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Madison-Kipp Corporation Receives Safety Award

Date: 04 18 1950
Description: Homer Vorel (right), safety engineer for Employer's Mutual Insurance Company presents an award to Victor Gruendler, safety director for the Madison-Kipp Co...
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Notre Dame Alumni Club

Date: 04 17 1950
Description: Six principals at the Wisconsin South-Central Notre Dame Alumni Club dinner. Left to right: Attorney John J. Walsh, U.W. boxing coach and speaker; Maurice...
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Sorority Award

Date: 04 28 1950
Description: Janet Williams of Kenilworth, Illinois, receives the Pi Beta Phi outstanding member award at the Founders' Day banquet of the University of Wisconsin chapt...
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Badger Spelling Bee

Date: 04 29 1950
Description: Spelling bee champion Arlene Brown of Janesville holding her trophy. Smiling on the right is her eighth grade teacher at St. Mary's Catholic school, Siste...
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Badger Spelling Bee

Date: 04 29 1950
Description: Second place spelling bee champion Dale Sorenson, left, receiving a $25 dollar check from Roy L. Matson, State Journal editor. Looking on are Dale's mother...
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Badger Spelling Bee

Date: 04 29 1950
Description: Roy L. Matson, editor of the Wisconsin State Journal, gives a handshake to champion Arlene Brown of Janesville as runner-up Dale Sorenson looks on.
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Badger Spelling Bee

Date: 04 29 1950
Description: Badger Spelling Bee champion Arlene Brown stands before seated judges Mrs. Robert Taylor and Morton Schroeder, as Master Pronouncer Paul W. Gauger looks on...
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Madison Vocational and Adult School Award Winners

Date: 05 16 1950
Description: Seven Madison Vocational and Adult Education school students who received awards for "exceptional records in attendance, achievement and effort" at the sch...
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University of Wisconsin Don Rehfeldt Receiving MVP Award

Date: 05 20 1950
Description: University of Wisconsin Don Rehfeldt receives MVP Award. Rehfeldt was named the Western Conference's most valuable basketball player. Pictured from left a...
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Shorewood School Cub Scouts

Date: 06 01 1950
Description: Seven members of the Shorewood school Cub Pack 307 who received the Webelos award posing for a group portrait. Seated, left to right, are; Bob Dutton, Rich...
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Madison Soap Box Derby Prizes

Date: 06 14 1950
Description: Hildur Hanson, receptionist in the "Wisconsin State Journal" editorial rooms, looks over the 25-piece tool kit which will be awarded for the best construct...
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U.W. Alumni — Half Century Club

Date: 06 16 1950
Description: Carl Runge (right), 91, U.W. Madison 1886 alumni and a former Milwaukee judge, is shown receiving a gold top cane to honor his being the oldest alumnus in ...
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UNICO Scholarship Winners

Date: 06 25 1950
Description: University of Wisconsin Professor Gian Orsini (right), is shown presenting UNICO scholarships to three Madison high school students and one from Hurley at ...
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Madison Invitational Softball Tournament Awards

Date: 06 26 1950
Description: A display shows various merchandise awards which players will compete for in the Madison Invitational Sofball Tournament. Pictured are jackets, a wrist wa...
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Madison Soap Box Derby Prizes

Date: 07 07 1950
Description: Madison Soap Box Derby racer John Bock of 19 Paget Road, right, is shown prizes to be awarded to the top racers by Jean Behling, staff writer for the "Wisc...
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Mrs. Robert S. Lincoln Receives a Life Saving Award

Date: 07 12 1950
Description: Mrs. Robert S. Lincoln, 3118 Buena Vista Street, receives an award from police officer Lester Shore for her "heroine efforts" in saving 3-year-old Kurt Wis...
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Safe Driver Award

Date: 08 02 1950
Description: The Dane County Traffic Director presents a savings bond for the safest driver award to Mineral Point jeweler Ross Graves, who is accepting the award on be...
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Madison Soap Box Derby Winner

Date: 08 02 1950
Description: Larry Laverty of Mineral Point accepts a sports jacket as the prize for being the runner-up in Class B of the Madison Soap Box Derby. Presenting the jacket...
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Madison Soap Box Derby Winner

Date: 08 02 1950
Description: Jerry Wagner of Mineral Point accepts a check from Harlan C. Nicholls, a cashier at the First National Bank of Madison, for the sportsmanship award of the ...
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Award to Chavez

Date: 1969
Description: Cesar Chavez (center) head of the Farm Workers Organizing Committee, receives a Ghandi commemorative medal from Theodore Mazarello (left) of the Gandhi Cen...

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