Education
Columbia University; United States Military Academy.
Columbia University; United States Military Academy.
He was perhaps best known for hosting the radio shows Twenty Questions and Luncheon at Sardi"son He is also the great uncle of actor Christian Slater. Education and educator Slater earned a master"s degree in political science from Columbia University and was a 1924 graduate of West Point.
An imposing man of 6ft 3in, he subsequently taught English and math at his hometown of Parkersburg, West Virginia.
He then joined the Greenbrier Military School in Lewisburg, West Virginia as commandant. Next, he was on the faculty of the New York Military Academy where he also coached football.
He was then the head of the math department and football coach at Blake School in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His final teaching post was headmaster of Adelphi Academy in Brooklyn, New York, from 1933–1942.
Military He served as a lieutenant colonel in public relations for the United States. Army, beginning in 1942.
While teaching at the Blake School for Boys in Minneapolis, it was suggested by a student, whose father was a radio executive, that Slater had the voice and knowledge to be a sports announcer. His first network break came while at Adelphi Academy, when Ted Husing asked Slater to call an Army-Navy football game. = Sports broadcaster.