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FACS Timeline

By jdoub22
  • Catherine Beecher

    Catherine Beecher

    wrote FACS textbook along with 33 others
  • Land grant university

    Land grant university

    is an institution of higher education in the United States designated by a state to receive the benefits of the Morrill Acts of 1862 and 1890
  • Justin Smith Morrill act

    Justin Smith Morrill act

    provided grants of land to states to finance the establishment of colleges specializing in “agriculture and the mechanic arts.”
  • Land Grants in Ar

    Land Grants in Ar

    University of Arkansas, Fayetteville University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, Pine Bluff
  • Bomb Calorimeter

    Bomb Calorimeter

    The Bomb calorimeter was invented to show a study on how what foods exert the most energy so that food is determined by what is good and bad for you.
  • W.O Atwater

    W.O Atwater

    PHD in chemistry, Yale University
    Invented the Bomb Calorimeter
    Father of nutrition
  • Ben Thompson

    Ben Thompson

    First to label Nutrition as a science
    Invented the first range with temperature
  • Ellen S Richards

    Ellen S Richards

    MT graduate & chemistry faculty member
    beginnings of school lunch programs
  • Rumford Kitchen

    Rumford Kitchen

    the Rumford Kitchen was created in Chicago in 1894 by Ellen Richards, was created to show just how many calories were in foods that we eat and what to do with that.
  • CF Langworthy

    CF Langworthy

    Journal of home economics
    Conducted metabolic tests
    studied chemical composition of food
  • Smith lever act

    Smith lever act

    Created the cooperative extension service including FACS
  • Clara Bell Williams

    Clara Bell Williams

    First African American to graduate New Mexico State
    Had a street named after her
    Known for graduating even though she had to listen In the hallway
  • Carolyn Hunt

    Carolyn Hunt

    She was a author of what the body needs for proper nutrition
  • Smith Hughes ACT

    Smith Hughes ACT

    Established FACS as part of vocational (CTE) Education
  • ADA

    ADA

    Founded due to 58 people who saw the need for persons educated in the science and trained in the art of feeding people
    changed to AND
  • Vocational Education Acts

    Vocational Education Acts

    provided grants to states to maintain, improve, and develop vocational-technical education programs
  • Vocational Amendment of 1968 & 1973

    Vocational Amendment of 1968 & 1973

    The Vocational Education Amendments of 1968 extend the work of the 1963 amendments, but the emphasis has changed from occupations to people
  • Vocational Amendment of 1976

    Vocational Amendment of 1976

    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

    Carl Perkins Act

    it was enacted to increase learner access to high-quality CTE programs of study, especially to those students who had been underserved in the past or who had substantial education needs.
  • AHEA

    AHEA

    voted to change name from AHEA to FACS