NAEB Newsletter (Oct 1965)

Ball State Offers Beginning Speech Students Chance on Closed-Circuit TV and in-service telecasts. The center reaches some 30,000 students and 1,000 teachers from the third grade through junior col¬ lege. y Richard W. Russell has been named to the newly created position of director of special projects for Buffalo’s WNED-TV. He will work with community organizations, schools, and government agencies to deter¬ mine how television may be used to help provide services in connection with the Economic Opportunity Act, the Manpower Development and Training Act, and the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. He comes from WCBB, Augusta, Maine. y James R. Treble has been awarded the Loeb award for 1965 by the faculty of the Television-Radio Department of Syracuse University. The award is presented to the outstanding graduate student of the depart¬ ment each year. Treble has been a graduate assistant to Lawrence Myers, Jr., chairman of the department, working on a USOE- sponsored study to determine qualities which make for effective television teaching. He taught for four years in the Niagara Falls schools where he was active in introducing television to the classrooms. y Surgery forced Allen Miller, director of information at Washington State Uni¬ versity, to cut short his sabbatical leave this summer. He was studying broadcasting in England, Italy, France and other European countries. ^y C. M. Jansky, Jr., has retired as chair- man of the board of Jansky & Bailey Di¬ vision of Atlantic Research Corporation, but he will remain as consultant. A nation¬ ally recognized radio electronics engineer, Jansky’s broadcasting experience goes back to the days when he worked with Professor Earle M. Terry on 9XM (WHA—“oldest station in the nation”) at the University of Wisconsin. y C. H. Logan, director of educational broadcasting at North Dakota State Uni¬ versity, Fargo, has been elected vice-chair¬ man of the Governor’s Commission on Edu¬ cational Television. The commission was created in 1961 to coordinate development of ETV in the state. GENERAL y A monthly program guide carrying com¬ plete listings for WTTW and the new WXXW, Chicago, began in September. Marti Ross, WTTW staffer, edits the pub¬ lication which also carries information about developments at the new headquarters for WTTW and WXXW. y WUNB-TV, Columbia, North Carolina, was dedicated September 15, with full-scale evening programing beginning that night. y KDPS-TV, Des Moines, has announced that public reaction—through cards, letters, and phone calls—to its first summer of operation indicated overwhelming approval of its evening summer programs. s' ^ October is the target for WHIQ, Huntsville, Alabama. y The ETV Council of Central New York has received a $50,000 grant from the Rosa¬ mond Gifford Charitable Corporation. The Does putting a beginning speech student be¬ fore a TV camera for one of his first speeches make him more at ease or still more nervous? More at ease, says William Tomlinson, asso¬ ciate professor and director of radio and TV at Ball State University. He has been putting his beginning students on closed-circuit TV, and says it helps them gain confidence and they can see the value in good visual materials. "They know the camera is coming close in on the visual aids they have prepared," he says, "and the impact of their use is very obvious." Students also realize that visuals with tiny let¬ tering and too many concentration points fail grant will be used for production and trans¬ mission TV equipment to activate Channel 24, Liverpool. The council will produce 10 in-school series for broadcast over three commercial stations this fall. Community programing on Channel 24 will begin in December, followed by school programing in February. This will be the fourth outlet of its kind in New York. y KQED, San Francisco, will study in de¬ tail its long-range financial needs before spending any of its $460,000 current allot¬ ment of Ford Foundation funds. Two of the station’s most urgent needs are a new plant and additional facilities. y KRMA-TV, Denver, has begun its an¬ nual campaign to raise money to produce evening TV programs. As part of the campaign, the campaign director sent a let¬ ter to local editors, beginning “Last year the working press proved to be the most influential media in helping . . . raise funds for programing . . .” and offering informa¬ tion and pictures for possible feature stor¬ ies. The Colorado governor proclaimed the fund-drive period “Educational Television Month in Colorado.” y During the last week in August, the Metropolitan ETV Council, Knoxville, Ten¬ nessee, conducted in-service teacher train- to make good TV material. Classmates watch the student speaker on monitors and evaluate him. On camera in the photo above is Clifford Robinson, getting his cue to begin speaking. Dr. Tomlinson and other students are shown at the left, watching the monitor. Students give the CCTV speeches in a two- story TV studio in the communications build¬ ing where ITV classes and other CCTV presen¬ tations also are made. On September I, ITV at Ball State became part of the new De¬ partment of Speech and Mass Communica¬ tions. ing via TV. This was the first time TV has been extensively used for this purpose in east Tennessee. y Washington State University, for the 15th year, is providing radio programs to other stations—currently nine programs on 94 stations in 59 cities in nine states, in addi¬ tion to the Voice of America. The pro¬ grams, which cover a variety of fields in¬ cluding music, science, literature, and sports, are available outside the state on request. y The New York City Board of Educa¬ tion and the Television Information Office will offer “Television in Today’s World,” a graduate in-service course, to the city’s primary and secondary school teachers dur¬ ing the fall term of 1965. Roy Danish, TIO director, said the course is designed to increase teacher understanding of TV. INSTRUCTION y The Alabama ETV Network has dis¬ tributed posters showing the location of the net stations in the state—and also showing thumbnail photos of the 29 ETV teachers, with their names and subjects. y Chicago’s TV College began its 10th year this fall, and is on the air 25 hours a week. More than 60 different courses have been offered during the college’s nine years. ^ WNED-TV, Buffalo, has expanded its OCTOBER, 1965 3