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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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Bobby Meath, U.W. Boxer

Date: 03 12 1954
Description: Connie Parnell (of Somerset, Wisconsin) meeting Bobby Meath of the University of Wisconsin boxing team at the door after his match. Meath is exiting a door...
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Opening Night of the 47th Annual Haresfoot Show

Date: 04 26 1954
Description: Visiting in the atrium of University of Wisconsin Union Theater prior to the performance of the musical comedy, "Wait and See," are (left to right): Profes...
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University of Wisconsin Music Clinic

Date: 07 14 1954
Description: Three clarinetists during a band practice at the University of Wisconsin Music Clinic. They are Joanne Wallner of Wisconsin Rapids, Beverly Babas of Algoma...
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Dorothy Sliter's First Graders

Date: 12 1954
Description: Shorewood Hills first-grade teacher, Dorothy Sliter, posing with her twenty-three pupils by a model of Santa Claus' castle, which they made for presentatio...
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Delta Tau Delta's Christmas Party

Date: 12 1954
Description: Fraternity member, James Slone, smiling and holding a tray of hot beverages while his fraternity's housemother, Mrs. Dorothy Lambert, is leaning her arm an...
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Madison Alumnae Panhellenic Council Tea

Date: 08 1955
Description: Three University of Wisconsin students looking over the booklet "Rushing Ups and Downs" which will be distributed at the tea for high school graduating sen...
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Madison Alumnae Panhellenic Council Tea

Date: 08 1955
Description: Three graduating seniors model clothing especially suitable for college life at the tea sponsored by the Madison Alumnae Panhellenic Council. The models ar...
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Madison Alumnae Panhellenic Council Tea

Date: 08 1955
Description: Louise Watson and Joan Jennerjohn, members of the Madison Alumnae Panhellenic Council, showing sorority pins to be displayed at the tea for graduating seni...
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Madison Alumnae Panhellenic Society Tea

Date: 08 1955
Description: Mary Royston and Patricia Mathison looking over responses from invitations to the tea for graduating high school seniors sponsored by the Madison Alumne Pa...
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We Saw You . . . at Youth Conference

Date: 04 25 1957
Description: Attending the 5th Annual Governor's Conference on Children and Youth at the U.W. Memorial Union are (left to right): Judy Hess, Jerylyn Henning and Polly J...
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Music Rings Out From Campus

Date: 07 13 1957
Description: Darleen McCormick, music teacher from Central High School, is shown directing a chorus at a three-week music clinic held at the University of Wisconsin. St...
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Dea Mae Ball in the State High School Debate Tournament

Date: 02 24 1954
Description: Dea Mae Ball speaking from the podium in the forensics tournament for high school students held at Bascom Hall on the University of Wisconsin campus.
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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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Law Firm Secretary to be Queen at University of Notre Dame

Date: 10 04 1957
Description: Carol Laufenberg, a Madison law firm secretary, boarding a plane headed for the University of Notre Dame where she will be queen of the Arts and Letters Ba...
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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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U.W. Freshmen Welcome

Date: 09 10 1958
Description: A group of U.W freshmen walking on campus. [The newspaper article identifies the street as Langdon Street, but this is Linden Drive with the Horticulture b...
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Dudegon School Picnic

Date: 06 04 1959
Description: Overhead view of the children of Dudegon school on Monroe Street gathered on the front lawn for the annual school picnic. Men and women are standing on the...
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Women Scientists Inspire High School Girls

Date: 05 25 1959
Description: Working with two West High students in a chemical research laboratory of the U. W. Medical School, is Dr. Anna Maria Williams, center. At left, Mary Sedgwi...
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Women Scientists Inspire High School Girls

Date: 05 25 1959
Description: Demonstrating a research procedure to high school female students at a U.W. chemistry research laboratory is Dr. Carolyn Abrahams, left. Barbara Swanson, ...

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