In early December of 1947 the Smith College Radio Club held their first meeting. The Student Council appointed Marjorie Boselly to conduct research on the possibility of starting a student-run radio station at Smith. Its goals would be to provide Smith students with a radio program that related to their particular interests, to integrate curricular and extra-curricular activities on campus, and to give interested young women practical experience in the field of radio. After just over a year of research, lectures, training, and convincing, Boselly's vision was realized as WCSR, the Smith College radio station. WCSR went on air for the first time on January 6, 1949. Although the Radio Club was at first housed in a college-owned garage and was broadcast over the electric power line which followed the central heating system, it received tremendous support from the student body. It was not long before WCSR began to flourish. In the spring of 1950, WCSR joined Amherst College's WAMF and UMass' WMUA in the Pioneer Broadcasting System. By doing so WCSR participated in larger-scale broadcasts and combined the talents and interests of students from all three schools.

Throughout its years of existence, WCSR aired many different types of programs ranging from evenings of classical music to DJ shows to dramas to interviews to campus debates and always played special shows on holidays. Club members had high hopes for the future of Smith College radio. Their plans for improvement were put on hold indefinitely when the building in which WCSR was housed had to be torn down in 1956. These ideas and plans were not revived until twenty-one years later, when in 1977 WRSC, a new Smith College radio station, with a new name, was created in an attempt to ease communication problems that had arisen on campus. As college radio stations in general began to flourish during the early 1980s, the Smith College radio station went FM in 1982 as WOZQ, playing twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. The staff of WOZQ prides itself in being entirely student run, playing music to suit and unsettle an array of different tastes and hosting shows for students of the local five colleges and the community members of the Pioneer Valley.

Records of the Smith College Radio Club and Student Radio Stations, Box #3058, Smith College Archives. Used by permission.