Lake Braddock Secondary School - Lair Yearbook (Burke, VA)

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Vending machines selling junk food and drinks are all over the school. Are they truly needed? Prices keep going up, up, up outside as well as within the school. When will it all end? The trash masher collects almost all of the wasted food in the school. How much of it 198 Feature Story

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Standing before the big mixing vat is Mrs Loleta Schenk. A cashier in the first serving line is Mrs. Carol Garrick accepting money from a student. Pizza, the biggest lunch of the week may unruffle some people but not Mrs. Joyce Anderson, Mrs. Frances Magill and Mrs. Emily Tederson. These three ladies are the salad makers, Mrs. Shirley Meachem, Mrs. Cenci Clark and Mrs. Ruth Adkins. One of the hardest jobs of all is the cashier of the a la carte line and this is held by Mrs. Marvel Dunn. Cafeteria 197

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could have been eaten? food...Our Part Of Tfie World Home economics uses much of the food in the school. Is there some way we can conserve food there? The food shortages of Bangladesh and Africa may seem remote and far away but the food problem hit us at Lake Braddock and was beginning to show. Prices, in the cafeteria went up as much as fifty-percent, and spaghetti, fish and tacos appeared on the menu more and more often. None of this had to be. If we each did our part of the bargain of conser¬ ving food, then there would have been no problem. But we were not liv¬ ing up to our side and very few people did. The waste that appeared in the cafeteria was appalling. Many times it was our own fault. The sweet potatoes or peas set before us may have been very nutritious, but they were not to our personal liking and were thrown into the trash masher with little or no thought to the money or the waste. On the other hand, how many times did we get cold french fries, and who can forget the day they served us a weiner with sauerkraut, corn, mashed potatoes, a roil and yellow cake with white icing? A concentrated effort should have been made by the cafeteria people to serve more attractive, nutritious lunches that wouldn’t be such a strain on the world food supply or the budget. Junk foods should have been completely removed from the scene, since they had little or no nutritional value as well as being ex¬ pensive. An extended effort should have been made on the students part to eat foods that were good for them. Many asked, “If Lake Brad- dock adopted the aforementioned proposals would it really make that much difference?” The answer was of course, no, but as quoted from a time honored television commercial, “You can’t save the whole world; oniy a little part of it.” Don’t you think its worth it? Feature Story 199