NAEB NEWS LETTER

UR8ANA, Illinois
September I, 1946

ON TO EAST LANSING!

The annual convention of the National Association of Educational Broadcasters

WILL BE meeting ON THE CAMPUS OF MICHIGAN STATE COLLEGE, EaST LaNSING, MICHI¬
GAN, ON Monday and Tuesday, September 30 and October Io
Hotel headquarters will be Hotel Olds, LansinQo A reservation card is enclosed
with this letter, so make your reservations EARLYo
The Monday evening meal and meeting will be held at Hotel OldSo All other
meetings and eatings will be on the campus, or just off the campuSo Local
arrangements are being made by the chairman of the local arrangements com*
mittee, Director R* Jo Coleman. On-campus meetings will be held in the
Sun Parlor of the Michigan State Union Building.
You reach East Lansing by rail or bus best via Chicago or Detroit. You
rfach East Lansing by car, picking your own route. For your convenience
we'll enclose some road maps with this issue.
The program will be strictly informal, but businesslike and on business of
NAEB. There'll be no formal program planned, except at the opening the
usual formalities of welcome ano kick-off. And, I warn YOU IF the outgoing
president has time to prepare a speech you'll likely be bored with one, I
I NSI ST.
Topics which will be listed on the convention agenda include:
Establishing a service in Washington for educational stations*

Increasing membership of NAEB.

Originizing NAEB INTO regions by discussion of a constitutional amend¬
ment AND PROVIDING FOR MAIL VOTE ON THE PROPOSAL.
Establishment of a NAEB Program Service and the NAEB Legal Service.

The Development of FM by educational jnstitutions*

The granting of facilities in the noncommercial FM bands by the FCC
TO religious institutions which, strictly speaking, are not EDUCATlONAu.

The publication of an NAEB brochure.

The FCC ruling on identification of records and transcrptions*

Other which may be brought up by memberSc

Annual reports of president, executive secretary, and treasurer.

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Selection or next convention site and dates-

Election of officers-

The opening session will be held at 9:30 a.m« local time (which will 8e
STANDARD TIME FOR MiCHIGAN) ON MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 30o

NAEB LUCHEQ?! AT SBC

The NAEB Executive Committee has voted to ho» o a luncheon in with

THE School Broadcast Conference at the Conti r c;>4TAL Harrt^’ CHiCArio, on •^ondoY^
October 2f- Details will be announced later-

The School Broadcast Conference, the tenth annual, will be held October 21,
22, AND 23, George «^ennings, Director of the Conference, predicts attendance
WILL TOP ALL PREVIOUS RECORDS- LAST YEAR, MORE THAN 300 DELEGATES FROM ALL
PARTS OF THE COUNTRY ATTENDED- The CONFERENCE WILL TREAT WITH THE VARIOUS
USES OF RADIO IN EDUCATION- One SESSION WILL BE DEVOTED EXCLUSIVELY TO
PROBLEMS OF THE VETERAN AND RADIO, A NEW EQUIPMENT EXHIBIT, INCLUDING
TELEVISION, FACSIMILE, AND RECOROlO, WILL BE ONE OF THE FEATURES, TOO- HOTEL
RESERVATIONS SHOULD BE MADE EARLY-

SEORGE also wants me to SAY THAT MEMBERS OF NAEB ARE INVITED TO SEND STATION
AND PROGRAM PROMOTIONAL MATERIAL TO THE S3C FOR DISTRIBUTION. MATERIAL 3HOUI.
BE ADDRESSED TO GeORGE ^ENNINQS, SCHOOL BROADCAST CONFERENCE, HOTEL CONTI¬
NENTAL, Chicago, It should arrive no later than Saturday, October 19,

GREETINGS FROM KENT

The editor has had a note from Colonel Harold W- Kent, President, Kamehameha
Schools, Honolulu, T, H, Harold promises to write more fully later of the
VERY magnificent PLANT AND A STORY OF SOME CF THE SCHOOL*S P^ANS TOR THE
FUTURE.

LEARNING FOR LIVING

That*s the title of Waldo Abbot*s annual report for 1945-46, covering activiti
OF the Bureau of Broadcasting at the University of Michigan. It’s quite a
STORY AND WE NOTE WITH PLEASURE PLANS FOR THE MICHIGAN FM STATION .‘vATX.

SENER AT SOUTHERN CAL

Bill Fcner, formerly of Iowa and Minnesota, has assumed his new duties as
DIRECTOR OF BROADCASTING FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. USC
HAS PLANS FOR PUTTING AN FM STATION ON THE AIR SOON, BUT B«LL PROMISES TO
SEND FULL DETAILS LATER, SO WE’LL LEAVE THAT ITEM FOR ANOTHEFI IGSUL,

DOTS AND DASHES

Allen Miller, Director of the Rocky Mountain Radio Council, Fv^.ns to attend
THE Chicago SBC and to attend the NAEB luncheon-Carl Mene^r and Acting
Program Director John Hightower or/^UI will attend the NAEB meetinvG at
East Lansinq,...fW- 1- Griffith says it is doubtful if he*ll get to East
LANSI NG* , - . . A'HA STAFF |3 RECOVCRIN^^ FROM ITS TWO-WEEK iNf'iiJTE'
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Charles W* Dudley, formerly educational program director for WILL attended

that Institute*o.0«.Yes, he came to work on July and resigned on September
4 TO ACCEPT POSITION AT EmERSON COLLEGE IN BOSTONo..oKNOW ANY GOOD APPLICANTS
FOR THE JOB AT WILL? .WRITE WRIGHT (OR WRIGHT WrITE) OR SCHOOLEY.

FCC ACTIONS

Or, more SPECIFICALLY, SOME ACTIONS OF THE COMMISSIONS ARE SOME CASES 3EF0RE
THE FCC;

WILL, University of Illinois, had its license renewed to May I, 1949, by

ACTION OF THE FCC ON JULY 26.

KUSC, University of Southern California, was granted modification of its

CONSTRUCTION PERMIT FOR A NEW NONCOMMERCIAL, EDUCATIONAL BROADCAST STATION.
Action was taken on AuqustI,

WBOE, Cleveland City Board of Education, was granted construction permit to

SPECIFY FREQUENCY AS 90J MC (CHANNEL 2ll), AND TO MAKE OTHER CHANGES. ACTION
^.»-S0 TAKEN ON THE FIRST DAY OF LAST MONTH.

Release or the FCC, dated August 8, announced renewal of licenses for WBEZ,
Chicago,; WBOE, Cleveland; WlUC, Urbana, and WNYE, Brooklyn.

The Comm ssion accepted for filing, on August Ie, the application of the
Board of Education of Newark for extension of completion date on its CP.

St, Louis University’s application for a CP for a new experimental television

station was accepted for filing on August 15,

The FCC accepted for filing the application of the Bible Institute of Lo3
Angeles, Inc,, for a CP for a new noncommercial educational broadcast station.
Accepted on August 15, (Editors note; Is it an educational inst tution?
Be present at the NAEB convention,)

The Commission also accepted for filing the application of WNYC, Municipal
Broadcasting System, New York, for extension of the Special Service Author¬
ization TO operate additional hours between 6 A.Mo AND 10 P.M,, EST.

SWAN SONG

For some eight or nine years, now, yours truly has pounded out a number of
NAEB News Letters, has served as executive secretary for a number of years,
AND THE past YEAR AS NAEB PRESIDENT, TO ALL OF YOU WHO HAVE HELPED MAKE
THE work PLEASANT, THANKS, lT*8 BEEN MOST ENJOYABLE. To THE NEW OFFICERS,
MY BEST WISHES AND PLEDGE OF CONTINUED ASSISTANCE, FOR I BELIEVE IN EDUCATION¬
AL BROADCASTING, AND IN NAEB.

SCHOOLEY
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