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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 Mishawaka, raised here, or held a Mishawaka seat when named. The fellows a reader may half-remember from the region are Notre Dame's, and they stand in South Bend's boundary paragraph across the line, where the campus's honors are summarized as the university's own. They are not entered here, at any size.
The Kennedy Center line: Empty. The Kennedy Center Honors, given since 1978 for lifetime achievement in the performing arts, have never gone to a person born or raised in Mishawaka; the Honors roll was read for the city's performing names — the Candoli brothers, Driver, White, Goldwasser — and none stands on it. Their honors stand elsewhere in this ledger and in the Halls of Fame section, at their true sizes, which need no borrowing from this roll. Both lines are printed because the leg's rule is that a tested absence is a finding, and a ledger that prints only its winnings is an advertisement, not a record.
Sources:
- MacArthur Foundation (macfound.org), fellows directory — searched for "Mishawaka" with no result; the fellowship read against the city's documented names.
- The Kennedy Center, Honors roll, 1978 to the present — read for any Mishawaka birth or upbringing; none appears.
- The Awards and Honors section of the South Bend history in this series — the Notre Dame-affiliated MacArthur Fellows, summarized there as the university's boundary paragraph.