Ausmus, Graydon, Correspondence

1948-1949
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Scope and Content Note: 1948 to 1949 correspondence about NAEB positions on FCC hearings and other matters, with a list of officers, directors, and members for 1950. Major topics include an FCC petition that would allow the Southern Baptist Convention to operate low-power FM stations, breaking the educational band of FM radio stations.

1950
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Scope and Content Note: 1950 correspondence regarding Graydon Ausmus' involvement with the NAEB, including his role as the Vice President. Other topics include the new WUOA-FM station at the University of Alabama, with Ausmus as the director of radio broadcasting services, and the fall 1950 NAEB convention. Also includes a list of NAEB officers, directors, and members.

1951
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Scope and Content Note: 1951 correspondence regarding plans, positions, and decisions of NAEB staff, including discussion of brochure revisions, the 1951 fall convention, and the relationship between FM radio and television. Also includes discussion of moving NAEB network headquarters from WNYC to the University of Illinois and a speech delivered to the American Association of Museums by NAEB president Seymour N. Siegel.

1952
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Scope and Content Note: 1952 correspondence involving NAEB staff, especially Graydon Ausmus, who became the NAEB president after serving as vice president. Major topics include: plans for the 1952 NAEB meeting in Columbus; the search for a new executive director to replace James Miles; and organizational concerns, particularly how decisions should be delegated between the NAEB staff and board.

1953
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Scope and Content Note: 1953 correspondence involving NAEB president Graydon Ausmus and other staff members. Includes discussion of executive director transition, with Frank Schooley acting as interim executive director until Harry Skornia began his term, and the Fund for Adult Education, with NAEB's 1953 request for funds and a financial report. Also includes three reports compiled by NAEB's Television Operations Committee: a survey on physical plant and equipment in TV operations of NAEB members, a report on salary scales of six educational television stations, and a survey of costs for educational television programs.

1954-1956
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Scope and Content Note: 1954 to 1956 correspondence involving NAEB president Graydon Ausmus and other staff members. Topics include funding requests to the Kellogg Foundation and the Fund for Adult Education. Also includes budgets, minutes and reports for board meetings, and a report from the Professional Advancement Committee.

1958
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Scope and Content Note: 1958 correspondence involving NAEB president Frank Schooley, executive director Harry Skornia, other staff members. Includes grant proposals and funding requests to the Kellogg Foundation and the United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare' Office of Education, with budgets and financial statements for the NAEB. Also includes a text by Graydon Ausmus titled “The Role of Higher Education in Educational Television.”

Beacon Press, 1952-1953
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Scope and Content Note: 1952 to 1953 correspondence regarding Beacon Press books for NAEB programs that included episode scripts and other material.

Biographical data on NAEB leadership, 1953-1965
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Scope and Content Note: 1953 to 1965 correspondence primarily focused on biographical data, with resumes and brief biographies for various NAEB staff and members and contacts from other organizations. Also includes a program titled "Who's Who at the Baltimore Public Service Conference" from March 1958, with short biographies for speakers on the conference panels.