• The Georgia Tech Archives is very pleased to announce the processing of the WGST Radio Records (MS330) and the WGST Radio Photographs (VAM330)
  
  The Atlanta radio station was offered to Georgia Tech as a gift from the Atlanta Constitution in 1923. Soon after the acceptance of this gift, the station adopted the call letters WGST, standing for the Georgia School of Technology. Ownership was transferred to the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia from 1946 to 1973, when the station was sold to the Meredith Corporation.
  
  The WGST Records document the history of the station from its founding to its eventual sale. Correspondence, financial records and other administrative files cover the station’s daily operations. The period from 1940 to 1970 is especially well documented in the series of studio logs, which contain minute-by-minute lists of the station's programming, including titles of programs, lists of advertisements and public service announcements. The logs also provide documentation for the station's transition from CBS to ABC, the use of local and network programming, and the coverage of major local and national events during this period. The WGST Photographs feature images of individuals, studios, buildings and equipment, mainly from the period of the 1950s.

The mission of the Archives and Records Management Department at the Georgia Institute of Technology is:

• to collect and preserve the history of the campus;
• to promote research and scholarship through collections relating to the academic curriculum;
• to provide a research experience for students in the use of primary sources;
• and to preserve the legal and administrative documents of the Institute.