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Badger Spelling Bee
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Spelling bee champion Arlene Brown of Janesville holding her trophy. Smiling on the right is her eighth grade teacher at St. Mary's Catholic school, Sister Mary Dalmatia. On the left, Arlene's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Verne Brown are looking on proudly.
April 29, 1950
Vinje, Arthur M., 1888-1972 (photographer)
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Group portrait of Beth Knope, winner of the 1952 Badger Spelling Bee, holding her trophy and standing between her teacher Floy Kendrick, on the left, and her parents Pearl and Sidney E. Knope.
Badger Spelling Bee
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Badger Spelling Bee champion Arlene Brown stands before seated judges Mrs. Robert Taylor and Morton Schroeder, as Master Pronouncer Paul W. Gauger looks on. An audience is in the background.
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Judy Fiedler, Franklin School student and winner of the Badger Spelling Bee, poses with two teachers. Laura Reed (left) is Fiedler's spelling teacher and Cecelia Bartholomew is her homeroom teacher.
Spelling Bee Winners
April 10, 1954
Robert Suszycki, Mauston, accepts his first place spelling bee trophy with a smile. The trophy is presented by one of the judges, Sheridan Ellsworth, superintendent of schools in Elkhorn, Walworth ...
Badger Spelling Bee Winner
April 25, 1952
Beth Knope, 13-year-old champion of the Wisconsin State Journal's 1952 Badger Spelling Bee, with Walter W. Engelke, the principal of Nakoma school, admiring the school trophy case with a display de...
Badger Spelling Bee
April 29, 1950
The audience at the Badger Spelling Bee audience, comprised of parents, teachers and students, sitting in an auditorium. The 1950 Badger Spelling Bee was sponsored by the Wisconsin State Journal.
