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Pimlico Junior High School was located in Baltimore, Maryland. It opened in the fall of 1956. The school was closed in 2008 due to low enrollment and outdated facilities. It is likely that the school colors were grey and blue and the mascot was a gray mare.

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Like many high schools, Lane Tech’s homecoming is held in the fall during “harvest” time. Traditionally a time when alumni return to their schools to watch the homecoming game or catch up with friends, Lane Tech dubbed their 1984 homecoming the “harvest of champions”. This name was a nod to the hundreds of athletic championships that Lane Tech had won throughout the decades and perhaps also a hope that they would be champions again in 1984. 

Lane Technical College Prep High School located in Chicago, Illinois, was founded in 1908. Lane Tech is one of nine selective enrollment schools, requiring all applicants to pass entrance exams before attending the school. The campus has an enrollment of just over 4,000 students, grades 7-12. Lane Tech's colors are green and gold, and their mascot is the Indians (which has been much debated in recent years, but still remains unchanged).

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The University of Minnesota chose ‘Gopher’s A-Go-Go’ for their 1965 Homecoming theme.  The phrase, and variations on it, was used on floats, pins, signage and other promotional materials for various Homecoming festivities. The term ‘a-go-go’ is borrowed from the French and has various appropriate meanings: a nightclub for dancing to popular music, being in a whirl of motion, and being up-to-date. In their 12th year under head coach Murray Warmath, the 1965 University of Minnesota Golden Gophers won their Homecoming game 14-13 against the Michigan Wolverines with an attendance of 58,519.

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This button was likely given to a student to wear on his/her birthday by Fernway Park Elementary School. Fernway Park is located in Orland Park, Illinois and serves kindergarten through fifth grade students.

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Dr. Carle B. McKaig was a physician serving the Pine Island, MN region for over 50 years. Born circa 1884 (exact year is debated) in Indiana, Dr. McKaig received his M.D. degree in 1906 at Sioux City College of Medicine in Sioux City, Iowa and relocated to Minnesota the following year to establish his practice. Called 'the ideal general practitioner' by Dr. Charles Mayo, of the Mayo Clinic, Dr. McKaig was the last of a generation, making house calls fist by horse, then by motorcycle and finally by car. Dr. McKaig owned the first automobile in Pine Island. An indomitable spirit, he did not let the loss of his leg in an accident slow him down, nor the death of his wife Catherine in 1937, after 21 years of marriage. He was known not only for his extraordinary diagnostic abilities but also for his research on parotitis, or the inflammation of the parotoid salivary glands, which is most commonly found when a patient has the Mumps.

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Woodstock is Snoopy's friend in the Peanuts comics by Charles M. Schulz. Though other yellow birds were included in the comics throughout the early 1960s, Woodstock was introduced in 1968 as a consistent character. Woodstock is consistently portrayed in the comics as having difficulty flying, yet he is also characterized as capable when it comes to operating machinery.

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Snoopy is Charlie Brown's pet dog in the Peanuts comics by Charles M. Schulz. Though Snoopy's character was introduced in 1950, it was not until 1956 that the dog was illustrated as walking on its hind legs. 

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Snoopy is Charlie Brown's pet dog in the Peanuts comics by Charles M. Schulz. Though Snoopy's character was introduced in 1950, it was not until 1956 that the dog was illustrated as walking on his hind legs. Baseball was a recurrent theme in the Peanuts comics, and Snoopy was a member of the neighborhood team along with Charlie Brown, Schroeder, Shermy, Linus, Pig-Pen, Lucy, Patty, Frieda, and Violet. Snoopy typically played short-stop.

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Snoopy is Charlie Brown's pet dog in the Peanuts comic strip by Charles M. Schulz. Snoopy was introduced in 1950 but was not drawn as walking on his hind legs until 1956. Typically, when Snoopy adorns sunglasses he is acting as his alter-ego "Joe Cool," as first shown in 1971. As Joe Cool, Snoopy pretends to be a college student simply by putting on a pair of sunglasses and leaning against a wall.