Harold Rubert "Hal" Muncie: the superintendent who built the modern corporation

4 December 1929 – 27 December 2023 · tie: SEATED here

The record: the whole of this profile stands on his obituary (Johnson-Danielson Funeral Home, Plymouth, carried also in the local broadcast record), read first-hand. Born 4 December 1929 at Madison, Indiana; DePauw University, B.A. 1952. Drafted in September 1952, he served two years as a corporal in the U.S. Army Signal Corps, 3rd Infantry Division, in the Korean War — a soldier of the war this build's Wars file tells, carried there at cross-reference size and here whole, as the People file's rule requires for a man whose life is the profile. Indiana University, M.S. in Education, 1959. His school career began as head basketball coach at Tyner High School in September 1954, the young family living first at Koontz Lake; in the spring of 1965 he was appointed principal of Walkerton High School. In the fall of 1968 the new consolidated school opened and astronaut John Glenn came to dedicate it; Muncie was its principal — the man standing beside the astronaut in the town's most famous photograph, though the record does not put it in those words. In June 1972 he was named superintendent of the PLJ School Corporation; he oversaw its merger with North Liberty into the John Glenn School Corporation and served as superintendent twelve years more. (The corporation's formation date itself is carried in this build as a named gap — GAP-WKSCH-1, the schools pass's item: an obituary-carried date of about 1973 stands unreconciled against the "early 1980s" of Sheneman's Southern St. Joseph County, and this section prints the merger and the man, not a date it cannot settle.) In the town he was president of the Walkerton Lions Club and sat on the Chamber of Commerce board. He died 27 December 2023 at Gardner, Kansas, and was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, Walkerton, with U.S. Army funeral honors — the educator-soldier laid in the town's ground among the war's other men, under the 1947 stone's shadow.

Sources:

1. Obituary of Harold Rubert Muncie, Johnson-Danielson Funeral Home, Plymouth, Indiana — read; the career dates, the Korea service, the 1968 dedication and the burial with Army honors as stated.
2. The John Glenn School Corporation formation question — carried as GAP-WKSCH-1 in this build's schools pass (Franklin N. Sheneman, Southern St. Joseph County, Images of America, Arcadia 2004, at the other side of the conflict).