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Jo Dawson
Jo Dawson and Institute of Child Nutrition. Child Nutrition Archives.
A lifelong Alaskan, Jo Dawson attended fifteen different schools growing up, as her family followed he father’s career as a state trooper. Having worked as the National School Lunch Program Coordinator, the Child and Adult Care Food Program Coordinator, and the USDA Foods Coordinator, she now is the Alaska State Director for nutrition programs.
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Annette Derouin – Covid 19 Oral History Project
Annette Derouin and Institute of Child Nutrition. Child Nutrition Archives.
During 2022 the Child Nutrition Archives conducted multiple interviews investigating how child nutrition professionals dealt with the Covid 19 pandemic and its effects on the operations of school feeding programs. This interview examines the experiences of Annette Hendrickx Derouin, who is the Director of Food and Nutrition Services for Willmar, New London-Spicer, Montevideo and Community Christian Schools in Minnesota. These four districts offer the Child Nutrition Programs to the fullest extent possible. Annette has worked in School Nutrition for over 25 years. She is a Registered Dietitian and has her Master’s Degree in Health and Nutrition Administration. She holds the School Nutrition Association School Nutrition Specialist Credentials and is a Certified Food Safety Instructor.
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Idella Dial
Idella Dial and Institute of Child Nutrition. Child Nutrition Archives.
An Alabama native, Idella Dial has worked in Alabama school nutrition programs for forty-five years.
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Annie Drake
Annie Drake and Institute of Child Nutrition. Child Nutrition Archives.
Annie Drake is the manager of school food service at Shelby County High School in Columbiana, Alabama.
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Tanya Dube
Tanya Dube and Institute of Child Nutrition. Child Nutrition Archives.
Tanya Dube was born and raised in Massachusetts, and after high school joined the military, serving in the U.S. Marine Corps. She is now a school food service manager in Alaska.
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Diane E. Duncan
Diane E. Duncan and Institute of Child Nutrition. Child Nutrition Archives.
Diane E. Duncan was, as a teenager, an original member of the National Youth Advisory Council for the American School Food Service Association. The ASFSA started this group to learn more about the student perspective regarding school food service. This experience led Diane to decide to make the nutrition field her career. After working with the Rice Council, ConAgra Foods, and the Florida Department of Citrus, Diane is currently with McKee Foods.
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Sylvia Dunn
Sylvia Dunn and Institute of Child Nutrition. Child Nutrition Archives.
Sylvia Dunn taught in Georgia and Texas before returning to her native Louisiana, where she also taught before going to work in nutrition programs at the State Department of Education. After four and a half years with the Department of Education she became the food service director for St. Tammany Parish, where she has worked for the last twenty-five years.
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Annette Dupard
Annette Dupard and Institute of Child Nutrition. Child Nutrition Archives.
Annette Dupard is a native of Vacherie, Louisiana. She is a graduate of Southern University and a retired Food Service Manager for the East Baton Rouge Parish Child Nutrition Programs.
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John Dupre
John Dupre and Institute of Child Nutrition. Child Nutrition Archives.
John Dupre recently retired after 25 years as State Director of Nutrition Programs for the State of Louisiana.
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Hester Dye
Hester Dye and Institute of Child Nutrition. Child Nutrition Archives.
Lifelong Arkansas resident Hester Dye is a very active member of her local, state, and national food service associations, and is a past recipient of the Louise Sublette Award. She is currently the Food Service Director in Brinkley, Arkansas. She credits Ernestine Camp’s mentoring as playing a vital role in the success of her nearly 40-year career in child nutrition.
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Bob Eadie
Bob Eadie and Institute of Child Nutrition. Child Nutrition Archives.
Robert M. (Bob) Eadie served as Chief of the Policy and Program Development Branch, Child Nutrition Division, of the USDA Food and Nutrition Service. This branch is responsible for publishing regulations that deal with the National School Lunch, the Child Care Food Program, the Summer Program, the Special Milk Program, and other Child Nutrition Programs. They write regulations, issue policy interpretations, and provide guidance, materials, handbooks, instructions, and anything necessary for a state agency or a school district to have in their hands to operate the program. Mr. Eadie was “an Army brat.” His father was a military officer and the family moved frequently, ending up in New Jersey. After graduating from college in 1973, he started working with the USDA Food and Nutrition Service in what was then the Northeast Regional Office, which included the middle Atlantic and most of the New England states, in Princeton Junction, New Jersey.
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Elizabeth E. Edelman
Elizabeth E. Edelman and Institute of Child Nutrition. Child Nutrition Archives.
An Anchorage, Alaska native, Elizabeth E. Edelman has worked in numerous areas of school nutrition in Alaska, and now is working as the food service manager in the head cook program in the Valdez district.
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Sylvia Elam and Paul McElwain
Sylvia Elam, Paul McElwain, and Institute of Child Nutrition. Child Nutrition Archives
Sylvia Elam’s involvement with the child nutrition profession goes back over thirty years. She is a native Kentuckian and holds an undergraduate degree in Home Economics from Morehead State University, with graduate work in Education. As a home economist she has worked in business and also taught at the secondary level. In the early 1970s she began work for the Kentucky Department of Education as a consultant in child nutrition. Since that time she has held various positions within the department from consultant all the way up to Assistant Director of Nutrition Services. She is now retired.
Paul McElwain has been involved with the child nutrition profession for over 20 years. He too is a native Kentuckian and holds an undergraduate degree in Political Science from Morehead State University and also a law degree from Northern Kentucky University. He has held various positions within the Kentucky Department of Education and has been the Director of Nutrition Services since 1987. He served on ASFSA’s Public Policy and Legislative Committee for seven years. He is a past recipient of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Healthy School Hero Award.
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Anita Ellis
Anita Ellis and Institute of Child Nutrition. Child Nutrition Archives.
Anita Ellis is a former educator who, as Assistant Director for the West Virginia Department of Education of Child Nutrition, directed the Nutrition Education & Training program. She has conducted training for teachers and food service personnel. She wrote the Kansas Department of Education, Pyramid Builders, Nutrition Curriculum K-6 and the Mississippi Department of Education, Pyramid Pursuit, Nutrition Curriculum K-3 and Grades 4-6.
Mrs. Ellis has various experiences in school food service procurement as well as training. She has organized four (4) purchasing cooperatives in West Virginia and continues to assist them with brand approval and bid specifications. She does team teaching for the course, First Choice, A Purchasing Systems Manual for School Food Service. In addition, she developed the Instructor’s Guide for the first edition of First Choice, designing relevant learning activities and transparencies.
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Linda Erwin
Linda Erwin and Institute of Child Nutrition. Child Nutrition Archives.
Linda Erwin, an Arkansas native, began her career as an elementary and then a home economics teacher. She later moved to Tennessee and taught adult vocational home economics classes. She eventually went to work for Shirley Watkins, the school nutrition director for Memphis City Schools, who introduced her to child nutrition. Erwin eventually moved to Georgia where she continued her career, becoming a food service director, and became very active in the Georgia School Food Service Association. She retired after twenty-eight years in the Georgia child nutrition programs.
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Pat Farris
Pat Farris and Institute of Child Nutrition. Child Nutrition Archives.
Pat Farris holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Dietetics and a Master’s Degree in Human Nutrition from Louisiana State University. She has held numerous positions in the field of nutrition, first working in hospitals, and later consulting in child and adult weight management. In 1980 Pat accepted a position with the Louisiana Department of Education’s child nutrition programs, and learned what school lunch was about for the next fourteen years. Since 1994 she has been with the Archdiocese of New Orleans, where she is currently the Director of School Food Services.
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Sandra Fisher
Sandra Fisher and Institute of Child Nutrition. Child Nutrition Archives.
Sandra Fisher, a graduate of Penn State and Hood College, has spent her career working in Pennsylvania and Maryland. She started out as a hospital dietitian before getting involved with the development of the NET Program in Pennsylvania. She later spent twenty years in Maryland as a Processing Specialist for the Commodity Program.
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Thelma Flanagan
Thelma Flanagan and Institute of Child Nutrition. Child Nutrition Archives.
Thelma Flanagan was involved in child nutrition programs in the State of Florida from the 1930s until her death in 2001. She was a strong advocate in the national drive for professionalism in food services. She became the Florida School Food Service Director in 1943, served as school lunch consultant to the USDA, was President of the American School Food Service Association 1949-1950, served as Chairman of the Southern States Work Conference Committee, and was the author of numerous publications regarding school feeding programs.
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Darlene French
Darlene French and Institute of Child Nutrition. Child Nutrition Archives.
A Maine native, Darlene French hails from South Bristol. After spending part of her childhood in Florida, the family moved back to Maine and settled in Boothbay Harbor. After several years in restaurants and catering, French applied for a position in school food service. She was hired as a cook, she took every training available to her, and advanced to baker, and then manager, and finally is the current food service director in Boothbay Harbor.
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Alberta Frost
Alberta Frost and Institute of Child Nutrition. Child Nutrition Archives.
Alberta Frost has worked for the USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service since 1967. She started out working in the Food Stamp Program for several years before moving into child nutrition programs. She has in fact worked in all of the FNS programs at some point or another, including food distribution, child nutrition, and the WIC Program.
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Perry Fulton
Perry Fulton and Institute of Child Nutrition. Child Nutrition Archives.
Perry Fulton of Alabama worked for nearly forty years in multiple areas of child nutrition programs. He spent more than a decade at the district level before moving to the state, where he specialized in troubleshooting financial issues and getting districts back on track. He was also instrumental is creating a statewide purchasing program for the State of Alabama nutrition programs.
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Stan Garnett
Stan Garnett and Institute of Child Nutrition. Child Nutrition Archives.
Stan Garnett grew up in Kansas City, Missouri. He served in the Peace Corps and worked for the Catholic Relief Service early in his career. He joined the United States Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service in 1971 and worked in child nutrition programs there for thirty-six years. He retired as the Director of Child Nutrition Programs in December 2007. Stan is currently the Executive Director of the Global Nutrition Foundation.
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Ramona Gaudette
Ramona Gaudette and Institute of Child Nutrition. Child Nutrition Archives.
Ramona Gaudette went to work in school nutrition at Southport School, Maine, in 1957. She was still working there in December 2012, when this interview was conducted.
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Barbara Gauthier
Barbara Gauthier and Institute of Child Nutrition. Child Nutrition Archives.
Barbara Gauthier is a retired school food service director originally from Thibodaux, Louisiana. After graduating from LSU with a degree in Hospital Dietetics and Institutional Management and working briefly in industry, Gauthier took her first job in school food service in East Baton Rouge Parish. After working for several years and in multiple positions in East Baton Rouge, Gauthier moved on to Lafourche Parish as a food service director in her native Thibodaux. Here in Lafourche Parish Gauthier introduced the Breakfast Program, as well as introducing centralized menu planning and purchasing. At retirement Gauthier left the district with a $5 million surplus in their school nutrition programs.
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Anne Gennings
Anne Gennings and Institute of Child Nutrition. Child Nutrition Archives.
Anne Gennings of New York State, started her career as a hospital dietitian and served as president of New York State Dietetics. Gennings then became the food service director at New Harvard Central School and stayed in that position for thirty-three years. She was president of the New York School Nutrition Association in the late 1980s and president of the American School Food Service Association in the early 1990s.
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Beverly Girard
Beverly Girard and Institute of Child Nutrition. Child Nutrition Archives.
Beverly Girard is a licensed and registered dietitian with almost 35 years of experience in school and clinical nutrition. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Nutrition in Business from Purdue University, a master’s in Dietetics and Nutrition from Florida International University, an MBA from Nova University, a graduate certificate in Social Marketing from the University of South Florida, and a PhD in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of South Florida.
Dr. Girard is the Director of Food and Nutrition Services in Sarasota County, Florida, a district of 42,000 students with a budget exceeding $18 million annually. She directs nearly 400 employees at 50 base schools, satellite schools, and charter schools. She oversees summer feeding programs and feeding for emergency shelters. Sarasota County Schools is a District of Excellence with 30 Healthier US School Challenge Schools.
She is an active member in professional organizations including the Alliance for School Food Service Leadership, School Nutrition Association, and the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. Dr. Girard has extensive experience as a speaker and instructor. She has numerous published articles and serves as an editorial reviewer for several journals. She is a certified School Nutrition Specialist, ServSafe instructor, and consultant trainer for the Institute of Child Nutrition.
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Linda B. Godfrey
Linda B. Godfrey and Institute of Child Nutrition. Child Nutrition Archives.
Linda B. Godfrey’s 35 years as a registered dietitian have taken her from work on the food service staffs of a hospital and nursing home, as a teacher, and as a U.S. Army reserve unit member to her retirement in 2005. She retired as Child Nutrition Program Director for the Shelby County, Alabama, School System and from the United States Army Reserves with the rank of Colonel.
She received her B.S. Degree from the University of Tennessee in Food Science and Institution Management, completed a dietetic internship at the University of Alabama Medical Center in Birmingham, and received a M.S. in Nutrition and Foods from the University of Alabama.
Ms. Godfrey continues to be active in a number of school nutrition and dietetic associations and serves or has served in a major leadership role in a number of nutrition-oriented organizations. She has received numerous awards and was awarded the Management Practice Award by the American Dietetic Association in 2004. Her presentations include meetings at the local, state, and national level.
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Ruth Gordon
Ruth Gordon and Institute of Child Nutrition. Child Nutrition Archives.
Ruth Gordon is a registered dietitian with many years of experience in school food service. She holds a bachelor’s degree in nutrition from James Madison University in Virginia and a master’s degree in education from Georgia State University. She completed her dietetic internship at Emory University in Atlanta. Ruth recently retired after 28 years with the Georgia Department of Education where she served in various specialist positions and as state director. She also was a School Nutrition Director in Floyd County, Georgia. Ruth has held leadership positions with professional organizations including Georgia Dietetic Association, the School Nutrition Services Dietetic Practice Group of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (AND), the Society of Nutrition Education, and the National Association of State NET Program Coordinators. She now serves as a consultant for the development and presentation of child nutrition programs and materials and is a trainer for the National Food Service Management Institute.
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Sylvia Grabert
Sylvia Grabert and Institute of Child Nutrition. Child Nutrition Archives.
Sylvia Grabert is a retired Food Service Director for Iberia Parish in Louisiana. Before coming to Iberia Parish, Sylvia founded the first school food service program in St. James Parish. She holds degrees in both Education and Dietetics, and taught school for several years before going into school food service.
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Lyman Graham
Lyman Graham and Institute of Child Nutrition. Child Nutrition Archives.
Lyman Graham hails from Roswell, New Mexico. After pursuing a career in ranching, as well as the restaurant business, he decided to try his hand a school nutrition. He started out as director in a small farming community and eventually worked his way up to more responsibilities. A firm believer in networking, he has been active in the School Nutrition Association. He is now director of three districts in Roswell, New Mexico, Carlsbad, New Mexico, and Dexter, New Mexico.
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Wanda Grant
Wanda Grant and Institute of Child Nutrition. Child Nutrition Archives.
Wanda Grant is a retired School Nutrition Director with over 35 years of experience. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Food, Nutrition and Institutional Management from Washington State University and is a registered dietitian. Her career took her from Washington to Alaska and finally to California. She is a credentialed School Nutrition Specialist with the School Nutrition Association (SNA), has served on the Executive Board of SNA, and was honored nationally in 2009 as Outstanding Director of the Year. Wanda is a certified ServSafe® instructor and a consultant trainer for the National Food Service Management Institute.
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Susan Greene
Susan Greene and Institute of Child Nutrition. Child Nutrition Archives.
A native of Virginia, with many years serving in Virginia education programs, first as a culinary instructor, then a school principal, before moving into child nutrition, Susan Greene is now a food service director in rural Alaska.
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Sue Greig
Sue Greig and Institute of Child Nutrition. Child Nutrition Archives.
Sue Greig is a native of Arkansas. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Education and Nutrition and a master’s degree in Hotel, Restaurant, and Institutional Management and in Dietetics. She and her husband moved to Manhattan, Kansas, in 1951. Greig worked in housing and food service at Kansas State University for 13 years and then served as Food Service Director for Manhattan Kansas Schools until her retirement in the 1990s. She served as President of the American School Food Service Association in 1991-1992.
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Guam
Guam and Institute of Child Nutrition. Child Nutrition Archives.
This oral history interview was conducted with Ignacio Santos, Dina Lorenzo, Jesse Rosario, and DeAnndra Chargualaf from the Guam Department of Education, who were visiting NFSMI for training, on November 29, 2012. In this interview they discuss the challenges and benefits of child nutrition programs on Guam.
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Dean Hamburg
Dean Hamburg and Institute of Child Nutrition. Child Nutrition Archives.
Dean Hamburg has spent most of his life split between Washington and Alaska. Before getting involved in child nutrition, Hamburg enlisted in the United States Navy, signed aboard as a cook and baker, and spent four years as a cook and baker aboard a Fast Attack submarine in the Atlantic. After Navy service Hamburg earned a bachelor’s degree in Hotel and Restaurant Administration and went to work for hotels throughout the US. He eventually accepted a position as food service director for a small district in Washington, before becoming school meal director for the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District. In Alaska. The district itself is 28,000 square miles, about the size of West Virginia, for one school district – two national parks, four volcanoes, a gazillion glaciers, with an enrollment of 9,000 children.
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Rita Hamilton
Rita Hamilton and Institute of Child Nutrition. Child Nutrition Archives.
Rita Hamilton comes from a family with a history in child nutrition. Hamilton’s mother worked at the food service manager at Hamilton’s elementary school in rural Arkansas. After majoring in Home Economics at the University of Arkansas and working as an Arkansas Home Economics extension agent, Rita went on to serve as a state supervisor in the school nutrition programs at the Arkansas Department of Education.
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Renee A. Hanks
Renee A. Hanks and Institute of Child Nutrition. Child Nutrition Archives.
Renee A. Hanks is a school food service director in New York. A New Jersey native, Hanks grew up in upstate New York. After college in the SUNY system, where she earned a degree in food service management and nutrition, Hanks worked in healthcare, before taking her first job as director of a small school district. She has progressively worked her way through steadily larger districts and is now the director of the South Colonie School District.
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Beth Hanna
Beth Hanna and Institute of Child Nutrition. Child Nutrition Archives.
Beth Hanna, PhD, RD, LD, SNS, is a registered dietician who received her PhD in Food and Lodging Management from Iowa State University.
Her work experience includes serving as Director of Nutrition Services for West Des Moines Community Schools where she managed all aspects of the school nutrition program in compliance with federal and state regulations.
Dr. Hanna also served as an instructor with Iowa State University and a consultant for the Iowa Department of Education, Bureau of Food and Nutrition. She reviewed child nutrition programs and offered specialized support in equipment layout and design.
In addition to being a trainer for the Institute of Child Nutrition, Beth is a ServSafe instructor.
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Frank A. Harris
Frank A. Harris and Institute of Child Nutrition. Child Nutrition Archives.
Frank A. Harris fled Germany as an adolescent shortly before World War II, arriving in England. The family later made their way to the United States. Coming of age during the war, Harris joined the US Army and became a cook, serving in North Africa and Europe. After the war Harris built a career working in many different aspects of food service. He eventually became a school food service director and president of the Connecticut School Food Service Association.
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Teresa Harwell
Teresa Harwell and Institute of Child Nutrition. Child Nutrition Archives.
Teresa Harwell is a school food service director in Alaska.
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Jamal Hazzan
Jamal Hazzan and Institute of Child Nutrition. Child Nutrition Archives.
Jamal Hazzan is a retired school nutrition program administrator with a strong track record in effectively managing stakeholders, revenue, and profit growth in multiple school districts. He has successfully led and participated on strategic planning committees. Many schools under his direction are recipients of HealthierUS School Challenge awards. Jamal holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics from State University of New York at Buffalo and an MBA from Sam Houston State University. He is a member of the Texas Association for School Nutrition, and his program has been recognized by the association as a “Program of Excellence.” He has held office, served on committees, and presented training for the association. Jamal is a consultant trainer for the Institute of Child Nutrition.
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Judy Hendrix
Judy Hendrix and Institute of Child Nutrition. Child Nutrition Archives.
After college Judy Hendrix taught home economics, science, and geography at different times before getting into the child nutrition field. Hendrix then worked as a school nutrition director for one year before becoming an area consultant for school nutrition with the Georgia Department of Education. After working as an area consultant in various Georgia locations for a number of years, Hendrix returned as a food service director for a large school district, where she worked for a further four years before retirement.
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Johanna Herron
Johanna Herron and Institute of Child Nutrition. Child Nutrition Archives.
Johanna Herron works with the Alaska Department of Education and Early Development to promote the Farm to School Program.
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Clarice Higgins
Clarice Higgins and Institute of Child Nutrition. Child Nutrition Archives.
Clarice Higgins grew up in Waynesboro, Mississippi, and earned her bachelor’s degree in Dietetics from the University of Alabama, studying with Dr. Neige Todhunter. She then interned at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York and earned her master’s from Columbia Teacher’s College. Dr. Mary de Garmo Bryan was her major advisor. In 1964 she became the School Food Service Director in Gadsden County, Florida, and held this position until her retirement in 1993. Mrs. Higgins served as President of the American School Food Service Association in 1983.
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Mary A. Hill
Mary A. Hill and Institute of Child Nutrition. Child Nutrition Archives.
Mary A. Hill, Executive Director of Food Services for Jackson Public School District in Jackson, MS. She is a native of Jackson, MS, has both BS and MS degrees in Home Economics and a minor in Secondary Education from the University of Southern Mississippi and is credentialed as a Specialist (SNS) in the School Nutrition Association. Prior to beginning a career in school nutrition in 1983, she was a Commercial Food teacher who taught courses to vocational/technical students in Laurel Public Schools in Laurel, MS. Hill has directed the Child Nutrition Program in Jackson, MS for 33 years. The districts’ 60 schools serve over 29,000 students and feed 25,500 nutritious school lunches 13,000 school breakfasts and 3,500 after school snacks to students each day in schools, as well during the Summer Food Service Program. They also, have Breakfast in the Classroom, Fruit and Vegetable Program and all elementary schools are “GOLD” award through the HealthierUS School Challenge program. She is active in many professional and volunteer organizations and has served in numerous leadership roles at the local, state, and national levels. In SNA, she is past national president, served on the Executive Board, Program Chair for Annual National Conference, Nutrition, Resolutions and Bylaws and Public Policy and Legislation Committees, Strategic Planning and Association Governance Task Force. She has served in the Mississippi School Nutrition Association as President, State Conference Chair, Scholarship and Awards, Education, Resolutions and Bylaws Committees, and various special committees and task forces in the Association. Also, she is very involved with the Girl Scout Council of Greater Mississippi as Second Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors and troop leader for Troop 5026, Jackson (MS) Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., the Central Mississippi Chapter of 100 Black Women, Mississippi Food Network and her church True Light Baptist Church. She enjoys volunteering and is committed to community and public service. Mary has received numerous awards and honors but the latest was the International Foodservice Manufacturers Association (IFMA) “Silver Plate” Recipient in the Elementary and Secondary Category in 2015 and the “Hometown Hero” Award in the meeting planners category given by VisitJackson June 2017.
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Phyllis Hodges
Phyllis Hodges and Institute of Child Nutrition. Child Nutrition Archives.
Phyllis Hodges of Dickson, Tennessee, spent fifteen years as Food Service Director, and was instrumental in founding a local nutrition association in Dickson County. She is a firm believer in training and networking. For the past five years Phyllis has been the Director of Procurement and an Educational Consultant for her state agency.
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Kim Hofmann
Kim Hofmann and Institute of Child Nutrition. Child Nutrition Archives.
With over 25 years’ experience, Kim has extensive skills in multiple aspects of management, cost control, training, DISC, and customer service (and she is a past school nutrition director). She is a Trainer/Consultant and eLearning developer for ICN, and a certified trainer for DISC training. She has published numerous articles for Carroll Service’s Child Nutrition Professional’s magazine, has presented at many SNA conferences, taught Food Systems Management at the University of Akron, was a cost control specialist for US Foods, and was a trainer for Career Track/Fred Pryor specializing in management training.
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Melba Hollingsworth
Melba Hollingsworth and Institute of Child Nutrition. Child Nutrition Archives.
Melba Hollingsworth earned a BS degree in Dietetics from Louisiana State University and a Master’s degree in Institution Management from Texas Women’s University. She has worked over 25 years in Child Nutrition Programs. She served as a school food service manager and a district director in the state of Louisiana before becoming an Education and Training Specialist for the National Food Service Management Institute (NFSMI) at The University of Mississippi. During her career at NFSMI, Melba served as project coordinator for the Orientation to School Nutrition Management Seminars and developed various resources for school nutrition professionals. She was instrumental in the development of the popular Basics at a Glance measurements poster and the Food Buying Guide for Child Nutrition Programs instructional materials and calculator. She also developed a series of No Time to Train Short Lessons for School Nutrition Assistants as well as other training materials. Fluent in Spanish, she also provided technical support for the development of Spanish language resource materials. Melba has been trainer and a presenter for national school nutrition audiences. She is a registered dietitian and a member of the School Nutrition Association. Melba is ServSafe certified.
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