Mathias, Charles McCurdy Jr.

US Republican politician

Senator from Maryland 1969-1987

• "I cannot help but wonder whether, by continuing and expanding the school lunch program, we aren't witnessing, if not encouraging, the slow demise of yet another American tradition: the brown bag. ... Perhaps we are beholding yet another break in the chain that links child to home."
• "The brown bag, of course, had its imperfections. While some kids carried roast beef sandwiches, others had peanut butter. I have no way of knowing if all of those brown bags contained'nutritionally adequate diets.'But I do know that those brown bags and those lunch pails symbolized parental love and responsibility."