Bio: Meinholdt, Jo Ann (Recipe Prize – 1961)

Transcriber: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 

Surnames: Meinholdt

----Source: Greenwood Gleaner (Greenwood, Clark Co., Wis.) 27 Apr 1961

Mrs. Jo Ann Meinholdt, Greenwood High School hot lunch manager and cook, has been awarded a $25.00 prize in the National Gage Products Recipe Contest for her "Ship-Wreck" recipe.

The Gage Recipe Contest was open to all dieticians, school lunch cooks, hospital institutions and hotel cooks extending from January 1, 1960 to December 31, 1960. The requirements of the contest were that each recipe must contain Gage products and U.S.D.A. Commodities. The pupose of the contest is to assist in the project of improving school lunch by sharing knowledge with other large quantity cooks.

Mrs. Meinholdt has been the hot lunch cook and manager in the Greenwood High School for the past three years. She is the wife of Oscar (Doc) Meinholdt. The have one daughter, Ida Gene.