- Date
- 1955-10-05
- Kind
- Education
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Carried out by
- Beaver Island Community School
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- educationcommunityhealthcare
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The Beaver Island school’s hot-lunch program resumed on October 5, 1955. The November Beaver Beacon names Florence Rolland as cook and reports a daily or advance weekly charge, with optional milk available to pupils.
Evidence and limits
The published notice documents the program and its stated prices. It does not provide meal counts, menus, enrollment, funding, or evidence about how long the program continued.
Sources
- Reports the October 5 resumption of the hot-lunch program, Florence Rolland’s employment as cook, a 25-cent daily or one-dollar weekly advance price, and optional milk. It does not provide enrollment, menus, attendance, funding records, or a complete school administrative history. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1955-11_Beaver-Beacon
- The held three-page issue scan is paired with the OCR source and confirms the published lunch-program report; it does not expand the school or financial record.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1955-11_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island school resumes its hot-lunch program, 1955”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-school-hot-lunch-program-1955/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, November 1955, “School Scoop.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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