To the Reverend Clergy, Diocesan and Regular,
To the Members of the Religious Communities,
And to the Faithful of the Diocese of Columbus.
My beloved Brethren:
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SPECIAL SECTION THE CATHOLIC TIMES
BISHOP’S OFFICE
198 East Broad Street
Columbus 15, Ohio
I am happy to encourage the expansion of the National School
Lunch Program in the Schools of the Diocese of Columbus. The School
Lunch Workshop, to be held at St. Ladislaus School Friday, February
22, 1952, should be of great interest to pastors, sisters and parents
of all our school children.
The school is a place for living as well as for learning. The school
offers many opportunities for the developing of healthful living
habits. The daily experiences of the child have a bearing upon his
life in school and his life outside of school, now and in the future.
The formation of the true and perfect Christian may be considered
as a development of one of the goals of Christian education, physical
fitness.
Learning is the mental activity by which knowledge and skill are
acquired. Although the intellect is the major factor in learning,
nevertheless the intellect by itself does not provide man with knowl
edge. The learning process includes the development and use of all
the child’s powers and capabilities both physical and mental. To de
velop physical and mental powers in proper balance for health
and growth the child should understand the need for good foods and
for a balanced diet. Not only does the child need to know, but he
also needs to have a balanced diet provided for him. From the
atandpoint of the child’s individual life, the intimate relationship
between purity of heart and bodily health should be made known.
The health rules should be taught and applied for the child. The
child learns, in this way to be responsible for his health and for the
daily practice of healthful living.
I congratulate the pastors, sisters and parents of the twen
ty-three schools participating in the National School Lunch Pro
gram. I would urge those schools not participating to consider ser
iously the many advantages of this excellent program.
February 12, 1952
With my blessing,
MICHAEL J. READY,
Bishop of Columbus
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NATIONAL
School Lunch Workshop
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National School Lunch Act
Gives Children A Real Break
By Oscar F. Btycr
Area Field Supervisor, Food Distribution Branch, USDA
“What a lucky group of youngsters we have! Every
noon, underprivileged youngsters as well as those more for
tunate have the same opportunity for a well-balanced and
warm noonday lunch.”
“Absentees and sickness in the school are far less since
the lunch program started. Even behavior problems become
fewer.”
“We find them doing better
school work.”
“It is our firm belief that the
school lunch program is a definite
part of the total picture of educa
tion for living.”
These typical quotations from
letters that come to my office
O. F. Beyer
from teachers, school administra
tors, school lunch supervisors, and
parents all over the Midwest pro
duce an inner glow of gratifica
tion. And just look at the way the
school lunch program has grown.
There were just under 8,000,000
children a year ago, and more
than 8,500,000 in the past school
year. About one fourth of the
children in our nation’s schools
$ 4
receive a lunch at school each
school day.
Yes, the U. S. Department of
Agriculture officials was right
when he said more than six years
ago, “In the future, the school
lunch program is likely to be as
much a part of the American
school system as the playground or
the gymnasium.”
Rising Costs
But beneath the enthusiasm
over the benefits of the school
lunch program, there are under
tones of anxiety. “I don’t know
how long we can keep our meals
at this low price.”
“Higher costs have made it nec
essary to raise the cost of our
meals by five cents.”
“Have you any suggestions?”
And from the administrative
point of view, nationally or in the
eleven Midwest states, the outlook
tends to underscore the anxieties
of the local school people. The
money appropriated by the Con
gress for the school lunch pro
gram is being divided among more
schools and is used to help feed
more pupils, and the over-all oper
ating costs have increased during
the past year.
Is our school lunch program
going to suffer a setback? Ad
mittedly the reduction in funds
per pupil, plus higher costs in al
most every phase of the school
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Good Managers
Responsible for
Lunch Success
The success of a lunch program
depends to a great extent upon
managers and cooks, and the dio
cesan school lunch program for
tunately has managers and cooks
who give of themselves so gener
ously that the children may bene
fit greatly through well-prepared
meals.
First,
child
must
nutri-
Their job is many sided,
they must have a love for
ren. Managers and cooks
have a basic knowledge of
tion and must have ability to plan,
organize, purchase, and direct the
preparation and serving of quality
foods.
Health Help* Lessons
It is their duty to serve the best
food, to keep the balance sheet out
of the red, and also (as so many
programs are doing) to integrate
the lunchroom into the commun
ity activities and to make it the
hub around which lessons are re
lated to health.
Even in smaller schools the cafe
teria supplies enough problems
and technical demands to keep one
busy during all the working hours
in the school day and sometimes
much later into the evening.
SCHOOL
Holy Cross
Holy Rosary
Sacred Heart
Aloysius
Christopher
St.
St.
St.
St.
Dominic
Euphrasia
St. Ladislaus
St.
St.
St.
St.
St.
St.
Leo
Mary
Mary Magdalene
Thomas
Patrick,
Vincent
St.
St.
Mary—Delaware
John—Logan
St. Vincent de Paul—
Mt. Vernon
St. Aloysisus Academy—
New Lexington
Holy Redeemer—
Portsmouth
St. Mary—Portsmouth
Nicholas—Zanesville
Thomas—Zanesville
St.
St.
FEB. 15, 1952
A real hot meal does not last long when placed before
a hungry school boy like the one shown here. Classes take
a lot out of the growing boy and noon lunch is important.
Good Nutrition Important
Child’s Diet Is Important
To Growth at Well-Being
It is a well-known fact that the
importance of a sufficient and
well-balanced diet in the life of
every growing child is of prime im
portance in the Education
total child.
of the
school
means
its re-
A properly conducted
lunch program is the best
of informing the public of
sponsibility in choosing adequate
and proper foods to preserve and
restore good health.
The parochial elementary and
high schools, have an opportunity
to do much to make the citizens of
our country more healthful and
happy by nutrition education. But
the school cannot do it without
the co-operation of the parents and
the community.
We can have costly school plants
and equipment, highly qualified
teachers, carefully selected teach
ing materials, methods, and tech
niques, and still not have a suc
cessful educational program so far
as the individual child is concern
ed. What happens to a child de
pends largely upon his or her
physical status. A child will prof-
Not All Surplus
‘The foods in surplus do not de
termine school lunch menus.
Lunches served must meet a pat
tern established by the Secretary
of Agriculture, which provides a
balanced, nutritious lunch. Only
about 16 per cent of the value of
all foods used by the schools in the
past two years was represented by
donated surplus commodites.
These commodities were not pur
chased with school lunch funds.
School Lunch Personnel
1951 1952
COOK AND ASSISTANT
Mrs. Martha Rose
Mrs. Wm. Debus
Mrs. Edward Fairchild
Mrs. Anna Bell Lawyer
Mrs. Gertrude Bonn*
Mrs. Mary Griffith
Mrs. Avery Gilchrist
Sister Magdala St. Margaret,
R.G.S.
Mrs. Elizabeth Finnegan
Mrs. Betty DuBrul
Mrs. Ruth Chevelard
Mrs. James Snyder
Mrs. Stella Casey
Mrs. Betty O’Rourk
Mrs. Ruth Schilling
Mrs. Kathleen Sovoia
Sister Salone, O.S.F.
Mrs. Lucy Coloprett
Mrs. Joan Schafer
Mrs. George Christman
Mrs. John Geiger
Mr. Ben Zarlingo
St. James the Less Mrs.
Sister Otho, O.S.F.
Mrs. Theodore Eck
Mrs. Louis Roberts
Mrs. Wm. Gillette
Mrs. Madeleine Cruise
Mrs. Ruth Arnold
it more by the educational pre
gram of the school if he is health
and well-nourished.
This is one of the most impor
tant objectives of the school lunch
program, to help guide the child
and parents in the use of nutri
tional knowledge to maintain an
adequate diet so that the energy
in a pupil’s body may be one of
the most important factors in de
termining his “functioning capa
city” for school work. The school
lunch program is more than just
a feeding program.
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75% of Federal Aid
Given To Slate In Cash
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Purpose Is Unchanged
The purpose of the national
school lunch program has not
changed in the 15 years of federal
assistance. It has always been to
help provide a nutritious lunch
for children and to expand domes
tic markets for agricultural food
commodities.
MANAGER
Sister Isabel, S.N.D.
Sister Kathleen, O.S.F.
Sister Leonard, O.S.F.
Mrs. Gertrude Bonn
Sister Rose Carmelita, S.N.D.
Rev. Albert D’Huyvetter
Sister Alberta, R.G.S.
Elizabeth Finnegan
Frank Riehl
Robert Schmidt
Arlene Quickert
Raymond Bauschard
Ruth Schilling
Rev.
Rev.
Mrs.
Rev.
Mrs.
Rev. J. J. Costello, O.P.
Mother M. Ida, O.S.F.
Rev. Leo Lawler
Sister Agnes Theresa, S.N.D.
Rev. Joseph Jerebeck
Mother Magdeleine, O.S.F.
Sister Jose, O.S.F.
Sister Caritas, O.S.F.
Rev. Linus Dury
Mrs. Maurice Mattingly
A Real Hot Meal
To satisfy his needs and those of the boys and girls in the
22 schools participating in the diocesan school luncheon
program last year, over 490,042 meals were served.
State, Federal Offices
Share Lunch Work
The Department of Public Welfare of Ohio shares with
the U. S. Department of Agriculture responsibilities in ad
ministering the Direct Distribution Food Program and is happy
says Victor J. Warken, State Supervisor, to serve the hundreds
of schools and institutions participating in this program.
It is felt that this function is in
keeping with the Welfare Depart
ment’s basic philosophy of assist
ing in a program that concerns
itself with the health and well be
ing of its people.
Recognizing the scope and qual
ity of the program, the W’elfare De
partment of Ohio some time ago
created the Office of Commodity
Distribution for the sole purpose of
administering the Food Distribu
tion Program.
the
More than three fourths of
federal school lunch appropriation
is granted to states in cash. These
funds can be used by schools for
the purchase of any food and for
the most part these funds go into
the hands of merchants and busi
nessmen in the vicinity of the par
ticipating schools. The remainder
of the appropriation is used by the
department to purchase foods con
taining elements commonly lack
ing in children’s diets—mainly pro
tein and vitamin C. These are not
price support or surplus removal
purchases.
The Office of Commodity Distri
bution assumes certain definite re
sponsibilities, such as requesting
available foods in amounts which
will be beneficially utilized in its
more than 2.500 schools, institu
tions and child care centers hav
ing a total of 554,216 persons par
ticipating in the meals served.
Additional responsibilities are
the receipt, handling, storage, al
location of the food to participants,
and the keeping of such records as
prescribed by the U. S. Department
of Agriculture.
Sanitation Plays
Part In Program
One of the most important ob
jectives of the school lunch pro
gram is to make available to chil
dren, at a minimum cost, lunches
of maximum nutritive value, pre
pared under the most sanitary
conditions.
Modern equipment plays an im
portant part in achieving this ob
jective.
The physical layouts of our cafe
terias in new schools are planned
and equipped with the very latest
facilities.
W’orn and oosoiete equipment is
being replaced by new and the
latest efficient type of equipment
wherever possible.
A properly and well-equipped
kitchen is economical, for it helps
to cut costs greatly and to cut the
time limit on many functions and
processes in a well-regulated pro
gram.
To facilitate monthly pick-ups of
food by participants, the Office of
Commodity Distribution has estab
lished distribution centers in ten
cities of Ohio, using noth cold and
dry storage warehouses which will
preserve the quality and life of the
food received from the U.S. De
partment of Agriculture.
Under a provision (Section 6) of
the National School Lunch Act, the
U. S. Department of Agriculture
buys and donates to the Depart
ment of Welfare of Ohio, for dis
tribution through its Office of Com
modity Distribution, to schools cer
tified to participate under the Na
tional School Lunch Program, such
foods of high nutritive value as are
suitable for children’s lunches.
The food items purchased under
this section during the current
year were canned beans (green),
cherries, peas, peaches, tomatoes,
tomato paste, peanut butter, dried
beans, dried prunes and processed
cheese.
In addition, the U. S. Department
of Agriculture donates to the De
partment of Public W’elfare of
Ohio, Office of Commodity Distri
bution, from time to time, foods
which are obtained under authority
of legislation aimed at widening
the market outlet for farm com
modities.
These foods are distributed to
schools whether or not they partici
pate in the National School Lunch
Program, also to child care centers
and institutions for patients who
are unable to pay the full charge
for services rendered.
During the current year, the fol
lowing food items were distributed
to recipients in the above categor
ies: Fresh apples, dried eggs and
milk, canned honey and concen
trated orange juice.
Additional information may ba
had by writing Victor J. Warkan,
State Supervisor, State of Ohio De
partment of Public Welfare, Office
of Commodity Distribution, 487
Dennison Avenue, Columbus 8,
Ohio.
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