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Wisconsin Spring Market Hog Show

Date: 02 24 1961
Description: More than 150 Madison area young people in vocational-agricultural classes and 4-H clubs took part in the activity of judging 20 pork cuts and placing 10 l...
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Annual Scholarship Tea of the University League

Date: 03 11 1961
Description: Two graduate students from Indonesia — right, Zanzawi Soejoeti of Java, and Jahja S. Lubis of Sumatra — will be among the musicians at the annual scholarsh...
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Spring Election 1961

Date: 04 04 1961
Description: Long lines of voters gather at Midvale School for the spring 1961 election. Poll workers are sitting at two tables to register the voters.
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Spring Election 1961

Date: 04 04 1961
Description: "We Saw You Performing Civic Duty" at Midvale School. A voter is shown studying a sample ballot at the 1961 spring election.
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Childrens' Party at South Side Recreation Center

Date: 03 29 1961
Description: Members of Alpha Chi Omega sorority and Evans Scholars at the University of Wisconsin gave an Easter party for young children at the South Side Recreation...
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Spelling Bee Championship in Iowa County

Date: 04 01 1961
Description: The last five spellers left in the Iowa county championship spelling bee all look a bit worried as they wait for the final rounds of the bee, held in the D...
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Spelling Bee Championship in Iowa County

Date: 04 01 1961
Description: The original caption states: "A confident winner, Julie Matthews stands before the microphone minutes before winning the county spelling title and a chance...
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Spelling Bee Championship in Iowa County

Date: 04 01 1961
Description: A happy Julie Matthews (right) receiving a hug from her mother, Mrs. Harlan Matthews (left) of Platteville, after winning the Iowa County Spelling Bee. Jul...
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U.W. Students Playing Cards

Date: 03 14 1961
Description: Four University of Wisconsin students are sitting around a table playing cards.
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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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Edgewood High School Queen and Her Court

Date: 04 07 1961
Description: Group portrait of queen Ann Topp and her court. Shown left to right are: Ann Topp, Catherine Straub, Ginny Buechner, Patricia Sweeney, and Jean Goggin. The...
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Madison Vocational and Adult School Retiree

Date: 05 17 1961
Description: Winifred Layden attending the farewell dinner for her retirement from the Madison Vocational and Adult School home economics department.
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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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University of Wisconsin Home Economics Department

Date: 03 25 1961
Description: One of twenty four images of women visiting the University of Wisconsin Home Economics Department.
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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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Scuba Diving Class Students Demonstrate "Buddy Breathing"

Date: 07 13 1961
Description: Scuba diving class student Stephanie Morgan of 3534 Topping Road, Madison; and instructor, Paul Geisler, 4206 Council Crest, Madison, demonstrate the "budd...
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Dane County Junior Fair 4-H Style Show

Date: 07 22 1961
Description: Carla Frye, Verona, models her Dane County Junior Fair 4-H style show dress for her dormitory "sisters" Sue Jalings, Oregon, seated left; Joyce Dvorak, Dee...
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University of Wisconsin Panhellenic Event

Date: 08 17 1961
Description: Karen Mickelson and Joan Kuypers, co-chairmen of the pre-rushing style show and get-aquainted evening of the U.W. Panhellenic Association and the Madison A...
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New Teacher Orientation

Date: 09 08 1961
Description: New teachers listening intently at an orientation meeting. The teachers, new to the Madison public schools, left to right (starting second from the left) a...

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