- Dates
- 1979-09 – 1980-02
- Kind
- Occurrence
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- healthcarerecreationcommunitycommunication
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The Waist Watchers group met Monday mornings after Gay Mills started it in fall 1979; the issue reports 176 pounds lost collectively and Ruth Himebaugh’s 37-pound loss.
Evidence and limits
This is a newspaper self-report, not a clinical program, participant register, or verified weight dataset.
Sources
- Reports Gay Mills starting the group in fall 1979, Monday meetings with a diet program and shared experiences, a reported collective loss of 176 pounds, and Ruth Himebaugh’s 37-pound loss. It is a newspaper self-report, not a clinical program, participant register, or verified weight dataset. 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 · 1980-02_Beaver-Beacon
- The held twelve-page combined February-March issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the Waist Watchers report.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1980-02_Beaver-Beacon
Added 4 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island Waist Watchers group reports its weight-loss program, 1980”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-waist-watchers-group-1980/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, February-March 1980, “Beaver Island Waist Watchers.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).
Last revised 2026-08-04. Fill in [date] with the date you read it — this page is static and cannot know that.
BibTeX for “Beaver Island Waist Watchers group reports its weight-loss program, 1980”RIS for “Beaver Island Waist Watchers group reports its weight-loss program, 1980”