NAEB Newsletter (November 1, 1965)

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Humphrey Participates in Delaware ETV Net’s Inaugural Program director of ETV for the Hawaii education department. He will head up all ITV pro¬ graming for the state. The department is working with the University of Hawaii in establishing the state’s ETV network, with the university as licensee. ^ Ithaca College, New York, has an¬ nounced two additions to the television- radio faculty: John E. Keshishoglou, assist¬ ant professor, and William Beal, instructor. Keshishoglou came from the State Univer¬ sity of Iowa. He is a creative photographer whose works have been exhibited both in this country and in Europe. He has also had extensive experience in TV and in photo journalism and has written TV scripts; he helped set up and operate the first ETV station in Greece. Beal has been a producer-director with ABC, and more recently a free lancer and a member of the staff of WQXR-TV. ^ Roland E. Fenz has been named direc¬ tor of development for KQED, San Fran¬ cisco. He will assist in the planning and operation of a major effort in the next two years to increase public support of KQED, which comes from voluntary audience sub¬ scriptions and from its annual TV auction. The effort will be tied to the Ford Foun¬ dation program of matching fund grants to community-supported ETV stations. Fenz is an experienced fund raiser with a degree in radio and television. ^ Syd Cassyd, Western editor of Box- office, has recently completed a tour of the Mexican film industry, arranged by repre¬ sentatives of the government. During the tour he discussed the problems of the in¬ dustry with heads of government agencies, union, production, and exhibition execu¬ tives. ^ Len Singer has been named director of special educational services at Brandei's University. In the newly created position he will be responsible for all informational systems including television, radio, infor¬ mation storage and retrieval, and audio visual. The university is establishing an inter-university TV network 'linking seven independent universities in the greater-Bos- ton area. Singer was formerly with Florida Atlantic University. ^ Richard J. Bowman has left the Uni¬ versity of Michigan TV Center as a pro¬ ducer-director to become coordinator of medical television at the University of Illi¬ nois Medical Center, Chicago. 'Sara Drake, director of school service at WITV-TV, Hershey, Pennsylvania, re¬ ceived the Robert E. Eastman Award at a recent conference of the American Wo¬ men in Radio and Television. The award was to the “Outstanding Woman in Broad¬ casting in the Mid-Eastern Area” and th~ citation was for her “untiring efforts to make educational television a reality for the South Central Broadcasting Council.” The in-school programing reaches 180,000 chil¬ dren in grades 1-12 in 70 schools. ^ Wayne State University’s mass commu¬ nications division has announced the follow¬ ing additions to its staff: Nancy Denovan as facilities manager. (Miss Denovan was This fall the nation's first complete, state¬ wide, closed-circuit ETV network began broad¬ casting in Delaware. Vice President Hubert Humphrey spoke in the inaugural program, saying in part, . . through this network, Delaware teachers and students will be able to share in the enriching new educational ex¬ perience. We wish you well and we hope that your example may be followed throughout the entire nation. America simply must meet the previously a communication arts instructor and producer-director at the University of Detroit.) David Chen and James Wotring as producer-directors. (Chen served as a radio music director in Formosa until 1963 when he became a choir conductor and re¬ ligious singer with a degree in radio-TV from Syracuse University. Wotring was formerly television operations manager in Palo Alto, California.) Richard Pharo and Robert Schlorff as broadcast engineers. (Pharo has served as an engineer at Atlas missile sites, and came from the Univer¬ sity of Michigan where he was a television technician.) Schlorff will supervise remote broadcasts for television and for WDET. (He came from WDTM, Detroit, where he constructed Michigan’s first FM-stereo installation.) ^ Erling S. Jorgensen has become associ¬ ate director of the instructional media cen¬ ter at Michigan State University. He will be in charge of the closed-circuit system. He was previously director of course de¬ velopment and evaluation with MPATI. ^ Melvin P. Smagorinsky has been named to the new position of director of instruc¬ tional resources at State University Col¬ lege, Brockport, New York. He was for¬ merly ITV director there. ^ Norman J. Frisch has joined the staff of the ITV center at Brockport as graphic challenge in education with an open mind, with ingenuity, and a willingness to use what is new. . . The Vice President is shown in his Washing¬ ton office examining his TV script. With him are Robert J. Van Abel (left), operations di¬ rector of the network and producer of the in¬ augural program, and William J. Hanford, di¬ rector of ETV. and scenic designer. He came from the Rochester Area ETV Association, New York, where he held a similar position. INSTRUCTION ^ Thirty public school districts plus sev¬ eral parochial schools—representing approx¬ imately 275,000 participating students—have signed contracts to receive ITV in the classroom as provided by GRETA, the agency set up by KUHT, Houston, to serve school districts within the station’s new coverage area. In-school programs include geography, music, art, science, reading, English literature and composition, Span¬ ish, French, physics, chemistry, and teacher in-service training. ^ Over 900,000 elementary through sec¬ ondary school students in the Chicago area receive part of their classroom instruction over WTTW and the new WXXW. WXXW’s first telecast was a sixth-grade science class on September 20. In addition to such in-school telecasts as geography, French, Spanish, music, arithmetic, litera¬ ture and art, WXXW offers a nursing ed¬ ucation course with the cooperation of 18 Chicago-area hospitals. ^ On October 25, 78,000 school children in the greater Omaha area began receiving classroom instruction through KYNE-TV. During the station’s first year, programs NOVEMBER, 1965 3