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Red Arrow Division Veterans Day Party

Date: 11 11 1958
Description: The annual Dane County 32nd Division Red Arrow Veterans Day party was held at the Towne Club. Guests included World War I and World War II division members...
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Red Arrow Division Veterans Day Party

Date: 11 11 1958
Description: The annual Dane County 32nd Division Red Arrow Veterans Day party was held at the Towne Club. Guests included World War I and World War II division members...
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Red Arrow Division Veterans Day Party

Date: 11 11 1958
Description: The annual Dane County 32nd Division Red Arrow Veterans Day party was held at the Towne Club. Guests included World War I and World War II division members...
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Red Arrow Division Veterans Day Party

Date: 11 11 1958
Description: The annual Dane County 32nd Division Red Arrow Veterans Day party was held at the Towne Club. Guests included World War I and World War II division member...
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Midyear University of Wisconsin Gaduate

Date: 01 08 1959
Description: Family portrait of Donald Finn with his wife Diane and their three-year-old son Johnny. Finn is a mid-year graduate of the University of Wisconsin with a d...
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VFW Booster Club Assists Fun Fund

Date: 02 20 1959
Description: A group of men from the VFW Booster club presents a check to Roundy for "Roundy's Fun Fund." From left to right are: Bill Mathews, John Dobson, Earl Lyda, ...
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Madison American Legion Rifle Team

Date: 04 27 1959
Description: Members of the Madison American Legion four-man rifle team are shown with their rifles. They were recently declared the winner of the state contest held at...
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Governor Nelson Receives a Purple Heart Viola

Date: 07 27 1959
Description: Six-year-old Deborah McCann presents a purple heart viola to Wisconsin Governor Gaylord Nelson. The Madison chapter of the Military Order of the Purple Hea...
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Drum Corps Wins Awards

Date: 10 06 1959
Description: C.H. Beebe, executive director of the Madison Scouts drum and bugle corps, accepts awards won by the corps at the VFW national convention in Los Angeles, C...
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Veterans of Foreign Wars Contributes to Roundy's Fun Fund

Date: 01 28 1960
Description: This group of men from the VFW Booster Club present a check for $100 to Roundy (Joseph L. Coughlin) for Roundy's Fun Fund. Left to right are: William Roger...
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State Veteran's Council Meeting

Date: 02 05 1960
Description: Delegates attend the annual meeting of the Wisconsin Veterans' Council. They include, left to right: I.G. Statz, Lloyd Tegge, I.D. Hale, and Robert Schroed...
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Governor Gaylord Nelson Starts Poppy Day Drive

Date: 05 12 1960
Description: Governor Gaylord Nelson purchases the first red poppy to start the annual joint veterans organizations poppy sales days. Shown, left to right, are: Gov. Ne...
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Disabled Veterans Forget-Me-Not Sale

Date: 09 26 1960
Description: Madison Mayor Ivan A. Nestingen kneels next to two young boys, Steve and John Peckman, during a ceremony prior to the Forget-Me-Not fundraising drive of th...
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Madison Veterans Administration Field Office Director

Date: 01 19 1961
Description: Portrait of Sidney Mockler, head of the Madison field office of the United States Veterans Administration since 1958. This office provides counseling and c...
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Blood Recipient and Educator, Sophie Merritt

Date: 01 23 1961
Description: Sophie Merritt, right, history educator at the Armed Forces Institute and a half gallon blood recipient, shows Cherokee Heights Red Cross Bloodmobile Chair...
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Vets Present Flag to State Supreme Court

Date: 05 01 1961
Description: Peter Altenhofen (left), Milwaukee, of the Red Arrow Association, and Ruben Cain, Milwaukee, of the Cudworth Post #23 of the American Legion of MIlwaukee p...
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American Legion Post 501 Officers

Date: 06 22 1961
Description: For the third year in a row, American Legion Post 501 of Madison has brother-sister combinations in leadership positions. Clarence Hardy, third from the le...
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Scout Day Camp

Date: 06 27 1961
Description: Evelyn Steckler, junior vice-president of the Marion Cranefield auxiliary post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, presents a new 50-star American flag to two...
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Legion Post Commanders

Date: 01 30 1960
Description: Group portrait of three members of American Legion Post 501 who are active commanders. They include, left to right: Robert Wold, Dane County commander; Har...
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Gift to Veterans Administration Hospital

Date: 07 05 1960
Description: The Wisconsin Department of the Disabled America Veterans Auxiliary has donated $500 worth of lawn furniture to the Madison Veterans Administration Hospita...

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