Although I remember bringing lunch some days in first and second grade, we also enjoyed a hot lunch program which cost $1.00/week [about $2/meal in 2022 dollars]. In 1957-58 the cost of hot lunch was raised to twenty-five cents per meal. At that time the average meals served daily was 265. The school was also a member of the National School Lunch Program. Milk was furnished in the Special Milk Program at a cost of two cents per day.

Mrs. Oakey, Mrs. Stolper, Mrs. Wolter

Mrs. Stolper's obituary is here.

Cooks serving the school also included Mrs. Behrens, Mrs. Ziehlsdorff. Some favorite recipes are included.

• Mr. Raymond Droster - Morton Schroeder recalls that he "was always referred to as 'Mr. Droster' by students and staff... He was very important to the school. He was 1) janitor, 2) handyman, 3) student confidant, 4) friend to all, 5) delivery man (gopher), and sometimes ambulance driver. When we took pictures of the staff, Mr. Droster was included." Mr. Droster was hired August 1, 1945 and retired at the end of the 1951 school year.
• Mr. Carling
• Mr. Paul Olson, 1952-1962, died in 1970. One memory many in the class of 1958 have of Mr. Olson was going down into the furnace room where he had a radio, tuned into the Milwaukee Braves baseball games!

Bussing was started sometime during the 1950's at a cost of $1.25/week for the first child in the family and $1.00/week for each additional child.

Linda Stadler sent the following, "My mom, Ione Gorz, used to drive one of the school buses when we were small. The route went through Monona and the southeast side of Madison where we lived at the time.

School nurses included Mrs. Thomas Anderson. She retired in 1958.

Secretaries included Mrs. Evans. I remember when I was in 8th grade, some of us were designated to answer the school telephone in the small office at the top of the stairs. Those of us acting as "secretaries" had our desks near the back of the room with the door open. When the phone would ring, we would run across the hall, up about 6-8 steps, and answer the phone on the third ring with, "Hello, this is Madison Lutheran School."

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