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American School Food Service News
The ASFSA (American School Food Service Association) was organized on October 11, 1946. It strives to see that all children have access to healthful school meals and nutrition education. The collection consists of 12 issues of the "American School Food Service News" from 1949 - 1955 and 2 copies of the "journal" from the 1957 St. Louis meeting.
Lucille Barnett Collection
Lucille Barnett served as Supervisor of County and City School Food Service in Spartanburg, South Carolina for many years. From 1973-1974 she served as American School Food Service Association President. She currently resides in South Carolina.
Lova Jean Bullman Collection
Lova Jean Bullman is Director of Child Nutrition at Dorchester School District Two in South Carolina. She served as President of the South Carolina School Food Service Association 2000-2001. The collection consists of photographs of Bullman, staff, and events.
Earnestine Camp Collection
Earnestine Camp from Sheridan, Arkansas has been actively involved in the school food service profession for over 60 years. She served as an Area Supervisor in the School Food Service Section of the Arkansas Department of Education from 1953 - 1987 and has served as Southwest Regional Director for the American School Food Service Association.
Connecticut Bureau of Adult Education and Nutrition Programs Collection
This collection, donated by the state of Connecticut, contains items that document the legislative history of the National School Lunch Program and its impact in the schools across the country.
Thelma G. Flanagan Papers
Thelma Flanagan was involved in nutrition programs in the State of Florida from the 1930s until her death in 2001. She became the Florida School Food Service Director in 1943, served as school lunch consultant to the USDA; was President of the American School Food Service Assoc.; Chairman of the Southern States Work Conference Committee and was the author of numerous publications regarding school feeding programs. The collection documents the history of Florida's state initiatives in the area of child nutrition and the growth of the school lunch program as a key portion of that effort.
Kansas School Food Service Association / School Nutrition Association of Kansas Collection
The Kansas School Food Service Association (KSFSA) was founded in 1953 and today is known as the School Nutrition Association of Kansas (SNAKS). The collection consists of materials from every decade of the organization's existence. It was donated by SNAKS following the death of Ms. Elizabeth H. Mettling, who had served as President and later as historian for KSFSA.
Lexington County (South Carolina) School District 3 Collection
The Lexington County (South Carolina) School District 3 is located in Batesburg-Leesville, South Carolina. In Spring 1992, former School Food Services Director Pat Holstein and her staff compiled a scrapbook of photographs and articles on their program and submitted it to the South Carolina Department of Education for nomination to the USDA first annual Best Practices Award Program. The collection consists of a copy of the scrapbook and additional photographs of School Food Service staff and children.
Maine Department of Education Collection
This collection, donated by the Maine Department of Education, consists of the USDA publication The Food Buying Guide for Type A School Lunches, published in 1977.
Dr. Josephine Martin Papers
Dr. Josephine Martin served as the first Executive Director of the National Food Service Management Institute (NFSMI) from 1991-1996. Prior to that she worked as Director of School Nutrition Programs and Associate State Superintendent of Schools for the Georgia Department of Education. During her career, she assisted and testified before government committees at state and federal levels. She currently serves as an honorary advisor for the Georgia School Nutrition Association (GSNA). The GSNA annually awards the Josephine Martin Award of Excellence. Martin served as American School Food Service Association President for 1976-77. She is the co-editor of Managing Child Nutrition Programs: Leadership for Excellence, published in 1999.
The Marshall Matz Papers
During the 1980s and 1990s, Marshall Matz served as general counsel to the Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs and also as Special Counsel to the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry and as a lawyer for the American School Food Service Association. The collection contains documents concerning national Child Nutrition Programs as well as some state initiatives.
Ruth Moskowitz Collection
Ruth Moskowitz, R.D. served as New Jersey's Director of Food and Nutrition Services throughout the 1980s. Moskowitz's collection reflects the political realities of a program very much dependent on state and federal funding and is indicative of the need for food service professionals to keep themselves properly informed as to the history and progress of their profession and the field of child nutrition in particular.
Mary Paden Collection
Mary Paden served for 29 years as cafeteria manager at Overstreet Elementary School, in Starkville, Mississippi. The collection consists primarily of School Food Service publications and posters from 1946 - 1971.
Eleanor Pratt Collection
Eleanor Pratt served as home economist at the USDA Southeast Regional Office in Atlanta for 34 years. During that time she worked with school personnel responsible for School Lunch and School Breakfast programs in the nine individual states in the region at that time. She developed training materials, taught workshops, and spoke at various meetings. She retired in 1994. Her collection consists of training and resource materials she used during her time as home economist.
Texas Region VII Education Service Center Collection
The Region VII Education Service Center is in east Texas, along the border of Louisiana and Arkansas. This collection contains materials from Region VII Child Nutrition Program Specialists Pauline Moctiller and Dorothy Hopkins. The materials, dating from 1950 - 1983, include manuals and guidebooks produced by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and printed materials from various food service companies and associations.
USDA Southwest Regional Office / Mary K. McDermott Collection
The Southwest region of the USDA's Food and Nutrition Service originally operated in the states of Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas. Later, the region was trimmed to include only Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas. As featured in this collection, there are documents pertaining to private school, as well as public, lunch programs. Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas currently have USDA offices for both public and private school lunch programs. Mary Kay McDermott, retired USDA Southwest Regional office Program Specialist, donated the collection.
Vermont Child Nutrition Programs Collection
The collection, donated by the Vermont Department of Education, consists of USDA, Food Research and Action Center, several state departments of education publications and printed materials, and programs from Vermont's annual School Nutrition Conference.
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