Shown here on the cover of the January 1927 issue of Radio Digest is Maybelle Carstens of KWSC, the radio station of Washington State College in Pullman, Washington.  According to the magazine, this “demure maiden” was a favorite of a large circle of admirers who listened to the station.  She was described as a reader and regular member of the staff.

The station originally came on the air in 1922 as KFAE, changing its call to KWSC in 1925. When the college became Washington State University, call letters changed to KWSU in the 1960’s.  It remains the flaship station of Northwest Public Radio.

About the same time that Miss Carstens was on the air, another student by the name of Edward R. Murrow had enrolled in the college in 1926 and got his start in radio at the station.