NAEB Newsletter (January 1, 1966)

by Lawrence E. McKune for Michigan State University, is off the press. Copies may be ordered at $4 each, payable to Michigan State U., from: University of the Air, 14 Kellogg Center, East Lansing, Mich¬ igan. • The October issue of The Forensic car¬ ried an article by Frank Jamison and Don Holley, about the creation of a new form of competition in forensic activity. Includ¬ ed are samples of the rules for the use of visuals, criterion for judging, the use of videotape, and a sample evaluation form. • In the October-November issue of Trial, published by the American Trial Lawyers Association, Clifton Daniel, man¬ aging editor of the New York Times, writes about free press and fair trial. • In his ETV column in the October-No¬ vember issue of Film News, Blake Hunt¬ er quotes from an article in Variety, to the effect that ETV doesn’t always have to be the recipient in relationships with commer¬ cial stations. One way it was suggested ETV might “give” is “to re-run the top documentaries of local commercial stations on ETV outlets.” • The EBU Review for November was a special issue, devoted to problems of adult education by television. Among the articles covering educational broadcasting in many countries is one by Arthur Hun- gerford, of Pennsylvania State University, called “Formal Adult Education on Broad¬ cast Television in the United States.” • Writing in a recent issue of the Dela¬ ware Valley Announcer, Warren A. Kraet- zer, executive vice president and general manager of WHYY-TV, Wilmington, talked about courage and responsibility in programing in the face of harassment by those who do not want a station to pro¬ gram “unpopular” ideas. He pointed out that usually less than 20 viewers, from a potential 7.5 million, create “this sound and fury” for WHYY. • The Columbia Journalism Review for fall, 1965, carries an article by Dave Berk- man titled, “A Modest Proposal: Abolish¬ ing the FCC.” NEWS NOTES PERSONNEL ^ WDCN-TV, Nashville, has announced the following staff changes: Robert L. Shepherd, formerly program-production manager, has become acting general man¬ ager ; Richard L. Parker has replaced Shepherd; Kary L. Tilley has been appoint¬ ed supervisor of the engineering depart¬ ment; Peter A. Bretz has become a pro¬ ducer-director ; and Carole Robinson i's continuity director. ^ Dave Berkman has left Nassau Commu¬ nity College to become coordinator of in¬ structional resources at Kingsborough Com¬ munity College of the City University of New York. ^ KTPS, Tacoma, has announced the ad¬ dition of two new producer-writers to its staff: Roger C. Allen, formerly with the University of Arizona speech department, and Urban L. Hjarne, who came from the staff of KCTS, KIRO and KOMO, Seat¬ tle. ^ Neil B. Mahrer has joined the staff of WBAA, Purdue, as network director with the School of the Air, following gradua¬ tion from Ohio University where he was student station manager of WOUB. p. Robert J. Nissen, formerly with KETC, St. Louis, has become chief engineer with WMHT, Schenectady. ^ R. Lynn Kalmbach, the late general manager of South Carolina’s ETV Cen¬ ter, has been honored for his services for Crippled Children and Adults. A resolu¬ tion adopted by the society notes . . through his participation promoted and con¬ tributed to a profound degree to the ethical and professional standing of the society.” ^ Kenneth P. Murr has been appointed to the executive board of CAVE, Catholic Audio-Visual Educators. The organization is dedicated to promoting the use of audio¬ visual aids and other communications media in the field of Catholic teaching. Murr is director of instructional television at St. John’s University, Jamaica, New York. __ Edward J. Pfister, formerly information services chief for NET, has been appoint¬ ed director of information services of the National Center for School and College Television (NCSCT) at Indiana Univer¬ sity. He will be responsible for the collec¬ tion, analysis, maintenance, and dissemina¬ tion of information on courses, programing practices, evaluation techniques, and learn¬ ing research findings. He will also assist in studying questions relating to curriculum, production processes, professional rights, and distribution practices. ^ Donald L. Sandberg has been appointed director of field services for NCSCT. He will be responsible for stimulating the great¬ est and most desirable use possible of NCSCT courses, for field representation, and for supervising the preview, duplica¬ tion, and distribution services. For the past eight years Sandberg has been with NET where he served as director of distribution, worked with the ETV stations as a station relations associate, and helped form a pro¬ gram operations division. ^ Robert W. Corrigan, former head of the drama department at Carnegie Institute of Technology, has been appointed dean of the new Sdhool of the Arts at New York University. The school aims to have a creative influence on professional stand¬ ards in the performing and visual arts, and to offer professional training in the arts. The Institute of Film and Television, under the new school, will enroll students in the fall of 1967. ^ Dave Erdman has left WHA-TV as producer-director to join the television staff ’ of the University of Michigan. Roy Cad- well, after two years with the Peace Corps, where he served in the government TV sta¬ tion in Bogota, Colombia, has replaced Erdman. ^ Don Dwyer replaced Dave Fritsch on the technical staff of WHA-TV. Dwyer has had 14 years experience in electronic work in the Air Force. ^ KETC, St. Louis, has announced the following changes in staff: Dudley O. Wil¬ liams, recently of KTAL-TV, Shreveport, as director of programing; Jack Vines, chief engineer for WDCN-TV, Nashville, as director of engineering; Ellen Schneider as director of continuity and promotion; and Donald Kendall as artist-printer. ^ William F. Snyder has joined the pro¬ gram development staff of WCNY-TV, Sy¬ racuse. ^ WET A, Washington, has announced the following new employees: Fred Lyle, Jr., as production studio supervisor, Lawrence J. Lawlor as scene designer, and William J. Codding as Chief engineer. Lyle comes to WETA after 22 years with Army Signal Corps and U. S. Air Force motion picture and radio operations. Lawlor was formerly with the District of Columbia recreation de¬ partment, where he designed scenes and di¬ rected lighting for stage productions. Cod¬ ding comes from WSUN-TV, St. Peters- burg, Florida, where he was chief engineer. ^ William Rose, executive vice president of the Milgo Electronic Corporation of Mi¬ ami, has been appointed chairman of the Community Television Foundation of South Florida. He will aid in planning funding and development to improve evening program¬ ing on WTHS-TV. INSTRUCTION ^ University of Texas personnel and the Southern Regional Education Board have produced the pilot film in a proposed se¬ ries of 24 ETV presentations which will form the core of a future college credit course in architectural environment. Duff Browne, director of ETV projects for the SREB, developed the idea and wrote the script for the pilot, which focuses on the University of Virginia, designed by Thomas Jefferson. Eastern Airlines has ordered a complete V training system valued at more than $400,000 from Ampex. Eastern will use the system to give technical training to main¬ tenance and flight operations personnel throughout the Eastern empire. ^ The Texas Educational Microwave Project is investigating the possibility of 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- '"N ington, D.C., 20036. Phone 667-6000. Area Code 202. TWX 202- 965-0299. 2 NEWSLETTER