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December 12, 2016 · presented at the P-H-M board table
The honor: the Sagamore of the Wabash is Indiana's highest civilian honor, conferred by the Governor personally; it is not applied for and the state publishes no roll of its holders — a record problem the Granger build established and this build inherits, so the proof of a Sagamore is the presenter's or the recipient's own institution's record, read at that strength. On December 12, 2016, at his last meeting after twenty years as the Penn Township trustee (Seat 3) of the Penn-Harris-Madison school board, Randy Leliaert received the Sagamore by Governor Mike Pence's choice, and the corporation's own announcement the next day is the record of it. The same announcement carries the residence that seats the honor on this ground: Leliaert was "a resident of Osceola … since 1973," and after his board service he "remained active with the Osceola Business Association, Osceola Bluegrass Festival Committee, and Penn Park Osceola Baseball Softball Association." Jim Garrett succeeded him in Seat 3. The honor is printed at full strength: a sitting governor's award, to a man of forty-three years' residence in the town, recorded by his own corporation at the time.
Sources
- Penn-Harris-Madison School Corporation, news announcement, December 13, 2016 (phmschools.org) — the presentation, the twenty years, the Osceola residence since 1973, the successor.
- On the absence of a state roll: the Granger build's awards leg, this build's standing source for the Sagamore record problem.