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Community Achievement Award

Date: 1961
Description: Dr. Thomas Boston and unidentified group standing outdoors on the lawn in front of a building (most likely St. Joseph's Hospital employees and State Medica...
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Optimist Club Youth Appreciation Dinner

Date: 11 16 1960
Description: Group portrait of fourteen city and suburban youth honored by Madison's six Optimist Clubs at a banquet. Original caption states: "The fourteen selected re...
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Optimist Clubs Youth Appreciation Banquet

Date: 11 16 1960
Description: Three members of Madison Optimist Clubs who paid tribute to Madison area youth at a dinner meeting include, from left to right: Larry Kelliher, Clyde Seltz...
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Madison City Employees Honored

Date: 12 16 1960
Description: Mayor Ivan Nestingen is shown with five of thirteen city employees honored for service to Madison at a Christmas party at Welch's Embers restaurant. Six wh...
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National Machine Accountants Association of Southern Wisconsin Honors Edward Berger

Date: 01 24 1961
Description: The National Machine Accountants Association of Southern Wisconsin honors Edward M. Berger, data processing department manager at the Ray-O-Vac Company, at...
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Collins Ferris Honored for Savings Bond Work

Date: 02 02 1961
Description: Collins Ferris, left, executive vice-president of Madison Bank and Trust Company, receives a U.S. Treasury Department award for his service to the savings ...
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Madison Advertising Club Award

Date: 02 20 1961
Description: Arthur Towell (center), president of the Arthur Towell advertising agency, receives the Silver Medal Advertising Award at a meeting of the Madison Advertis...
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Apprentice of the Year Receives Award

Date: 03 1961
Description: Kenneth Volkmann, third from left, chosen outstanding apprentice of the year, receives an engraved gold watch from John Clark, left, president of the Madis...
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High School Teachers Honored by Engineering Society

Date: 04 08 1961
Description: Three high school teachers are honored by the Wisconsin Society of Professional Engineers at a luncheon in Madison. Left to right are: Herbert Williams, Ne...
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Madison Jewish Welfare Council Dinner-Dance

Date: 05 06 1961
Description: Nathan Sudow, second from left with his wife Mary at his side, receives an engraved Israeli Bible honoring him for his many years of service to Jewish acti...
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Bowling Champions of Champions Tournament

Date: 05 18 1961
Description: Captains of the bowling teams receive "Champion and Champions" awards and handshakes at the tournament site, the Plaza. Everett Freese (left), proprietor o...
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Eagle Scout Awards

Date: 05 22 1961
Description: Three members of Explorer Scout Post 19 of Luther Memorial Church receive their Eagle Scout awards in ceremonies in the church. The scouts and their parent...
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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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Elks Youth Leadership Awards

Date: 05 01 1961
Description: Group portrait of Madison High School students chosen as winners of the Elks youth leadership awards. Seated, left to right, their high school and award ca...
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Fortieth Anniversary of the First Flights of the Wright Brothers Menu

Date: 12 17 1943
Description: Front cover and menu from a dinner honoring Orville Wright, on the fortieth anniversary of the first flights of Wilbur and Orville Wright from Kitty Hawk, ...
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Dietetics Scholarship Award

Date: 01 15 1955
Description: W.P. O'Brien, representing the DuBois Company of Cincinnati, presenting a check for $200 to Martha Study, president of the Wisconsin Dietitians Association...
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Ten Year Class of 1945 Edgewood High School Reunion

Date: 05 25 1955
Description: The recipient of the Outstanding Achievement Award at the ten year Class of 1945 Edgewood High School Reunion was Dr. Kathleen Motelet of Stockton, Califor...
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Lynn Fontanne, Noel Coward, and Alfred Lunt

Date: 04 19 1970
Description: Lynn Fontanne, Sir Noel Coward, and Alfred Lunt seated at a table in the Pyrenees Restaurant after the Tony Awards presentations at which Lunt and Fontanne...
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World's Largest Cheese, Made by Steve's Cheese

Date: 1965
Description: Colored postcard view of Mr. & Mrs. Steve Siudzinski, owners of Steve's Cheese, in front of a 34,591 pound block of cheddar cheese draped with prize winnin...
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Sherman Avenue Methodist Church Eagle Scout

Date: 02 17 1961
Description: Scoutmaster Flare Fredrickson presenting the Eagle Scout award to Ronald Bessire as his parents, Dr. and Mrs. Milton C. Bessire, look on. Ronald is a membe...

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