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 Drew's National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame induction of 2019, Mike Lightfoot's five halls, the steel-guitar plaques lettered "BORN: MISHAWAKA," and the seated test that found this city's people in no national hall at the institutional tier. They are not re-entered here. The single overlap is Donald Heirman, whose hall test stands negative in that file while his awards stand at full size in this one — the arrangement the two legs were built to keep, each file answering its own question.

The war decorations: The military decoration ledger — the medals for valor and service earned by this city's soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines, from the Civil War forward — belongs to the Wars section of this history and stands there whole. It is entered here at pointer only, by the leg's rule, so that no decoration is counted twice in two ledgers. A reader who wants Mishawaka's most decorated names will find them with the wars that made them.

The line at the city limit: And the boundary this whole section has kept is worth stating once, plainly, at the end. Across the line in South Bend stand a Nobel laureate, two Medals of Freedom, and a shelf of National Book Awards; up the road in Granger stands a Presidential Award this ledger printed at paragraph size. None of it is Mishawaka's, and none of it is entered here. What is Mishawaka's — a Rhodes Scholar, a Lord Kelvin Award, two Presidential teaching awards and a Milken inside its own schools, a Volpi Cup, and the nomination ledgers of four academies — is entered at full size and at exact strength, and it is enough for one small city's honest book.

Sources:

1. The Halls of Fame, Wars, People, and Schools sections of this history — the records cross-referenced above, each standing whole in its own leg.
2. The Awards and Honors sections of the South Bend history in this series — the neighboring city's ledger, from which nothing here is borrowed.