NAEB Newsletter (February 1, 1965)

and will probably be used by other USIS posts for seminars and conferences. Poems in English has been adapted for VO A broadcast to Russia and will be used in teachers’ conferences in Belgrade and Manila. TEMP's Microwave Dish Stolen Early in December a burglar stole one of the Texas Educa¬ tional Microwave Project’s microwave receiving dishes from the Hildebrand Water Tower in San Antonio. With a quick replacement, there was no interruption in TV service, but TEMP personnel have been speculating on uses to which the 4-foot diameter, 8-inch deep antenna might have been put. Among the possibilities named were a garden fish pool, a holiday wassail bowl, and a chicken brooder. News Notes PERSONNEL ^ C. H. Logan has been named director of educational broad¬ casting, a new post at North Dakota State University. He will serve as NDSU coordinator in the development of a joint ETV station with the University of North Dakota. Logan, formerly program associate and production manager of WMVS/WMVT, Milwaukee, is also an assistant professor of communications. ^ Leonard Furman has joined the staff of WTTW, Chicago, as assistant to the director of development. Formerly he was director of publications for the Northwestern University Transportation Center. ^ Richard J. Meyer has been appointed TV consultant and TV project director to the Great Neck (N.Y.) Public Schools. ^ Lee Dreyfus, associate director of TV, University of Wis¬ consin, was elected chairman of the radio-TV-film section of the Speech Association of America at its convention in Chi¬ cago December 27-30. ^ Robert W. Fox has resigned as instructional coordinator for KLRN-TV, central Texas, to become TV curriculum di¬ rector of Delaware’s new CCTV network. The three-channel ETV installation will connect every elementary, secondary, and higher educational institution in the state and is scheduled to begin programing in September. ^ Bruce Beale, production manager of Philadelphia’s WHYY- TV and WUHY-TV since 1962, has been named progrlam director, replacing John Twaddle, who resigned to direct a series for WETA-TV, Washington. ^ Dr. Dale Groom, associate professor of medicine at South Carolina’s medical college and a pioneer in medical post¬ graduate education by TV, has been appointed to the 10-man Council of Postgraduate Programs of the American Medical Association. In announcing the appointment, an AMA offi¬ cial said it was made on the basis of his ETV pioneering work. ^ KFME, Fargo, N. D., has hired a new staff engineer, Donald J. Geiken, an audio specialist. He has his own record¬ ing business and was formerly with KVOX radio station as chief engineer. ^ Rodney G. Thole, producer-director at WMVS, Milwau¬ kee, has been named production supervisor, replacing C. H. Logan, who has accepted a position as director of educational broadcasting at North Dakota State University. ^ WMVS has hired Frank Strenad as producer-director. He came from the CBS affiliate in Peoria, WMBD, where he was a director-producer and production coordinator. In 1961- 62 he was a director for CCTV at Michigan State University. GENERAL ^ The University of Texas has announced that it will have graduate internships for TV production in the coming academic year. Stipends will be $2500 for twelve months. NAEB Headquarters: 1346 Connecticut Ave., N.W., Wash¬ ington, D.C., 20036. Phone 667-6000. Area Code 202. TWX 202- 965-0299. ^ WHA-TV, University of Wisconsin, production totals have been on the rise for three months. December saw 83 pro¬ ductions completed in 20 working days, with several new series beginning. y The New York City schools anticipate beginning broad¬ casts on their own UHF outlet by the fall of 1965. Initial pro¬ grams will be for classrooms and for teacher in-service train¬ ing. Later there are to be programs for the general public. ^ Washington State University broadcasting students are interviewing off-campus authorities via long-distance tele¬ phone. The sessions are being taped for use in other classes. ^ The newest link in the Wisconsin State Radio Council’s chain of noncommercial FM stations is WHMD, which began operating in December and takes the full service to the north¬ eastern section of the state. ^ RCA announces a supply of used TV tape recorders avail¬ able at bargain prices. Write RCA Educational TV News, 15- 5, Camden, New Jersey, for information. ^ WMSB, Michigan State University, has changed its sched¬ ule in its shared-time arrangement with WILX-TV for Chan¬ nel 10. New evening hours and extended Sunday service are intended to increase the availability of educational programs to a family audience. ^ The music department of Teachers College, Columbia Uni¬ versity is conducting two research projects—one exploring the possibilities of using electronic devices in teaching and devel¬ oping musical performance, and the other studying what kind of conducting techniques can be demonstrated effectively by means of 8mm film. y Washington State University’s transcription service to 80 radio stations in the northwest has been extended to TV, with 7 TV stations broadcasting Mosaic, a program about univer¬ sity research, teaching, student life. ^ WHIQ are the call letters assigned to the Alabama ETV network’s Huntsville station, scheduled for construction dur¬ ing 1965. ^ University of Michigan journalism professor Dean C. Baker, who has been studying 191 daily newspapers from all 50 states for their coverage of the Kennedy assassination, has concluded that newspaper performance deserves far more praise than dispraise. He also reports evidence that, even with TV and radio giving the tragic event intensive and immediate coverage, “newspapers were in great demand.” ANNIVERSARIES 10th—Alabama ETV network, January 3. 10th—WUNC-TV, University of North Carolina, January 8. 7th—KUED, University of Utah, January 20. 2nd—WOUB-TV, Ohio University, January 4. Publications • NASA has released a revised catalog of Radio-Television Production Aids, available for free loan to educational TV and radio stations, closed-circuit systems, and commercial broadcasters. The catalog describes film clips, slides, photos, and audio tapes related to space exploration and aeronautics. Copies of NASA’s current free film and publications lists are also available to TV-radio producers and teachers. Write Na¬ tional Aeronautics and Space Administration, Television-Radio Program, Code AFEE-4, Washington, D.C. 20546. • Arpad Bogsch’s The Law of Copyright Under the Uni¬ versal Copyright Convention, 1964 edition, which makes a de¬ tailed analysis of international copyright laws as they affect each of the 46 member countries of the Universal Copyright Convention of 1952, is available for $21 from R. R. Bowker Company, which also offers for $3 A Copyright Guide by two prominent lawyers who give answers to “the 93 most- asked questions on copyright law and procedure” plus a brief bibliography of copyright treatises. Write 1180 Avenue of the Americas, New York 36, N. Y. • Copies of the address, “And Now, A Message to the Sponsor,” delivered by Newton Minow at the annual Alfred FEBRUARY, 1965 3