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Award Winners of United Givers Fund

Date: 11 13 1953
Description: Holding the Chamber of Commerce and Foundation trophy is Leslie Pollard (center front row) of the Business and Industrial Employees Division. Also pictured...
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Madison Exchange Club Collection for Salvation Army

Date: 12 07 1953
Description: Members of the Madison Exchange Club with one of five bathtubs they will have around Madison to collect money for the Salvation Army Christmas baskets for ...
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Polio Kickoff Banquet

Date: 12 09 1953
Description: R.W. Bardwell and Jack Donis, two officials of the Dane County chapter of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, confer at the Polio Kickoff Banq...
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Polio Kickoff Banquet

Date: 12 09 1953
Description: Mrs. Stanley Beck, wife of a University of Wisconsin professor stricken with polio, talking with Marjorie Hagan, the city chairman of the National Foundati...
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Polio Kickoff Banquet

Date: 12 09 1953
Description: Co-chairmen for the Sun Prairie campaign confer at the kickoff banquet for the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. They are Mrs. John McGonigle an...
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Polio Kickoff Banquet

Date: 12 09 1953
Description: Polio campaign workers Robert Leske, R.J. Scott, Dutch Midland, and Dr. Robert B. Helrey at the kickoff banquet for the National Foundation for Infantile P...
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Annual Christmas Charity Ball

Date: 12 29 1953
Description: The annual Christmas Charity Ball held at the Loraine Hotel. Four members of the decorations committee survey their handiwork. Left to right are: Reed Cole...
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Annual Christmas Charity Ball

Date: 12 29 1953
Description: The annual Christmas Charity Ball held at the Loraine Hotel. Joan Fagan, general chairperson for the ball, is helped with her coat by Denny Cosgrove. She i...
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Annual Christmas Charity Ball

Date: 12 29 1953
Description: The annual Christmas Charity Ball held at the Loraine Hotel. Walking up the stairs to the Crystal Ballroom are Mary Ann Hand, who was in charge of freshman...
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Annual Christmas Charity Ball

Date: 12 29 1953
Description: The annual Christmas Charity Ball held at the Loraine Hotel. Tom Stephan holds a box containing a corsage for his dance date, Jean McFarland. Standing on a...
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Annual Christmas Charity Ball

Date: 12 29 1953
Description: The annual Christmas Charity Ball held at the Loraine Hotel. This is the woodwind section with saxophones and clarinet of Eddie Lawrence's band, which play...
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Dane County American Legion Forty-and-Eight Banquet

Date: 03 28 1954
Description: At the Annual Dane County American Legion 40-and-8 banquet, they collected money for local charities. In the photograph R.C. Golden hands a check to Clyde ...
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40 and 8 Convention

Date: 07 15 1954
Description: Everett C. Gerry, Wisconsin National Gurad 40 and 8 Child Welfare Director, is shown eating a meal at the convention, held in the Elks Club.
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Girl Praying for a Bright Christmas

Date: 11 17 1954
Description: A young girl kneeling at the side of a bed accompanies a plea for donating to the Empty Stocking Club organized by the Wisconsin State Journal. A st...
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Easter Season

Date: 04 20 1957
Description: Coloring Easter eggs at their kitchen table are Sherry Svee, age 8, with her mother, Melba Svee, and father Kenneth Svee who is executive director of the M...
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Christ Presbyterian Church Women's Society Mission Tea

Date: 07 09 1957
Description: Minnie Hastings enjoying a cup of punch and some cookies at the annual missionary tea sponsored by the Women's Society of Christ Presbyterian Church. It wa...
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Christ Presbyterian Church Women's Society Mission Tea

Date: 07 09 1957
Description: Four ladies admire silk scarfs from India that were brought to the annual missionary tea by the speaker, Mrs. Milton Nichols of Reedsburg. The annual tea i...
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Christ Presbyterian Church Women's Society Mission Tea

Date: 07 09 1957
Description: Mary Collins (right) explains some of the intricacies of a harp to hostess Eleanore Conlin. She played a program of harp selections for the annual missiona...
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Christ Presbyterian Church Women's Society Mission Tea

Date: 07 09 1957
Description: One of the younger attendees at the annual missionary tea sponsored by the Women's Society of Christ Presbyterian Church was Jane Rudolph who is an English...
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Christ Presbyterian Church Women's Society Mission Tea

Date: 07 09 1957
Description: Marge Arnold, the chairperson of the annual missionary tea sponsored by the Women's Society of Christ Presbyterian Church. It was held at the home of Elean...

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