Beaver Island Historical Society reports Museum Week results and elects officers, 1987

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Event

Date: 1987-08-13
Kind: Meeting
Where: Beaver Island
Carried out by: Beaver Island Historical Society
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: heritagegovernanceexhibitioncommunitycommunication
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

At its August 13, 1987 annual meeting, the Beaver Island Historical Society reported $990 in Museum Week profits, installed Bea Boyle as treasurer, and reviewed museum staffing, artifact observations, publications, the deteriorating Bob S., board succession, and officer reelection.

Evidence limits

These are newspaper minutes and reported observations, not audited accounts, archaeological identifications, conservation assessments, or complete Society governance records.

Sources

“Historical Society,” Beaver Beacon, October 1987.
Reports the August 13 annual meeting, $14,179 treasury balance, Bea Boyle replacing Alice Dorian as treasurer, Museum Week attendance and $990 profit, artifact observations, Volume III and cookbook plans, Bob S. deterioration, board changes, and officer reelection. 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, October 1987, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held eleven-page combined August–September and October–November issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the annual-meeting minutes.
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Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island Historical Society reports Museum Week results and elects officers, 1987”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-historical-society-annual-meeting-1987/, accessed [date], citing “Historical Society,” Beaver Beacon, October 1987. (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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