- Date
- 1980-08-30
- Kind
- Celebration
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- maritimetransportationcommunitycommunication
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
Lawrence McDonough was honored at an August 30 retirement party after 25 years with the Beaver Island Boat Company; the Beacon also reported his unanimous election to a three-year board term.
Evidence and limits
This is a newspaper tribute and governance notice, not a personnel file, board minutes, or employment record.
Sources
- Reports an August 30 retirement party attended by more than 200 people, identifies Lawrence McDonough’s 18 years as a Boat Company skipper and later management role, and says he was unanimously elected to a three-year term on the five-person board. It is a newspaper tribute and governance notice, not a personnel file, board minutes, or employment record. 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 · 1980-12_Beaver-Beacon
- The held eighteen-page December issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the retirement and board notice.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1980-12_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Lawrence McDonough is honored at retirement and elected to the Boat Company board, 1980”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-lawrence-mcdonough-retirement-1980/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, December 1980, “Retirement.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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