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Badger Spelling Bee

Date: 01 22 1958
Description: The cover picture for the Badger Spelling Bee pamphlets to be mailed by the Wisconsin State Journal to schools in the program. The pupil posing behind a la...
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Ruthy Saunders and Robert Reznichek Win Art Competition at Grace Episcopal Church

Date: 02 15 1958
Description: Ruthy Saunders (center, 831 Prospect Place) and her painting "Prayer" won the first-place prize in the centennial art competition at Grace Episcopal Church...
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Scholarship Winners

Date: 02 18 1958
Description: Sitting are six young women who won scholarships presented by the Woman's Club of Madison. Left to right are: Sandra Jean Breitzke, Judith Davies, Lorraine...
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Patrick Stoycheff

Date: 03 05 1958
Description: Portrait of Patrick Stoycheff, who won an all-expense paid 10-day trip to Portugal, Spain and New York City for selling 150 new subscriptions to the Wis...
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Winners of 1958 Helen Farnsworth Mears Art Awards

Date: 03 26 1958
Description: 8th-Grade winners of the 1958 Helen Farnsworth Mears art contest. The contest started in 1927 to honor the memory of the Oshkosh-born sculptor to encourag...
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DAR Citizenship Winners

Date: 03 14 1958
Description: Madison's four DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution) Good Citizenship winners receive their pins. They are (left to right): Francesca Axley, who made ...
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International Skeeter Association Ice Boat Regatta

Date: 03 15 1958
Description: Dave Roston (Madison) skippers "Flying Trump", a Skeeter ice boat (right) around a marker in the International Skeeter Association regatta on Lake Mendota....
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Dave Roston

Date: 03 15 1958
Description: Portrait of Dave Roston, ice-boat skipper, who won Saturday morning's race but finished eighth in the afternoon in the International Skeeter Association re...
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Bill Perrigo

Date: 03 15 1958
Description: Portrait of Bill Perrigo, ice-boat skipper from Pewaukee, who piloted his "Thunder Jet" ice boat to a second place finish in the morning race, and won the ...
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We Saw You Before Leaving for Europe

Date: 04 04 1958
Description: 18-year-old Pat Stoycheff is shown with his mother, Mrs. George Stoycheff, in Gov. Vernon Thompson's office prior to his 8-day trip to Spain as "Young Colu...
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Spelling Bee

Date: 04 20 1958
Description: The winner and the runner-up for the city spelling bee championship. In the foreground is Marc Williamson, East Junior High, who will represent Madison in ...
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Spelling Bee

Date: 04 20 1958
Description: Three top-notch spellers and parents of two finalists are shown after the city spelling bee. Left to right: Cynthia Cottam, Midvale, second place; Marc Wil...
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Summer Music Clinic Try Outs

Date: 05 10 1958
Description: "Almost 4000 high school musicians came to Madison for the state solo - ensemble festival, and 20 of them went home with scholarships for the 1958 Summer M...
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Summer Music Clinic Try Outs

Date: 05 10 1958
Description: Two worried-looking high school musicians look for their names and judges' ratings. "Scanning the bulletin board outside Music hall are George Packard, Por...
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Optimists International Oratory Contest

Date: 05 24 1958
Description: Three Midwest boys compete in the annual District 9 Optimists International oratory contest held in Madison. The finalists were, (L-R): James Posey, Iowa C...
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Wisconsin State Journal Cookbook Recipe Contest

Date: 08 14 1958
Description: Agnes Tomlinson, Middleton, cuts a strawberry pie. She plans to enter the cookbook recipe contest for the Wisconsin State Journal.
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Annual Dahlia and Flower Show

Date: 08 29 1958
Description: State Supreme Court Justice George R. Currie poses with dahlias he will be exhibiting at the annual dahlia and flower show of the Badger State Dahlia Socie...
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Recipe Contest Winner

Date: 10 08 1958
Description: Portrait of Agnes Landwehr who won a recipe contest for her fun buns.
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Mrs. James H. Smith Wins Recipe Contest Prize

Date: 10 22 1958
Description: Mrs. James H. Smith, 3112 Furey Avenue, wins third-grand prize in the annual Wisconsin State Journal recipe contest. Mrs. Smith, a 1957 graduate of ...
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Annual Meeting of Wisconsin Cheese Makers' Association

Date: 11 04 1958
Description: The 67th annual meeting of the Wisconsin Cheese Makers' Association is held in Madison at the Hotel Loraine. The meeting included the 2nd annual World's Ch...

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