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Blackbourn Receives All-Star Award

Date: 09 22 1946
Description: Lisle Blackbourn Jr., former Milwaukee Washington high school star playing for the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was awarded a trophy as the most outsta...
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Wisconsin High School Football Awards

Date: 12 05 1949
Description: Three trophy winners from Wisconsin High posing for a group portrait with their trophies. Bob Spoentgen, left, was voted most valuable player. Coach Harold...
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Badger Spelling Bee Finalists

Date: 04 03 1954
Description: Three finalists in the all-city Spelling Bee pose with Bob Dick, master pronouncer. Left to right are Patricia Jewson, Nakoma entry, who placed third; Jam...
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Madison East High School Honor Students

Date: 06 08 1954
Description: Retiring Madison East High School principal Foster Randall presents honor cards to two of the school's graduating honor students, Robert Allman and Barbara...
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Wisconsin High School Trophy

Date: 06 10 1954
Description: Harrison (Sandy) Smith, left, receives the Boy's Why Club Trophy from Coach Hal Metzen at Wisconsin High School's annual awards program. Smith was an outst...
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State High School Basketball Tournament

Date: 03 14 1956
Description: LaCrosse Central High School graduates were on hand at the field house to make the Lucky Bucky Badger figurine presentations to each member of the LaCrosse...
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Top Carrier Salesmen

Date: 06 28 1958
Description: John Canny, left, circulation manager for Madison Newspapers, Inc., presents trophies to five of the Wisconsin State Journal's most efficient carrier sales...
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Monona Grove High School Senior Recognition Night

Date: 06 03 1959
Description: Two award winners at the Monona Grove High School senior recognition program. At left is Whit Eades with his parents, Col. and Mrs. W.E. Eades. Whit was th...
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Monona Grove High School Senior Recognition Night

Date: 06 03 1959
Description: Two members of the Monona Grove Education Association talk with Carlene Strand (center) who was the winner of the Association's scholarship at the Monona G...
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Madison Downtown Rotary Club Scholarshop Awards

Date: 06 03 1959
Description: Walter Renk (right), president of the Madison Downtown Rotary Club presents scholarship awards to five Madison high school seniors. Left to right are: Lee ...
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Wisconsin High School Football Banquet

Date: 11 04 1959
Description: Wisconsin High School football team award winners with their coach at the school's grid banquet. Left to right are: Pete Pauley, most valuable player; Fran...
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Edgewood Football Banquet

Date: 12 13 1959
Description: Recipients of special recognitionc awards at the annual Edgewood football banquet include, first row, left to right: Mike Rieder, Frank Balistreri, and To...
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Young Columbus Contest Winner

Date: 04 07 1960
Description: Contest winner George Byrne, surrounded by his family, wears an overcoat, white shirt, tie and fedora (hat) while holding a TWA travel bag. The original ca...
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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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Warren Flisram the Honest Teen

Date: 02 28 1958
Description: Warren Flisram (16, rural Brooklyn) is receiving $100 for his honesty in finding and helping recover $13,500 in cash along a railroad right-of-way on Janua...
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We Saw You Before Leaving for Europe

Date: 04 04 1958
Description: Shown outside the State Capitol after leaving the Supreme Court Chambers: (L to R): Dorothy Gregory; Mrs. Charles Doyle and daughter, Kathleen; Mrs. George...
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Teen Safe Driver Awards

Date: 05 10 1958
Description: Group portrait showing two winners of the Madison Teen-age Safe Driving Road-E-O with three adults. Shown left to right, are: Jerry Padgham and Al Haas, co...
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Summer Music Clinic Try Outs

Date: 05 10 1958
Description: "Almost 4000 high school musicians came to Madison for the state solo - ensemble festival, and 20 of them went home with scholarships for the 1958 Summer M...

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