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Ellen S. Richards
She was an MIT graduate and chemistry faculty member. She led the beginnings of the school lunch program, She belived that science could be used to improve health and well being of people. Began the groundwork for the extension service -
Benjamin Thompson (Count Rumford)
First to label nutrition as a science in the
late 1800’s
Rumford Kitchen at the Chicago World’s
Fair of 1893 named after Rumford
Invented the first range with temperature
controls -
Lake Placid Conference
11 leaders gathered in Lake Placid, NY and decided that "Home economics" would be the new name for their study. -
Martha Rensselaer
Cornell University professor
Attended Lake Placid Conference,
Developed Cooperative Extension Service
Programs at Cornell University, N.Y. , 1900
President of AAFCs -
Smith-Lever Act
created the
Cooperative Extension Service including
FACS. -
Smith-Hughes ACT
Smith-Hughes ACT, 1917, Established FACS
as part of Vocational (CTE) Education -
Academy of Nutrition & Dietetics
ADA founded in 1917 by 58 people who saw
the need for persons educated in the
science of nutrition and trained in the art
of feeding people
First president –Lulu C. Graves
dedicated to helping the government
conserve food and improve the public's
health and nutrition during World War I. -
March 1944
29 Home economics (presently known as Family and Consumer Sciences) leaders met in Chicago, IL with the idea of creating one national student organization -
June 11 1945
Future Homemakers of America (FHA) was officially founded at a convention in chicago, IL -
1966
Future homemakers of Merica's membership peaked at 607,175 -
December 1977
Rhode Island was the last of the 53 state associations (including Washington D.C, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands) to affiliate. -
July 1980
The National Board of Directors approved the purchace of land on which the build the national headquarters and leadership center in Reston, VA -
September 28, 1981
The official groundbreaking ceremony was held at the building site in Reston, VA -
July 1983
The National headquarters and leadership center was dedicated during the 1983 National Leaddership Meeting in Washington D.C. -
Fall 1983
National FCCLA began hosting a series of regional cluster meetings across the United Stated -
New Name for the Profession
June, 1994, American Home Economics
Association (AHEA) voted to change the name
of the profession to Family and Consumer
Sciences (FACS)
The association became American Association
of Family and Consumer Sciences (AAFCS)
UCA changed to new name in August, 1994