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Wrote "A Treatise on Domestic Economy", which was the first FACS text book recognized by the Department of Education.
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Creative way of supporting the country through economic growth in fields such as agriculture, science, and engineering, while also providing the chance their station in life through higher education. Land Grant Universities in Ark: U of A and UAPB
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Act sponsored by Justin Morrill that donated public lands to several states and territories which provided college for the benefit of agriculture and mechanic arts.
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Inventor of the Bomb Calorimeter and considered to be the "Father of Nutrition"
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First person to label nutrition as a science.
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Started the jump into the beginning of the school lunch program. She believed that science could be a tool into the improvement of health and well-being of people.
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Developed Cooperative Extension Service Programs at Cornell University in NY
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Federal law that established a national Cooperative Extension Service that extended outreach programs through land grant universities to educate rural Americans about advances in agricultural ways.
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ADA founded by 58 people who saw the need for people to be educated in the science of nutrition and trained in the art of feeding others.
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Act providing federal aid to the states for the purpose of promoting precollegiate vocational education.
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Lenna F. Cooper, director of the training school of the Battle Creek Sanitarium in Michigan, and Lulu Graves, supervisor of dietitians at Lakeside Hospital in Cleveland, organized the first conference of dietitian's in Cleveland, Ohio.
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The American Dietetic Association required all members to receive a four year college degree plus six months of hospital training.
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Act providing grants to states in order to improve and develop vocational-technical education programs.
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ADA published The Profession of Dietetics: The Report of the Study Commission on Dietetics. It provided a full look at the profession and recommendations for action.
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Authorization of federal grants to states to assist them to improve, create more, and extend of vocational education.
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Requirement of States to receiving federal funding for vocational education to develop and carry out activities to eliminate any sort of discrimination.
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The new American Dietetic Association logo was created.
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American Home Economics Association voted to change the name of the profession to Family and Consumer Science.
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Act provides an increased focus on the academic achievement of career and technical education students.
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ADA launched the Kids Eat Right initiative, supporting public education programs that address the national health concern of obesity among children.
