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Kaily Hollomon
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Benjamin Thompson
Thompson was able to contribute to FACS by designing the Rumford photometer, thermal underwear, improved fireplaces, kitchen range, drip coffee pot, and double boiler. -
Catherine Beecher
Catherine Beecher began the home economics movement and was an important figure in women's education. Catharine Beecher was an American Educator and an author. She wrote 33 books that will contribute to Family and Consumer Science. Her first book was A Treatise on Domestic Economy, and it was published in 1841. The Treatise book stated standards and values for domestic economy. -
Justin Smith Morrill/Morrill Act of 1862
Land-Grant College Act of 1862, or Morrill Act, Act of the U.S. Congress (1862) that provided grants of land to states to finance the establishment of colleges specializing in “agriculture and the mechanic arts.” Named for its sponsor, Vermont Congressman Justin Smith Morrill (1810–98), it granted each state 30,000 acres (12,140 hectares) for each of its congressional seats. -
Land Grant Universities
There is one land-grant institution in every state and territory of the United States, as well as the District of Columbia. Certain states have more than one land-grant institution as a result of the second Morrill Act, and some western and plains states have several because of 1994 land-grant tribal colleges. -
Rebecca Cole
Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Cole was the second black woman to graduate from medical school (1867). She joined Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, the first white woman physician, in New York and taught hygiene and childcare to families in poor neighborhoods. -
Land Grant Universities in AR
ARKANSAS LAND-GRANTS: University of Arkansas at Fayetteville and University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff. -
Ellen Swallow Richards
Richards was an industrial and safety engineer, environmental chemist, and university faculty member in the United States during the 19th century. Her pioneering work in sanitary engineering, and experimental research in domestic science, laid a foundation for the new science of home economics. She was the founder of the home economics movement characterized by the application of science to the home, and the first to apply chemistry to the study of nutrition. -
Melvil and Annie Dewey
Late in his life Dewey helped found the Lake Placid Club as a health resort in New York state. Lake Placid acted as a conference center hosting meetings promoting reform movements, such as the September 1899 conference on "home science" chaired by Ellen Swallow Richards, a pioneer of what later came to be called "home economics" -
Lake Placid Conference
First conference held to discuss home economics education. Ellen Richards was president and the profession was officially termed "Home Economics." -
Anna Barrows
Anna Barrows was an American educator and author, known for being a pioneering woman in the field of home economics. She contributed to the foundation of the Home Economics Movement through her unique demonstrations, lectures, and radio interviews. She belonged to many organizations, such as the New England Woman's Press Association, the American Home Economics Association, the General Federation of Women's Clubs, the National Society of D.A.R., and the Fryeburg Women's Literary Club. -
AHEA and Journal of Home Economics
American Home Economics Association was created and the first Journal of Home Economics was published -
Una B. Herrick
Una B. Herrick was Dean of Women, professor of Physical Education for Women, Director of Physical Education for Women & Vocational Guidance Advisor at Montana State College. From 1911 to 1932, she was the Dean of the College of Household and Industrial Arts and later the first Dean of Women at Montana State College. She was called a "trailblazer in a frontier college who made a place for women on this men's college campus". -
Agnes Ellen Harris
Agnes Ellen Harris (July 17, 1883 – December 18, 1952) was an American educator. She worked in education in Georgia, Florida, Texas, Washington, D.C. and Alabama, establishing Home Economics programs throughout the area. -
Smith Lever Act of 1914
The Smith-Lever Act established a national Cooperative Extension Service that extended outreach programs through land-grant universities to educate rural Americans about advances in agricultural practices and technology. These advances helped increase American agricultural productivity dramatically throughout the 20th century. -
Smith Hughes Act of 1917
Smith-Hughes Act, formally National Vocational Education Act, U.S. legislation, adopted in 1917, that provided federal aid to the states for the purpose of promoting precollegiate vocational education in agricultural and industrial trades and in home economics. -
Florence Fallgatter
Florence Alberta Fallgatter (1891 – April 8, 1973) was an American educator and home economist. She was head of the home economics department at Iowa State University from 1938 to 1958, the first woman president of the American Vocational Association, and president of the American Home Economics Association (AHEA) from 1950 to 1952. -
Vocational Education Acts of 1963
The Vocational Education Act of 1963 provided grants to states to maintain, improve, and develop vocational-technical education programs. The funds were earmarked for occupations in demand. Amendments to the act enlarged the scope of programs under the George-Barden and Smith-Hughes acts that focused on employment in vocational agriculture, home economics, and industrial education. -
Vocational Amendment of 1968 and 1973
1968-Part of the authorized funds are allocated to permanent programs in cooperative vocational as well as consumer and homemaking education. 1973-The Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as Amended (Rehab Act) prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability in programs conducted by federal agencies, in programs receiving federal financial assistance, in federal employment and in the employment practices of federal contractors. -
Vocational Amendment of 1976
The Act required states receiving federal funding for vocational education to develop and carry out activities and programs to eliminate gender bias, stereotyping, and discrimination in vocational education. The amendments also permit the allocation of federal funds to programs for single heads of households, homemakers, part-time workers seeking full-time jobs, and persons seeking jobs in areas nontraditional for their sex. -
Carl Perkins Act
The Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006 (Perkins IV) is a principal source of federal funding to states and discretionary grantees for the improvement of secondary and postsecondary career and technical education programs across the nation. The purpose of the Act is to develop more fully the academic, career, and technical skills of secondary and postsecondary students who elect to enroll in career and technical education programs.