The local Midland Association was established in 1959 with Bobby Young as the first president. Since the inception of our association, we have had an active group. The Midland Association for School Nutrition is a non-profit organization comprised of Midland ISD school kitchen staff. Brenda Navarro is the MAU president during our 50th anniversary celebration.

The purpose of MASN is as follows:

MASN engages in several activities during the course of the school year, to these ends. Funds raised are applied to scholarships for certification and continuing education classes for CNS staff as well as high school graduating seniors for college. Funds are also used for sending members to annual conference and professional meetings. Additionally, each year 25-30 Child Nutrition employees receive "Christmas Care Baskets” to help them through the holidays (when Child Nutrition Staff are not paid), and MASN also "dresses 56 Live Angels” each year at Christmas.

Many of our members are attending "Need to Read” and “GED” classes in addition to certification classes. We have one of the highest levels of certification of any school nutrition association in the state!

We are proud of our association and want to acknowledge the dedication of our members and their time in making this cookbook possible. In particular, we want to thank Janice Taylor (retired CNS employee) for chairing the committee for this cookbook project. We have almost 600 recipes in this cookbook and over 100 people submitted recipes! Thank you for your contribution to our association, through the purchase of this 50th anniversary cookbook!