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Founding year open · O.C. Carmichael Jr. Youth Center, 502 E. Sample St.
The claim, printed as a claim. The Boys & Girls Clubs' own site for the northern Indiana corridor says it plainly: "For 50 years, the Boys & Girls Clubs have been in the forefront of youth development in St. Joseph County." This article prints that sentence as what it is, the club's own undated count, and does not convert it into a founding year, because no dated source fixes the year the county's first clubhouse opened.
What is fixed. The flagship is the O.C. Carmichael Jr. Youth Center at 502 E. Sample St., named for the South Bend schools and civic leader, and the clubs' modern shape is school-based: the county organization runs club sites inside area schools as well as at the flagship, and its filings reported more than 1,100 children served across those sites in 2018. After-school clubhouses are the least theatrical and most daily form of family infrastructure a city builds, homework first and gym after, and South Bend's has run for the half century its own site claims, at addresses the filings fix even where the charter year so far does not.
Sources
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Northern Indiana Corridor (bgcnic.org): "For 50 years, the Boys & Girls Clubs have been in the forefront of youth development in St. Joseph County" (the club's own claim, undated).
- Daffy nonprofit profile, compiled from the club's filings: flagship O.C. Carmichael Jr. Youth Center, 502 E. Sample St.; more than 1,100 children served across school-based sites in 2018.