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The closing roster: the named movers of this ground's technology

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The modern layer was only ever pointers; its people, assembled, make a roster of four names and two firms — the whole technical aristocracy of a town of 879. The roster: Robert "Bob" Newton — founder of the firm that became Hoosier Racing Tire (the name chain R & J Mfg. Corp. 1979 → Hoosier Tire & Rubber Corp. 1998 → Continental acquisition, 4 October 2016, stands in Hoosier Racing Tire), the compounding-and-manufacture mover: his plant made this township a precision-manufacturing seat with production also at Plymouth. Joyce Newton — the firm's president in its independent course (the succession Bob Newton → Joyce Newton → DeSalle 2016 → Burfien 2020 stands in the same file), named here at company-record strength as the roster's second mover. John Roncz (1948–2023) — founder of Gemini Technologies (1977); airfoil design as computation; Voyager, GlobalFlyer, Starship (this section's computing article; honours at lk-tst-honors). Eric Deniger — founder-CEO of the Working Person's Store / WorkingPerson.com, founded in Lakeville in August 1995 (lk-tst-dotcom), the commerce-technology mover, whose firm's headquarters and technology centre moved to South Bend by 2012, the split printed whole in his own file. Behind the names, the base they built on, at pointer size as the banked tech article leaves it: the Marshall County REMC co-op line (first pole 30 September 1937), and the present fibre arrival (Surf Internet; lk-tst-tech). No further mover is documented, and the roster does not reach for one: four names is the true size of the modern layer, and the leg closes on it.

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Source: The closing roster: the named movers of this ground's technology, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/lakeville/technology/closing-roster-the-named-movers-of-this-ground-s/