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Waunakee Prep Athletes Honored

Date: 04 27 1961
Description: Waunakee West High School athletes holding trophies. They include, left to right: Dick Barbian, football captain; Dave Roberts, most valuable basketball pl...
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Police Crash Helmet with Blinking Red Lights

Date: 04 19 1961
Description: Monona Police Chief Clifford Pfister demonstrating a police crash helmet with blinking red lights that he designed with assistance from the the Ray-O-Vac C...
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West High Girl's Club Style Show Models

Date: 05 05 1961
Description: Mary Frances Kelly, 1105 Emerald Street (foreground), and Georgia Nelson, 314 Merrill Crest (background), model for the West High Girls' Club "Around the F...
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First Friends Program for Former Mental Patients

Date: 04 25 1961
Description: The First Friends volunteer chairman is Rev. Richard Larson, associate pastor at Bethel Lutheran Church. Helping the group get ready are Bill Sather, execu...
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Fidel Castro Rally and Protest on U.W. Campus

Date: 04 21 1961
Description: U.W. students protest a rally by the Wisconsin Socialist Club, hosts of an event at the Wisconsin Union theater supporting Fidel Castro and protesting the ...
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Epsilon Sigma Alpha Sorority Annual Valentine Dance

Date: 05 05 1961
Description: Mrs. Roger Clark (left) presenting a check for $200 to Mrs. Elaine Ellibee, Wisconsin Central Colony staff person, from the profits of the annual Epsilon S...
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Fidel Castro Rally and Protest on University of Wisconsin Campus

Date: 04 21 1961
Description: U.W. students protest a rally by the Wisconsin Socialist Club, hosts of an event at the Wisconsin Union theater supporting Fidel Castro and protesting the ...
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NAACP Leaders Plan Freedom Fund Benefit

Date: 05 10 1961
Description: Madison chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) plans annual Freedom Fund benefit at Central High School. Shown (...
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Our Lady Queen of Peace Church Queen's Guild Presents Check

Date: 05 05 1961
Description: Members of the Our Lady Queen of Peace Queen's Guild Society present a check to Pastor Francis L. McDonnell as a result of numerous projects undertaken by ...
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Association for Childbirth Education Banquet

Date: 05 09 1961
Description: The Association for Childbirth Education marks its 10th anniversary at a banquet held at Welch's Embers Supper Club. Shown are Mrs. Charles Rogers, 1931 E....
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Bank Robbery at Dane

Date: 04 28 1961
Description: Undersheriff Jack Leslie (left) receiving information from Herbert Wagner, manager of the Dane branch of the State Bank of Lodi, about the recent robbery o...
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Veterans Hospital

Date: 05 11 1961
Description: Wisconsin legislators visit the Veterans Hospital in Madison.
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Wisconsin High School Prom King and Queen

Date: 04 30 1961
Description: Ann Wegner and Kenii Higuchi will be crowned queen and king of the Wisconsin High School junior prom.
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We Saw You Watching Fencers at Skill

Date: 05 02 1961
Description: A face to face portrait of Maria Walsman, 13, pressing her nose against a protective mask worn by Minnie Schiro, 11, as they attend a demonstration of fenc...
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Anti-Communism Prayer Crusade

Date: 05 17 1961
Description: Five high school students participating in a anti-Communism crusade of young people from various parishes of the Catholic Diocese of Madison. The students ...
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Wisconsin Alumni Association Women's Day

Date: 05 03 1961
Description: Grace Chatterton of Madison visiting with Mrs. Robert Johns, LaCrosse, and University of Wisconsin student Nancy Natwick, Wisconsin Rapids, at the first Wo...
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We Saw You Watching Fencers at Skill

Date: 05 02 1961
Description: A class of 6th grade girls is watching a fencing demonstration at the University of Wisconsin. Engaged in the demonstration are University of Wisconsin fen...
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Wisconsin Alumni Association Women's Day

Date: 05 03 1961
Description: Individuals at the head table for the first Women's Day sponsored by the Wisconsin Alumni Association include, (seated) left to right: Professor Helen C. W...
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Edgewood High School Queen and Her Court

Date: 04 07 1961
Description: Group portrait of queen Ann Topp and her court. Shown left to right are: Ann Topp, Catherine Straub, Ginny Buechner, Patricia Sweeney, and Jean Goggin. The...
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Invest in America Drive

Date: 05 16 1961
Description: Oscar Mayer (seated), president of Oscar Mayer Company, holding a Mayer Company sales chart. Mayer spoke at a meeting launching the "Invest in America" pro...

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