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Menomonie to be the parent institution. Then in November 1965 the Barron County Board of Supervisors authorized the issuance of a $ 1,500,000 bond issue and tax levy to help finance the institution. And in February 1966 the 142-acre Johnson-Zimmer tract in the south of the city and abutting the
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Meggers and Ritzinger Hall and offered state-of-the-art science labs, high-tech classrooms, tutorial facilities, and a comfortable
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