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Science Teacher Fred Schuler Retires

Date: 06 10 1959
Description: Retiring West High School physics teacher Fred Schuler is shown working in his classroom laboratory.
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Kindergarten Teacher Comforts New Student

Date: 09 14 1959
Description: Florence Helmeid, Kindergarten teacher at Hoyt School comforts an unidentified boy during the first day of class.
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We Saw You . . . on First Day of New Term

Date: 09 14 1959
Description: Children begin the new school year at Hoyt School. Mary Esther Oimoen works on a horse and rider puzzle.
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American Citizenship Course

Date: 03 29 1960
Description: Richard D. Carleton, left, instructor from the Madison Vocational school, stands at a blackboard with two of his students, Frank Vanhontte, from Belgium, a...
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Underwriters Training Course

Date: 05 03 1960
Description: A group of twenty men sit on either side of long tables while taking a three month training course in accident and health insurance underwriting.
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Roundy Presents Gavel at West High Girls Club

Date: 11 08 1960
Description: Joseph "Roundy" Coughlin stands with his arm around the shoulders of Jane LaCourt as he presents a gavel to her as 23 members of the West High Girl Club lo...
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Two-way Speaker Connects School and Home

Date: 02 15 1961
Description: An East High School English class is shown with the addition of a two-way speaker box connecting homebound student Jerry Novick to his class.
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Alcoholism Program at Mendota

Date: 05 05 1961
Description: Dr. Richard Thurrell, psychiatrist, stands at the front of a classroom in Mendota State Hospital trading ideas with a group of patients who are alcoholics.
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Spanish Classes at Edgewood Campus School

Date: 05 10 1961
Description: Third grade students at the Edgewood Campus School study Spanish for 20 minutes four days a week. Their teacher is Sister M. Catherine, O.P. At a demonstra...
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Spanish Classes at Edgewood Campus School

Date: 05 10 1961
Description: Third grade students at the Edgewood Campus School study Spanish for 20 minutes four days a week. Their teacher is Sister M. Catherine, O.P. William Hein i...
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Middleton Fourth Graders Win Encyclopedia

Date: 05 19 1961
Description: Aurilla Dorer's fourth grade class at Middleton's Elm Lawn school wins a set of the World Book Encyclopedia from Wisconsin State Journal columnist "Uncle R...
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School Children Celebrating Thanksgiving

Date: 11 1953
Description: Robert Jamieson and Patricia Tallard, children in Mrs. V. B. Roberts' nursery school, color and cut out paper turkeys as part of a Thanksgiving project.
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School Children Celebrating Thanksgiving

Date: 11 1953
Description: Pupils in Clara Boyle's third grade class at Marquette School wear Puritan costumes while examining a small early American-style log cabin as part of their...
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West High Girl's Club Style Show Models

Date: 05 05 1961
Description: Mary Frances Kelly, 1105 Emerald Street (foreground), and Georgia Nelson, 314 Merrill Crest (background), model for the West High Girls' Club "Around the F...
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Blessed Sacrament Parish School

Date: 09 12 1961
Description: First graders in class at Blessed Sacrament School listen attentively as Sister Dominic Savio, O.P. reads them a story.
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"Parlons Francais" Conversation French Program

Date: 10 05 1961
Description: A conversation French class, "Parlons Francais," is shown on TV for 15 minutes twice a week to numerous Madison junior high school and grade school student...
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"Parlons Francais" Conversation French Program

Date: 10 05 1961
Description: A conversation French class, "Parlons Francais," is shown on TV for 15 minutes twice a week to numerous Madison junior high school and grade school student...
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Second Graders Make Pictorial Displays for Thanksgiving

Date: 11 22 1961
Description: Second graders at Hoyt School make pictorial displays for Thanksgiving to show what they are thankful for. Edith Birdsall (7), daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joh...
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Pumpkin Totem Pole at Gompers School

Date: 10 30 1963
Description: Teresa Vos, age 5, dressed as a ghost, pays homage to a pumpkin totem pole at Gompers school.
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Choir School

Date: 01 19 1963
Description: Donna Berner teaching first graders the symbols of music at the Bethel Lutheran Church choir school.

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