Comm. Perry Col. 1 - Reel 1 - Individual Member Session

Further. With. Our colleagues in radio next door are still hard at it there. I'm a little disappointed at the turnout. Going to try and sort of make the best of the situation is like the scuba diver that found himself out in the midst of the desert. In complete regalia rubber suit fins goggles snorkel oxygen tanks sees an arrow going by on his camera and he says to the Arabs How far is it to the ocean. They are booked out the scuba diver and said 450 miles. Scuba Diver said four hundred fifty miles. Oh I think I'll stay here on the beach. I'm OK. Thought that to be a good motion briefly I'd like to report and this is going to be

a hopeful world where when the whirlwind session. A few things I'd like to report on that won't take very long to let you know that your individual board is is moving. The first thing that we've decided to do is begin a concentrated effort to increase the number of members of the National Association of educational broadcasters. One of the things the board will be doing with our newly appointed executive director is can have a meeting right after the first of January to plan this membership drive. The second thing that both the staffs of and even the NDA AB I are currently. Tying the ribbon on a package membership which will allow you to be a member of both and E.B. and the API for one rate and after the first of the year you will be billed simultaneously

for both memberships and this will be a reduced rate 1750 I believe is the planned figure for membership in both the API and Evie. We plan to maintain our present do structure. But we record recognize the need to try and provide more and better services to the individual members and the only way we can do this is is to increase the general base of the broad base of membership. One thing that you'll be hearing more about very shortly. And I hope. You who are individual members picked up one of these so that you can pass them along to those who are not individual members of an ATV it's a very nice job there were some errors in the layout here which are being corrected but this was an unbelievable. Surprise when this showed up the other

morning. I had a very pleasant. Surprise at lunch I became an honorary Texan. I'm very proud of this. And I feel that it's almost like being at all. In Texas I share a kind of concept so I'd like to deputize all of the individual members and ask you to go out and get some more individual members corral him and bring him in. And what I'd like to do now. Is introduce our number one individual member the president of the bill. As you know. The NABC reorganization we accomplished in Milwaukee. Responds to certain stresses and strains. Established three

institutional and one individual member division and one of the frequently expressed needs which in part led to this reorganization. Was that. We needed to have a mechanism which would encourage the establish a establishment of special interest groups within the membership. So as to afford opportunity for individuals to come together on the basis of their Vocational interests and thus unite their individual strengths in the pursuit of common aims. This mechanism we call our individual member. The vision. I think it's important to understand the difference between this division and the other three. The radio the television and the instructional divisions. Have for their membership institutions that is composed of universities or colleges or a school system. And as such these divisions are concerned with the problems which confront the institutions and the operation

of the management of radio and television facilities and in some cases in the discharge of their responsibilities as licensees of the federal government. So essentially these are management problems and concerns. The individual member division is concerned with people with institutions or stations or licensees. Now we all appreciate that educational broadcasting can only be what the people involved in that make it. It substance comes from the concepts and the skills and the professional attitudes of its personnel. The individual member division was created especially to serve individuals involved in educational broadcasting and all of its aspects in engineering and music planning or curriculum planning or arts and graphics research production whatever to give individuals continuing opportunities to increase their professional stature and ability to serve their special needs as individuals making a career in the

field and give them an organizational structure with which they could identify as their logical professional ho. Now it's my feeling. That there is. A real difference between just being an employee of a station. Or a university that owns a station. And being a professional in the fraternity of scholars as a difference between responsibilities that you as a professional have to your employer and the responsibilities you have to yourself as a professional person. I suggest these two responsibilities do not necessarily always go hand in hand. At least in the beginning. It could be that certain efforts which you A may wish to undertake as a professional. Practitioner in this field could temporarily at least be in some conflict with institutional compulsions.

For example to hold down costs or limit the size of the staff or to tolerate less than top quality equipment and the like. And in the same way. Doctors. Though they work for hospitals. May not necessarily agree that certain hospital procedures where they work are in the best interests of medical progress and suffering humanity. Perhaps they can be improved. And so as professionals they work to upgrade the standards of these institutions. Furthermore though some doctors may work for say a municipally owned hospital or a state hospital. They don't feel that they have any more professional legions. Tied to these hospitals than they do to private hospitals or private clinics. These are many of the places where they practice. These are the structures in which you'll pardon the pun. They operate. But they meet and they confer with other doctors as individuals not on the

basis of the kind of hospital for which they work. But on the basis of the professional work they do. The neurosurgeons the pediatricians the gynecologist whatever cluster in these different ways on the basis of their mutual interest as individuals in certain specialized areas of the general profession of medicine and not on the basis of institutional responsibilities. Now certainly the responsibilities for program planning or production direction engineering studio teaching and the like. Or a radio or television station or a closed circuit system constitute professional responsibilities. You are professionals but that is certainly not to say I'm sure you'll admit that this quality of professionalism cannot be enhanced. Without going into great detail about this matter I suggest that this certainly involves such things as forming its members into a closely knit group with a high standard of communication between its members. A concern for

standards of utilization and performance of the training and qualifications of personnel involved. And certainly for continuing research and study upon which to build a valid scheme of practice and procedure. It seems to me that as professionals you have concerns that are so broad institutional that go beyond and that are broader than the interest of stations in employing your talents. And rather than be united by just institutional bonds. You should be brought together in a spirit of professional this breed a car that comes from the feeling of competent craftsman who are working in productive and creative ways and sharing values and principles by which you as professionals work and live. I sincerely believe the individual member division. Now a newly staffed. And organized. Does provide an appropriate home. To help you achieve goals consistent with your maximum co-ordinated growth and development

as members of the educational broadcasting profession. But it can do so only to the extent that you are determined to use it to these ends. And now I want to introduce the man who has newly been appointed as exactly director of the individual member division. A man who. I believe has. Thought more about this matter of professionalism and done more in developing this area within the field of educational broadcasting than anyone else I know. The longtime chairman of our An ABC professional development committee. The. Mighty Man from Miami the indestructible Mr. Vernon Bronson. On the on. The air. Thank you Mr. Chairman. I'm not really sure that is. A. Very happy place

to be to be in the place of the man who. I was particularly struck by your allusion to the professional in the field. Of being something other than merely an employee of his institution. We had this. I graphically I think illustrated today. All day long we've been in a session on professional education in this field. We had their. Representatives some. 15 or so universities in the United States interested in. This field there. And there are a lot of people coming and occasionally. And all of these people were concerned. As professionals with what their institutions ought to be doing.

In the field of professional education. Our educational broadcasts. And. Indirectly of course were somewhat critical. Of. What. Could be accomplished within their restitution. But this was to me a clear example of where the professional interests of the individual rises above the more narrow interests of his. Immediate us. Touche. I only wish that. I had the time and the strength to. Really give full participation to this newly created office of executive director of this division. We have. At a conservative estimate. Some 15 or 20 thousand potential members of this

division in the United States. In the office in Washington we have a file with some 7000. Names on it. And volved and education television along. We've never had he the time or money to do very much with that file as far as soliciting for our membership. But it's there and these people are still involved in the field. And possibly the number has been greatly added to since this last numeration was made. This is not include the people in radio and some other areas of our profession. So we know that we have a tremendous potential of membership. As a matter of letting people know. Something about their own interest in becoming

individual members letting them identify themselves not only with the need. Which. They have. But with the opportunity which they have to participate and to share in this develop. I think this can be done. I don't know how much that I can do in the amount of time and effort that I can spare I will certainly do my best. But in the mean time we do have certain needs. And all of you can help. Of course we certainly hope and expect every person connected with anybody in any way through any of the visions to be members of the individual member division. We. Hope that everybody who is a member of this division and all the institutional members will. Bear in mind that it's necessary to have some kind of financial support. To

carry on the work of this division because there are. Professional needs. In it to be looked after. Professional concerns for the individual to be looked after in Washington and nationally. As well as institutional concerns. There is the job of keeping the individual members informed of advances within the profession and the. General Development of needs of the research. And areas. Not only and which they can participate with and which they can really serve. All of these things. Take a certain energy and a certain amount of money and somehow or another we're going to have to devise ways and means to provide. Necessary funding. I think another thing that we're going to have to consider and I would like to.

Hope that all of you will give your thoughts on this in the coming year. The ways in which the special interests the special professional interests of each individual member group can be served. I was told today that the engineers had some. Good ideas this morning about forming an engineering group. Within a subgroup within this division. We've talked to the music directors about this. We've talked to the producer directors we've talked to any number of special interest groups. And I think that this idea is slowly catching on within this group of individual professional members. There is room for all the special interests and all the particular interest as the. As the institutional members have organized. And

provided the means to serve their own special interest. So can we as individuals we can have any kind of service any kind of mutual arrangement. Our server any of our special needs that we desire to serve. But this is an association. This is not something that can be staff right. I know that within the end they may be and I am old enough now within the association at least. To be able to criticize these things and to criticize the membership. With a certain amount of impunity. And I know in the past too many of us. Have said well let's do this and this and allow the staff to assume responsibilities that really belong to the membership. Are to be delegated representatives of the membership. But this is not a staff function really. The

determination of what your needs are the determination of the special interests that you want to serve and the Artin a zation to have those interests are less dependent on the two. In a large measure up on the interest. And the determination and the initiative. Of each individual member and of each special interest group within this division. And I certainly hope that we can count on your cooperation. And to the extent that I am able I can assure you that you can count on mine. Thank you very much. The in the. Thank you Vernon the hour is late but we'll take whatever time necessary to answer any questions or attempt. To answer or answer any questions that may be on your minds at the moment. All.

Right the idea of the concept of state our regional chapters is certainly still in the picture it's in our adopted bylaws. Established under the reorganization plan in Milwaukee. There have been several efforts in different parts of the state to attract already existing state organizations to the association. So far this is been moving rather slowly. In one instance one state organization has become an educational associate but not a chapter. But yes this is definitely in the plans and again in the near long range thinking we hope that this will come about and through this type of regional and state chapter concept be able to bring to the various special interest groups the various professional groups. One to three day sessions without the necessity of the costs for travel and so on.

Any time. If we can we can help them and headquarters. It's a lot of problems with the right obviously this is it goes almost by saying that the headquarters staff and now that we do have something like We're down here even without the. Formal structure of regional chapters or stage actors if you have some ideas such as the music directors if they've already had a couple of sex sessions. And the staff is helping my dad. And the other question. With. Yes it's getting worse and. Thank you. And any other question. Thank you all for coming. And we stand here.