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The Class of 1957

This May, UW-Madison's Class of 1957 are celebrating their 50th reunion. We have gathered some images from their time at UW-Madison, along with a few sound clips from prominent staff and administration of the time.

If you have any memorabilia you would like to donate to the UW, please email the archives or call 608-262-5629.

Oral history excerpts


Edwin Broun Fred had a successful career as a bacteriologist at Wisconsin before being appointed Dean of the College of Agriculture. He then served as UW-Madison president from 1945-1958.

speakerListen to a 1973 interview with Fred about:		George Mosse, a prominent and prolific European history scholar, taught at UW-Madison from 1956-1989.


speakerListen to a 1982 interview with Mosse about:
*Requirements for a great university*Changes in UW History department
*How the UW changed over the years*Why the UW American history department was "screwball"
Madeleine Doran, an internationally known Elizabethan and Renaissance scholar, was professor of English at the UW from 1935-1975.

speakerListen to a 1977 interview with Doran about:
*Teaching Shakespeare
*Gender inequality at UW

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Planning Committee, December 1954

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Prom, 1955

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1955

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Who is the "referee"? He looks like my uncle but I can't be sure. Anyone familiar with the era know his name? Thanks Wondering, Madison, WI

All-campus blood donation, March 5, 1956

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1957

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UW Band

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Folk Festival in Memorial Union, 1954

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Engineering St. Patrick's Day beard contest, March 11, 1955

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An evening of cards

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Haresfoot 1956

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Fashion Fantasy, Feburary 1957

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March 1, 1957

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1957

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