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Hoover’s food relief of World War I
News · February 16, 2017
To celebrate President’s Day, Archivist Matthew Schaefer will speak on Hoover and food relief during World War I, Monday, Feb. 20, at 2 p.m. in the Figge Auditorium.
Before the United States entered the war, Hoover organized the Commission for Relief in Belgium to feed 7 million in need. This was the largest food relief effort up to that time in history.
When the United States entered the war in 1917, Hoover was called by President Wilson to head the US Food Administration, a voluntary cooperative effort to conserve food for the war effort.
Matthew Schaefer is the outreach archivist at the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library. He has held this position since 2002. His primary duties include organizing conferences, working with professional organizations, and keeping the Hoover Library in the public eye.
Before coming to the Hoover Library-Museum, Schaefer worked at the State Historical Society of Iowa in Iowa City and at the Bentley Historical Library in Ann Arbor. He lives in Iowa City with his wife, Karen Mason, who is Curator of the Iowa Women’s Archives.
Currently on display at the Herbert Hoover Presidential Museum is the exhibit, America’s Road: The Journey of Route 66. Matthew Schaefer’s Presidential talk is free with paid admission to the Museum.
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