Show National School Lunch Week October 1963 SCHOOL LUNCH SERVES THE NATION THROUGH FOOD FOR LEARNING SERVING LUNCHES TO in school is not Communities throughout the world engaged in school grained national status and these local programs were the nucleus of the present-day National School Lunch It is only the past the outlines of a conscious years or so that we can see attempt to meet at least a part of the child's recommended and teach the fundamentals of good FRANCE WAS AMONG THE first countries to provide school lunches on a national scale Some programs operated as early as THE FIRST INSTANCE ON record of an organized school feeding operation in the United States was conducted by the Children s Aid Society of New York in when it first opened its vocational schools for the poor and served meals to all who THE CREATION OF the Works Progress Administration in school lunch was assigned to the Division of Professional and Service Projects as a permanent phase of their operation and funds were provided for the employment of school lunch workers in schools throughout the United States and Puerto IN CONGRESS the expenditure of a specific amount of fifty million dollars of commodity credit corporation funds for the operation of the Special Milk Program increase the consumption of fluid milk by children in non-profit schools of high school or IN THE SCHOOL LUNCH Law was passed in This was an set relating to public schools and creating a school lunch fund to be provided for through a tax of i of the purchase price on wines and THIS FUND SHALL BE USED only to provide school lunches and a school lunch program in the various school districts of the State of Utah in accordance with standards to be established by the State Department of Education NO LONGER IS THE TERM used in referring to the school feeding instead the term Lunch is used A which in many communities once consisted of a hot food to supplement other foods brought from home has now evolved into a A providing one-third of the daily recommended In school lunch is not merely a feeding it is part of the overall educational THE OBJECTIVES OF THE Utah School Lunch Program may be stated briefly as t To improve the general health of the school-going population by providing nutritionally and attractively served school To provide learning situations by which the child an understanding of his nutritional needs and euting habits which will result in Intelligent food selection throughout his A GREATER MEASURE OF of and of life will go to the nation's children as the school lunchrooms become lunch schoolrooms LOOK FOR AND SUPPORT the activities which Indicate the observance of National School Lunch Week in your school |