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Special Milk
The Special Milk prgram was inaugurated. -
Poor People's Institute
Developed in Munich, Germany by Benjamin Thompson (Count Rumford). It was a program developed to teach and feed the hungry. Unemployed adults worked making clothes for the army in order to receive food and clothes. Children also worked in the afternoon. In between shifts they were taught reading, writing, and arthimatic. -
Poor Board List
School canteens were opening in Paris. Children received food if their parents were met the standard and made it on the Poor Board List. -
Holland
Holland authorized municipalities to provide food and clothing to private and public who without those items could not attend school regularly or at all. -
Provision of Meals Act
This passage was passed by Parliament. In order for children to take full advantage of their education it was decided that those who could not afford lunch it would be provided to them at their parents expense. -
The Bitter Cry of the Children
Following Hunter's Poverty this book atested to the poverty stricken society. -
Federation of Women's Club
An elementary school in Cleveland started receiving lunch services from Cleveland's Federation of Women's club in Eagle School. -
Boston
An experimental program was created. A mid moring lunch prepared by home economics classes three days a week. -
St. Louis
In St. Louis, five schools in congested areas
of the city were selected for an experiment in
school lunch services in October 1911. High
schools already had some form of lunch
service, but it was decided to expand the
services to elementary schools primarily for
poorly nourished children and for those
children who could not go home at noon. -
Board of Education
In the 1919-20 school year, the Board of
Education assumed full responsibility for all
programs in Manhattan and the Bronx, and in
the following year for all the programs. -
Chicago
According to the Department of Interior,
Bureau of Education Bulletin No. 37, issued
in 1921, "Chicago has the most intensive
school lunch system in America." At that
time, all the city's high schools and 60
elementary schools were carrying on school
feeding programs as a full responsibility of the
Chicago Board of Education. -
Federal Aid
The earliest Federal aid came from the
Reconstruction Finance Corporation in 1932
and 1933 when it granted loans to several
towns in southwestern Missouri to cover the
cost of labor employed in preparing and
serving school lunches. -
W.P.A.
Works Progress Administration (later changed to
Work Projects Administration) that a very
substantial contribution from Federal sources
became available in this area of program
operations. This agency was created in 1935
to provide work for needy persons on public
works projects. -
Lunch Programs
In March 1937, there were 3,839 schools
receiving commodities for lunch programs
serving 342,031 children daily. -
Lunchrooms
By 1937,15 States had passed laws
specifically authorizing local school boards to
operate lunchrooms. -
W.P.A.
Up and operating in all states. -
W.P.A.
In February 1942, the school lunch program
operating under the assistance from W.P.A
and N.Y.A and receiving donated foods
reached 92,916 schools serving 6 million
children daily. -
N.C.L.A.
The first amendment to the National School
Lunch Act occurred in 1952. It changed the
formula concerning the apportionment of
school lunch funds to Hawaii, Alaska, Puerto
Rico, Guam and the Virgin Islands both as to
food and non-food assistance funds.
