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National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis - Dane Co. Chapter

Date: 03 08 1950
Description: National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis - Dane County Chapter retiring officers Leonard T. "Dutch" Midland, March of Dimes Chairman, and James R. Law, ...
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UNICO Fund Drive Dinner

Date: 03 11 1950
Description: Seated at the speaker's table at the UNICO's banquet to launch their fund drive to raise funds for Boys' Town of Italy are, from left to right: Roy Matson,...
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Girl Scout Selling Cookies

Date: 03 16 1950
Description: Troop 118 Girl Scout Pauline Heland of 228 Langdon Street gets an order for Girl Scout cookies from Francis F. Bowman, Jr., president of the Madison Commun...
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Amerian Legion 40 et 8 Check Presentation

Date: 03 31 1950
Description: Amerian Legion 40 et 8 presents checks to three Madison welfare groups; Rev. J. Van Handel of the Madison Catholic diocese welfare bureau, Rabbi Manfred Sw...
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Community Chest Budget Committee Visit

Date: 04 21 1950
Description: Members of the Community Chest budget committee are shown craft work done by three boys at Neighborhood House. Members of the committee, left to right, are...
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Drum and Bugle Corp Gift

Date: 05 03 1950
Description: G.H. Showers, Moose Governor, offering a check to help members of the Boy Scouts Drum and Bugle Corp attend the National Scout Jamboree in Pennslyvania. Sh...
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Damon Runyon Memorial Fund for Cancer Research

Date: 07 06 1950
Description: Rex Karney (left), associate editor of the Wisconsin State Journal (left), presents a check for $10,000 to Dr. W.D. Middleton for cancer research at...
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United Givers Fund Officers

Date: 07 07 1950
Description: Pictured are three newly-elected officers of the United Givers' Fund. Left to right are: Bernhard Mautz, president; Morgan Manchester, first vice-presiden...
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Children Aid Roundy

Date: 09 11 1950
Description: A group of children held a fund raising circus at the corner of Memphis Avenue and Webb Avenue to aid Roundy's Fun Fund which aids handicapped children. Fi...
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Gisholt Employees Donate to Good Neighbor Fund

Date: 09 16 1950
Description: George H. Johnson (left), Gisholt Machine Company president, and Stanley Prideaux (center), president of the United Steelworkers of America, congratulate F...
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Gisholt Employees Donate to Good Neighbor Fund

Date: 09 16 1950
Description: Caroline Genske, an office worker at Gisholt Machine Company, starts the process of check writing for the nearly one hundred percent participation of the c...
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Youngster Contributors to Roundy's Fun Fund

Date: 09 16 1950
Description: "Roundy" Coughlin sitting on a stoop with some neighborhood children who put on a magic show to collect money for Roundy's Fun Fund for handicapped kids.
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Effie Stringer Coffman

Date: 09 19 1950
Description: Portrait of Effie Stringer Coffman, founder of a Catholic sewing circle that made clothing and provided other help to unfortunate children. She founded St....
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Student Speakers' Bureau

Date: 09 27 1950
Description: Five members of the student speakers' bureau for the United Givers' Fund posing for a group portrait. Speaking at right: Peter Noer, West High School. Seat...
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United Givers' Fund

Date: 10 06 1950
Description: Group portrait of the volunteer workers of the United Givers' Fund at their planning meeting for solicitation of business and industrial firms for their an...
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Madison United Givers' Fund First Drive

Date: 10 16 1950
Description: Three Madison citizens involved in directing the United Givers' Fund drive of 1950, the first Madison United Givers' Fund campaign, gather at a desk. Shown...
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Madison United Givers' Fund First Drive

Date: 10 16 1950
Description: Two solicitors for the Madison United Givers' Fund drive of 1950, Mrs. Ellis (Helen) Wertz (left) and Mrs. Howard (Evelyn) Nedderman (second to left), list...
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Madison United Givers' Fund First Drive

Date: 10 16 1950
Description: Dr. Chester Kurtz, seated, and Dr. Robin Allin, standing, demonstrate the operation of a fluoroscope to Mrs. David (Virginia) Piper, seated, and Mrs. Josep...
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Madison United Givers's Fund First Drive

Date: 10 16 1950
Description: L.E. Rolefson, director of the Lutheran Welfare Society, seated, shows the Reverend E.J. Van Handel, director of the Catholic Welfare Bureau, and two Unite...
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Madison United Givers' Fund First Drive

Date: 10 16 1950
Description: Mrs. Sophia Siebecker, far right, explains the duties of the Travelers' Aid Association of which she is the director in Madison, to four United Givers' Fun...

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