WMRN Personnel Profile
Program Director / Broadcaster / Continuity Writer
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Madge Cooper Guthery was a longtime WMRN broadcaster whose association with the station began in 1941. Archival documentation records her work as director of women’s activities, continuity writer, and WMRN’s first woman program director. A 1947 WMRN advertisement identifies her as women’s program director, and a circa-1970 WMRN brochure lists her on the program “Orbit.”
1941
The biographical booklet To Madge with Love documents Guthery’s association with WMRN beginning in 1941.
Source: WMRN-2026-054 — To Madge with Love.
The dates above document this role at those points in time; they do not establish continuous employment between them.
1947
A WMRN advertisement published in the 1947 Broadcasting-Telecasting Yearbook identifies Guthery as women’s program director.
Source: WMRN-2026-076 — 1947 Broadcasting-Telecasting Yearbook advertisement.
The dates above document this role at those points in time; they do not establish continuous employment between them.
