NAEB Newsletter (July 1966)

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guidance counselors, broadcasters, librar¬ ians, and educators. Copies at 25c each (spe¬ cial prices for larger quantities) from: De¬ partment NA, Television Information Of¬ fice, 666 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10019. News Notes PERSONNEL y Robert Paul Dye, director of broadcast¬ ing, Western Michigan University, has left that post to join the staff of the College of General Studies at the University of Hawaii. y Grace E. Knecht has been appointed pro¬ gram coordinator at WCNY-TV, Syracuse. She will serve as coordinator between the program and engineering departments, and will create a monthly program guide book¬ let. y Thomas B. Petry, vice president and general manager of WCNY, was recently elected secretary of the New York State Educational Radio and Television Associa¬ tion. y Melvin Harris has been named program director of WOUB radio, Ohio University, succeeding Edwin Glick, who has become director of music at Temple Emanu-El, Dal¬ las, Texas. Harris is currently working to¬ ward a doctorate in radio-TV. y Also at WOUB, Leland Smith replaces Jack Boone as producer-director and film director, and Jerry Carmean replaces Charles Cox as TV operations engineer. Smith has worked in commercial TV at WKBD, Detroit, and Carmean recently was engineer for WLGN radio, Logan, Ohio. Cox has joined the ETV engineering staff in American Samoa, and Boone is with Ohio University’s CCTV project in Nigeria, y Other recent WOUB appointments are Glenn Mathews as assistant production su¬ pervisor, radio, and Richard Nudd as pro¬ ducer-director, TV. Nudd formerly worked for the ETV project in Samoa as educator, producer, and director. y Donald Barry Fouser, producer for WGBH-TV, Boston, is one of eight CBS Foundation news fellows for 1966-67. The fellowships offer a year of study at Colum¬ bia University. y Mrs. Lillian Brown will report on Au¬ gust 1 as director of radio and TV pro¬ graming for American University, where she will also serve as curator of the Na¬ tional Library of Television now being es¬ tablished on the campus by the National Academy of TV Arts and Sciences. For the past ten years she has produced radio and TV programs for George Washington University. y L. Lane Wells, of Georgetown College (Ky.), joined the instructional staff of the radio-TV department of St. Petersburg Junior College on July 1. He will teach broadcasting courses and produce/direct, y Four technical people have recently joined the staff of the TV research office at the University of California Medical Center in San Francisco. They are Wayne J. Carson, Richard M. Cuevas, Ernest J. Guaraldi, and George T. Isaacs, y Arlene McKellar left the Wisconsin School of the Air on June 30, after serving as associate director for 19 years. Her new home is in Green Lake, Wisconsin. ^ Gene S. Weiss, former producer-direc¬ tor for WJZ-TV, Baltimore, 'has joined the staff of WOSU-TV, Ohio State University. James J. Magee, former director of the ennsylvania ETV Network Study and radio-television specialist for the Pennsyl¬ vania Department of Public Instruction, has joined Temple University’s Center for Community Studies as a training associate, y David L. Phillips has joined the staff of WPSX-TV, Pennsylvania State Uni¬ versity, as a producer-director. He was formerly production manager for WMBD- TV, a commercial station in Peoria, Ill. y Judy Moore has been added to the staff at WBAA, Purdue University, as a School of the Air producer. She was previously employed as a teacher, and has had gradu¬ ate work in broadcasting, y WNDT, New York City, has announced three new appointments in its school TV service: Richard J. Meyer, director; Ellen Kelly, program manager; and Richard M. Polsky, area coordinator. Meyer and Miss Kelly were both already with the service, and Polsky was teaching in the state’s pub¬ lic schools. These appointments are part of an expansion program begun eight months ago. At present, 92 public and private school systems in the tri-state metropolitan area participate in the school TV service pro¬ gram. y Eastern Michigan University’s instruc¬ tional broadcasting service has announced the appointment of Gerald A. Lang as edu¬ cational media specialist in the special edu¬ cation and occupational therapy department. His duties include coordinating the school’s extensive CCTV system. George Gill, formerly with Century ighting, is vice president and general man¬ ager of Convention and Exposition Serv¬ ices, Inc., Miami Beach—a new production and staging service for TV and motion picture production, as well as for meetings and other needs. y Carroll V. Newsom, former president of New York University, has been named an RCA vice president. He will be respon¬ sible for development of RCA educational plans and programs, and will coordinate all activities concerned with products and serv¬ ices in the field of education, y RCA’s president, Robert W. Sarnoff, re¬ ceived two honorary degrees in June. La¬ Salle College, Philadelphia, awarded him the Doctor of Laws, and Washburn University, Topeka, gave him an honorary degree in fine arts. y Larry L. Wood was recently appointed special events director of WVIZ-TV, Cleve¬ land. He joined the staff there as a produc¬ er-director in June, 1965. In his new post, one of his first assignments is to produce a series of field trips to points of historical interest in Ohio, using a mobile unit, y Jim Dunne has accepted a position at Washington State University as associate professor of communications and news man¬ ager for the radio/TV services. ^ Gregg R. Borland has been appointed publicity manager of WNED-TV, Buffalo. He has worked as lecturer, writer, and TV producer, and in the summer of 1965 stud¬ ied Polish TV facilities for the State De¬ partment under the American Abroad pro¬ gram. INTERNATIONAL y Televisie Nieuws reports that advertis¬ ing may be introduced on Dutch radio and TV on October 1. Advertising is to be con¬ ducted i'n such a manner that neither “the character and aims” of the programing bod¬ ies nor the programs themselves shall be “influenced,” and advertising blocks of 2% minutes will be used on TV. y In a survey of the use of school pro¬ grams last October and November, the Ja¬ pan Broadcasting Corporation found that 91.7% of the schools, kindergarten through high school, had TV receivers, while 92.2% had radio receivers. y Njala University College in Sierra Leone has begun to develop a CCTV system con¬ necting classrooms in the experimental school on the campus with the education laboratory of the education department. A video recorder will be used to collect exam¬ ples of lessons, good and bad, so they may be examined many times to gain a better understanding of the nature of learning. Njala College is two years old, being de¬ veloped with the cooperation of the Uni¬ versity of Illinois and AID. STATE AND REGIONAL y Four ETV stations on the East Coast will form a live network for an experi¬ mental summer program, “Focus—Summer 1966.” Beginning July 4, a newscast from New York followed by discussion segments from one or all of the cities will be broad¬ cast weekday evenings over WET A, Wash¬ ington; WGBH-TV, Boston; WHYY-TV, Philadelphia; and WNDT, New York. Blair Clark, veteran CBS newsman and former newspaper executive, will be an¬ chorman. The experiment will be partially underwritten by a $33,000 Shell Oil grant, y Representatives from three state agen¬ cies met recently at the University of Maine for a one-day conference to learn ways in which Maine’s ETV net can serve state agencies. This was the state’s first such ETV conference. y 'Seven private colleges and universities in north Texas plan a CCTV connection, plus a common computer system, y Oregon Educational Broadcasting’s KOAC-TV, Corvallis, and KOAP-TV, Portland, have gone dark for the summer to prepare for power increases. New trans¬ mitters are being installed at both locations; JULY, J966 3