NAEB Newsletter (January 1, 1967)

Riddleberger Joins ETS Staff r H. Holt Riddleberger, assistant mana¬ ger for development and operations at WEDU-TY Tampa, Fla., has joined the ETS division of NAEB as associate di¬ rector. He has been with WEDU-TY for seven years and has previously served there as director of program¬ ming and production, program director and producer-director. Before joining the Tampa ETV out¬ let, he was managing director of theatre groups in Palm Beach and Tampa and toured with his own com¬ pany from 1946 through 1959. He has also worked as a free lance radio-TV writer and radio announcer. He was graduated from Columbia University in 1940 and served from 1941 until 1946 with the Army Air Forces Air Transport Command. Radio Facts Due Jan. 15 All educational radio stations have received a detailed questionnaire from the NlER Division of NAEB, according to Jerrold Sandler, NER executive di¬ rector. The purpose of the inquiry is to compile a comprehensive description of educational radio in the U.S. The information supplied by some 380 stations — both operating outlets and holders of construction permits — will provide a documented basis for a request for financial support for edu¬ cational radio via the ETV Facilities Act. Mr. Sandler stressed the importance of returning the information called for in the 25-page questionnaire by January 15. Congressional hearings on the Fa¬ cilities Act are scheduled to begin early this year. NER has retained the services of Herman W. Land Associates, New York City Communications consulting firm, to hielp organize and carry out this research project, Mr. Sandler said. R & D Moving Ahead (Continued from Page One) hopes to increase its efforts to work wit h manufacturers in the design, standardization and appropriate utili¬ zation of broadcast equipment for in¬ structional purposes; to utilize the ex¬ pertise of its members in the develop¬ ment and utilization of educational radio and television systems in newly developing areas of the world; to cope with the urgent need for recruitment and professional development of com- r petent personnel to meet exploding manpower requirements, and to be responsive to requirements for informa¬ tion services in behalf of its members If the likeness in the photo bears a somewhat youthful resemblance to Edwin G. Burrows, chairman of the NAEB Board of Directors, his broadcaster asso¬ ciates will tell you that Ed Burrows is seldom still long enough to pose for a snap shot much less sit for a for¬ mal portrait. His intense in¬ terest i n educa¬ tional broadcasting which keeps him so much on the move and his diver¬ sified background in education, com¬ mercial and non-commercial com¬ munications have worked for more than a decade to the advantage of the NAEB. He became active in the association ini 955 and has served as a member of numerous committees since then. He held the chairman¬ ship of the Network Advisory Com¬ mittee and NAEB’s Region III Con¬ ference Planning Committee in 1955. At the association’s Kansas City convention last October, Mr. Bur¬ rows was elected Chairman of the full NAEB Board of Directors, a post he assumed on January 1 for a one-year term. Mr. Burrows began his broadcast¬ ing career in commercial radio in 1936 as an actor and newscaster at WICC New Haven, Conn. In the early 1940’s, hie moved to WWJ-FM Detroit as an announcer and pro¬ gram director. His broadcasting career was interrupted in 1943 when he entered military service. He ser¬ ved for three years as a naval lieu¬ tenant in the Pacific theatre aboard aircraft carriers as a fighter-director officer. When Mr. Burrows was released from active d(uty be joined WPAG Ann Arbor, Mich., as program di¬ rector. In 1948, he left the com¬ mercial broadcasting field and be¬ came program director at The Uni¬ versity of Michigan station, WHOM. He is currently associate director of the U-M Broadcasting Service and government, industry, educational groups, and others interested in edu¬ cational broadcasting. Mr. Harley noted that a major activ¬ ity of an expanded R & D staff will be the continuous gathering of data E. C. Burrows CURRICULUM VITAE and manager of Station WUOM Ann Arbor and WVGR Grand Rapids. During his tenure WUOM has re¬ ceived 16 IERT awards and numer¬ ous other citations including an Arm¬ strong Award for excellence in music programming, and a Billboard Award for effective public relations. WUOM has been a major contributor of pro¬ grams distributed by the NER Net¬ work and in recent years more of that station’s programs have been heard on NERN than any other outlet’s. Our 49 year old Board Chairman is a Texas native. He did his under¬ graduate work at Yale University where he majored in English litera¬ ture. He has been associated with the Yale Drama School, Cohasset Summer Theatre, Ann Arbor Civic Theatre and U-M radio and TY, as both an actor and a director. He holds an MA from The University of Michigan. Mr. Burrows’ creative talents go beyond the broadcast media. He is a prolific writer of both prose and poetry. He has written radio scripts for such series as ‘They Fought Alone’, ‘One Nation Indivisible’ and ‘Treasury of Michigan Names’. His poetry has been published in more than a dozen journals and literary reviews. He is the author of The Artie Tern and Other Poems published by Grove Press in 1957. A second volume is now in prepara¬ tion. Artie Tern was a runner-up for the National Book Award the year it was published. Mr. Burrows won the John Mase¬ field Award in 1938, Major Hopwood Award in Poetry in 1940 and the Borestone Mountain Poetry Award in 1964. He has twice been a fellow of the Yaddo Foundation in 1963 and 1966. He resides in Ann Arbor with his wife and two of Ms three sons, Daniel, a sophomore at U-M, and David, a high school junior. Edwin, Jr. is a PhD candidate at Columbia University. about costs and uses of educational media and the establishment of a cen¬ tral library at NAEB headquarters to which referrals can be made for infor¬ mation on every aspect of educational broadcasting. JANUARY, 1967 THREE