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Sadie Booker, Sadie Booker, Institute Of Child Nutrition
Sadie Booker, Sadie Booker, Institute Of Child Nutrition
Oral History Project (all interviews)
Sadie Gilmore Booker has been actively involved in the education process since graduation from Louisiana Tech University in 1945 with a BSE in home economics followed by an MS-R.D. in 1969. Her first job was as an extension home economist teaching nutrition to 4-H and Home Demonstration Club women. After a 10 year hiatus during which she married and had three children, she returned to her career from 1959 to 1995. She taught elementary school, Jr. High Home Economics and science and high school Home Economics for the El Dorado School District #15. She taught the first Occupational Home Economics …
Charles Cole & Pat Deckert, Charles Cole, Pat Deckert, Institute Of Child Nutrition
Charles Cole & Pat Deckert, Charles Cole, Pat Deckert, Institute Of Child Nutrition
Oral History Project (all interviews)
Charles Cole served the state of Texas as a math teacher, school principal, and finally as a Texas Education Agent, where he eventually oversaw the state child nutrition programs. Pat Deckert was a food service director and later a food broker before finishing her career as a consultant with the Texas Education Agency.
Elizabeth Beavers, Elizabeth Beavers, Institute Of Child Nutrition
Elizabeth Beavers, Elizabeth Beavers, Institute Of Child Nutrition
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Elizabeth Beavers is an Oklahoma native who dedicated many years of service to child nutrition in both Oklahoma and Texas. Her double major in home economics and business gave her a solid base on which to build a long and highly rewarding career.
Karen Johnson, Karen Johnson, Institute Of Child Nutrition
Karen Johnson, Karen Johnson, Institute Of Child Nutrition
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Karen Johnson is a retired child nutrition director in Arizona and a past-president of the American School Food Service Association.
Paula Barletta, Paula Barletta, Institute Of Child Nutrition
Paula Barletta, Paula Barletta, Institute Of Child Nutrition
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Born in the Sudetenland, Paula Barletta left Germany after surviving World War II, and later moved to Yuma, Arizona, with her American husband, where she became the food service director.
Mary A. Hill, Mary A. Hill, Institute Of Child Nutrition
Mary A. Hill, Mary A. Hill, Institute Of Child Nutrition
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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’ …
Thelma Becker, Thelma Becker, Institute Of Child Nutrition
Thelma Becker, Thelma Becker, Institute Of Child Nutrition
Oral History Project (all interviews)
Thelma Becker, a native Pennsylvanian, grew up in Philadelphia. Becker served as a school food service director in Pennsylvania and is a past-president of the American School Food Service Association, now the School Nutrition Association.
Penny Mcconnell, Penny Mcconnell, Institute Of Child Nutrition
Penny Mcconnell, Penny Mcconnell, Institute Of Child Nutrition
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Penny McConnell, a Canada native, had no experience in school nutrition until she moved to Virginia and took a job as food service manager in a local elementary school. McConnell has worked her way up through the Fairfax child nutrition programs, working as a manager in several high schools before becoming a supervisor, and eventually director of Food and Nutrition Services. She has also been active in the American Dietetic Association and the former American School Food Service Association, now the School Nutrition Association.
Clarice Higgins, Clarice Higgins, Institute Of Child Nutrition
Clarice Higgins, Clarice Higgins, Institute Of Child Nutrition
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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.
Marcia Smith, Marcia Smith, Institute Of Child Nutrition
Marcia Smith, Marcia Smith, Institute Of Child Nutrition
Oral History Project (all interviews)
Marcia Smith was born in Pennsylvania and moved to Florida when she was two years old. Ms. Smith graduated from Florida State University with a degree in food nutrition specializing in school lunch administration. She later earned masters and Ph.D. degrees from Webber College and Kennedy Western University. She started her career in school foodservice in Polk County, Florida, working with Helen Walker, School Food Service Director and President of the American School Foodservice Association (ASFSA) at that time. “Within the first two weeks of being on the job, I was going to Chicago to the national conference where she …