Madison in the Sixties – the end of March 1960 More than a thousand students pack old Music Hall past legal capacity for Sen. John F Kennedy’s last local appearance before the April 5 presidential primary. University workers lock the doors, leaving several hundred students out in the snow – until one of them finds […]
Madison in the Sixties – the second week of March
1963 When attorney Albert McGinnis, chair of the Madison Redevelopment Authority, decided to run against Mayor Henry Reynolds, he knew that urban renewal would become an issue in the campaign. A week after McGinnis stuns Reynolds in the March 5 primary it does, as the mayor attacks the MRA over the Triangle project, where the […]
Madison, the third week of February in the sixties
1960 Sen. John F Kennedy begins his Wisconsin presidential primary campaign at 5:30 in the morning of February 16, shaking hands with about a third of the 1,500 first-shift workers arriving at the Oscar Mayer company plant gates. With neither hat nor gloves, his only concession to the frigid February weather, a topcoat and scarf […]
Madison, the second week of February
Madison in the sixties, the second week of February An important week for university expansion. In 1961, the regents authorize vice president A.W. Peterson to start buying land for the massive $30 million South East Dormitory project which will create about 4,000 housing units. Exactly one year later, the regents approve $6.4 million in contracts […]
Madison, the first week of February
Madison in the sixties – first week of February Urban renewal dominates the news this week in 1961, as Madison makes history when it puts the Brittingham project out for bid. The 5-acre site bounded by West Washington, Proudfit and West Main, planned for 150 units of private market rate housing in buildings of up […]
Madison, fourth week of January
Madison in the Sixties – the last week of January 1963 — The UW Protection and Security Department hires its first female investigator, Nancy Marshall, a former member of the Madison Police Department’s Bureau of Crime Prevention. Campus police chief Albert Hamann says Marshall, a former home economics teacher in Sheboygan Falls, will handle investigations involving women and juveniles. […]
