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National Honours & Inventors — Legs 49 and 50: the Roncz Line

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Legs 49 · 50 · one man's two ledgers

Lakeville's national honours belong to its aerodynamicist. John Roncz holds a documented field-honours line: the 1985 Stan Dzik Award for airfoil design; the 1990 August Raspet Memorial Award (EAA); the 1991 Milwaukee School of Engineering and EAA Gold Medal; the 2000 GAPAN Grand Master's Australian Medal for co-designing the Eagle 150, presented by Prince Philip at the Guildhall, London, 24 October 2000 (corroborated by his funeral-home obituary); AIAA Distinguished Lecturer and Purdue "Old Master" besides. Michael Carrico's NJAA Gold (1988) stands at association strength beside it. Every other class was run and prints empty: no Nobel, Rhodes, Medal of Freedom, Congressional Gold Medal, national medal, MacArthur, Kennedy Center Honor, screen or stage award, Pulitzer, or National 4-H Congress winner with a Lakeville tie; the teaching honours were tested against LaVille specifically and return no recipient (settler: the Milken directory searched by school). The boundary case is named and expelled: Richard W. Mangus's Sagamore of the Wabash, three times, is Indiana's highest state honour — printed at boundary size and kept out of the national ledger.at least eight patents, usually as part of a team (his reference record, citing the Justia inventor index) — airfoil design as computation, the Roncz canard airfoil, Gemini Technologies founded 1977. The patent-by-patent table was not extracted and is a named gap (settler: the Justia inventor page read entire, cross-checked on Google Patents). The Newton patent test was run as assigned and prints its finding: no patent naming Robert or Joyce Newton or Hoosier Racing Tire surfaced in any carrier reached — Hoosier's breakthrough was compounding and purpose-built manufacture, and it stands in the record unpatented at the strength reached (settler: a USPTO assignee search read entire). The Shidler and Knepp tests, and the Black-inventor and woman-inventor tests, print as honest negatives with their limits stated: nineteenth-century patent indexes are name-indexed, not place-indexed, and a patentee patenting from a South Bend address would not surface under place forms.

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Source: National Honours & Inventors — Legs 49 and 50: the Roncz Line, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/lakeville/awards-honors/national-honours-and-inventors-legs-49-and-50-the/