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Catharine Beecher
Catharine Beecher contributes to the domestic science movement by writing her "Treatise on Domestic Economy" -
First Morrill Act
First Morrill Act is passed, providing federal lands to the states to be sold to support colleges of agriculture and mechanical arts. -
Kansas and Richards
Kansas State begins it's domestic economy curriculum. Ellen Richards is granted a Bachelor of Science by MIT, the first woman. Vassar awards her a Master's degree based on her scientific thesis. She is the first woman to earn an advance science degree. -
The Chemistry for Cooking and Cleaning
The Chemistry for Cooking and Cleaning -
Boston public schools
Domestic courses introduced into the public school system in Boston. -
The Hatch Act and Water Quality
The Hatch Act is passed, providing $15,000 a year for state established agricultural experiment stations. Ellen Richards Conducts the Great Sanitary Survey that modernized municpial sewerage treatment and develops the first water purity tables and water quality standards. -
The Second Morrill Act
The Second Morrill Act is passed, providing futher funding for black student colleges. -
The World Columbian Exposition
The World Columbian Exposition in Chicago, the Rumford Kitchen of "Science of nutrition." -
School Lunch
t nutirtional lunch school program in Boston by Ellen Richards. -
Lake Placid Conference and Childcare
The first Lake Placid conference that began the creation of the American Home Economics Association. This was the very first association meeting. Childcare and an emphasis on promoting a more enduring type of family life becomes a focus in home economics. -
Vocational Education
State support grows for practical education beyond the 8th grade. Secondary education expands to include vocational education -
First Girls Tomato Club
The first girl's tomato club (4-H) organized by Marie Cromer a teacher, through Agricultural Extension. American Home Economics Assocation is established. -
Ellen Richards dies
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The Smith-Lever Act
Two white women become home demonstration agents in South Carolina, after which, (in 1914) the Smith-Lever Act passed. The act specified the creation of the Agriculture Extension Service to provide farm women with education in home economics and men with education in agriculture. -
Smith-Hughes Act
The Smith-Hughes Act is passed, establishing federal support for vocational education. -
American Consumption Education
As part of the war effort, home economists teach the nation the rules of substitution to increase the consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables, which could not be shipped abroad to soldiors during WWI. -
Appropriate
AHEA sets goals to establish and maintain instruction in elements of home management for elementary and high school girls and appropriate home economics instruction for boys. -
American Association of Land-Grant Colleges, and parenting
The Home Economic section is added to the American Assosiation of Land-Grant Colleges Parenting classes for men and women are encouraged. -
Childcare in curriculum
Childcare recognized as a key element in the home economics curriculum. -
Economists in Food Corporations
Food corporations begin employing home economists to create recipes and nutritional information for other home economists in the classroom. -
Agnes Faye Morgan
Agnes Faye Morgan, chair of the Department of Home Economics at U of California, Berkeley, is appointed to serve on President Roosevelt's First Nutrition Congress. -
USDA
The USDA Bureau of Home Economics becomes the Bureau of Human Nutrition and Home Economics. -
Integration
Integration of black and whites Feminists criticize scientific experts in home economics for fostering restrictive roles for women Specialized programs emerge -
Accreditation
Accreditation of undergraduate programs in home economics begins. -
Florence Low
Racial tension acknowledged within the organization, Florence Low sets out to eliminate. -
Vocational Education Act
Vocational education is taught in schools. -
Vocational Education Act amended
Vocational Education Act amended to include handicapped and disadvantaged students. -
Lake Placid
The eleventh Lake Placid Conference is held to develop consensus among members. -
Males in FCS
Home economists begin to gear its work seriously towards males - Vocational Education Act -
Project 2000
AHEA launched Project 2000 - enhancing programs to meet the diversity needs. -
Conference at Cornell
Cornell University sponsors a conference entitled "Rethinking Women and Home Economics in the 20th Century" -
Family Consumer Sciences
Name changes from Home Economics to Family and Consumer Sciences -
Public School Struggles
Association membership begins to decrees and FCS programs struggle to stay in public schools. -
AAFCS Celebration
100-year celebration held nationally for the organization of AAFCS -
Lake Bonneville Summit
First Lake Bonneville Summit held at BYU-Idaho to commemorate and generate positive professional networks in the southeast Idaho area. -
What it means to me!
These events mean a lot to me. Mainly because it allows me to do what I'm doing now! I am able to study in the FCS department because of the past. I hope to become a 4-H or other type of FCS teacher in the future. I wouldn't be able to do so if it wasn't for all the hard work and dedication of those before me. Citations: FCS fact sheet, Chronological events in FCS History
