The Formation of John Glenn School Corporation: Three Carriers, Three Tellings

1972 – c. 1984 · the conflict printed whole

"John Glenn" the high school (1968) predates "John Glenn" the corporation: North Liberty joined PLJ by a later merger, and the merger's year is in genuine three-way conflict across the carriers reached — printed uncollapsed, because any single year would misstate at least one carrier. The first telling is an obituary, read first-hand: Harold "Hal" Muncie was principal of Tyner High School 1963–1965, then of Walkerton High School from spring 1965; "In June of 1972, Hal was named Superintendent of PLJ School Corporation. He oversaw the merger of PLJ with North Liberty, which became John Glenn School Corporation, and he served as Superintendent for an additional 12 years," leaving for the superintendency of Western Boone in April 1985. On this carrier the corporation formed sometime after June 1972 and before about 1984, with no exact year and no instrument stated. The second telling is a publisher's summary, at snippet strength, of the standard pictorial history of the county's south end: "The early 1980s brought further challenges for community leaders tasked with consolidating area schools to form the John Glenn School Corporation." The third is a conference-membership table, at snippet strength: North Liberty High School left the Northern State Conference in 1981, "consolidated into Glenn." The corporation's own modern reference pages give no formation date at all. The three tellings are consistent in shape — PLJ first, North Liberty joining a decade or more after the high school opened — and inconsistent in year, and this section prints them as they stand. The exact formation year and legal instrument of the John Glenn School Corporation bank as a named gap (G-SC-4); the corporation's board minutes and records of the merger, the state reorganization records of the 1959 act's commissions, and the state education department's corporation record for number 7150 are its settlers. Until one of them is read, the honest sentence is the one this article's first line carries: sometime between 1972 and the middle 1980s, most pointedly about 1981, the Shamrocks' school district became part of John Glenn.