CWRU radio station has early roots at Flora Stone Mather College for Women, Western Reserve University

Case Western Reserve University’s student radio station—WRUW-FM—has a deeply rooted history.

While we asked about Western Reserve University’s radio station’s call letters when it launched in 1955, the station has even earlier ties with the Flora Stone Mather College for Women. Students at the college founded WFSM using a public address system in 1946.

In 1955, the station evolved into WRAR-AM, going on air for the first time from the basement of Mather Memorial Building.

About 25 percent of this week’s respondents correctly guessed either WFSM or WRAR—or even both.