Granger, Indiana · 20th century
1980s
19 dated events in 1980s, in order. Part of the full timeline.
20th century 19 dated mentions
1980s
- 1980–2026Dynasty numbers as conventions: Penn's twenty-four, counted under a stated rule — and the resident coach's two
The resident coach's count, stated separately: The ground's own dynastic figure is not Penn's coach but Notre Dame's, who lived here: Ara Parseghian, resident of Granger, whose Notre Dame record stands 95-17-4 across 1964–74, whose teams won consensus national championships in 1966 (9-0-1) and 1973 (11-0)…
- 1981–2007The surveys: how this ground was read, and by whom
The South Bend volume's lineage is documented two ways, printed whole because they differ in date, not in substance: Notre Dame Magazine records that John W. Stamper, then director and planner of the local Historic Preservation Commission, began the meticulous inventory of South Bend and St. Joseph County sites in…
- 1981–2019The smallest patients: the neonatal unit and couplet care
No neonatal unit has ever stood in the CDP, because no hospital has; the unit that takes this ground's smallest patients stands at Memorial Hospital of South Bend, and its founding and its care-model first both date: Beacon's own state-recognition release of 2 December 2019 states the founding plainly…
- 1981–2024HIV in the official record only, and COVID-19 in three dated parts
The series continues annually — the 2022 and 2024 reports carry the same county structure (new reports for the year, deaths reported by county, persons living with HIV disease by county, with total Indiana deaths among persons with HIV disease reported since 1981 standing at 8,402 in the 2024 report)…
- 1982–2026The ladder as it stands: the building wave, the additions, and the closings that did not happen here
The ladder as it stands today is five buildings deep and every rung dates from the growth era or survives from just before it: Mary Frank, renovated whole in 1982 with a gymnasium and eighteen classrooms; Prairie Vista, opened 1989; Horizon, opened 1995; Discovery, opened 1996; Northpoint, opened 1998 and enlarged in 2001…
- 1983–2026Invention claims, tested: no "invented here" — but the patent record seats inventors on this ground by the page
Donald I. Ansbaugh of Granger patented a link-and-flight assembly for blast-treatment machinery in 1983. Thomas P. Benson of Granger co-invented a time-domain NMR analysis method for Ascensia Diabetes Care.
- 1983–2026The public-school art teachers: named points at Penn, a named gap inside the CDP
The 1983 Bittersweet yearbook carries the Penn art department as Mrs. Pat Bunner and Mr. Robert Saltzgaber. The 2010 Bittersweet carries Beth McKechnie teaching sculpture and ceramics.
- 1984Rudy Yakym: the sitting congressman, whose official hometown is Granger
The course: Rudolph Chester Yakym III, born 24 February 1984, took degrees at Indiana University South Bend (A.S. 2009, B.S. 2011) and a Notre Dame M.B.A. in 2019, worked on Representative Jackie Walorski's staff, sat on the Indiana judicial nominating commission, and from 2019 was director of growth initiatives at Kem Krest.
- 1985–todayThe measurement invention: Press Ganey and the patient's voice
The advancement this county exported to every hospital in America was not a drug or a device; it was a question — asked of the patient, counted, and sold back to the hospital as data: Press Ganey Associates was founded in South Bend in 1985 by Irwin Press, a medical anthropologist, and Rod Ganey, a sociologist-statistician…
- 1986Granger Community Church
The suburb's second great congregation began in a living room the same decade the census first counted the place: in 1986 Mark Beeson, who had moved his family to Granger in the mid-1980s, began Granger Community Church with his wife Sheila and a handful of others in their home.
- 1986Granger Community Church: the living room and the cinema, 1986–2019
The largest Protestant congregation in the place's history began with fewer than ten people in a living room: in 1986 Mark Beeson, a United Methodist pastor newly transplanted to Granger, his wife Sheila, and a handful of others began meeting in the Beesons' home…
- 1986The type case at full length: Larry Beehler, forty years an elected trustee
The corporation's own record dates the start three ways, and all three print: its Board Members & Terms page prints his term as begun in 1996; its release of January 2018 counted him as entering his thirty-second year of service, which counts back to 1986; and its 2026 releases state it outright…
- 1986The matinee record: one cinema story, and a children's programme that prints as unnamed
The cinema story (Churches & Religion, whole there, pointer here): in 1986 Granger Community Church, unable to find a hall in Granger to rent, rented a cinema then under construction on the Grape Road corridor and held its first public service there on the first Sunday of December 1986, passersby reading its "Coming…
- 1986–1988The takeover: the commission takes the branches, 1986–1988
The patronage system's end began in 1986, and it was announced as a service scandal as much as a political one: the Indianapolis Business Journal's retrospective states the sequence plainly…
- 1986–todayThe machinery, honestly: Zone 125, a customs airport that is South Bend’s, and somebody else’s port
The zone serving St. Joseph County is Foreign-Trade Zone No. 125, South Bend, Indiana, granted to the St. Joseph County Airport Authority and approved by the Foreign-Trade Zones Board on 11 March 1986 (Board Order 326, 51 FR 10564, 27 March 1986).
- 1987–2026Seated care arrives: the clinic era, 1987 to the present
The date is 1987, and it comes from the newspaper record as the local-history catalogue preserves it: in that year, in the telling of the South Bend Tribune 's coverage as catalogued by the Michiana Bibliographic Review, Dr. S. Jesse Hsieh and a colleague began their work in Granger at the Granger Country Oaks strip…
- 1988–2026Juday Creek Golf Course: the Rogers family's public course, the 2024 fire, and the rebuild
Built by Linda and Mike Rogers, the course is still owned and operated by the Rogers and their daughter Michelle Wittig," the club's own account reads; Linda Rogers, by then a state senator, fixed the building year in the fire coverage of 2024: "they built it from the ground up in 1988."
- 1988–todayJuday Creek Estates: the creek-side plat and its golf course
A subdivision built with its own golf course: Juday Creek Estates — 139 parcels inside the boundary in the parcel file, in Harris Township along the creek the Land file reads at full size…
- 1989–todayPrairie Vista Elementary School
Prairie Vista opened in 1989 as the first school of Granger's building wave, and it is the wave's decorated veteran: the district's own history page dates the opening to 1989 and sets the building in "a lovely, park-like setting"…