Radio age research, manufacturing, communications, broadcasting, television (1941)

NBC AWARDS 6 FELLOWSHIPS Network Inaugurates Plan to Bring Young Ministers More Actioely Into Broodcasting— Closer Link Betioecn Church and Radio Is Sought. By Dr. James Rowland Angell Public Service Counselor Nalioiial Broadcasting Company TIIK inipiiitiiiK-o of radio for the fhiirclie.s of America has re- ceived rapidly increasing recogni- tion in recent years, and certain seminaries have ah'eady set up training courses in this field for young men going into the ministry. The general aim behind this movement is, ol)viously, to provide a closer link between the church and radio. The National Broadcast- ing Company, recognizing the need for bringing intelligent young members of the pastorate more ac- tively into the field of radio, has concluded an agreement with the Congi-egational-rhristian Churches wliich should go a long way in fur- thering this important trend. The plan calls for the setting up of two types of fellowships, to be awarded each year, starting in 1944. In the first of the.se two cate- gories, a joint committee from NRC and the Cougregatioiud-Christian Churches, have awarded fellow- shijis to five ministers in the active pastorate. The fellows thus selected have been chosen from cities where Hie network has afliliates or man- aged and owned stations and will attend one of NBC's Summer Insti- tutes in Chicago, Los Angeles, or San Francisco, where the work is carried on in cooperation with Northwestern University, the Uni- versity of California, Los Angeles P.ranch, and Stanford University, iesi)ectively. The fellowship award in this case covers all tuition and incidental exiienses involved in :il- tending the Institutes. A second type of fellowslii)) will also be awarded each year, stalling in 1944, to an outstanding seminai-y CONFERRI.NG ON THt .\L1.M1.N1STRATI0N OF NBC FELLOWSHIPS TO GIVE MINISTERS RADIO TRAINING ARE, LEFT TO RIGHT, DR. TRUMAN DOUGLASS, THE REV. JAMES C. FLINT, THE REV. EVERETT C. PARKER, STERLI.NG FISHER. DR. MAX JORDAN. VND DR. JAMES ROWLAND ANGELL graduate. 'I'his fellowship carries a stipend of $1,000. and the winner will similarlx' attend one of the three Summer institutes and finish the rest of his fellowship year working on the staff of an NBC station. The fellowship this year was awarded through the Chicago Theological Seminary. Since the .Seminary now conducts an exten- sive series of courses in radio for its students. In the first category, the five ministers were selected from the Methodist, Presbyterian and Dis- ciples of Christ denominations. They are: Dr. Bernard Montgom- ery, pastor of the Central Presby- terian Church in Portland, Ore., and chairman of the Radio Com- mittee of the Portland Council of Churches: the Rev. Charles M. Crowe, pastor of the Centenary Methodist Church in St. Louis, Mo., conductor of a number of net- work radio programs and member of the radio committee of the Met- ropolitan Church Federation of St. Louis: the Rev. Edwin T. Randall, ••i Methodist, and conductor of the "Bible School of the Air," .station KSTP, Minneapolis, Minn.: Robert S. Steele, a Methodist, of Hartford. Conn., and secretary to the radio committee of the Connecticut Coun- cil of Churches: and the Rev. Har- ley Patterson, pastor of the Rich- mond Avenue Disciples of Christ Church, and presently serving as chairman of the committee on radio and publicity for the Council of Churches of Buffalo and F.rie County. The winner of the .seminary award is Frank Elliott, of the Chi- cago Theological Seminary, a Con- gregationalist, who has had several years of pastoral experience in Wisconsin. All of the fellows have been se- lected solely upon the basis of their aljility and promise in radio. Their religious denominational afliliation will not be a factor. This, I feel, is [18 RADIO AGE]