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Tests run November 2026 — negatives printed at their true size
Heirman: awards at the summit, no hall: The brief for this section named the electromagnetic-compatibility engineer Donald N. Heirman — a Ball Band foreman's son, in the People record — for a professional-hall test, and the test's answer is a distinction this section exists to print. No hall of fame in his field holds Heirman in the record reached. What he holds is his field's highest awards, and they are printed at award strength, not rounded up into enshrinements: the IEC's Lord Kelvin Award of November 2008, the International Electrotechnical Commission's highest honour, given at São Paulo; the IEEE's Steinmetz Award (1997), its Richard M. Emberson Award (2018) and the EMC Society's Richard R. Stoddart Award (1995); the ANSI Finegan Award (2003); and a Life Fellowship of the IEEE. A man can stand at the top of a profession that keeps no hall, and the record says so rather than inventing one for him.
The ethnic-hall test: Mishawaka's Polish community is one of the city's founding peoples, and the National Polish-American Sports Hall of Fame — seated at Troy, Michigan, and boundary-printed — was tested against the city's whole sporting record. No Mishawaka name stands in the hall in the record reached: the negative prints, with the hall's own inductee index named as the settling pull. The Belgian and Italian halls of American sport, such as they are, returned no Mishawaka name either, and the searches are carried in the expand note.
The big national halls: For completeness the test was put to the national halls of the major sports, and the results stand together: the Pro Football Hall of Fame at Canton holds no Mishawaka-born, -raised or -formed inductee in the record; the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame at Springfield holds none — the city's basketball enshrinements run through New Castle's hall, Bethel's and the national collegiate hall, all above; Cooperstown's negative stands in the baseball entry; and the College Football Hall of Fame's Mishawaka test returns Notre Dame's men, who are South Bend's file to enumerate. A city of fifty-one thousand whose enshrinement record runs through steel guitar plaques, a jazz hall, a drum society and the state halls has no reason to borrow glory from halls that hold none of its names — and this section prints the emptiness where the emptiness is.
Sources:
- IEEE and the IEEE Foundation; the IEC; Purdue University's Heirman papers finding aid — the Lord Kelvin Award (2008), the Steinmetz (1997), Emberson (2018), Stoddart (1995) and Finegan (2003) awards and the Life Fellowship, stated as awards.
- National Polish-American Sports Hall of Fame (Troy, Michigan) — its inductee record as reached November 2026: no Mishawaka name.
- The national halls' records as enumerated in the entries above — the negatives for Canton and Springfield stated at the strength of the record reached.