Educational TV

CONSTRUCTION of a UHF receiving and translating tower on Moose Mountain, giving promise that educational TV programs may be received in Hanover by this summer, was announced by the College recently. The tower will link the College and Hanover with Boston educational station WGBH via the relay station of the University of New Hampshire at Durham (Channel 11).

Plans are also being made for a second tower in Norwich, Vt., which will link Dartmouth with the University of Vermont as part of an Eastern Educational Network.

Approval of the Moose Mountain tower at a cost of approximately $10,000 was given by the Dartmouth Trustees in January. The College has been interested in educational TV since 1952 when the F.C.C. assigned one of its educational channels to Dartmouth. Immediate plans are related to the reception rather than the telecasting of educational programs, but facilities for both were allowed for in the construction of Hopkins Center.

Present construction is being supervised by Richard W. Olmsted '32, Business Manager of the College, assisted by Prof. Millett G. Morgan of Thayer School and J. Blair Watson, director of the College's audio visual service.