Two Townships, One Corporation — Union-North United, 1962

1962 – present

On 1 July 1962 the schools of Union Township, St. Joseph County, and North Township, Marshall County, were organized into a single corporation: the Union-North United School Corporation, governed by a five-member elected Board of School Trustees. The corporation's identifiers stand on the federal and state records: NCES District ID 1811910; Indiana corporation number 7215; three schools; its central office and mailing address at 22601 Tyler Road, Lakeville, IN 46536, phone (574) 784-8141 — an address whose role mattered enough to settle a conflict, in the Elementary article below. Board seats are township-based: a candidate-guide carrier carries a distinct elected office titled "Union-North School Board – North Township," and the 2026 Union Township seat race stands in LK-2's record (known only from an unofficial aggregator; no winner is declared anywhere in this build — the Clerk's certified summary remains the settler, gap G-GV-3). The exact apportionment of the five seats between the townships is not carried by any source opened and banks as a gap on the corporation's bylaws and 1962 plan of organization. So do the names of the first board of 1962 — no carrier opened names them; the settler is the corporation's 1962 minute book and the two counties' reorganization committee records. The name "Union-North United" itself: no carrier states its origin; the derivation from the two township names is printed as inference only, and the documentary origin banks as a gap on the 1962 reorganization papers. The board's recent line stands at the strength the corporation's own documents carry it: December 2021 — Karman Eash, President; Tom Smith, Vice-President; Larry Ort, Secretary; Joe Czarnecki; Arden Balmer (hearing notice). 2024–25 — Tom Smith, President; Rodd Decker; Joe Czarnecki; Arden Balmer (Elementary handbook; four names legible as extracted). 2026–27 — Jared McQueen, President; Kevin Kubsch, Vice-President; Zac Moore; Tom Strang (Jr–Sr High handbook) — a fifth name was lost in the document extraction and is flagged here rather than guessed, its settler the handbook read as page images or the corporation's current board page.