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King Henry Wives Play Reading

Date: 03 19 1961
Description: Six women are sitting with their legs crossed on either side of a man who is wearing a bow tie. The original caption states "King Henry VIII and his wives ...
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Wisconsin Alumni Association Women's Day

Date: 05 03 1961
Description: Individuals at the head table for the first Women's Day sponsored by the Wisconsin Alumni Association include, (seated) left to right: Professor Helen C. W...
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Miss Frances Zuill and Dr. May Reynolds, Retirees from Wisconsin School of Home Economics

Date: 06 03 1961
Description: Miss Frances Zuill (left), retiring dean of the University of Wisconsin School of Home Economics, and Dr. May Reynolds, retiring home economic professor, a...
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Rotary International Fellowship Program

Date: 07 14 1961
Description: Rotary District 625's scholarship committee chairman Basil I. Peterson greets Japanese student Tomoko Arai at the Madison Municipal Airport. She will be st...
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University of Wisconsin Freshman Convocation

Date: 09 10 1961
Description: U.W. President Conrad Elvehjem speaks at the podium on the Field House stage. He advised the students to "buckle down" to their studies. On the left, tuba ...
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Edgewood College President's Convocation

Date: 09 14 1961
Description: Sister M. Nona, President of Edgewood College, addresses students and faculty at the President's Convocation in Regina Hall.
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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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Strontium 90 Concerns from Atomic Bomb Tests

Date: 12 21 1961
Description: Portrait of Heinz Lettau, a professor quoted in an article about Strontium 90 health concerns resulting from recent Russian atomic bomb tests. Included in ...
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Choreographer Rehearsing U.W. Dancers

Date: 07 24 1962
Description: Visiting choreographer William Burdick, in navy blue tights, rehearsing six U.W. dancers for the play "The Servant of Two Masters." The dancers, pictured l...
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Telstar Passing Test at U.W.

Date: 07 26 1962
Description: With the Telstar model in the foreground and University of Wisconsin President Conrad Elvehjem looking on, Professor Arthur Code made a transatlantic telep...
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Senator Edward Kennedy Visit

Date: 11 20 1963
Description: Group portrait of Dr. Harry Waisman, Sargent Shriver, Sen. Edward Kennedy, and Gov. John Reynolds. Dr. Waisman was director of the Kennedy laboratories for...
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Wisconsin Engineer's Day at the University of Wisconsin

Date: 05 01 1964
Description: Dr. Harold Goldberg, center, research director in engineering, is shown chatting with (left to right): Arno Lenz, U.W. professor of civil engineering; Fred...
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Women's Day at Wisconsin Center

Date: 04 21 1964
Description: Looking on at left is alumna honoree, Isabel Craig, of Janesville, who received the Wisconsin Alumni Assn.'s distinguished service award for outstanding al...
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Sunlight at The University of Wisconsin Arboretum Gathering of Friends

Date: 05 28 1964
Description: Sunlight spotlights a prairie tract where more than 100 members of the Friends of the University of Wisconsin Arboretum picnicked and toured the area in gr...
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"The Book and the Spade" Biblical Artifacts Exhibit

Date: 04 23 1964
Description: Professor Menahem Mansoor holding an ancient Egyptian figurine to be part of "The Book and the Spade" Biblical artifacts exhibit at the Wisconsin Center.
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Voter Registration Benefit for Mississippi

Date: 08 08 1964
Description: The original caption states: "Willie Peacock, Charleston, Mississippi, field secretary for Student Non-Violent Coordinating Commission, discussing the Summ...
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Wisconsin Medical Alumni Association Alumni Day

Date: 05 21 1965
Description: Dr. Frank L. Weston, right, retiring president of the Wisconsin Medical Alumni Association, talks with his successor and two of the association's award win...
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Viet Nam Policy is Discussed at a Meeting of the Policy Committee of the U.W. Young Democrats

Date: 10 30 1965
Description: Critics and supporters of the United States policy in Viet Nam discuss their views at a meeting of the policy committee of the University of Wisconsin Youn...
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Mathematics Professor Donald W. Crowe Directs Mathematics Talent Hunt

Date: 11 24 1965
Description: University of Wisconsin Mathematics Professor Donald W. Crowe explaining a math problem on how to cut up a rectangular cake into equal size acute triangles...
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Philharmonic Chorus of Madison Prepares for Annual Winter Concert

Date: 12 01 1965
Description: The Philharmonic Chorus of Madison, directed by Prof. Samuel Jones of the University of Wisconsin School of Music, rehearses for its annual winter concert.

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