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John Glenn School Corporation · board minutes, 2017–2026
The school corporation's minutes carry the pipeline in the granular form school boards actually record. In February 2017 the board's recognitions list John Glenn's Regional Scholastic Art Award recipients by name and medal — among them a student with seven Gold Keys, a Silver Key, two Honorable Mentions and a Gold Key art portfolio, and further Honorable Mentions in drawing — the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards being the national pipeline through which school art is judged regionally and nationally. The money line is as telling as the medal line: Tri Kappa's annual giving to the high school, recorded in the July 2019 minutes, itemizes $400 to the Art Show, $50 to Artist in Residence and $50 to the Art Department alongside its gifts to band, choir and theatre — a women's service sorority functioning, in a town with no arts council, as the arts-funding course in miniature, source by source, exactly as the floor asks such courses to be told. Donations to drama and art recur through the minutes across the decade, from named families and the Falcon 500 club.