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The open joint: when the township's schools became the corporation's

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Stated as a gap, with the two poles the record does prove

No carrier reached states the year, the vote, or the instrument by which Clay Township's schools passed into the South Bend corporation — no annexation, merger, or reorganization date for Clay was found in anything opened, and the build prints the joint as open (G-SC-6) rather than bridging it with the era's usual pattern. The two poles are proven. At the near pole: when Clay's high school was dedicated in 1930, the Tribune's headline called it a "County School" — a township/county school in name, not yet a city-corporation school. At the far pole: by the Plan Z era (below) Clay's schools sat wholly inside the corporation's structure of intermediate centers and magnets. Between those poles the transfer happened; its record stands in the corporation's board minutes and the state reorganization files, which are the gap's named settlers. The companion question — where Clay and Roseland high-schoolers attended before 1930 — is likewise unproven: tuition attendance at the city's high schools is the era's common pattern and is printed here as an open question (G-SC-7), not as this township's fact.

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Source: The open joint: when the township's schools became the corporation's, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/roseland/schools/open-joint-when-the-township-s-schools-became-the/