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Awards and Honors · the ledger, kept from the grantors' own records
Every city keeps an informal account of the honors its people have won, and the account tends to grow in the telling. This section keeps the account the strict way: an honor is entered only when the body that gives it carries the name on its own roster or record, and the city's tie is stated at its exact strength — a birth, an upbringing, a schooling, a principal's office held here are four different facts, and the ledger does not trade one for another. Mishawaka's ledger is thin at the very top and honest about it: the Nobel test below is negative, and so are the lines for the Pulitzer, the National Book Award, the Medal of Freedom, and the national medals. What the ledger holds instead is a Rhodes Scholar born here; the highest award in the world of electrotechnical standardization, won by a rubber foreman's son born and raised on these streets; two Presidential Awards for teaching — the nation's highest honor for a classroom teacher — held by teachers in this city's schools, with a third name boundary-printed at the Granger line; a Milken Educator Award; a Venice festival Best Actor prize won by a Mishawaka High School graduate; and the full nomination ledgers of the academies, printed at nomination size where the record gives nominations and not wins.
The Nobel test: no laureate, printed as a finding
Tested 2026
The test: The Nobel roster was checked head-on for this city, the way the leg requires: the Nobel Foundation's own site and laureate records were searched for Mishawaka, and the full roll of laureates in all six categories …
The Rhodes Scholarship: John Brademas, born here
1950
The honor: John Brademas — born in Mishawaka on 2 March 1927, the son of a Greek immigrant restaurateur, and later this district's congressman for twenty-two years and the president of New York University — was a Rhodes Scholar…
The standards field's highest honors: Donald N. Heirman, born and raised here
1995 · 1997 · 2003 · 2008 · 2017 · 2018
The honors: Donald Nestor Heirman was born in Mishawaka on 16 August 1940 and raised here, the son of a Uniroyal foreman, a Mishawaka High School graduate who took his engineering degrees at Purdue and spent thirty years at Bell…
The Presidential Award for teaching: two Mishawaka teachers
2017 · 2020
The honor: The Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching — administered by the National Science Foundation for the White House, and the highest honor the United States gives its…
The boundary case: Amanda Fox's award belongs to Granger's page
8 February 2022
The boundary: The same White House release of 8 February 2022 carries a third Penn-Harris-Madison name, and this ledger prints her at boundary strength only, because the granting record and the district record point at two…
The Milken Educator Award: Ryan Towner, a Mishawaka principal
16 March 2022
The honor: The Milken Educator Award — the Milken Family Foundation's national award, given since 1987 to early-to-mid-career educators for what they have achieved and for the promise of what they will do, and famous for arriving…
The Academy Awards: Adam Driver, raised here — two nominations
2019 · 2020
The tie, exactly: Adam Driver was born on 19 November 1983 — San Diego, on the Television Academy's own biography page; Fontana, in the standard biographies, a conflict the People section of this history prints whole — and the…
The Emmy record: four nominations, no win
2013 · 2014 · 2015 · 2020
The honor: The Television Academy's own database page for Adam Driver is headed, in the Academy's format, "4 Nominations" — and no wins. Three are for the role that made him: Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series, in…
The Tony record: one nomination, and the line South Bend left empty
2019
The honor: The Tony Awards' official nominations record carries Adam Driver once: Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play, at the 73rd Tony Awards in 2019, for Burn This — Lanford Wilson's play, revived on…
The Volpi Cup: the one major win
2014
The honor: The win on Adam Driver's record came first, before the Oscar and Tony nominations, and it came from a jury, not an academy. At the 71st Venice International Film Festival in 2014, Driver won the Coppa Volpi — the Volpi…
The Grammy record: two nominations at a birth tie — and a remix that is not theirs
31 January 2010
The tie, exactly: Ben Goldwasser, one half of the band MGMT, was born in Mishawaka on 17 December 1982 — and raised in Westport, New York, formed at Wesleyan University in Connecticut, where MGMT began. The tie is a birth and…
The country record: Joy Lynn White's ACM nomination, raised here
1993
The tie, exactly: Joy Lynn White's family came to Mishawaka when she was three years old; she grew up here and graduated from Mishawaka High School before Nashville — a raised-here tie at full strength, printed whole in the…
The book and newspaper prizes: two empty lines, with the shelves named
Tested 2026
The Pulitzer line: Empty. The Pulitzer organization's own records — its winners and finalists, searchable by name — carry no one born in Mishawaka, raised here, or seated at a desk here, in any category, in any year. The test was…
The highest civilian honors and the national medals: empty lines
Tested 2026
The empty lines: The nation's two highest civilian honors give this city nothing, and are printed empty together. No recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom was born in Mishawaka, raised here, or honored for work done…
The fellowships and the Kennedy Center: two more tested blanks
Tested 2026
The MacArthur line: Empty. The MacArthur Foundation's fellows directory — the so-called genius grants, given since 1981 — was searched for the city, and the full fellowship was read against the city's names: no fellow was born in…
The city's own name: the institutional tests
Tested 2026
The All-America City test: Negative. The National Civic League's All-America City Award, given since 1949, is the one national honor a city wins as a city, and the League's own winners list was read whole for Indiana. It carries…
State Honors
2026
The boundary rule: This ledger is a national ledger, and state honors stand outside it by design — confined to this single closing entry, at the small size the rule allows, so that the national lines above are not diluted. One…
What stands elsewhere: the halls, the war decorations, and the line at the city limit
Cross-references
The halls: Honors that take the form of election to a hall of fame are a separate leg of this history and stand whole in the Halls of Fame section — the Candoli brothers' International Jazz Hall of Fame election of 1997, Homer…