'It's Wheeling Steel' Radio Broadcast Performer, Regina Colbert, Singing at the Microphone

Identifier:

048735

Collection Number:

A&M 3470

Title:

'It's Wheeling Steel' Radio Broadcast Performer, Regina Colbert, Singing at the Microphone

Date:

Undated

Description:

Caption on back of photograph reads: "Regina Colbert is the program's "Singing Secretary", and she lives up to both halves of the title. Featured soloist on Sundays, she is part of the company's secretarial staff weekdays." It was a requirement set by Wheeling Steel Corporation advertising executive John L. Grimes, that the radio broadcast stay an exclusively all employee program. Therefore, Colbert who was not at the time an employee or immediate family member, was hired to work as secretary in the advertising department to maintain this rule.

Acquisition Source:

Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Corporation. Stoll, Richard E.

Acquisition Method:

Gift

Medium:

print

Projects:

West Virginia History OnView