- Date
- 1988-08-15
- Kind
- Migration
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- educationmigrationfamilycommunication
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The August 1988 Beaver Beacon reported that 17-year-old Rachel Huard would leave for an eleven-month Rotary International Exchange placement in Kuopio, Finland, on August 15. The profile describes three host families, language preparation, and planned travel in Finland and Scandinavia.
Evidence limits
The article is a pre-departure profile and does not document the exchange’s completion or later host-family records.
Sources
- Reports that 17-year-old Rachel Huard of Kinross would spend eleven months in Kuopio, Finland, with three host families through Rotary International after graduating from Rudyard High School. 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 · 1988-08_Beaver-Beacon
- The held twenty-page August issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and preserves the exchange profile.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1988-08_Beaver-Beacon
Added 4 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Rachel Huard leaves for a Rotary exchange year in Finland, 1988”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-rachel-huard-finland-exchange-1988/, accessed [date], citing Rachel Huard Finland exchange profile, Beaver Beacon, August 1988. (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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