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Give 'till It Helps...Yes, Someone Cares

Date: 10 1961
Description: Lutheran Welfare Society is one of 29 United Givers agencies. The society facilitates the adoption of children into families such as the one pictured, find...
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Grace Episcopal Church Harvest Festival

Date: 11 20 1961
Description: Edward Persen, left, and M. Earl Moore, 717 Pickford Street, looking at the items in the "white elephant" booth at the Harvest Festival, Grace Episcopal Ch...
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We Saw You . . . at Visting Nurse Election

Date: 10 31 1961
Description: Officers are elected at the annual meeting of the Visiting Nurse Service held at the Maple Bluff Country Club. Shown seated (L-R) are Mr. Thomas Broadman, ...
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Give 'till It Helps...Yes, Someone Cares

Date: 10 1961
Description: The Legal Aid Society is one of 29 United Givers agencies. This service is staffed by advanced law students pictured here at the University of Wisconsin wi...
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Building Trades Apprenticeship Banquet

Date: 10 30 1961
Description: During a banquet to honor 66 men who had completed building trade apprenticeship training, new journeyman Kenneth Volkmann, right, receives a certificate o...
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New U.S. Citizens Celebrate at Citizenship Ceremony

Date: 11 14 1961
Description: Forty-one men, women, and children receiving their U.S. citizenship from Federal Judge Patrick T. Stone. The Lawyers' Wives of Dane County entertain the ne...
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Give 'till It Helps...Yes, Someone Cares

Date: 10 1961
Description: The Salvation Army is one of 29 United Givers agencies. It provides emergency shelter and also a nursery school at its headquarters on W. Wilson Street for...
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Mental Patients Visit the Zoo

Date: 10 20 1961
Description: Several men and women patients from Mendota State Hospital are watching the bears at the Vilas Park Zoo. A volunteer took them for the outing in her person...
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Leonard Maurer

Date: 10 12 1961
Description: Portrait of Leonard Maurer who has joined the Wisconsin State Journal staff as a temporary farm writer while the regular farm writer, Robert Bjorklund, is ...
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Wisconsin Association for Mental Health and the Madison Eagles Sell Christmas Cards

Date: 11 22 1961
Description: The Wisconsin Association for Mental Health and the Madison Eagles Lodge co-operate to sell Christmas cards to raise funds for the rehabilitation of mental...
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We Saw You . . . at Spahnferckel

Date: 11 03 1961
Description: Left to right: A.A. MacArthur, Jerry Hill, and J.E. Maloney are shown chatting before the program begins at the annual Spahnferckel, sponsored by the Madis...
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Madison General Hospital Demolition Project

Date: 11 21 1961
Description: Demolition of part of the Madison General hospital building to make way for the new psychiatric-rehabilitation wing.
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Banquet Honoring Henry O'Leary

Date: 10 30 1961
Description: On the right is Henry J. O'Leary, who is being honored for his service as chief of the rates and research division of the state Public Service Commission. ...
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Stage Rehearsal

Date: 10 02 1961
Description: Four members of the St. James Players rehearsing for their play, "Lo and Behold!" Shown in profile in the foreground looking at a script is the prompter Do...
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We Saw You . . . at Spahnferckel

Date: 11 03 1961
Description: Talking over the contracting business at the Madison Mechanical Contractors Association annual Spahnferckel are (left to right): V.J. (Dean) Johnson, Edwar...
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Parents' Day at the Wisconsin Football Game

Date: 11 17 1961
Description: University of Wisconsin football coach Milt Bruhn standing with his son Peter, a sophomore, before Parents' Day.
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We Saw You . . . at Spahnferckel

Date: 11 03 1961
Description: Attendees at the Madison Mechanical Contractors Association annual "Spahnferckel" meeting include, left to right: J.R. Clark, president (in tall chef's hat...
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Scene from "The Beautiful People," A Village Playhouse Presentation

Date: 11 08 1961
Description: Clare Sampley, 5006 Buckeye Road, and Rebecca Jorgensen, 5505 Pheasant Hill, working together on a scene from "The Beautiful People," a presentation by the...
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WSJ Correspondent's Conference

Date: 11 04 1961
Description: A scene from the annual Wisconsin State Journal correspondents' conference showing editorial staff members standing in front of a large group of mostly fem...
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Give 'till It Helps...Yes, Someone Cares

Date: 10 1961
Description: University of Wisconsin YMCA, which receives funding from the United Givers, provides housing and counseling to University of Wisconsin students from the U...

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