Burke Hall Plaque
This file appears in: KRVS: Radio Voice of Southwestern: When College Radio Came to Lafayette
Plaque outside Burke-Hawthorne Hall commemorating construction of Burke Hall as SLI's Fine Arts building in 1939.
This file appears in: KRVS: Radio Voice of Southwestern: When College Radio Came to Lafayette
KRVS: Radio Voice of Southwestern: When College Radio Came to Lafayette
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…