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Edgewood College De Ricci Hall Open House

Date: 03 24 1961
Description: Standing in the vestibule of Edgewood College's new classroom and administration building called De Ricci Hall is the five-member committee who are plannin...
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Guidance Counselor Dora Schenk

Date: 04 09 1961
Description: Mrs. Dora Schenk, guidance counselor at Herbert Schenk School in Madison, meeting with student Sue Schreiber and her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Schreiber.
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Future Business Leaders Convention

Date: 04 21 1961
Description: Five attendees at the eighth annual convention of the Wisconsin division of the Future Business Leaders of America include, left to right: Russell Meyer, J...
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Brother-Sister General Motors Scholarship Winners

Date: 04 25 1961
Description: Madison Central High School senior Arlene Parmentier (right) holding a scholarship she won from General Motors. Her brother, Robert (left), is also a Gener...
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Anti-Communism Prayer Crusade

Date: 05 17 1961
Description: Five high school students participating in a anti-Communism crusade of young people from various parishes of the Catholic Diocese of Madison. The students ...
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Wisconsin High School 50th Anniversary

Date: 05 25 1961
Description: Two early graduates of Wisconsin High school admiring the 1961 school yearbook at a reception marking the school's 50th anniversary. They are Ruth Noland, ...
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Honorary Degree Recipients, Wisconsin Alumni Association Banquet

Date: 06 03 1961
Description: Seated are, Mrs. Mary Ingraham Bunting, president of Radcliffe College, and Louis P. Lochner, Fair Haven, New Jersey, Pulitzer prize winning foreign corres...
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Rotary International Fellowship Program

Date: 07 14 1961
Description: Rotary District 625's scholarship committee chairman Basil I. Peterson greets Japanese student Tomoko Arai at the Madison Municipal Airport. She will be st...
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Students Attend National Student Association Congress in Madison

Date: 08 16 1961
Description: Nearly 1,000 student representatives from most of the colleges and universities in the United States attend the 14th annual National Students Association (...
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Edgewood High School Homecoming Dance Royalty

Date: 10 31 1961
Description: The Edgewood High School Homecoming King & Queen and their court. King James Hayes and Queen JoAnn Gottsacker are shown in front of the court made up of (L...
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Building Trades Apprenticeship Banquet

Date: 10 30 1961
Description: During a banquet to honor 66 men who had completed building trade apprenticeship training, new journeyman Kenneth Volkmann, right, receives a certificate o...
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Give 'till It Helps...Yes, Someone Cares

Date: 10 1961
Description: The Salvation Army is one of 29 United Givers agencies. It provides emergency shelter and also a nursery school at its headquarters on W. Wilson Street for...
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Optimists Club Dinner for West High School Football Team

Date: 12 19 1961
Description: Madison West High School football coach Burt Hable (seated, right) points out some winning strategy to West Optimists president Dr. Daro Buchanan at dinner...
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Edgewood High Basketball Team State Champions

Date: 03 06 1962
Description: Dave Brown, coach of the Edgewood High Boys Basketball team, attends a victory rally after winning the State Catholic Basketball Championship. In the foreg...
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Remodeling a Country Schoolhouse

Date: 07 09 1962
Description: Kenneth R. Colwell, a social worker with the Wisconsin State Department of Public Welfare, Division of Mental Hygiene, bought the abandoned Twin Valley sch...
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East High School 1962 Graduation Ceromony

Date: 06 15 1962
Description: An unnamed graduate receiving a high school diploma as the audience is looking on at the 1962 East High School graduation ceremony. Presenting the diplomas...
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Fred H. Harrington Inaugurated as University of Wisconsin President

Date: 10 20 1962
Description: President Harrington shaking hands and greeting parents, friends, and students at the informal reception for the newly inaugurated University of Wisconsin ...
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Fred H. Harrington Inaugurated as University of Wisconsin President

Date: 10 20 1962
Description: The Inaugural Banquet for the newly inaugurated President of the University of Wisconsin, Fred H. Harrington, was held at the Field House. Operating with s...
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Dr. Evert Wallenfeldt, President of Milton College

Date: 10 15 1963
Description: Thirty-one year old Dr. Evert Wallenfeldt, newly appointed president of Milton College, is shown chatting with two students in front of Main Hall. The stud...
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Dr. Evert Wallenfeldt, President of Milton College

Date: 10 15 1963
Description: Milton College president Dr. Evert Wallenfeldt and his wife, Phyllis, are shown at the side of the Milton College football field, with practice going on in...

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