Tom McCall and Oregon's Environmental Legacy
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Channel: Oregon State University · 2013 · Education
Oregon Governor Tom McCall's pioneering fight to clean up the state's waterways and to control development in the late 1960s still resonates today. At the Nov. 11 Corvallis Science Pub, Oregon State historian Bill Robbins will discuss the significance of McCall's leadership. Robbins will also show McCall's famous documentary, Pollution in Paradise, which aired on KGW-TV in 1962. The Science Pub presentation begins at 6 p.m. in the Old World Deli located at 341 SW Second St. in Corvallis. It is free and open to the public. "With an aristocratic, East Coast family background and a large-sized ego," says Robbins, "McCall proved himself a man of the people, one who inspired deep affection for his adopted and beloved state. In a significantly less polarized political environment, he worked across party lines to achieve significant policy objectives that we live with to the present day."
