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First Governor's Conference on Aging Population
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Discussing plans for the First Governor's Conference on an Aging Population are Governor Walter Kohler; Minnetta Hastings, chairman of the committee on the aging Community Welfare Council of Madison; and Robert McGee, associate executive secretary of the Wisconsin Welfare Council and one of the conference co-ordinators.
May 26, 1956
Vinje, Arthur M., 1888-1972 (photographer)
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