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University of Wisconsin Prom Queen Rally

Date: 01 12 1954
Description: Four sorority sisters performing an Indian "war dance" on behalf of their candidate for prom queen, Doris Sickert from Wauwatosa, at the rally at the Memor...
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"Jacks" Tournament at University of Wisconsin Sorority

Date: 03 27 1954
Description: Sue Fehland from Wausau and Mary Heiser from Freeport, Illinois, are watching Ken Hauser from Ridgewood N.J., who is taking a turn at jacks while kneeling ...
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"Jacks" Tournament at University of Wisconsin Sorority

Date: 03 27 1954
Description: Bruce Slagg of Evanston, Illinois, and Jane Forman (Alpha Phi social chairman) posing sitting behind the trophy, which is an oversized jack and a tennis ba...
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Bobby Meath, U.W. Boxer

Date: 03 12 1954
Description: Connie Parnell (of Somerset, Wisconsin) meeting Bobby Meath of the University of Wisconsin boxing team at the door after his match. Meath is exiting a door...
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West High Graduates Off to College

Date: 08 1955
Description: Seven recent graduates of West High School, all of whom have chosen to attend Colorado colleges. They are (left to right): Barbara Bowman, Catherine Clare ...
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Freedom Riders Boarding a Bus

Date: 03 16 1965
Description: Slightly elevated view of a large group of Freedom Riders carrying food and blankets and boarding three buses to leave Madison bound for Selma, Alabama to ...
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Models for Gamma Phi Beta Tea

Date: 05 22 1957
Description: Three Gamma Phi Beta undergraduates who will serve as models at the annual spring fashion tea. The co-eds, dressed in formal dresses, are left to right: Ja...
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It's Off to School We Go

Date: 08 20 1957
Description: Pictured in front of her closet is Marie-Madeline du Vair, as she selects fall and winter clothing. A 1957 graduate of Edgewood High School, she will enrol...
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It's Off to School We Go

Date: 08 20 1957
Description: Checking her luggage for her trip next week to Quebec is Catherine du Vair. She will do graduate work at Laval University. She is a 1956 graduate of Marque...
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Sorority Rush

Date: 09 23 1957
Description: Group of college women wearing name tags while standing on Langdon Street, waiting their turns to tour all the sorority houses hosting informal teas. It wa...
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Dr. John A. Schindler Family — Daughters

Date: 10 24 1957
Description: Two Schindler daughters, Dora (23, left) and Elsa (21) are shown sitting at a table examining their father's second published book, Woman's Guide to Bet...
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Agnes Moorehead Visits the University of Wisconsin

Date: 11 07 1957
Description: Agnes Moorehead speaking with students on the second floor of University of Wisconsin Memorial Union.
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Red Cross Gray Ladies Volunteer at the Wisconsin Diagnostic Center

Date: 03 04 1958
Description: Red Cross Gray Lady Mrs. Robert A. Judd (1115 Edgehill Drive) playing ping-pong with two teenage boy patients at the Wisconsin Diagnostic Center at 1552 Un...
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Red Cross Gray Ladies Volunteer at the Wisconsin Diagnositc Center

Date: 03 04 1958
Description: Red Cross Gray Lady Miss Ida Gangstad (right, 407 N. Henry Street), who taught library methods at the University of Wisconsin Extension Division from 1930 ...
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Six Young Farmers

Date: 01 28 1958
Description: Portrait of Phyllis Steinich Price. In 1957, she married James Price in 1957, a "tenant farmer near Lodi." She would graduate in June 1958 from the U.W. Sc...
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Delta Sigma Pi Fraternity Purchases Sherman Tank

Date: 04 15 1958
Description: Debbie Duncan, University of Wisconsin student from Batavia, IL, christens "Rosebud I", a used 33-ton Sherman tank, with a bottle of beer at Ed's Service S...
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Edgewood College Graduation

Date: 05 31 1958
Description: Commencement ceremony in Edgewood College's new Regina Hall, showing the college glee club in the foreground, with graduates and audience sitting in the ba...
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Diane Barber, Rose Queen

Date: 06 03 1958
Description: Portrait of Diane Barber, a U.W. student, with rose bushes in the background. She was named as queen of the annual rose show of the Madison Rose Society.
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Hostesses for the Wisconsin Capitol Information Booth

Date: 07 01 1958
Description: Governor Vernon W. Thomson looks over a Wisconsin road map with three college student hostesses at the information booth in the Capitol rotunda. The studen...
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University of Wisconsin Summer Prom Committee

Date: 07 16 1958
Description: University of Wisconsin Summer Prom Committee, (L to R): Sheila Campbell, Robert Gill, Kurt Brokaw, Wendell Langman, Frank Parsons, Bruce Creger, and Bever...

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