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Sceen Play by Sherman Elementary School Students

Date: 12 02 1953
Description: Members of the 4th-grade class viewing the scroll screen play, which they had produced. The play, "A Day in the Jungle," was planned and coordinated by the...
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Reading Outside Dudgeon School in Summer

Date: 06 11 1954
Description: The book, Days of Adventure, being read aloud by Hadi Pankow and Randy Sumner as other boys and girls follow along. The group is sitting on stone st...
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Reading Outside Dudgeon School in Summer

Date: 06 11 1954
Description: Pupils reading Days of Adventure outdoors: Lucy Hobbins, Dennis Curran and Carlton Enger.
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Reading Outside Dudgeon School in Summer

Date: 06 11 1954
Description: Teacher Mrs. Gertrude Wilson is sitting outside in the shade and reading to her pupils. She is sitting in a chair on a sidewalk across from the children wh...
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Reading Outside Dudgeon School in Summer

Date: 06 11 1954
Description: Student Joan Woerdehoff with her hand raised, ready to answer her teacher Gertrude Wilson's question. Other students behind her are shown searching their b...
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Madison Schools Safety Patrol Trip to Washington, D.C.

Date: 05 01 1957
Description: Madison Schools students chosen as Safety Patrol members by their schools board the train to Washington, D.C. to attend the National Assembly of School Saf...
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Winners of 1958 Helen Farnsworth Mears Art Awards

Date: 03 26 1958
Description: 8th-Grade winners of the 1958 Helen Farnsworth Mears art contest. The contest started in 1927 to honor the memory of the Oshkosh-born sculptor to encourag...
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Spelling Bee

Date: 04 20 1958
Description: The winner and the runner-up for the city spelling bee championship. In the foreground is Marc Williamson, East Junior High, who will represent Madison in ...
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Lakewood Pupils Present Play

Date: 04 24 1958
Description: Seventh-grade pupils of Lakewood school to present the play "Like Father, Like Son" in the school gymnasium. The cast includes, left to right: Jamie Halver...
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Jeff Martoz, 2nd Grader at Nakoma School

Date: 09 09 1960
Description: After a summer of play, Jeff Martoz is not looking forward to beginning 2nd grade at Nakoma School, 3870 Nakoma Road (currently Thoreau Elementary School)....
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We Saw You . . . Touring Newspaper Plant

Date: 02 09 1961
Description: The 2nd grade class at Hawthorne School tour the Madison Newspaper, Inc. plant as part of a week-long study of newspapers in their Social Studies class. Mi...

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