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Badger Kennel Club Dog Show

Date: 06 28 1953
Description: Two men and two women looking at a terrier at the Badger Kennel Club dog show.
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Banquet for the Boy Scout Drum and Bugle Corps

Date: 11 21 1953
Description: Jan Harrington and Ed Kamm at the banquet for the midwestern champion Boy Scout Drum and Bugle Corps at the Nakoma Country Club.
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New Truax Field Officers Club

Date: 12 05 1953
Description: Guests at the Truax Field Officers Club formal "debt party" and dance celebrating the opening of the new clubhouse. Darlene Simmons is shown providing a "l...
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Panhellenic Ball

Date: 02 26 1954
Description: Chatting at the Panhellenic Ball in the Great Hall of the Memorial Union are sorority housemothers. Seated are Mrs. Ruth Gauchat, Mrs. Nyla Lowell, Mrs. Ke...
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Panhellenic Ball

Date: 02 26 1954
Description: Looking at the windmill decoration at the Panhellenic Ball in Memorial Union's Great Hall are (left to right): Thomas Murphy (general chairman of the ball)...
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Dane County American Legion Forty-and-Eight Banquet

Date: 03 28 1954
Description: Three Madison diners at the Annual Dane County American Legion 40-and 8-banquet were Mrs. Alex Drives, Circuit Judge Alvin C. Reis, and Mrs. Kathryn Nanker...
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University of Wisconsin Summer Prom

Date: 08 06 1954
Description: Two couples taking a break from dancing at the university summer prom at the Memorial Union. From left to right are: Jaqueline Wilson (of Worcester, Massac...
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Jewish Welfare Meeting

Date: 05 08 1957
Description: Three of the eight women who attended the Initial Gifts luncheon to launch a Madison Jewish Welfare Fund drive. From the left are Frances Weinstein, Virgin...
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Jewish Welfare Meeting

Date: 05 08 1957
Description: The guest speaker at the Initial Gifts luncheon to launch a Madison Jewish Welfare Fund drive was Mrs. Harry Jones from Detroit, Michigan. She is a member ...
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Jewish Welfare Meeting

Date: 05 08 1957
Description: Mrs. N.J. Sudow (right) has annually served as hostess for the Initial Gifts luncheon to launch a Madison Jewish Welfare Fund drive. In the photo she visit...
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Jewish Welfare Meeting

Date: 05 08 1957
Description: Three ladies attending the Initial Gifts luncheon to launch a Madison Jewish Welfare Fund drive. From left are Dorothy Sinykin, Evelyn Minkoff, and Helene ...
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May Day Ceremony Held at St. Mary's Hospital School of Nursing

Date: 05 01 1957
Description: Veronica Goebel (of Racine) is carrying the crown of May flowers to place on the head of a Virgin Mary statue. Maids of Honor in dresses holding posies are...
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High School Shorthand Writing Awards

Date: 06 07 1957
Description: Madison East High School teacher in the school's business education department, Mary Heyer (standing by the chalkboard), awards gold pins to Barbara Lien (...
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Retirement Party for Madison YMCA General Secretary

Date: 06 13 1957
Description: The retiring general secretary of the Madison YMCA, Loren Cockrell, and his wife Margaret, are greeted by the man who will succeed him, William Schultz (ri...
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We Saw You . . . at PEO Sisterhood Tea

Date: 06 15 1957
Description: Members of the PEO (Philanthropic Educational Organization) Sisterhood Reciprocity Board hold a tea in honor of First Lady Helen (Davis) Thomson, wife of W...
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We Saw You . . . at PEO Sisterhood Tea

Date: 06 15 1957
Description: Members of the PEO (Philanthropic Educational Organization) Sisterhood Reciprocity Board sponsor a tea in honor of First Lady Helen (Davis) Thomson, wife o...
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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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Wives of Soil Scientists

Date: 08 16 1960
Description: Wives of soil scientists attending a get-acquainted tea at the home of UW President & Mrs. Conrad Elvehjem. Left to right: Mrs. Hans Winterkorn, Princeton,...
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Wives of Soil Scientists

Date: 08 16 1960
Description: Wives of soil scientists attended a get-acquainted tea at the home of UW President & Mrs. Conrad Elvehjem. Carrie Nelson, left, wife of Wisconsin's governo...
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We Saw You......at West Side Garden Club Show

Date: 11 17 1960
Description: The West Side Garden Club holds its annual "Holiday House" show. Shown (L-R) are Mrs. Mary Ethel Van Hagan, Garden Club President, 2105 Madison Street; and...

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