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A Family History of California - The Rolfe Family (PH 19-2)(1975) (158 pages)

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Mrs. Helen Beever started By SUSAN FORREST Staff Writer School lunches were unheard of in California in the early 1900s. Some mothers sent their children to school with a sandwich. Others waited until school was out in the early afternoon to feed them. The mothers talked about these differences when Helen Beever, 1916 president of Santa Fe School PTA in Oakland, called a meeting. Her daughters Thelma, 8, and June, 6, were sent off with a good breakfast, but had lunch wher. they arrived home from school at 2 p.m After that meeting, she and her group started one of the state’s earliest school lunch programs. It began as a milk class at 10 a.m., but expanded to a lunch with other schools adopting the idea. Today Mrs. Beever, 92, of Citrus Heights, takes credit for some of the movement that led to the National School Lunch Act in 1946. Cash assistance was available for the national school lunch program as early as 1944. “The nurse and teachers found that health and performance of the pupils was improved,’ she The Sacramento Union, Friday, May 10, 1974—A13 ool lunch leader long ago recalled. ‘‘We published our report ina PTA magazine and other schools started taking up the idea.”’ Mrs. Beever and her late husband moved to Citrus Heights 18 years ago when he retired, after they lived 50 years in Oakland. Their photograph album has pictures of the San Francisco earthquake of 1906 that shook the city a week before their wedding. The pioneer effort wasn't easy for Mrs. Beever and her crew to sell. The school was new and the principal feared children would spill milk on the floors. But PTA members bought milk with their dues, served and washed the glasses during those first days. Later they offered graham crackers or buttered bread. Eventually sandwiches were added to the menu. Mrs. Beever, who became a state PTA officer, doesn’t spark parent groups to action anymore. She’s more interested today in teaching her china painting pupils at home: But she watches with interest the development of a program she had a hand in.