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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: 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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Guidance Counselor Dora Schenk

Date: 04 09 1961
Description: Mrs. Dora Schenk, guidance counselor at Herbert Schenk School in Madison, meeting with student Sue Schreiber and her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Schreiber.
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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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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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Dental Exams Mark the Start of the Middleton High School Football Practice Season

Date: 08 10 1961
Description: The start of the Middleton High School football practices includes dental examinations. Dr. E.C. Nehls examines Jim Teff's molars while Dave Wahler looks o...
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Building Trades Apprenticeship Banquet

Date: 10 30 1961
Description: During a banquet to honor 66 men who had completed building trade apprenticeship training, new journeyman Kenneth Volkmann, right, receives a certificate o...
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Lady with Cats

Date: 10 26 1961
Description: Rachel Salisbury of Milton Junction, a retired college English and Education teacher, sitting with two of her Persian cats with a large awards ribbon in th...
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Optimists Club Dinner for West High School Football Team

Date: 12 19 1961
Description: Madison West High School football coach Burt Hable (seated, right) points out some winning strategy to West Optimists president Dr. Daro Buchanan at dinner...
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Remodeling a Country Schoolhouse

Date: 07 09 1962
Description: Kenneth R. Colwell, a social worker with the Wisconsin State Department of Public Welfare, Division of Mental Hygiene, bought the abandoned Twin Valley sch...
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U.W. Athlete Pat Richter

Date: 11 22 1962
Description: Pat Richter relaxing at home. Two trophies are in the foreground, one for baseball, the other for basketball. He is also an All-American football player.
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U.W. Athlete Pat Richter

Date: 11 22 1962
Description: U.W. athlete Pat Richter shows his framed UPI All-American award certificate. His many other award certificates and pictures are on the wall.
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Dr. Evert Wallenfeldt, President of Milton College

Date: 10 15 1963
Description: Thirty-one year old Dr. Evert Wallenfeldt, newly appointed president of Milton College, is shown chatting with two students in front of Main Hall. The stud...
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Fred H. Harrington Inaugurated as University of Wisconsin President

Date: 10 20 1962
Description: The Inaugural Banquet for the newly inaugurated President of the University of Wisconsin, Fred H. Harrington, was held at the Field House. Operating with s...
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Fred H. Harrington Inaugurated as University of Wisconsin President

Date: 10 20 1962
Description: President of the University Board of Regents Jacob F. Friedrick presenting Fred Harvey H. Harrington with an excerpt from the minutes of the Special Meetin...
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Student Creates Game Machine

Date: 02 03 1964
Description: Wisconsin high school student Jeffrey Mattox is shown playing a game of tic-tac-toe against the machine he constructed. A screen shows the squares, and a m...
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Jim Dietrich, Manitowoc High School Basketball Coach

Date: 03 18 1964
Description: Manitowoc High School basketball coach Jim Dietrich. Manitowoc High School participated in the 1964 WIAA state high school basketball tournament held at th...
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Annual City Track Meet

Date: 05 08 1964
Description: Madison East High School sprint medley relay team sets a new record at the annual Madison city track meet. Left to right are: Dick Best, Larry Tyler, Jim L...
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Football Coaches at the Wisconsin High School Coaches Association Clinic

Date: 08 04 1964
Description: Bob Odell, head football coach at Bucknell University, left, discussing football with Burt Hable, center, of Madison West and Harland Carl, right, of Neena...
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Orchard Ridge School Students' Puppets

Date: 11 20 1964
Description: Three students from Orchard Ridge school displaying the puppets they made representing characters in books they had read. Left to right are: Lynette Frankl...

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