Excerpt from Handbook for Workers in School-Lunch Programs: With Special Reference to Volunteer Service Patriotic war work is where one finds it. It may be that the job which should be done to help your country lies close at hand. If you are able to cook - to prepare a good meal quickly if you have a way of getting along with other people - ii you have a genuine concern to see that the children of today grow up into strong citizens of tomorrow - then your community may need you in its school - lunch program. Volunteer now. Volunteers in the school-lunch program should register with the local defense council or at its local volunteer office. They may also offer their services directly to school officials or to the persons appointed to act for them, although registration is preferable. During wartime there is a greater need than ever for the expansion of feeding programs for school children. With manpower demands critical, the volunteer is called upon to carry much of the responsibility in school-lunch programs. This handbook has been prepared as a guide for all Women, particularly the volunteers, working in such programs. The Nutrition Division of the Office of Defense Health and Welfare Services, now a part of the, Nutrition and Food. Conservation Branch of the Food Distribution Administration, under the sponsorship of the Cooperating Committee on School Lunches, invited a group to come to Washington to prepare a handbook. Much of the material has been adapted and compiled from available workbooks that have proved useful in various sections of the country. Those who prepared the material for. This handbook have had wide and varied experience in the operation of all types of school-lunch programs; They are the following. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.