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Matrix Banquet

Date: 03 22 1949
Description: Sigrid Schultz, foreign correspondent and speaker at the annual Matrix banquet sponsored by the University of Wisconsin chapter of Theta Sigma Phi at the M...
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Madison Soap Box Derby Prizes

Date: 07 07 1950
Description: Madison Soap Box Derby racer John Bock of 19 Paget Road, right, is shown prizes to be awarded to the top racers by Jean Behling, staff writer for the "Wisc...
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Easter Seals to Help the Handicapped

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Description: Robert S. Allen, a well-known journalist who lost his arm while serving during World War II, purchases Easter Seals from a handicapped girl. Allen was act...
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Hazel Murphy Sullivan

Date: 04 27 1952
Description: Hazel Murphy Sullivan (left), editor of the Sun Prairie Star-Countryman and Wisconsin State Journal correspondent, holds the Writer's cup she...
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Edward R. Murrow at OPC

Date: 12 27 1957
Description: Edward R. Murrow, standing near the banner, speaks to a special Overseas Press Club luncheon at the Waldorf Astoria honoring CBS correspondents. Immediatel...
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Pioneer Pauline Frederick

Date: 03 1949
Description: Pauline Frederick (center in the fur coat), then the only woman news broadcaster at ABC, was one of many prominent women who addressed the Advertising Wome...
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Matrix Banquet

Date: 03 20 1956
Description: Attending the annual Matrix Banquet are Helen Worden Erskine (left), guest speaker, and Jane Johannsen, president of the U.W. Chapter of Theta Sigma Phi, t...
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Matrix Banquet

Date: 03 20 1956
Description: Mrs. J. George Crownhart and Marion P. Crownhart attend the annual Matrix banquet. Theda Sigma Phi, sponsor of the event, is a national honorary and profes...
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Roundy's Fun Fund

Date: 08 21 1956
Description: Outdoor group portrait of Joseph "Roundy" Coughlin, sportswriter for Wisconsin State Journal, with five girls who put on a neighborhood style show t...
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Children of Westmorland with "Roundy" Coughlin

Date: 09 15 1956
Description: Six children from the Madison Westmorland neighborhood, who raised money for Roundy's charity for children, posing for a portrait with "Roundy" Coughlin. L...
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Annual Matrix Banquet

Date: 03 12 1957
Description: Four women attend the annual banquet for members of Matrix, an organization for women journalists. They include, from left to right: banquet speaker, Esthe...
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Annual Matrix Banquet

Date: 03 12 1957
Description: Attending the annual banquet for members of Matrix, an organization for women journalists, are Alice Kearby, Milwaukee, left, a Theta Sigma Phi journalism ...
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Annual Matrix Banquet

Date: 03 12 1957
Description: Two women attend the annual banquet for members of Matrix, an organization for women journalists; they include June Brown, left, and Margaret Russell, both...
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Annual Matrix Banquet

Date: 03 12 1957
Description: Three women attend the annual banquet for members of Matrix, an organization for women journalists. They include, from left: Gertrude Anderson; Geraldine, ...
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Ann Landers at Ladies of the Press Breakfast

Date: 04 17 1959
Description: Advice columnist Ann Landers is shown with two writers who received awards at the Ladies of the Press breakfast. Standing left to right are: Ann Landers, M...
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Ethel Parker Wins Award

Date: 04 30 1961
Description: Ethel Parker, center, holds the Writer's Cup which she was awarded for outstanding work in communications at the annual Ladies of the Press breakfast. Ethe...
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Secretary of State Testifying at the Foreign Operations Subcommittee

Date: 03 14 1989
Description: Secretary of State James Baker testifying before the Foreign Operations Subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee. Wisconsin Congressman David R. ...
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Disabled American Veterans Flower Sale

Date: 09 02 1964
Description: Wisconsin State Journal columnist Joseph (Roundy) Coughlin receiving an advance forget-me-not from Disabled American Veterans salesmen before the annual sa...
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Gridiron Club Fifty-Seventh Birthday Dinner Menu

Date: 02 28 1942
Description: Front cover and illustration from insert for the inauguration of club president Lewis Wood, with numbered illustrated phases of his career, and a banner re...
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Dickey Chapelle at Matrix Dinner

Date: 03 30 1965
Description: Dickey Chapelle sitting and talking and smoking a cigarette prior to speaking at the Theta Sigma Pi Matrix Dinner in Memorial Union's Great Hall.

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