Opening Mass and Picnic

Author: Matt Cashore '94

8.25.09, 6:38 p.m.

Picnic
Photo by Matt Cashore

Notre Dame students, facutly, staff and families celebrated the opening of the school year with the annual Mass and picnic. What does it take to feed the Notre Dame family? Here is the picnic by the numbers:

10,320 meals served
8,150 hamburgers
5,720 brats
4,756 servings of chicken
1,342 pounds of macaroni and cheese
350 cases of soda (Or “Coke” or “pop” depending on what part of the country you’re from!)