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Catharine Beecher contributes to the domestic science movement by writing her "Treatise on Domestic Economy"
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First Morrill Act is passed, providing federal lands to the states to be sold to support colleges of agriculture and mechanical arts.
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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.
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The Chemistry for Cooking and Cleaning
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Domestic courses introduced into the public school system in Boston.
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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.
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The Second Morrill Act is passed, providing futher funding for black student colleges.
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The World Columbian Exposition in Chicago, the Rumford Kitchen of "Science of nutrition."
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t nutirtional lunch school program in Boston by Ellen Richards.
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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.
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State support grows for practical education beyond the 8th grade. Secondary education expands to include vocational education
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The first girl's tomato club (4-H) organized by Marie Cromer a teacher, through Agricultural Extension. American Home Economics Assocation is established.
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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.
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The Smith-Hughes Act is passed, establishing federal support for vocational education.
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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.
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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.
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The Home Economic section is added to the American Assosiation of Land-Grant Colleges Parenting classes for men and women are encouraged.
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Childcare recognized as a key element in the home economics curriculum.
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Food corporations begin employing home economists to create recipes and nutritional information for other home economists in the classroom.
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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.
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The USDA Bureau of Home Economics becomes the Bureau of Human Nutrition and Home Economics.
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Integration of black and whites Feminists criticize scientific experts in home economics for fostering restrictive roles for women Specialized programs emerge
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Accreditation of undergraduate programs in home economics begins.
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Racial tension acknowledged within the organization, Florence Low sets out to eliminate.
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Vocational education is taught in schools.
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Vocational Education Act amended to include handicapped and disadvantaged students.
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The eleventh Lake Placid Conference is held to develop consensus among members.
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Home economists begin to gear its work seriously towards males - Vocational Education Act
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AHEA launched Project 2000 - enhancing programs to meet the diversity needs.
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Cornell University sponsors a conference entitled "Rethinking Women and Home Economics in the 20th Century"
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Name changes from Home Economics to Family and Consumer Sciences
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Association membership begins to decrees and FCS programs struggle to stay in public schools.
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100-year celebration held nationally for the organization of AAFCS
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First Lake Bonneville Summit held at BYU-Idaho to commemorate and generate positive professional networks in the southeast Idaho area.
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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
