LOGAN Community Resources

Founded 1950 — the disability charity that became The Arc's county chapter

Founding: LOGAN was founded in 1950 by Joe and Sophie Newman, for their daughter Rita Jo — founded, that is, by two parents for one child, and widened into the county's principal charity for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. "Since 1950" is the organization's own line, and its published accounts carry the same date. Its center stood for years on Eddy Street, on ground now covered by the Eddy Street Commons development, before moving to a building on Jefferson Boulevard. On 21 June 2022 LOGAN joined The Arc of Indiana and The Arc of the United States as the St. Joseph County chapter of The Arc — its chief executive's words at the joining were "For 72 years, LOGAN has been a champion" — keeping its name, its center and its work inside the national disability movement's oldest federation. (The expansion of the LOGAN acronym is asserted in secondary retellings but was not verified from the organization's own record for this account, and it is not printed.)

Sources:

1. LOGAN Community Resources, published history and the release of 21 June 2022 — the 1950 founding by Joe and Sophie Newman for Rita Jo; "since 1950"; the Eddy Street center and the Jefferson Boulevard move; the joining of The Arc of Indiana and The Arc of the United States as the St. Joseph County chapter, with the chief executive's "for 72 years" statement.
2. Notre Dame Magazine — LOGAN's founding family and course, and Camp Millhouse's separate place in the same field.