program exchange library service. • The grant for NAEB-ETS is for $35,000 in 1964-65, $25,000 in 1965-66, and $20,000 in 1966-67. There is a stipula¬ tion that the funds for the latter two years must be matched. The program library will make available to ETV stations se¬ lected noncredit programs and series. ETS hopes to have the library located by the early part of 1965. Universities and other educational institutions are invited to express their in¬ terest in providing a location for the library and in operating the service. • NAEB-NER has $8,000 earmarked for creative radio pro¬ grams. NER stations have been invited to submit proposals by October 10, with contracts to be awarded on or about Novem¬ ber 15. 1