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1965 – 1968 · corporation-whole, at North Liberty size
John Glenn High School was dedicated on 20 October 1968, with the astronaut present, under a corporation North Liberty did not yet belong to — the fact that orders everything after it in this section. A Polk-Lincoln-Johnson school corporation — PLJ, for its Polk, Lincoln, and Johnson township units — existed by 1965, governed by a board of school trustees for the three townships. On 31 August 1965 the PLJ board voted unanimously to consolidate its two high schools into one facility for the 1966–67 school year, ahead of a new building expected ready in September 1967; for that first combined year grades 9–12 would sit in the Walkerton high school building and grades 7–8 at Tyner. The new school was dedicated on 20 October 1968, with NASA astronaut John Glenn, for whom it is named, present at the dedication — carried by the high school's history and corroborated independently by a corporation superintendent's obituary: "In 1968 a new high school was built, and that fall Astronaut John Glenn was in attendance for the dedication ceremony for the new John Glenn High School." The school stands at 201 John Glenn Drive, Walkerton. The name origin is carried at the same strength: the district "is named after John Glenn," the 1968 dedication attendance corroborating the namesake, with no formal naming resolution reached. PLJ itself has the shape of a unit formed under Indiana's 1959 School Reorganization Act — the act that required county plans, set a floor of a thousand resident pupils, and cut the state's school corporations from 966 to 402 — but no carrier read ties either PLJ's formation or the later merger to a specific reorganization order, and the instruments bank as gaps (G-SC-4). The boundary of this article is the build's standing rule: the PLJ course and the high school's whole history are the corporation's, seated at Walkerton and told whole in Walkerton's build; they print here at the size they bear on North Liberty — which is the size of a door the town's students did not walk through until the merger let them.