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National Awards & Honors
The Awards Ledger, Kept from the Grantors' Own Rolls
Every class below was run as its own test against the grantor's own roll, as of November 2026; an empty class is printed as an empty line…
Lead: New Carlisle's national-awards ledger is, at grantor-roll strength, a ledger of tested empties with its positives standing elsewhere. The positives are pointed, not retold: two IHSAA state championships — New Prairie…
Nobel Test — No Laureate of This Ground
Nobel Foundation laureate rolls run for birth, raising and seat ties to New Carlisle, Olive Township
Lead: Nobel line: EMPTY. The Nobel Foundation's laureate rolls — the prize lists at nobelprize.org, including the laureates-and-research-affiliations roll — were run for any laureate born in, raised in, or seated in New Carlisle…
Rhodes Test — No Scholar of This Ground
Rhodes Trust scholar rolls, by state and year, run for a New Carlisle tie
Lead: Rhodes line: EMPTY. The Rhodes Trust's American scholar rolls, read by state and year for Indiana, return scholars seated at Indianapolis, West Lafayette and Fort Wayne, and at Indiana University Bloomington — the…
Highest Civilian Suite — Five Rolls, Five Empty Lines
Each medal in the suite run separately against its grantor's roll; empty lines named as empty
Lead: Presidential Medal of Freedom: EMPTY — the Congressional Research Service roll, 674 awards to 671 individuals and one group between 1963 and 2025, carries no person born, raised or seated in New Carlisle. Congressional Gold…
Fellowships and Cultural Honors — Tested Blanks
MacArthur Fellows rolls and Kennedy Center Honors rolls searched and printed even though empty
Lead: MacArthur Fellows line: EMPTY. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation's directory of Fellows, 1981–2021, was searched for any Fellow born, raised or seated in New Carlisle, and no name answers; Indiana's Fellows…
Teaching Honors — PAEMST and Milken Rolls Run for New Prairie
Indiana recipient rolls of both national teaching honors run for New Prairie teachers and principals
Lead: PAEMST line, New Prairie: EMPTY. The Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching Indiana recipient rolls, as published by the White House and the program across award years, name Indiana holders…
The Circus Test — The Profession Honors Its Act, Not Its Founder, by Name
The town's signature profession run against its own top honors: International Circus Hall of Fame and Circus Ring of Fame class rolls, for…
Lead: The town's signature profession is the circus, through its founder, Richard Risley Carlisle — born in New Jersey in 1814, purchaser in 1835 of the 160 acres from Lazarus Bourissa that became New Carlisle, and, as Professor…
Screen and Stage — Four Classes, and the Film's Own Line
Academy Awards, Emmy, Tony and Grammy rolls run, one line per class, for any person of this ground
Lead: Academy Awards line, person of this ground: EMPTY. Emmy line: EMPTY. Tony line: EMPTY. Grammy line: EMPTY. The fame sweep's residue — four names into national notice, none a screen or stage laureate — is confirmed class by…
False-Credit Hygiene — Whose Honors Are Not This Town's
The hygiene statements from every class line in this section, gathered in one place
Lead: Four hygiene rules govern this whole ledger, and each class line above carries its own. First, Colfax: Schuyler Colfax removed with his mother and stepfather to New Carlisle in 1836 and clerked in his stepfather's store…
Book and Newspaper Prizes — Empty Lines, Shelves Named
Pulitzer tested PAPER separately from PERSON; national book prizes run and printed as empty lines with the shelves named
Lead: Pulitzer line, PAPER: EMPTY. The Pulitzer Prizes' own winners roll, complete from 1917, was run for the town's papers — the New Carlisle Gazette, the New Carlisle News and the Town Crier, as named in the assignment — and no…
Closing Institutional Entry — All-America City, the Town's Own Hall, and the Sagamore Test
Boundary size: what the town itself holds, what the state roll can and cannot prove, and the pointer to what stands elsewhere
Lead: All-America City line: EMPTY. The National Civic League's winner lists were run for New Carlisle from the award's founding in 1949 forward; Indiana's winners on the lists are Anderson, Bloomington, Columbus, Evansville…