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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 state designation is entered. When the federal National Blue Ribbon Schools program wound down, Indiana created its own Indiana Blue Ribbon Schools designation, and the Indiana Department of Education's 2026 cohort, announced in October 2026, includes Fred J. Hums Elementary School of the School City of Mishawaka. It is a state honor, honestly won and honestly labeled: it is not the federal award of the entry above, and this ledger does not let the shared words "Blue Ribbon" blur the two. Beyond it, nothing is entered. The state's best-known personal honor, the Sagamore of the Wabash, keeps no published official roster, and this ledger enters no conferral it cannot document from a record; if a future pass documents one for a Mishawaka name, it will stand here, in this entry, and nowhere larger.
Sources:
- Indiana Department of Education (in.gov), Indiana Blue Ribbon Schools announcement, October 2026 — Fred J. Hums Elementary School, School City of Mishawaka, in the 2026 cohort.
- The institutional entry above — the federal National Blue Ribbon record, from which Hums Elementary is absent; the two designations distinguished, not merged.