KRVS Student Workers

ID: 410 ~ Source: "KRVS-FM," Call Number: N 07 D, University Archives and Acadiana Manuscripts Collection, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA, accessed February 15, 2022.

This file appears in: KRVS: Radio Voice of Southwestern

Photo of KRVS disc jockey James Guillory in 1970.

This file appears in: KRVS: Radio Voice of Southwestern

KRVS: Radio Voice of Southwestern – When College Radio Came to Lafayette

By Lindsey DeLaughter

In 1940, the Fine Arts building of the Southwestern Louisiana Institute (S.L.I.), Burke Hall, had an “ill-equipped radio facility” maintained by various speech departments (1). During this time, KVOL acted almost as a radio station for S.L.I. and…