John Glenn High School: dedicated October 20, 1968, with the astronaut present

201 JOHN GLENN DRIVE · THE FALCONS · PRINCIPAL CHRIS MANERING, AS OF NOVEMBER 11, 2026

The consolidated high school took the name of the country's most famous living flyer, and he came to the dedication: John Glenn High School, at 201 John Glenn Drive on the town's east side, was dedicated on October 20, 1968, with astronaut John Glenn himself present — the fact carried by Sheneman's history (p. 60) and by WSBT's later reporting. The school ended the old rivalry in the act of opening: Walkerton's Indians and North Liberty's Shamrocks had been each other's fixture for a generation, and the merged school's teams took a new name, the Falcons, competing today in the Northern Indiana Conference. The building's present state is the corporation's own record: the principal in November 2026 is Chris Manering — Christopher S. Manering in his full signature — with Ronald Brown Jr. as assistant principal; the corporation's own college-and-career materials name Rose Dodson as the school's teacher and dual credit coordinator, the career line's one named officer in the record reached (the corporation's career and technical cooperative membership rides as GAP-WKSCH-8). Enrollment at the high school stands at 633 students in the federal record for 2023–24 and 629 for 2024–25. The school also keeps a predecessor's name in daily use: in March 2025 the board named the football field for Richard Reese, the superintendent of 2014–2019 — told in the superintendents entry, where his term belongs.

Sources:

1. Sheneman, Southern St. Joseph County, p. 60, and WSBT (December 9, 2016), both as cited in Wikipedia, "John Glenn High School (Indiana)": the dedication of October 20, 1968, with John Glenn present; the Falcons; the Northern Indiana Conference.
2. John Glenn School Corporation (jgsc.k12.in.us), John Glenn High School pages, crawled November 2026: Chris Manering, Principal; Ronald Brown Jr., Assistant Principal; the college and career fair materials naming Manering and Dodson.
3. National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data: John Glenn High School enrollment, 633 (2023–24) and 629 (2024–25).
4. John Glenn School Corporation board minutes (March 18, 2025): the naming of the football field for Richard Reese.