Don M. Newman — Sagamore of the Wabash (twice), and the state's Outstanding Pharmacist, 1970

Honors of record, 1941–1976 · Senate hearing record, March 13, 1986

The record: the fullest honors list ever sworn for a man of this ground stands in the United States Senate's hearing on his own nomination. Don M. Newman, pharmacist, came before the Finance Committee on March 13, 1986 as President Reagan's nominee for Under Secretary of Health and Human Services, and the printed biographical sketch (S. Hrg. 99-604) lists his honors whole: the Elliott D. Vorinck Award (Riley High School, 1941); the Glen Jenkins Award (Purdue, as a freshman pharmacist, 1942); Outstanding Pharmacist, State of Indiana, 1970; the Distinguished Alumni Award of the Indiana University South Bend Alumni Association, 1976; and the Sagamore of the Wabash — twice. To the committee, describing where he lived, he said it in his own words: "I consider myself a rural resident of Osceola, IN." The seat is printed at exactly that strength: not the town limits — a rural resident, on township ground, by his own sworn description — and the honors at Senate-record strength. A Mishawaka Pilots Club biography adds the color at club strength: honorary doctorates from Purdue and Long Island University, and wartime service as a B-17/B-29 instructor pilot. One namesake is expelled on the face of the record: Don Newman the basketball coach (Idaho, d. 2018) is a different man, and nothing of his belongs here.

The flag: Newman does not stand in this build's People leg — its two Newmans are Eli O. Newman, the township's Civil War survivor of Company I, 9th Indiana, and Maddy Newman, the Louisville softball player.

Sources

1. U.S. Senate, Committee on Finance, Nomination of Don M. Newman, S. Hrg. 99-604, March 13, 1986 (finance.senate.gov) — the biographical sketch's honors list and the testimony's residence statement.
2. Mishawaka Pilots Club, member biography of Don M. Newman — honorary doctorates and wartime service, at club-biography strength.
3. This build's People leg, searched whole for the name — the absence flagged above.