Name: Robert Welke is inducted into the Michigan transportation Hall of Honor, 2006
Start: 2006-06
End: 2006-06
Location: Beaver Island

Event

Date: 2006-06
Kind: Award
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: transportationgovernmentcommunitycommunication
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

The June 2006 Beaver Beacon reports that Beaver Island resident Robert Welke was inducted into the Michigan Department of Transportation Hall of Honor. The notice credits his forty-year transportation career, the creation of Transportation Service Centers, work with recycled highway materials, the Adopt-A-Highway program, and statewide asset-management policy.

Evidence limits

The account is a newspaper summary of the Hall of Honor citation and does not reproduce a complete employment or award record.

Sources

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Sources

Beaver Beacon, June 2006, "Bob Welke on the Honor Roll."
Reports Welke's 1996-97 service as Michigan Transportation director, forty-year career, Transportation Service Centers, recycled highway materials, Adopt-A-Highway, and asset-management work. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2006-06_Beaver-Beacon
Beaver Beacon, June 2006, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held issue scan confirms the Hall of Honor report.
data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2006-06_Beaver-Beacon
Kris S., Joe, and Mary D., “MLB umpires Bill and Tim Welke: BI connection?,” Beaver Island Forum, May 21–22, 2009, topic 1667.
The thread identifies MLB umpires Tim and Bill Welke as sons of Bob and Sue Welke and confirms an island connection. It does not establish their childhood residence, the exact relationship to the Robert Welke in this article, or an independent MLB biographical correction; it is retained as a community lead.
forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 01 · t001667

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Beaver Island Archive, “Robert Welke is inducted into the Michigan transportation Hall of Honor, 2006”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-bob-welke-mdot-hall-of-honor-2006/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, June 2006, "Bob Welke on the Honor Roll." (and 2 further sources listed on the page).

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