Name: Beaver Island Community School announces its 1985 graduates, 1985
Start: 1985-05-18
End: 1985-05-18
Location: Beaver Island

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Event

Date: 1985-05-18
Kind: Education
Where: Beaver Island
Carried out by: Beaver Island Community School
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: educationcommunitycelebrationcommunication
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

The July 1985 Beaver Beacon congratulated Beaver Island Community School’s 1985 graduates Rob Graves, Danny McCafferty, Roberta Mooney, and David Purtzenski. It also reported Paul Cole’s May 18 graduation from Lake Superior State College with a sociology bachelor’s degree.

Evidence limits

These are community newspaper notices, not diploma, transcript, or enrollment records.

Sources

Congratulations, Beaver Beacon, July 1985 (July/August combined issue filed as July).
Congratulates Beaver Island Community School graduates Rob Graves, Danny McCafferty, Roberta Mooney, and David Purtzenski, and reports that Paul Cole graduated from Lake Superior State College on May 18 with a Bachelor of Science in Sociology. It is a newspaper congratulations notice, not a diploma, transcript, or institutional enrollment record. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.
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Beaver Beacon, July 1985, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held twenty-six-page July/August combined issue PDF, filed canonically as July 1985, is paired with the remote OCR and confirms the graduation notices.
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Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island Community School announces its 1985 graduates, 1985”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-school-graduation-and-congratulations-1985/, accessed [date], citing Congratulations, Beaver Beacon, July 1985 (July/August combined issue filed as July). (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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