Type: Exhibition case

Name: University Choir and WRSU Radio

Detail: Between 1918 and 1926, Rutgers College and New Jersey College for Women (NJC) music groups performed together at holiday concerts, the University Concert Series, and with famed orchestras. These performances are amongst a handful of instances in which the student bodies of the two colleges collaborated through a shared passion and existed as one. In 1926, the University Choral Club formed. Comprised of Rutgers and NJC Glee Club members, the Choral Club was the first coed music ensemble at Rutgers University. Although the Club only lasted a handful of years, it was significant because it was the first organized group that united the colleges. It also led way to the creation of more coed groups including the Rutgers University Choir and WRSU– Radio which are still in existence today.

Type: Exhibition caption

Detail: Two years after Livingston’s founding, a group of students started WRLC (“The Thunder”) from Yorba Lounge in Tillett Hall (which then-functioned as the student center) in 1971. Over the next two decades, the station’s call letters would change to WLBS (the Livingston Broadcasting System), and the station would move into a professionally designed suite. In 1977, an “unofficial” partnership formed with WRLC and the Highland Park High School radio station that was broadcasting in cooperation with Piscataway High School. Today, RLC-WVPH (“The Core”) continues to broadcast in HiFi FM Stereo thanks to funding from the Livingston College Governing Association.