Gloria Cooper is the host of “Gloria’s Place.” The Internet format is new, but the show isn’t. The show, a sixty-minute interview format talk show, was on WNIL AM radio from 1999 to 2006. “Gloria’s Place” was produced by Gloria’s friend, Ric Clingaman.

Gloria’s first radio show, “Here’s Gloria” was on the air from 1966 to 1979 and focused on community afffairs. In between these two positions, Gloria was Director of Public Information at Southwestern Michigan College and Marketing Consultant for the Mendel Center Mainstage, Lake Michigan College.

Gloria has been active in the community her entire life. She and her husband, Dick Cooper were King and Queen of the Niles High School prom and graduated in 1951. She is a long time member of the Niles District Library Board and the Lakeland Regional Hospital Foundation Board. She layed a key role in establishing Niles as a Main Street Community and remains active in that organization. She volunteers at the Buchanan Area Health Resource Library at the Lakeland Hospital in Niles. And she is an ordained elder in the First Presbyterian Church.

In 2006, Gloria received the fourth Four Flags Chamber of Commerce Lifetime Achievement Award.

Gloria has been married to Dick Cooper for more than fifty years. They have four grown children: Paul of Spring Lake, Michigan; Patrick of Holland, Michigan; Robin who lives in Niles and Stacey who lives in Buchanan. Their eight grandchildren have given them three great-grandchildren.

In her spare time Gloria enjoys reading mysteries and legal novels in her garden and entertaining friends as they sail on Lake Michigan in the “Lady ‘G’.”