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Methodist Church Dinner
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Scene at a dinner for Bishop H. Clifford Northcott, head of the Wisconsin area of the Methodist Church, at First University Methodist Church. Seated at the speakers table are, left to right: Rev. Allen McCaul, associate pastor; Mrs. Justus (Gertrude) Olson. John Wrage, church board president; Mrs. Northcott; W.M. Harris, toastmaster; Bishop Northcott, and Mrs. Merrill R. Abbey, wife of the pastor of First University Church. Bishop Northcott was reporting on a recent trip to Africa and Europe.
November 30, 1950
Vinje, Arthur M., 1888-1972 (photographer)
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