NYTimes | Overlooked Lena Richard, Who Quietly Changed What Kids Ate at School, Dies at 100
The pushed for whole-grain bread to replace white bread and strict rules in the nation’s school lunchrooms.
Lena Rabinowitz Richard, who personally lobbied thousands of school district administrators to replace white bread with whole-grain bread in school lunchrooms, genially challenging their scholarship, political influence or religion and quietly changing what 30 million American children ate for lunch, died on Feb. 6 at her home in Austin, Tex. She was 100.
The decision to include information about her religious beliefs in an obituary about Lena Richard guided my formatting of this article. Since this is an obituary, we would name and include Lena Richard’s religion in the headline as we would for a memorial service or funeral announcement.
Leni Rabinowitz Richard, who pushed to introduce whole-grain bread to school lunchrooms.
Richard, who was never married and had no children, was living independently until the end of her life. To protect and care for her in her latter years, her niece and nephew in New Jersey saw to it that an aging-in-place apartment was constructed next to their home in 2016.
Edward R. Burton Jr. and Marilyn Washington Greer wrote about Richard, who died of pneumonia. They are associate professors of medicine and public policy at the University of Texas at Austin.
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