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volumes, the school subscribes to twenty magazines and two newspapers. Many of the adults of Sperryville have been welcome users of this collection—our nearest approach toacommunity library.
The school lunchroom, built and equipped by voluntary contributions, has been in operation for five years, and is, to say the least, a great convenience to those patronizing it. For twenty cents, a pupil receives generous servings, well prepared, of meat, vegetables, bread, butter, pasteurized milk, and dessert. Eighteen meals a day are served free to certain students, or are given in payment for work as helpers. Part of the cost of operation of the lunchroom is paid for by federal funds since the twenty cents per pupil does not cover all the expenses. Certain amounts of potatoes, canned vegetables and fruits, dried milk and other commodities are furnished free by the Department of Agriculture.
More than twenty years ago, Sperryville High School pioneered among the rural schools in Virginia in a plannled, sustained health program. With medical facilities in the county limited, and dental facilities noa-existant, all*J pupils have been given physical and dental examinations at the beginning of each session and follow-up work has been done in literally hundreds of cases. Since 1928, with never a break or letup, pupils have been carried to dental clinics in Culpeper and Luray, and many boys and girls who had. never previously received any training in, or appreciation of the virtues of health and sanitation, learned about hygiene and health care from their teachers and from visits, inaugurated by the school, to the doctor and the dentist
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