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University of Wisconsin Prom Queen Rally

Date: 01 12 1954
Description: Four sorority sisters performing an Indian "war dance" on behalf of their candidate for prom queen, Doris Sickert from Wauwatosa, at the rally at the Memor...
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University of Wisconsin Prom Queen Rally

Date: 01 12 1954
Description: Prom queen candidate Jean Riley of Green Bay (a.k.a. "Calamity Jean") appearing with two "bashful cowhands," who are singing on her behalf at the rally in ...
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Models for Gamma Phi Beta Tea

Date: 05 22 1957
Description: Three Gamma Phi Beta undergraduates who will serve as models at the annual spring fashion tea. The co-eds, dressed in formal dresses, are left to right: Ja...
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Sorority Rush

Date: 09 23 1957
Description: Group of college women wearing name tags while standing on Langdon Street, waiting their turns to tour all the sorority houses hosting informal teas. It wa...
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Fraternity Rush

Date: 09 23 1957
Description: Group of men on Langdon Street either participating in Fraternity Rush or watching women participate in Sorority Rush.
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Red Cross Gray Ladies Volunteer at the Wisconsin Diagnostic Center

Date: 03 04 1958
Description: Red Cross Gray Lady Mrs. Robert A. Judd (1115 Edgehill Drive) playing ping-pong with two teenage boy patients at the Wisconsin Diagnostic Center at 1552 Un...
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Red Cross Gray Ladies Volunteer at the Wisconsin Diagnositc Center

Date: 03 04 1958
Description: Red Cross Gay Ladies Mrs. H.C. Jackson (4014 Council Crest) holding a Butterick magazine, and Mrs. Walter Price (3825 Council Crest) (reflected in mirror)...
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Red Cross Gray Ladies Volunteer at the Wisconsin Diagnositc Center

Date: 03 04 1958
Description: Red Cross Gray Lady Miss Ida Gangstad (right, 407 N. Henry Street), who taught library methods at the University of Wisconsin Extension Division from 1930 ...
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Anne Cartwright, U.W. Exchange Student from England, is Outstanding Athlete

Date: 03 11 1958
Description: Anne Cartwright, International Rotary Club scholarship student from England, attends the University of Wisconsin as a graduate student. Miss Cartwright was...
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Delta Sigma Pi Fraternity Purchases Sherman Tank

Date: 04 15 1958
Description: Delta Sigma Pi fraternity purchased a used 33-ton Sherman tank from Camp McCoy for use at a spring fraternity "tank party". The fraternity's Dixieland orch...
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Delta Sigma Pi Fraternity Purchases Sherman Tank

Date: 04 15 1958
Description: Delta Sigma Pi fraternity members and friends ride the 33-ton used Sherman tank that the fraternity purchased from the Army at Camp McCoy, from the Milwauk...
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Delta Sigma Pi Fraternity Purchases Sherman Tank

Date: 04 15 1958
Description: Debbie Duncan, University of Wisconsin student from Batavia, IL, christens "Rosebud I", a used 33-ton Sherman tank, with a bottle of beer at Ed's Service S...
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Edgewood College Graduation

Date: 05 31 1958
Description: Commencement ceremony in Edgewood College's new Regina Hall, showing the college glee club in the foreground, with graduates and audience sitting in the ba...
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Diane Barber, Rose Queen

Date: 06 03 1958
Description: Portrait of Diane Barber, a U.W. student, with rose bushes in the background. She was named as queen of the annual rose show of the Madison Rose Society.
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University of Wisconsin Summer Prom Committee

Date: 07 16 1958
Description: University of Wisconsin Summer Prom Committee, (L to R): Sheila Campbell, Robert Gill, Kurt Brokaw, Wendell Langman, Frank Parsons, Bruce Creger, and Bever...
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Economics Orientation Course Participants

Date: 09 04 1958
Description: One in a series featuring faculty and students who participated in a nine week orientation economic study for foreign students. Present at the closing cere...
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Economics Orientation Course Participants

Date: 09 04 1958
Description: One in a series featuring faculty and students who participated in a nine week orientation economic study for foreign students. Participants include, left ...
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Economics Orientation Course Participants

Date: 09 04 1958
Description: One in a series featuring faculty and students who participated in a nine week orientation economic study for foreign students. Participants include, left ...
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Madison Residents Look Forward to 1959

Date: 12 09 1958
Description: Karen Sherry, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Orven B. Sherry, 4026 Euclid Avenue, and Jane Gillette, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Gillette, 913 Harrison St...
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University of Wisconsin Fraternity Housemothers

Date: 01 19 1959
Description: Kappa Sigma fraternity housemother, Mrs. Donald Matheson, serving as hostess with some of "her boys" in a simulated rushing scene. Included in the picture...

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