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Girl Reserves Coloring Easter Eggs

Date: 03 30 1934
Description: Fifteen YWCA Girl Reserves sitting around a table coloring Easter eggs and putting them in small baskets to be distributed to crippled children at the Wisc...
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Who's New Club Board Members

Date: 09 13 1955
Description: Three board members of the Who's New Club lunching at Blackhawk Country Club, Shorewood Hills. Left to right: Virginia Mansfield, Lois Cardinal, and Shirle...
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YWCA Square Dance

Date: 08 16 1952
Description: Audrey Lewis, health education director at the YWCA, Carol Radichel, and Mrs. Merrell Vertein standing around a jukebox at a YWCA square dance.
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Preparing for YWCA Benefit Party

Date: 02 07 1949
Description: Three women preparing for a YWCA benefit party to send representatives to an YWCA conference. Delores Nelson, left, is painting a poster. Violet Fisher, c...
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Young Women's Christian Association Open House

Date: 09 20 1949
Description: Ardella Nelson of Klemme, Iowa, a member of the Teen and Twenty club, points out something on the screen to Mrs. Florence Benjamin, formerly of Berkeley, C...
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Who's New Club 15th Anniversary Tea

Date: 01 20 1950
Description: Four members of the Who's New Club gather around a table at the fifteenth anniversary tea at the YWCA. The social organization was established to provide a...
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Madison's First Camp Week

Date: 05 23 1950
Description: Members of the Y-Teen group of the YWCA talk over summer camp plans with Patricia Powell, YWCA staff member who will be in charge of musical activities at ...
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YWCA Camp for Working Girls

Date: 06 01 1950
Description: Four young working women who plan to attend the YWCA camp for working girls on Lake Mendota 12 miles from the Capitol are pictured, left to right, with a s...
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YWCA Activities, Physical Exam for YWCA Residents

Date: 09 12 1950
Description: Dr. Margaret Prouty, 26 Breese Terrace, takes the blood pressure of Patsy Dorow, formerly of Reedsburg, who resides at the YWCA. Seated at the left is Mrs....
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University of Wisconsin YWCA

Date: 11 13 1950
Description: Mrs. Arnold S. (Laura) Jackson confers with four young people about plans for the entertainment of foreign students in the homes of Madison families on Tha...
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University of Wisconsin YWCA

Date: 11 13 1950
Description: University of Wisconsin YWCA members inspect articles prepared for the annual Christmas bazaar. From left are: Charlene Schaefer, Elsa Splett, Rosa Fred (P...
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University of Wisconsin YWCA

Date: 10 31 1951
Description: Members of the University of Wisconsin YWCA make plans for a luncheon. In the photograph are Jean Whittet, executive director of the University YWCA; Betty...
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University of Wisconsin YWCA Christmas Bazaar Committee

Date: 11 28 1951
Description: Mrs. Edmund Hart, Miss Peggy Elvehjem, and Mrs. Harold Kubly serve as chairmen for the University of Wisconsin YWCA Christmas Bazaar to be held in the lobb...
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YWCA-USO Hostess Unit Organizers

Date: 01 16 1952
Description: Organizers of a new YWCA-USO hostess unit discussing social events at Truax Field. Left to right are Mrs. Harris G. (Marion) Allen, senior hostess; Miss Do...
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YWCA Membership Committee

Date: 02 28 1952
Description: Group portrait of some of the Madison women who are assisting with plans for the YWCA membership round-up. Seated are: Mrs. Harold F. (Marion) Brandenburg,...
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Who's New Club Board of Directors

Date: 09 23 1956
Description: Portrait of six women of the Who's New Club Board of Directors during their fall luncheon. Left to right: Jeanette Behling, Carmela Oswald, Mrs. Don Zick, ...
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Who's New Club Officers

Date: 09 14 1956
Description: Portrait of four officers of the Who's New Club during the fall luncheon at the Maple Bluff Country Club. Left to right: Mrs. John A. Mark, secretary; Car...
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YWCA Planning Committee

Date: 09 09 1953
Description: Doris Maurin, Carol Crume, and Verba Wendt look over papers while planning YWCA health education classes.
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New YWCA Official, Donna Jones

Date: 09 30 1953
Description: Donna Jones (right), student director of the YWCA at the University of Wisconsin, is shown with three student leaders of the YWCA: Martha Stone, Patricia C...
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YWCA World Fellowship Week

Date: 11 02 1953
Description: A costumed woman from Mexico discusses plans for the World Fellowship Dinner at the YWCA, located at 122 State Street, along with Jordan and Grace Hughes, ...

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