Collection Number: 04-M023-062
Volume: 21 linear ft.
Inclusive Dates: 1943-2000
Provenance: Donated by Dr. Josephine Martin September 24, 2004, with additional materials from NFSMI working papers and small accretions from Dr. Martin.
Copyright: This collection may be protected from unauthorized copying by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code).
Historical / Biographical Sketch: Dr. Josephine Martin served as the first Executive Director of the National Food Service Management Institute (NFSMI) from 1991-1996. Prior to that she worked as Director of School Nutrition Programs and Associate State Superintendent of Schools for the Georgia Department of Education. During her career, she assisted and testified before government committees at state and federal levels. She currently serves as an honorary advisor for the Georgia School Nutrition Association (GSNA). The GSNA annually awards the Josephine Martin Award of Excellence. Martin served as American School Food Service Association President for 1976-77. She received the Gene White Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006. She is the co-editor of Managing Child Nutrition Programs: Leadership for Excellence, published in 1999; updated for a second edition in 2008.

See also:
Josephine Martin, Chapter 1
Josephine Martin, Chapter 2
Josephine Martin, Chapter 3
Josephine Martin, Chapter 4
Dr. Josephine Martin and Dr. Jeanette Phillips

Scope and Content: Government publications and papers from various conferences and meetings make up the bulk of the collection. The materials from the conferences come primarily from the World Food Summit in Rome, Italy in June 1996 and the ASFSA Five – Year Planning Meetings dating from 1980-1990. Other conferences are detailed in papers from the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. The magazines and videocassettes also date from the 1980s and 1990s. USDA publications in the collection date from the 1940s. The remainder of the printed materials date from every decade between the 1930s and 1990s.

Series 1: Papers and publications from World Food Summit, Rome, Italy, 1996 – Box 1
Series 2: Drafts of materials – Box 3
Series 3: ASFSA Five – Year Plan Meetings – Boxes 4, 5, 6, 7,
Series 4: Videocassettes – Boxes 2, 9,
Series 5: Books – Box 11
Series 6: NFSMI & ASFSA Conference papers – Boxes 10, 12, 13, 15
Series 7: Magazines- Box 14
Series 8: USDA Publications – Box 14

Boxes:
Josephine Martin Papers, Box 1
Josephine Martin Papers, Box 2
Josephine Martin Papers, Box 3
Josephine Martin Papers, Box 4
Josephine Martin Papers, Box 5
Josephine Martin Papers, Box 6
Josephine Martin Papers, Box 7
Josephine Martin Papers, Box 8
Josephine Martin Papers, Box 9
Josephine Martin Papers, Box 10
Josephine Martin Papers, Box 11
Josephine Martin Papers, Box 12
Josephine Martin Papers, Box 13
Josephine Martin Papers, Box 14
Josephine Martin Papers, Box 15
Josephine Martin Papers, Box 16
Josephine Martin Papers, Box 18
Josephine Martin Papers, Box 19
Josephine Martin Papers, Box 21