Sidney High School - Cowboy Yearbook (Sidney, IA)

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HOT LUNCH LADIES Left to rlght Fern Jackson, Dorothy Bromley, Addle Gardner S1dney's School Lunch Program Is One oi the Oldest ln the State The COmmun1ty of Sldney was one of the ploneers in hot lunches for chlldren The lmpetus 1n the bevlnnlng came from the lethargy and lack of ambltlon noted among the majority of a s1xth grade group Flnanced by grants from a small surplus of early rodeo days from the Sldney Jobe Glbson Post of the Amerlcan Leglon, a glass of m1lk was g1ven twlce a day to members of th1s grade Wlth in several weeks a new Splrlt was very evldent ln the grade From that lt went to one hot dlsh a day Then a trial was made for a month, over at the for a complete hot lunch dally Thls proved a success The board of educatlon arranged w1th an experlenced man to do the cooklng Later a change was made to a lady It has remalned slnce that t1me 1n the hands of mothers to do the preparatlon and servlng of the food Dr Lovelady charter member Leglon nalre was one of the early boosters of our hot lunch From a tr1al run of a room or a group of twenty students, the federal a1d hot lunch has grown to the polnt where lt averages over 200 students dally The enrollment was close to the slx hundred mark The prlce that formerly was a dime has been ralsed, because of lnflatlon, to 25 cents per pup1l or 304 per teacher Teachers, tho they asslst and supervlse pay thelr own way The Federal government now SUbS1d1Z6S to an amount not far from 151 of the actual cost The local P T A 18 1n charge of employment of those who cook, the buy ing and payment of bllls. Four people are employed, three who cook and one high school, through the home-making department by getting 20 students to pay