Event
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- religioncatholicismcommunityheritage
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
Holy Cross Altar Society scheduled a St. Patrick’s supper at the Parish Hall for March 17, 1962. The April report says the supper and drawing took place, the Cemetery Care Fund received $981, and the celebration continued at the Shamrock.
Evidence and limits
The March source preserves the announcement; the April source supplies the reported outcome and fund total. Neither source provides a complete attendance roll or audited financial statement.
Sources
- Beaver Beacon, March 1962, “St. Patrick’s Day.”Announces Holy Cross Altar Society’s March 17 supper at the Parish Hall, donations for the Cemetery Care Fund, a television drawing, and a later dance at the Shamrock with a Cheboygan group. It does not provide attendance or proceeds.
- Beaver Beacon, April 1962, “St. Patrick’s Day.”Reports the completed potluck supper, television and transistor-radio drawing, $981 in cemetery-fund donations, and the gathering at the Shamrock. It names Norbert Gallagher as television winner and Vernon LaFreniere as radio winner.