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Patrick and Anna M. Cudahy Fund and Kohler Foundation, Inc., supported a full-time educator. Funding was also given for crane habitat studies in China. In the late 1990s members of the family began transporting Siberian
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has a history of funding college scholarship dating to 1927 when the Kohler Family
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Village of Kohler, and the Joint School District No. 2. The building cost $ 1,500,000 to construct and comprised a grand theater, gymnasium, indoor-outdoor swimming pool, and a youth center. After it was opened, the building's theater became the venue for events of the
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