WESU: 1939-1949
1939: Wesleyan Argus article announcing formation of a campus radio station A description of WESU’s first broadcast on Nov. 9, 1939, from The Wesleyan Argus WESU’s first program, offered one week after the station commenced broadcasting This is the first known photograph of WESU, found in the 1940 “Olla Podrida” (Wesleyan’s yearbook). Pictured is WESU co-founder and director Robert Stewart ’43 in the Clark Hall studio. The first known photograph of a WESU staff, from the 1941 Olla Podrida 1942 program guide Late 1940s. Those socks rock! (Wesleyan University Library, Special Collections & Archvies) Late 1940s. (Special Collections & Archives) Late 1940s. (Special Collections & Archives) 1948 program guide WESU station scenes, from the 1949 Olla Podrida 1949 program guide