Radio Council

APPOINTMENT BY President Hopkins of a Dartmouth College Radio Council to supervise radio activities of all departments and organizations of the College was announced last month. Professor Stearns Morse of the English Department was named chairman of the Council and Robert E. Lang '38, graduate manager of the Council on Student Organizations, was named its executive officer. The other members are Prof. Russell R. Larmon '19; Sidney C. Hayward '26, Secretary of the College; Douglas F. Storer '21, alumni representative; and William J. Mitchel Jr. '42, undergraduate representative.

President Hopkins followed the recommendations of a survey committee in establishing a Radio Council to which authority will be given for the supervision of radio activities at Dartmouth. His instructions to the survey committee last fall were to study the extent of undergraduate and faculty interest, to define objectives for possible growth of radio in the College, and to determine what immediate steps should be taken to provide guidance for broadcasting developments in Hanover in the near future.

This committee headed by Professor Morse, and including Professor Larmon and Mr. Hayward, submitted a report to the President after some weeks of investigation. It was the opinion of the committee that there are definite and promising possibilities of increased use of radio at Dartmouth to further the educational purposes and extra-curricular activities of the College. Another objective was reported to be service to the regional and occasionally the national community through availability of an outlet in Hanover. The survey committee discovered undergraduate interest in an intramural station with a broadcasting range limited to buildings around the campus. Under the organization established by the President, supervision of both local and outside broadcasting will be vested in the Radio Council.

The executive officer of the Radio Council, Mr. Lang, who will continue with his C. O. S. O. duties, will also serve as chairman of a program committee. This group will include directors of musical and dramatic groups, representatives of undergraduate organizations especially interested in radio, of the public speaking department, and of such other college or community groups as may be concerned with planning and production of broadcast programs.

The program committee will have charge of the actual selection and production of programs. The Radio Council will be responsible for integrating and supervising general policies in the growth of radio at Dartmouth which is expected in the future.

Station WKNE at Keene (formerly WNBX, Springfield, Vt.) is seeking a direct wire connection and outlet at Hanover. A recent conference between Mr. Lang and sponsors of the FM broadcasting project in New England was held to determine possibilities of a Frequency Modulation outlet in Hanover. Mr. Storer, alumni member of the Radio Council, is in touch with national chains in respect to a similar future development here by one of the national broadcasting companies. Meanwhile a group of undergraduates is exploring the project of an intramural station on the campus. These and other related questions of policy are now under discussion by the Radio Council.