NAEB Newsletter (Oct 1965)

sion was set up and scheduled hearings, which WUNC-TV covered in their entirety live and without comment. WUNC also re¬ broadcast each session during the evening. The coverage attracted a great deal of at¬ tention throughout the state, and a number of commercial stations rebroadcast the pro¬ grams. garding the proposed national conference on educational radio. He said that at least two significant position papers will be pre¬ sented at the NAEB convention on Novem¬ ber 1. Plans for such a conference devel¬ oped during the NER Board of Directors meeting last March at Wingspread, John¬ son Foundation conference center in Racine, Wisconsin. News Notes PERSONNEL y Thomas B. Petry, former executive di¬ rector of the ETV Council of Central New York, has been named vice president of the council and general manager of WCNY- TV, Channel 24 (call letters and channel subject to FCC approval, presently WHTV, Channel 43), Syracuse, New York. y Marie McCormick, former music assist¬ ant at WUOM, University of Michigan, has been named music director at WBAA, Pur¬ due University. y Joe N. Gwathmey of George Washing¬ ton University has joined the radio-TV staff at the University of Texas as radio production supervisor and station manager for KUT-FM. y Donald N. Wood has left San Diego State College to become director of ETV for the Hawaii education department. y Ron Policy has left Kent State Univer¬ sity after three years as producer-director in ITV, to join the ITV staff at the Uni¬ versity of Wisconsin, and to work on his Ph.D. y Martin J. Neeb, Jr., general manager of WNUR, and recently named University Fellow at Northwestern University, has been awarded a research grant from the university to direct a study of noncommer¬ cial radio stations owned by religious groups. He will spend a week at each of some twenty AM stations, interviewing per¬ sonnel and studying the facilities in action. The work will provide the initial definitive history and analysis of such stations and will make a contribution to the history and folklore of American broadcasting. Neeb is on leave from his post as direc¬ tor of public relations and associate pro¬ fessor of speech at Concordia Teachers College, while finishing his Ph.D. y Gale R. Adkins, director of radio-tele¬ vision research at the University of Kansas, will spend this academic year in London as a Fulbright research professor. He will head a cooperative project in which recommen¬ dations for the use of instructional televi¬ sion will be developed for ten colleges and universities in the greater London area. He will also be associated with the Experimen¬ tal Development Unit of the British Na¬ tional Committee for Audio-Visual Aids in Education. y William Swisher has been named direc¬ tor of radio broadcasting in the department of speech and dramatic arts at Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti. He will be in charge of operations of the new FM sta¬ tion, WEMU, scheduled to go on the air about October 1. Swisher has been super¬ visor of program operations at WUOM, University of Michigan. y Robert C. Glazier has been named gen¬ eral manager of KETC, St. Louis. He was formerly general manager of WDCN-TV, Nashville. ^ Saul N. Scher, recent Ph.D. in mass communications from New York University, has been appointed director of TV broad¬ casting for the School of Education, Uni¬ versity of Massachusetts, Amherst. y Recent changes in the radio and tele¬ vision department of the Dade County Pub¬ lic School System (WTHS and WSEC), Miami, Florida, include: John P. McIntyre, director of learning resources; Charles Azevedo, manager of radio and television operations; George Dooley, supervisor of community television production; and Mrs. Mitzi Miller, supervisor of radio and in¬ structional television production. y Warren A. Kraetzer, executive vice- president and general manager of WHYY- TV, Philadelphia, has announced the promo¬ tions of David Kaigler from station man¬ ager of the Wilmington studios (WHYY- TV) to the newly created position of devel¬ opment officer; and Edward S. (Sid) Shaw, formerly news director, to manager, oper¬ ations—W ilmington. Jonathan Lang, veteran newscaster and reporter, joins the WHYY-TV Wilming¬ ton studios. He has been with WNCH-TV, New Haven, as newscaster and sportsman. y Roger J. Houglum, manager and chief engineer of KRVM, Eugene (Oregon) Pub¬ lic School station, has been appointed chairman of the division of radio, televi¬ sion, and electronics at the Lane Commu¬ nity College in Eugene. He will continue as manager of KRVM. y John R. Morison, recently radio-tele¬ vision producer and director at Ohio State University, has assumed the duties of pro¬ graming operations manager for West Vir¬ ginia University’s department of radio, television and motion pictures. He will be responsible for program planning and for broadcast productions prepared by the de¬ partment. y William M. Shimer, formerly with KNME-TV, Albuquerque, is now program¬ ing and operations manager for KTXT- TV, Texas Technological College, Lub¬ bock. ^ Larry Laswell has become producer-di¬ rector of instructional television with the Santa Ana, California, School District ITV Center, and he will be director of special BOX SCORE Total AM stations 4136 (includes 38 noncommercial stations) Total PM stations 1688 (includes 307 noncommercial stations) Total TV stations 685 (includes 108 noncommercial stations j NAEB Newsletter, a monthly publication issued by the Na¬ tional Association of Educational Broadcasters, 119 Gregory Hall, Urbana, III. 61803. $5.00 a year. Editor: Betty McKenzie. Editorial assistant: Dotty Templeton. Phone 333-0580. Area Code 217. 2 NEWSLETTER