1. 1 Orientation to School Nutrition Management Seminar

2. 2 Introduction Video

3. 3 Lunch at School in the Early 1900s

4. 4 The Great Depression

5. 5 President Roosevelt’s WPA

6. 6 WPA Video

7. 7 WPA School Lunch Program

8. 8 America Goes to War

9. 9 Impact of WWII Video Impact of WWII Video

10. 10 Signing the National School Lunch Act on June 4, 1946

11. 11 Section 2 of the National School Lunch Act “It is hereby declared to be the policy of Congress, as a measure of national security, to safeguard the health and well-being of the Nation’s children and to encourage the domestic consumption of nutritious agricultural commodities and other food, by assisting the States, through grant-in aid and other means, in providing an adequate supply of food and other facilities for the establishment, maintenance, operation and expansion of nonprofit school lunch programs.”

12. 12 The National School Lunch Program served a half-billion meals to six million children during the 1946-1947 school year.

13. 13 Special Milk Program

14. 14 Growth and Prosperity in an Uncertain World

15. 15 War on Poverty

16. 16 Child Nutrition Act of 1966

17. 17 Child Nutrition of the 1960s

18. 18 The 1968 Poor People’s March on Washington

19. 19 Hunger USA

20. 20 The White House Conference on Food, Nutrition and Health President Richard Nixon

21. 21 Guidelines Set for Providing Free or Reduced Price Meals and for or Reduced Price Meals and for Prohibiting Discrimination

22. 22 Milk Program Permanently Authorized

23. 23 Offer vs. Serve

24. 24 Cash grants allowed in lieu of commodities

25. 25 National Education and Training Program (NET)

26. 26 Ronald Reagan elected President in 1980

27. 27 National Food Service Management Institute University of Mississippi

28. 28 “Contract with America”

29. 29 National Food Service Management Institute University of Mississippi 800-321-3054nfsmi@olemiss.edu