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Award Winners of United Givers Fund

Date: 11 13 1953
Description: Holding the Chamber of Commerce and Foundation trophy is Leslie Pollard (center front row) of the Business and Industrial Employees Division. Also pictured...
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Polio Kickoff Banquet

Date: 12 09 1953
Description: A.E. Whitford, W.K. Mansfield, Ted M. Meloy, and Carl Regenberg (left to right) discuss plans for the drive to raise $75,000 for the Dane County chapter of...
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Madison Exchange Club Collection for Salvation Army

Date: 12 07 1953
Description: Members of the Madison Exchange Club with one of five bathtubs they will have around Madison to collect money for the Salvation Army Christmas baskets for ...
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Polio Kickoff Banquet

Date: 12 09 1953
Description: R.W. Bardwell and Jack Donis, two officials of the Dane County chapter of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, confer at the Polio Kickoff Banq...
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Polio Kickoff Banquet

Date: 12 09 1953
Description: Co-chairmen for the Sun Prairie campaign confer at the kickoff banquet for the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. They are Mrs. John McGonigle an...
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Polio Kickoff Banquet

Date: 12 09 1953
Description: Polio campaign workers Robert Leske, R.J. Scott, Dutch Midland, and Dr. Robert B. Helrey at the kickoff banquet for the National Foundation for Infantile P...
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Annual Christmas Charity Ball

Date: 12 29 1953
Description: The annual Christmas Charity Ball held at the Loraine Hotel. Four members of the decorations committee survey their handiwork. Left to right are: Reed Cole...
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United Givers' Business and Industrial Employees Division

Date: 10 1953
Description: United Givers' Business and Industrial Employees Division meet with section chairmen. Standing left to right: Lynn Terry, Stanley O. Nettum, and Robert Hol...
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Annual Christmas Charity Ball

Date: 12 29 1953
Description: The annual Christmas Charity Ball held at the Loraine Hotel. This is the woodwind section with saxophones and clarinet of Eddie Lawrence's band, which play...
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West High PTA-Sponsored Play Rehearsal

Date: 02 15 1954
Description: City Engineer John Thompson taking part in the rehearsal for the PTA-sponsored production of "Ship Ahoy" put on to raise money for underprivileged students...
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West High PTA-Sponsored Play Rehearsal

Date: 02 15 1954
Description: West High school faculty members Leo Barnes and Donald McCloskey taking part in the rehearsal for "Ship Ahoy," a PTA-sponsored production to raise funds fo...
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Annual Meeting of Madison Community Welfare Council

Date: 05 27 1954
Description: Members of the Madison Community Welfare Council are honored at the group's 6th annual meeting. Mr. Kenneth M. Orchard, council president, is seated center...
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Police and Firemen's Show

Date: 07 28 1954
Description: Firemen practice demonstrating the rescue of people from a burning building with an aerial ladder. They are preparing for the Police and Fireman's show at ...
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40 and 8 Convention

Date: 07 15 1954
Description: Everett C. Gerry, Wisconsin National Gurad 40 and 8 Child Welfare Director, is shown eating a meal at the convention, held in the Elks Club.
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Roundy at David Dumphy Home Carnival

Date: 08 1955
Description: Roundy (Joseph Coughlin) posing with six boys who hosted a backyard carnival to raise $7 for "Roundy's Fun Fund" benefiting children with physical disabili...
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One of Madison's Prominent Ladies

Date: 05 07 1957
Description: Milo and Ida Kittleson in their Spaight Street home. He is an attorney, and she has been active in several local charities.
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Jewish Welfare Meeting

Date: 05 08 1957
Description: Mrs. N.J. Sudow (right) has annually served as hostess for the Initial Gifts luncheon to launch a Madison Jewish Welfare Fund drive. In the photo she visit...
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Easter Season

Date: 04 20 1957
Description: Coloring Easter eggs at their kitchen table are Sherry Svee, age 8, with her mother, Melba Svee, and father Kenneth Svee who is executive director of the M...
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Madison Junior Chamber of Commerce Aids Neighborhood Center

Date: 06 08 1957
Description: Marie Lipka, a director of the Atwood Community House, receives a check from the Madison Junior Chamber of Commerce. Looking on, while doing yard work and ...
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United Givers' Fund Drive

Date: 08 15 1957
Description: Officers of United Givers' Fund Drive look over the budgets submitted by various member organizations. From left are Charles N. Goulet, Francis Holford, an...

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