Did you know that Columbia was the very first school to be on educational TV? In fact, we were the very first program on educational TV! I was a member of Professor Bigelow's class on American Civilization and the year was (approximately) 1957. Our class was on TV weekly for almost a year. It was great fun.

Each week, we discussed a "great" book of Western Civilization. It was Professor Bigelow's task to provoke us (we were 10 students sitting around a very large round table!) into challenging his assumptions. Also, because it was black-and-white TV, we women who had very dark hair had to dye it red so that it wouldn't look like ink on the videotape. The TV station gave us a big party at the end of our stint and we were all sorry it was over.