Dean Hamburg

• Main Authors: Hamburg, Dean, Institute of Child Nutrition
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: eGrove 2011
• Subjects: Child Nutrition; School Feeding; Food Science; Other Education; Teacher Education and Professional Development; glaciers; Alaska
• Online Access: https://egrove.olemiss.edu/icn_ohistories/66; https://egrove.olemiss.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1065&context=icn_ohistories

Dean Hamburg has spent most of his life split between Washington and Alaska. Before getting involved in child nutrition, Hamburg enlisted in the United States Navy, signed aboard as a cook and baker, and spent four years as a cook and baker aboard a Fast Attack submarine in the Atlantic. After Navy service Hamburg earned a bachelor’s degree in Hotel and Restaurant Administration and went to work for hotels throughout the US. He eventually accepted a position as food service director for a small district in Washington, before becoming school meal director for the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District. In Alaska. The district itself is 28,000 square miles, about the size of West Virginia, for one school district – two national parks, four volcanoes, a gazillion glaciers, with an enrollment of 9,000 children. https://egrove.olemiss.edu/icn_ohistories/1065/thumbnail.jpg