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The institutional tables: a club dining room, a school basement, a parish feast

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1928–PRESENT · KNOLLWOOD, THE SCHOOLS, ST. PIUS X

Three tables on this ground feed people by membership and enrollment rather than by bill, and each prints at pointer size to the leg that owns it. The oldest formal table is the country club's. Knollwood Country Club — two eighteen-hole courses across 435 acres on the place's west side, a private club whose documented course begins at its fiftieth anniversary's approach in the mid-1970s — is carried whole in this build's Sports leg, dispelled directory legends and 2025 ownership change included; its dining room and banquet trade are the ground's senior institutional kitchen, and the food record touches it once in documents: the benefit golf outing for Bare Hands' injured brewer was set at Knollwood for June 23, 2014, the club's grounds doing the community-table work the day required. The school table prints at the Schools section's strength: the Penn-Harris-Madison corporation's feeding of thousands of children daily is that leg's subject, and this section carries only its ancestor image, which the Schools section documents from the 1963 Ball State study — the Harris School of 1928, whose cafeteria and kitchen were in the basement of the township's brick schoolhouse, 217 children housed in a building rated for 240, the new corporation's only kindergarten rented in one of its rooms. Institutional feeding on this ground begins in a basement under a one-school township, and grows to a corporation's commissary system without ever becoming a restaurant story; the pointer is the proportion. The church table is the parish feast: St. Pius X — 2,800 families and almost ten thousand parishioners by its own 2022 count, per the Religion section — keeps its patron's solemnity in late August as, in the Arts section's finding, the closest thing the ground has to a festival of its own, the Flyin' Lion 5K (sixth annual in 2022, first run 2017) kicking off "a day of festivities for the Parish." The Religion and Arts sections carry the day whole; this section records only that the place's one documented festival day is a parish's, and its table a parish table. Of the Lenten fish fry, the institution a Michiana food record is expected to hold, no instance for this ground's parishes stands in the record reached — searched in the parish and press records carried by the Religion section — and the absence prints as a tested negative rather than being filled from the valley's general custom. The market's 2011 food drive for the Food Bank of Northern Indiana, carried in the market entry above, closes the roll: charity's table, set by the market, in the pavilion years.

Sources:

  1. This build's Sports leg: Knollwood Country Club's documented course whole (the c. 1975 founding bound, the dispelled 1924 claims, the February 2025 Knollwood Golf Group acquisition); the South Bend Tribune, June 2014, as above (the June 23, 2014 benefit outing at Knollwood).
  2. This build's Schools section: the Harris School record (the 1963 Ball State study: the 1928 building, its basement cafeteria and kitchen, 217 of 240 housed, the rented kindergarten).
  3. This build's Religion and Arts & Culture legs: St. Pius X's size (2022 count) and solemnity, the Flyin' Lion 5K (2017– ), "a day of festivities for the Parish"; the festival tests printed there. The fish-fry search: the parish and press records as carried in those legs, November 2026.

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Source: The institutional tables: a club dining room, a school basement, a parish feast, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/granger/food/institutional-tables-a-club-dining-room-a-school-basement/