NAEB Newsletter (December 1, 1965)

Woodcock, vice president, United Automo¬ bile Workers of America. Hyman H. Goldin, assistant chief of the FCC’s Broadcast Bureau, will resign hi's post to become staff adviser to the commis¬ sion. He and other members of the special staff will conduct investigations and pre¬ pare reports for the use of the commission. The commission came about as a direct result of an ETV long-range financing con¬ ference last December convened by NAEB- ETS, in cooperation with the USOE. Such a commission was one of the chief recom¬ mendations of the group of 200 conferees, which included representatives of govern¬ ing boards of ETV stations as well as sta¬ tion managers. After that conference, C. Scott Fletcher, executive consultant to ETS-NAEB, in¬ vited Raljih Lowell of Boston, a leader in educational broadcasting, to organize a na¬ tional committee to develop plans for the commission. It was this committee which first approached Carnegie. President Johnson commended the cor¬ poration for sponsoring the study, and in a letter to Dr. Killian, he said, “The stat¬ ure of the citizens who have agreed to serve as Commission members indicates the great importance of this study. ... I believe that educational television has an important fu¬ ture in the United States and throughout the world.” ETV Facilities Program Actions In November, the USOE announced ap¬ proval of a $316,000 grant for the expansion of KOKH-TV, Oklahoma City Public Schools. The USOE also accepted for fil¬ ing applications from the University of New Hampshire and the Greater Washington ETV Association. The university wants to establish a new ETV station on Channel 28, Hanover, at a total estimated cost of $225,- 272. GWETA plans to expand operation of WETA-TV, at a total estimated cost of $999,489. Have You Broadcast Social Studies Courses? The ETV committee of the National Council for the Social Studies wants to know what ETV stations and school sys¬ tems have telecast courses in social studies (i.e., history, civics, geography) for credit during the summer. Address replies to : Mrs. Lucy Ducharme, chairman, NCSS ETV Committee, Polk County BPI, Bartow, Florida. News Notes PERSONNEL y Harold A. Engel, University of Wiscon¬ sin, is on his way to a one-year assignment in the Philippines as specialist in broad¬ casting. He will work with radio-TV in the new mass communications institute be¬ ing established at the University of the Philippines, teaching and developing pro¬ grams for the university broadcasting sta¬ tion. ^ Clayton A. Roehl has been named direc¬ tor of TV for Central Michigan University; he was formerly a producer-director with the university and the Central Michigan ETV Council. ^ William Hawes has moved from North Carolina to Texas. He is associate professor of communication arts and manager of KUHF (FM), University of Houston, for¬ merly visiting assistant professor in radio- TV-film at the University of North Caro¬ lina. ^ David Weinkauf, instructor in speech and dramatic arts, has replaced R. Hector Currie in the speech department at the University of South Dakota. Currie is at Cincinnati University. ^ After seven years with the Alabama ETV Commission as director of public in¬ formation and network programing coordi¬ nation, Louis Peneguy has resigned to ac¬ cept a similar position with the Georgia ETV network. ^ Charles W. Hamilton has joined the University of Hawaii ETV staff as graph¬ ics supervisor. He was formerly TV graph¬ ics studio manager for Florida Atlantic University, and had been art director for WUFT, University of Florida, for three years. ^ Richard J. Goggin, chairman of the TV- motion picture-radio department at New York University, has been elected executive vice president of the University Film Pro¬ ducers Association, 1966 and 1967, and vice president and member of the Bureau, In¬ ternational Liaison Center of Schools of Cinema and Television, Paris, 1965-66. He also headed the U. S. delegation to the Xllth annual Congress of the International Liaison Center of Schools of Cinema and Television, Moscow, June 28-July 5. ^ Catherine O. Rydesky, formerly an in¬ tern at NAEB headquarters, is now a con¬ sultant in television education for the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction. L William F. Snyder has been added to the staff of WCNY-TV, the new central New York UHF station, as program devel¬ oper. ^ Russell Colber and Richard Rofman, graduate students at Syracuse University, have been named editorial assistants for Television Quarterly, the journal of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Colber was art director for KUOM-TV, University of Minnesota, for the last two years. ^ WETA-TV, Washington, announces two new appointments: George N. Koutsoukos as director of film production and Eleanor Beth Smith as assistant director of school television services. Koutsoukos has super¬ vised the film centers at the Universities of Massachusetts and Maryland, and he also headed the audiovisual service unit at the NEA for five years. For the past ten years, Mrs. Smith has been a classroom teacher, speech therapist, and supervisor in the Fair¬ fax County (Va.) public schools. For WETA she will coordinate the station’s in¬ structional programs for classroom use with teachers and administrators in the seven¬ teen participating school systems, and she will also work directly with studio teachers in preparing and producing school telecasts. Delaware’s ETV network announces the following engineering staff changes: Guy R. Chesser has been promoted to field su¬ pervisor for the net, replacing Roger W. Williams, who resigned. Donald A. Little¬ ton, formerly with the Federal Aviation Agency, has been named studio supervisor; and Ivan Piercy, new video recording su¬ pervisor, comes to the station from WJ k Flint, Michigan. INSTRUCTION ^ The Center for ITV of KUSD-TV and the South Dakota education school is co¬ ordinating a network of seven commercial TV stations and KUSD-TV to provide ITV over the state to more than 10,000 elementary students in grades 3 to 6. Two science courses, a phonics course, and a lit¬ erature course are being broadcast. ^ Raymond G. Wilke, director of the ITV office, Villanova University, writes to echo the positive results mentioned in the Octo¬ ber Newsletter about the use of CCTV in a beginning speech course at Ball State University. Wilke says that these results are available to other speech departments for about $1500 invested in the new Sony home “Video Recorder.” ^ More than 23,000 Catholic school pupils in Dade County (Miami), Florida, began receiving classroom instruction by TV in November, as Miami became the nation’s first Catholic Diocese to use the new 2500- mc TV service. According to the Rev. Jo¬ seph H. O’Shea, Diocesan director of the radio and TV commission, transmitting fa¬ cilities will be augmented within a few months to relay programs to an additional 17,000 Catholic school pupils in neighboring counties. PROGRAMS ^ “Canal Water and Whiskey,” a newly published collection of Erie Canal stories by Marvin A. Rapp, was the subject of WMHT’s Forum 17 recently. Rapp gath¬ ered the stories for his book over many summers as he traveled the canal on walk¬ ing tours and sailing trips. 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. NAEB Headquarters: 1346 Connecticut Ave., N.W., Wash¬ ington, D.C., 20036, Phone 667-6000. Area Code 202. TWX 202- 965-0299. 2 NEWSLETTER