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Benjamin Thompson (Count Rumford) created the first range with temperature controls. Also the first to label nutrition as a science -
Catherine Beecher, who wrote multiple text books on FCS history wrote, "A Treatise on Domestic Economy" in which she coins the term "domestic sciences" to explain Family and Consumer Sciences (FCS) -
First Morrill Act passed which provided land grants to establish colleges -
K-state became the first land grant university under the Cooperative Extension Services -
Originally named Arkansas Industrial University before changing to the present name in 1899, the university became Arkansas' first land grant university -
Ellen Swallow Richards was the first woman to graduate MIT with a Bachelors of Science -
W.O. Atwater, also known as the father of nutrition who practiced chemistry as a professor at Wesleyan between 1873 to 1907, wrote a report to the department of Agriculture asking for funding for agriculture experiment stations. -
Hatch Act passed which provided $15,000 a year for state establish agriculture education and included research on multiple areas relating to FCS -
Morrill act was expanded to provided land grants to African Americans and forbade racial discrimination for provisions -
Originally established in 1873 as a black college named Branch Normal College, the second Morrill Act made expansions for this school possible to include FCS education. -
Ellen Swallow Richards opens the Rumford Kitchen (named after Benjamin Thomas) at the Chicago World's Fair which promoted sanitation and nutritive and cost value of foods -
Her goal was to improve science of food and nutrition and show its impact on the body. Aimed to give every child the same lunch opportunities -
At this historical conference that was held yearly between 1899 to 1909, 11 leaders in FCS history, including Ellen Swallow Richards, met to set the framework for FCS as a science. It was also here that nutrition was first discussed as a domestic science -
States began to back education beyond the 8th grade which began secondary education programs including vocational training. -
W.O. Atwater the father of nutrition passes away -
The AHEA organization emerged as a result of the Lake Placid Conference -
CF Langworthy begins the first journal in the field of economics entitled the Journal of Home Economics -
It expanded Cooperative Extension Services to include Family and Consumer Sciences -
Formerly known as the National Vocational Education Act, it established Family and Consumer Sciences as CTE vocational education -
The association was founded in 1917 and the first president was Lulu Graves, who studied nutrition during WWI -
Home Economics sections are added to land grant universities -
The Betty Lamp became the symbol for the AHEA, and continues as the symbol for the AAFCS today -
She was the first African American woman to graduate the college of agriculture and mechanic arts. -
provided federal funds for vocational training (CTE) schools. Renamed the Carl Perkins Act in 1984 -
authorizes funds for the establishment of vocational education activities at the Federal, State and local educational levels. It essentially replaced the Smith-Hughes Act -
Mandated vocational programs for the disabled and handicapped. Provided consumer homemaking by contract -
Focused aid to those with any type of disability to be included in vocational training -
First American Food Guide Pyramid was established as a visual for global nutrition recommendations by the USDA -
The AHEA becomes AAFCS to expand and update what home economic sciences include -
University of Central Arkansas changes the name of home economics classes to FCS classes -
USDA changes the food guide pyramid to MyPyramid to include a more balanced diet -
The AAFCS Betty Lamp symbol was updated -
the USDA changes MyPyramid visual to MyPlate visual to promote better nutrition from an initiative by First Lady Michelle Obama