Dick West at WMRN – Roosevelt Park Dedication Performance

Description

This accession preserves a newspaper photograph documenting a performance associated with WMRN during the dedication of Roosevelt Park in Marion, Ohio. The image depicts Dick West at the microphone along with other performers during the public ceremony.

The photograph survives as a newspaper clipping and was preserved within a family scrapbook before being scanned and shared with the WMRN Radio History Archive. Although the newspaper publication date is later, contextual evidence from the caption and surrounding materials suggests the photograph documents a performance dating to approximately 1940.

The clipping provides visual evidence of WMRN’s early involvement in community events and public ceremonies, illustrating the station’s role in local civic life during its early broadcasting years.