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Catherine Beecher
American educator and author. In 1852 founded the American Woman's Educational Association to recruit and train teachers to staff schools on the frontier. Most influential as a writer. Major work A Treatise on Domestic Economy, published in 1841 helped to standardize domestic practices and reinforce domestic values, arguing that a woman's proper role was in the home. -
Ellen Richards
She was the first women to be admitted at MIT. In 1874 she raised enough money to open the Women's Laboratory at MIT. In 1890, she established The New England Kitchen of Boston, which offered cooking demonstrations, instruction on proper housekeeping techniques, and nutritious, science and economics of the home. she founded and served as the president of the American Home Economics Association. -
Wibur Olin Atwater
American Scientist who developed agricultural chemistry and nutrition science. Father of nutrition and constructed the Atwater rose calorimeter. -
Justin Smith Morrill/Morrill Act of 1862
Morrill's most important legislative contribution was the Morrill Act of 1862, which provided grants of land to state colleges, whose leading object would be to teach subjects related to agriculture and the mechanic arts. Each state got 30,000 acres for each of its congressional seat. It made it possible for new western states to establish colleges for their citizens. -
Land Grant University
A land grant college or university is an institution that has been designated by its state legislature or congress to receive the benefits of the Morrill Acts of 1862,1890, and 1994. The original mission of theses institutions, as set forth in the first Morrill Act, was to teach agriculture, military tactics, and the mechanic arts as well as classical studies so members of the working classes could obtain a liberal, practical education. -
Martha Rensselaer
She was invited to head the fledgling department of Home Economics. From 1914 to 1916 she served as president of the American Home Economics Association. In 1919 her duties expanded when Cornell trustees authorized the establishment of a school of home economics. -
University of Arkansas at Fayetteville
Founded in 1871 as the Arkansas Industrial University on the sit of a hilltop farm overlooking the Ozark Mountains, giving it the nickname the hill. The school's name was changed to the university of Arkansas in 1899 -
University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff
Founded in 1873 and opened in 1875 as the Branch Normal college as an affiliate of the Arkansas industrial University in Fayetteville. In 1927, the school served it ties with the University of Arkansas and become Arkansas Agricultural, Mechanical and Normal College moving to its present location in Pine Bluff in 1929 -
Clara Belle Drisdale Williams
The first African American graduate of New Mexico State University. She become a great teachers of black students by day and by night she taught their parents, former slaves, home economics in 1961. -
Rumford Kitchen
exhibit at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. The food cooked in the Rumford Kitchen was sold under a concession from the administration of the exposition. Valuable part of the exhibit consisted of the series of pamphlets prepared for the Rumford Kitchen by authorities in the several departments of science which related to human food and nutrition. -
Lake Placid Conferences
Series of ten Conferences between 1899-1909, where Home Economics emerged as a discipline. It was here that the leaders and advocates in the field discussed advances in home economics and developed the guiding principles of what home economics was and should be. -
Smith Lever Act
1914 when the congress passed the Smith lever act. It was the culmination of five years of debate over how agricultural extension work should be organized. 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. -
Smith Hughes Act
Also known as National Vocational Education Act. It provided federal aid to the states for the purpose of promoting pre collegiate vocational education in home economics. It allowed students to get hands on educational materials focused on preparing them for vocations. -
The Betty Lamp
The American Home Economics Association adopted the Betty lamp as the symbol for the association. Its name from the German words besser or bete meaning to make better. Produced comparatively good light for its time and was used widely by early American colonists. The betty lamp provided light for all household industries. Early in the 20th century, the betty lamp was adopted as a symbol of learning. -
Family, Career and Community leaders of America (FCCLA)
National career and technical student organization for young men and women in family and consumer sciences education in public and private school through grade 12. Since 1945, FCCLA members have been making a difference in their families, career, and communities by addressing important personal, work and societal issues through family and consumer sciences education. -
Vocational Education Act
The vocational education movement began in the early twentieth century, even though manual training could be found in the late 1800s. Established work study programs for vocational students to provide financial support. Authorizes funds for work-study programs and residential vocational education schools. -
Vocational Amendment
The Vocational Education Amendments of 1968 was the first vocational legislation to officially reference postsecondary students. It extended set-aside funding for students from specific populations. -
Vocational Amendment
The Rehabilitation Act replaces the Vocational Rehabilitation Act, to extend and revise the authorization of grants to states for vocational rehabilitation services, with special emphasis on services to individuals with the most severe disabilities, to expand special federal responsibilities and research and training programs with respect to individuals with disabilities. -
Vocational Amendment
The purpose of the act was to extend, improve and maintain programs, overcome sex discrimination/bias and develop new programs. The 1976 Amendments to the Vocational Equity Act of 1963, 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. -
Carl Perkins Act
The purpose of Perkins is to provide individuals with the academic and technical skills needed to succeed in a knowledge- and skills-based economy. most recently reauthorized in August 2006. As of 2006 it was referred to as the Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st century Act. -
Food Guide Pyramid
Nutrition tool that was introduced by the USDA in 1992. The food guide pyramid display proportionality and Varity in each of the five groups of food and beverages. In 2005, the USDA introduced MyPyramid updated version of the food guide pyramid.