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CYO Baseball Champions

Date: 09 26 1950
Description: Group portrait of twenty uniformed members of St. John's baseball team, Waunakee, Dane County's Catholic Youth Organization League championship team, along...
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Boy Scouts Receiving Ad Altare Dei Medal

Date: 02 11 1951
Description: Five Catholic boy scouts from two Janesville parishes receiving the Ad Altare Dei Medal from Bishop William P. O'Connor of the Madison diocese in St. Rapha...
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Convent of Our Lady of the Cenacle

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Description: A nun, followed by a dog, walks down a path in the woods. The path is surrounded closely by trees.
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St. Benedict's First Class Officers

Date: 09 14 1959
Description: This fall (for the first time) the Sisters of St. Benedict have undertaken the teaching of freshman high school girls at the convent. Plans call for the ad...
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Blessed Sacrament Basketball Team

Date: 03 01 1960
Description: Blessed Sacrament tied with St. Bernard for first place in the Madison Parochial School league basketball race. They then lost to St. Bernard in the champi...
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St. Mary's Hospital Open House

Date: 08 11 1960
Description: Sister M. Geraldine, S.M., administrator of St. Mary's hospital, explains the tour guide to volunteer planners of the fall open house and membership tea. S...
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Eagle Scout Presentation

Date: 02 12 1961
Description: Ernest N. Wackwitz, Sr., scoutmaster of troop sixteen at Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church, pins an Eagle Scout badge on his son Ernest (Bud) Wackwitz, Jr....
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Edgewood High School Students

Date: 03 07 1961
Description: Cheerleader Patricia Sweeney will be cheering on her brother, Dennis, left, a sophomore, and her cousin, Mike, a senior, when Edgewood High School's basket...
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Blessed Sacrament Girl Scout Troop

Date: 11 20 1964
Description: Members of Blessed Sacrament Cadette Girl Scout troop shown preparing to serve pastries at a "tasting tea" at the school. They baked the food themselves a...
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Reverend Monseigneur P. M. Abbelen

Date: 1890
Description: Oval-framed quarter-length portrait of Reverend Monseigneur Peter Matthias Abbelen, who was vicar general of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee, and later spirit...

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