- Date
- 1980-12-22
- Kind
- Celebration
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- communityfamilycelebrationcommunication
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
On December 22, 1980, Phil Gregg volunteered to call a five-year-old child as Santa after the child could not see Santa on the mainland. The family later thanked Gregg in a letter published by the Beaver Beacon.
Evidence and limits
This record preserves the family’s published account and does not add an independent call log or other corroboration.
Sources
- The letter says Phil Gregg volunteered to telephone the family's five-year-old as Santa on December 22, after the child was unable to see Santa on the mainland. It is a first-person thank-you letter, not an independent incident report. 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 · 1981-02_Beaver-Beacon
- The held thirteen-page February issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the published letter.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1981-02_Beaver-Beacon
Added 4 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Phil Gregg gives a child a Santa phone call, 1980”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-phil-gregg-santa-phone-call-1980/, accessed [date], citing Dave and Jean Ladd, letter to the editor, Beaver Beacon, February 1981. (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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