NAEB Newsletter (December 1, 1966)

Hill Resigns NAEB Vice Presidency Harold E. Hill, vice president of the NAEB in charge of general administration, has resigned that post effective December 30. Mr. Hill will join the faculty of the University of Colorado, Boulder, where he will be in charge of all radio and television activities. He has also been appointed an as¬ sociate professor of Speech and will be re¬ sponsible for the undergraduate curriculum at the university. Mr. Hill joined NAEB in 1954. Mr. Hill holds both a BS and an MS degree from the University of Illinois. He served from 1946 until 1954 with the uni¬ versity’s station, WILL, as a writer-pro¬ ducer, production director and program di¬ rector. During that same period, he served on the faculty of the university’s College of Journalism and Communications. He is a member of Kappa Tau Alpha, Sigma Delta Chi, Alpha Kappa Psi, the FCC’s National Industry Advisory Commit¬ tee, the Educational Media Council, the planning committee of the National Media Leadership Conference and formerly served on the executive committee of the Coun¬ cil of National Organizations. Johnson Signs Duty- Free Import Treaty A treaty providing for duty-free impor¬ tation of educational audio-visual materials has been signed by President Lyndon John¬ son. Nineteen countries are now a party to this pact known as the Audio-Visual Agree¬ ment of Beirut. The United States Infor¬ mation Agency has been designated by the President to carry out the provisions of the agreement. The U.S. leads the world in the development, use and sale of audio¬ visual materials. The world-wide dissemina¬ tion of these aids is an ideal compliment to our government’s foreign information pro¬ gram according to the USIA. The pact permits the duty-free import of films and filmstrips, recordings, slides, maps, charts, posters, models and recorded video¬ tapes when these materials are of an inter¬ national educational nature. WQED Plans Move To Tech Campus WQED, Pittsburgh, and the Carnegie In¬ stitute of Technology there have announced an agreement which will enable the station to move into new facilities by June, 1968. WQED began operations in 1954 as the nation’s first community-supported TV sta¬ tion. Carnegie Tech will lease land on its campus to the station on a token-fee basis for construction of the new facilities. Plans call for the development of a Dramatic Arts Center on land adjacent to the WQED site. The new WQED build¬ ing will contain nearly 60,000 usable square feet of space and the construction cost is estimated at $1,500,000. New broadcasting equipment costing $1,- 250,000 will make possible a full color oper¬ ation. George D. Lockhart, chairman of the WQED Capital Fund Committee, reported that the new building and development program has been made possible through a grant of $1,500,000 from the Richard King Mellon Charitable Trusts, matching funds from the Ford Foundation, and local cor¬ porate and foundation grants to total $1,- 500,000 from the WQED Capital Campaign currently underway. NAEB History, Vol. 2, Published NAEB History, Vol, 2, by W. Wayne Alford, may now be ordered from NAEB, 1346 Connecticut Ave. N.W., Washington, D.C. The price of each copy is $3. The 173- page volume covers the expansion and growth of the association from 1954 through 1965. Among the topics treated by Mr. Alford, who wrote the history as his doctoral thesis at Peabody College, Nashville, Tenn., are the rise of educational television, educa¬ tional broadcasting and the national defense and the growth and reorganization of the NAEB. NAEB History, Vol. 1 was authored by NAEB vice president Harold Hill. It cov¬ ers the period between 1925 when the asso¬ ciation was founded and 1954 when the study was originally published. A revised edition was published in 1965 and is avail¬ able from the NAEB publications office, 119 Gregory Hall, Urbana, Ill., at $2 per copy. HEW Filings The following applications for federal financial assistance in the construction of new noncommercial educational TV stations have been accepted for filing at the De¬ partment of Health Education and Welfare : South Dakota State University, Brook¬ ings, S.D., File No. 172, for the establish¬ ment of a new noncommercial ETV station on Ch. 8, Brookings, S.D. Total estimated project cost: $550,945. University of Hawaii, 1801 University Ave., Honolulu, Hawaii, File No. 173, to improve the facilities of noncommercial ETV station KHET, Ch. 11, Honolulu, Hawaii. Total estimated project cost: $253,- 372. The Trustees of Indiana University, Bloomington, Ind., File No. 174, for the es¬ tablishment of a new noncommercial ETV station on Ch. 30, Bloomington, Ind. Total estimated project cost: $745,577. South Carolina Educational Television Commission, 2712 Millwood Avenue, Colum¬ bia, S.C., File No. 175, for the establish¬ ment of a new noncommercial ETV station on Ch. 14, Allendale, S.C. Total estimated project cost: $387,310. South Carolina Educational Television Commission, 2712 Millwood Avenue, Co¬ lumbia, S.C, File No. 176, for the estab¬ lishment of a new noncommercial ETV station on Ch. 33, Florence, S.C. Total es¬ timated project cost: $387,310. Connecticut Educational Television Corp., 266 Pearl St., Hartford, Conn., File No. 177, for the establishment of a new non¬ commercial ETV station on Ch. 49, Bridge¬ port, Conn. Total estimated project cost: $334,240. Kentucky State Board of Education, State Office Bldg., Frankfort, Ky., File No. 178, for the establishment of a new noncommercial ETV station on Ch. 54 at Covington, Ky. Total estimated project cost: $245,529. University of Houston, 3801 Cullen Blvd., Houston, Tex., File No. 179, to improve the facilities of noncommercial ETV sta¬ tion KUHT, Houston. Total estimated proj¬ ect cost: $319,930. 1