The scout councils: the present council whole, its camps named — and the full merger succession standing as a named gap with its settler

LaSalle Council (no. 165), South Bend · the succession partly documented

What stands whole: The council serving Granger's troops today is the LaSalle Council (council no. 165), seated in South Bend, covering northern Indiana and southern Michigan, with the Sakima Lodge of the Order of the Arrow and three camps in the council directories: Wood Lake Scout Reservation / Camp Tamarack, Camp ToPeNeBee, and Rice Woods Camp. Its recent course is documented in its own record: second of 245 councils nationally in percentage membership growth in 2023 (21 percent), a further 5 percent in 2024 for a third straight growth year, and a $1.35 million Lilly Endowment gift of 2023 that built its Latino-based scouting program — the council's minority membership at about 28 percent in its 2024 account. On this ground itself, scouting's banked trace is the single line the register notes — an Eagle Scout candidate's seating project at Brummitt Road park (Parks and Sports legs) — and no troop roll for Granger units is published in the sources reached; the council's charter records, not the public record, hold it.

The named gap: The register asks for the council successions whole — St. Joseph Valley to LaSalle on the Indiana side; Singing Sands to Northern Indiana–Michiana on the Michigan side of the council's territory. From open sources reached for this section, that succession cannot be printed whole without guessing: the council directories give the present council and its number, the merger-history literature (J. Michael Clinch's two-volume council and lodge merger histories) exists as the discipline's settler but was not readable in full text for this section, and no LaSalle Council published history reached supplies the dated merger line. The item therefore closes as a named gap, deliberately: the present council stands documented above; the succession stands open, with its settlers named — the LaSalle Council's own charter and merger records at its South Bend service center, and the Clinch merger histories with the national council's Local Council Index series behind them. What is not done here is the thing the register forbids: a plausible-looking merger chain assembled from fragments.

Sources:

1. ScoutWiki / BSA council directories — La Salle Council, no. 165, South Bend, Indiana; Sakima Lodge; Wood Lake Scout Reservation / Camp Tamarack, Camp ToPeNeBee, Rice Woods Camp.
2. LaSalle Council published accounts, December 2024 (GIANT fm; Building Indiana Business) — the 2023–2024 growth record; the 2023 Lilly Endowment gift of $1.35 million; the Latino-program and membership figures; CEO John M. Cary.
3. Parks and Sports legs (banked) — the Eagle Scout seating project at Brummitt Road park, the ground's one banked scouting trace.
4. Settlers named for the succession: the LaSalle Council's charter/merger records; J. Michael Clinch, Order of the Arrow: BSA Council, Lodge and Area/Section Merger Histories (2 vols.); the BSA Local Council Index series.