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Empty Stocking Club
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Phyllis Wikoff, director of the Empty Stocking Club, receives a check for $400 from Major Robert I. Perina, commanding officer of the 4th automatic-weapons battery of the Marine Reserves. Others are, left to right: Capt. Richard Lynch and Capt. Francis Gore. The Marine Reserves also donated toys totaling $600 in value.
December 23, 1957
Vinje, Arthur M., 1888-1972 (photographer)
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Empty Stocking Club
November 29, 1957
Empty Stocking Club's gift wrapping committee posing amidst dolls on display at Sear's toy department. Left to right: E.L. Diener, manager of the Sears store; Phyllis Wikoff, director of the Empty ...
Empty Stocking Club
November 26, 1956
Portrait of Robert I. Perina, deputy district attorney of Dane county, seated at his desk. He assisted the Empty Stocking Club, an organized group dedicated to the cause of forgotten children, from...
Empty Stocking Club
November 17, 1957
Joseph "Roundy" Coughlin holds an autographed football auctioned off at an Empty Stocking Club telethon. Standing with him is Patricia Cornwell, secretary to Roy Matson, editor of the Wisconsin Sta...
Empty Stocking Fund Toy Depot
December 18, 1953
Group portrait of five men working at the Empty Stocking Club Toy Depot. Left to right: Captain Leo Lewis, U.S. Marine Corps; James L. Williams and William K. Kuntz, Dane County Department of Publi...
Empty Stocking Club Donation
December 12, 1960
Kimball Dyer, holding his daughter Meg, hands a check from the Madison Sports Car Club to Sally Hoeveler for the Wisconsin State Journal's on Empty Stocking Club.
Empty Stocking Club
November 23, 1954
Monte Allen, age eight, reads about the need for donations for the Empty Stocking Club in the Wisconsin State Journal. The Club, sponsored by the Wisconsin State Journal newspaper, raises funds for...
