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Ellen Richards
American Chemist and founder of the Home Economics movement -
Land Grant/Morrill Act
This act provided grants of land to states to finance colleges that were specializing in "agriculture and mechanic arts" -
University Of Arkansas
One of the two land-grant universities in Arkansas, the first one. -
University of Arkansas Pine Bluff
The second land-grant university in Arkansas. -
W.O. Atwater
Known as the "father of Nutrition"
He, with the help of E.B. Rose, created the bomb calorimeter -
Invention of Home Economics Field
Eleven people gathered at a conference in Lake Placid, which they then adored the name "home economics" for this new field of interest. -
Caroline Hunt
First professor of home economics at University of Wisconsin -
Martha Rensselaer
She and Flora Rose ran the first full fledge department of Home Economics -
Smith - Lever act
Established national cooperative extension services with outreach programs through land-grant universities to teach about agriculture. -
Smith - Hughes Act
The Smith-Hughes Act recognized vocational agriculture, home economics, and the trades and industries as the fields of study that could be supported with Smith-Hughes funds. -
Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
Founded in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1917, by a visionary group of women dedicated to helping the government conserve food and improve the public's health and nutrition during World War I. -
Symbol
the Betty Lamp became the American Home Economics Associations symbol. Meaning "to make better." -
Future Homemakers of America
High school cocurricular organization in which community leadership was developed -
Vocational Education Acts
Provided grants to states to maintain, improve, and develop vocational-technical education programs -
Vocational Amendment
Continues the work of the Vocational Amendment of 1963, but switches the focus from occupations to people -
Vocational Education Amendment
Concluded that education should be redirected with equal emphasis on education for living and education for making a living. -
Vocational Equity Amendment
Required states receiving federal funding for vocational education to develop and carry out activities and programs -
Carl Perkins Act
Authorizes federal funds to support vocational education programs -
Family, Career, and Community Leaders of America
Future Homemakers of America was Renamed to better suit the purposes.