University of Wisconsin Madison - Badger Yearbook (Madison, WI)

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ZPZt: AKm,1,,ofMu loMt1 i K,k timeout between cla ,he freshman-sophomore Kxtension: Center at Racine. ' Golden Anniversary spondence courses to become a professor of marketing at Columbia University. Over the years he has been joined by nearly a million Wisconsin citizens who have responded to the idea: If you can't come to the University, the University will come to you. In a typical year the Kxtension Division could report 90,000 correspondence study students, 13,000 special class students, 30.000 institute participants, 2,400 freshman-sophomore extension center students, and 700 communities reached by special services. ‘•Girl’s State planned by the Bureau of Government and the American Legion auxiliary, brought hundreds of high school students to the campus every year, as did the music clinics coordinated by the Kxtension Music department.

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Mr. . Josephine Souk is seen as she works on :i correspondence course in Knglish. The photographic laboratory made more than footlwdl films one of its productions, “The Cleft Palate Story. won international acclaim last year. The year 1900 marked the formal birth of the Wisconsin idea, since in that year professors and legislators laid the foundations for the Extension Division—the vehicle the University has used in carrying its benefieient influences to every home in the state. 'fhe next year the legislature granted $20,000 to establish the Extension Division, and by 1908 it was operating in every corner of the state. The first extension student was Paul II. Nystrom, a Wisconsin farm boy who went on from his corre- RHINELANDER Extension Division

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A Last Stroll Through BADGERLAND 1956... The great clock in the Music ll.-ill tower faithfully droned out the hour every day, and on the early winter evening when the tower stood outlined against the sky old father time stared out at those passing on Park Street. Badgerland 1950 was a mighty wonderful place. Although the tremendous campus rambled along nearly six miles of Lake Mendota shoreline most of us came to know the layout relatively well during the year. In our last stroll through Badgerland 1956 we shall pause . . . to remember the scenes which became so familiar to all ... to meet again so many of the friends we knew . . . and to recall, with a chuckle perhaps, some of the things we did. A sunny fall day made the t’nion steps a likely chat between classes.