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Mary Scovill visits Beaver Island for child-guidance work (1960)

Also 1960 Beaver Island child-guidance visit

Draft — sources verified, prose evolving

TypeEvent
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era

Summary

The October 1960 Beaver Beacon reported that Mary Scovill, a psychologist at the Petoskey Child Guidance Clinic, spent a Thursday evening and Friday on Beaver Island. She spoke with mothers at a Beaver Lodge gathering and gave psychological tests to children to help the teachers.

Evidence and limits

The exact visit dates, participating children, test instruments, results, and school records are not supplied. Beaver Lodge is retained in the source prose; the event is located only at the island level because no Beaver Lodge place record is held here.

Open questions

  • Which clinic and school records document the visit, participants, and follow-up?

See also

Sources

  1. Beaver Beacon, October 1960, child-guidance clinic notice.
    Reports Scovill spending Thursday evening and Friday on Beaver Island, speaking with mothers at a Beaver Lodge gathering, and giving psychological tests to children to help teachers. The issue does not identify the visit dates, children, test instruments, results, or school records.