Madison housing co-op timeline 1960-69

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1961

  • University of Wisconsin builds four dorms, and rents them to four seporate University organizad and supervised co-ops: Zoe Bayliss, Susan Davis, Henry Rust and David Schreiner.

1963

Groves Purchases 102 E Gorham.

1966

  • A group of students approach the local Society of Friends(Quakers) Madison meeting and ask their cospnorship of first co-ed co-op. Friends Campus Center is founded at 317 N Brooks. Co-ed status approved by University, which inspects student housing.
  • Anti-war sit-in UW administration building.
  • TAA born at UW.

1967

  • A secound Friend's Co-op is rented at 437 W Johnson.
  • Orville hanson rents 315 N Murray St, subleases to new international Co-op. When they find he is taking a profit, they get angry and set out to find their own house.
  • Dow Chemical Riot at UW-Madison.

1968

  • International Co-op rents 140 W Gilman with an option to purchase.
  • 6000 Madisonians Join the new university Community Co-op boostore and delicatessen.
  • City of Madison buys lond under CHanning Murray co-op and Brooks St Friends Campus Center.
  • Seven Madison co-op enthusiants attend a confeence in Washigton D.C. sponsored by Nasco, with scholarships from old wave co-ops. They come back "full of fire and truth." In December, more people go to Ann Arbor to find out how to organize a community co-op association. On December 10th, eight representatives of co-ops: Friends Campus Ceter, International, Groves, Channig Murray and Rochdale, incorporate the Madison Association of Student Cooperatives(MASC).
  • MASC has 7 co-ops, Baptist Student Center, Channing Murray, Friends' Campus Center, Green Lantern, Groves, International and Rochdale.

1969

  • Newly formed Masc Organizes A UW course on cooperatives.
  • 75 people attend first MASC meeting.
  • MASC seases 225 Lakelawn Pl for Stone Manor Co-op, organized by 19 people from International Co-op.
  • International Co-op buys house at 140 W Gilman
  • Ex-University Co-op members form Le Chateau co-op at 636 Langdon.
  • Refugees from Brooks St Friend Campus Center found Resistence House at 211 Langdon St.
  • Fraternites of Langden St in crisis. Co-op members consult with Prof. James Graaskamp on Real estate matters.
  • Mifflin food Co-op is opens.
  • Mifflin Co-op offers discount to those on welfare.
  • New Years Gang fails to bomb badger Ammo Plant.

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