Sidney High School - Cowboy Yearbook (Sidney, IA)

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Hot Lunch continued who buys The work of daily, weekly and monthly and annual reports, all accounting and reporting 15 in the hands of Louise Sheldon, our home making instructor It is an added duty to her seven periods of instruction and Junior Class sponsorship She also has entire supervision of the lunch room during the hour and one half period of serving The payments for lunch are made in advance by the parents They may have their children take one meal at a time as on a cold day or rainy morning, or pay by the week During last year 2,h96 lunches were served to teachers, 2,0h3 lunches were served free to students and 33,536 lunches to students Milk was purchased in individual one half pint bottles to the amount of hO,3Oh bottles Children who do not take the 'A' type Cbest type and only type served in Sidneyl lunch ma take a half pint of the pasteurized homegenized highest grade milk at a m1 morning or mid afternoon period This 18 subsidized but the subsidy does not carry the load All lunches carry a half pint of milk with the menu The amount of money involved is staggering Receipts Expenditures Child lunches 87716 80 Food 86308 O3 State Federal Aid l3h2 75 Equipment 126 97 Other Cash income S59 M2 Misc Exp 595 76 TOTAL STO-3lO 57 1-T'-50,1 Inventory on food at end of the year was S68 90 This estimate is not in elusive of the U S Dept of Agric surplus commodites given to the school or commodities purchased by U S Da with federal subsidy funds and allotted to The P T A Hot Lunch committee spends many, many total days of work which 18 'service work' for the betterment and maintenance of our hot lunch The committee this year are Mrs Walter Ranck, Mrs Leroy Nenneman, Mrs Harry Davis, and Mrs Walker Weston All records are audited by traveling auditors from the State Departm nt of Public Instruction, school lunch division Some years federal auditors from the Chicago office have checked the books of the county school lunch records PARENT TEACHERS ASSOCIATION One of the outstanding groups in all South West Iowa, we are told, is the Sidney unit Meeting on the third Thursday of each calendar month the group has fostered many constructive and progressive schools projects and ideas during the past several years As an active sponsor and supervisor of the federal aid hot lunch, they have continuous year round work As an organizer for the summer round up that all kindergarten will start to school with a medical and dental examination having been made out Sidney P T A has been of great value to the com unity It's officers make trips to district meetings and other affairs that help to make for better schools. The monthly meetings and the lunchroom hour afterwards, have proven to be good acquaintance meetings for the parents who live within the boundaries of the six-township school area. The officers are: President, Mrs. Walter Ranckg Vice Pres., Mrs. Harry Davis, Secretary Q Treasurer, Mrs. Walker Westong Hot Lunch Buyer, Mrs. Leroy Nenneman, Room Mothers, Mrs. Byron Hopkins, Mrs. Leroy Kuhns, Mrs. Don Taylor, Mrs. Richard Greedy, Mrs. Lyde Shirley, Mrs. Carl Driever, Mrs. Lawrence Snell, Mrs. Perry Carter, Mrs. Rex Nelson. y - . . . . .d . . . O . . . . . Adult lunches 691:60 Labor 3079.98 , - O-7 us. . . . . . 'O