Dr. Wendell Slabaugh taught the first television course for credit from a college or university in Oregon in the Spring of 1957. The course, Chemistry 203, was delivered closed-circuit from the studio in Shepard Hall to viewing rooms in Dearborn Hall. Bill Rush of the Division of Continuing Education filmed this presentation in April 1957 from one corner of the studio to preserve this "Oregon first". The course was produced by Prof. Harold Livingston of the Speech Department with a crew of 12 students. In the Fall of 1957, KOAC-TV went on the air and Dr. Slabaugh taught the same course as part of the Interinstitutional Televised Teaching Project.
In this film, Slabaugh delivers a lecture and demonstrations on the chemistry of silicon, tin and lead. At minute 0:18:50, the film switches to a different lecture by Dr. Max Williams introducing basic ideas in organic chemistry.
Digitized from a film held in the Alumni Association Motion Picture Films and Videotapes (FV 017:014), Special Collections and Archives Research Center, Oregon State University Libraries.
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