# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S550
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

- Report of Board for Higher Education ; 55k

services, including menus, purchase, storeroom 1 control, account-
ing, cooking, serving.

The general accounting system of the schools should be changed
to. provide segregation of all auxiliary enterprises from the
“ educational costs. Food budgets should be set up at each
school. Storeroom control should be instituted. Adequate
records must be kept, as detailed in Miss Wuerffel’s report.
* Periodic ‘post periods” should be instituted and analyses made
of costs. ; Oo

-Menus should be prepared by competent persans, and con-
venience of the kitchen personnel should be largely disregarded.
» This is the practice in hotels and restaurants and should be in
our schools,

Purchasing policies should be materially improved in over
50 per cent of the schools. It is not generally good policy to
permit cooks to make the purchases without close supervision.

‘The Board of Trustees of (Fort Wayne), Bronxville, Oakland.
-Edmonton (Springfield, Concordia, Portland) should be advised
to plan for better layout and design of their kitchens and
more adequate mechanical facilities for food preparation.
‘ St. Paul, St. Louis, and Seward are models to be followed.

‘6. The dining-hall atmosphere should be improved. The decora-
tive accessories, table linens, china, cutlery, require considerable
improvement in-50 per cent of the institutions. Rigorous
measures should be taken to improve student dress, decorum,
and table manners at most of the schools.

The teachers of hygiene, biology, and. chemistry should con-.
tribute to the formation of a specific mind-set in order to assist
in the elimination of food dislikes on the part of the students. ©

. The food budgets should be materially increased at several
institutions.

ACTION OF SYNOD

“The eight recommendations pertaining to “XV. Meal Services”
Were © adopted.

This report-on meal’ services is written from the viewpoint of
C ditions existing in 1942. Improvements in equipment and services
ave been made here and there since 1942. During the months since
psed, acute shortages of many, foods, difficulties of securing help,
eneral rationing, and rising prices have created many new problems.
his, however, should not indicatd that action concerning the meal
rvices should be postponed until normal conditions return. During
emergency the meal services require considerably greater atten-
om to avoid accentuation of former deficiencies and recurring deficits
the school treasuries: -