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The Treatise on Domestic Economy for the use of Young Ladies at Home
-This was a book published by Catherine Beecher. It was one of the first books educating about home economics and was called the first complete guide to housekeeping in America -
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Wilbur Olin Atwater
-Received PH D from Yale in 1869 for studies on the chemical composition of corn
-established first argricultural experimental station in the USA
-studied the metabolism of mammals using the cycle ergometer. Which is still used today in modern society in Nutrition/FACS studies
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Rumford Kitchen
-The World’s Fair took place in Chicago and Ellen Swallow Richards was invited to cook within the Women’s building but she was adamant that her work was meant for men and women and thus created the Rumford Kitchen -
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Martha Van Rensselaer
-Believed women could effect change in American life
-was elected school commissioner of Cattaraugus County, New York, a position usually held by men. She held this position from 1893-1899
- she organized an extension program for New York State's rural women. Under Van Rensselaer's leadership, the program blossomed. Enrolled 20,000 across New York
-in the World War I, she directed the Home Conservation Division of the United States Food Administration -
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Lake Placid Conferences
-series of ten conferences where Home Economics emerged as a disciplineIt was here that the leaders and advocates in the field discussed advances in home economics and developed the guiding principles of what home economics was and should be -
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Caroline Hunt
-Appointed as the first professor of home economics at the University of Wisconsin
-majored in Latin and enrolled in a variety of science and language courses. After graduation, she taught chemistry and physics at two high schools
-she collected data for two studies: The Italians in Chicago: A Social and Economic Study
-was published by the US Department of Agriculture
-she authored numerous pamphlets for the US Department of Agriculture, Published The Life of Ellen H. Richard -
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Flora Rose
-wrote letters to administrators at both Stanford and Cornell University to start home economics courses
-became lecturer in nutrition at Cornell
-with Martha Rensselaer rose co-directed the fledgling department
-Rose taught and served, in effect, as the dean of the student body
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Cornell University FACS Archives
-Home economics at Cornell began as part of the Extension Service in 1900, with the Farmers’ Wives Reading Course
-an Rensselaer, Bailey, and Anna Botsford Comstock gave three courses within the College of Agriculture relating to home and family life
-The department became a school in 1919, and, in 1925, the first state-chartered College of Home Economics in the country. Martha Van Rensselaer and Flora Rose were named co-directors. -
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Cooperative Extension Service
-We are part of the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture. With offices in all 75 counties, our faculty and staff provide educational programs and research-based information to the people of Arkansas
-Extension works in four major educational areas: 4-H and Youth Development, agriculture and natural resources, community and economic development, and family and consumer sciences -
Founding of the American Home Economics Association
-Ellen Swallow Richards was elected the first president of the AHEA and held that position until she retired in 1910
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Smith-Lever Act
-a law that established a system of cooperative extension services, connected to the land-grant universities, in order to inform people about current developments in agriculture, home economics, public policy/government, leadership, 4-H, economic development, coastal issues -
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AND History & Founders
-The Academy was conceptualized as the American Dietetic Association at a meeting in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1917, ultimately leading to its formal incorporation and first central office in Chicago
-founders were a visionary group of women — led by Lenna F. Cooper and the organization's first president, Lulu C. Graves — dedicated to helping the government conserve food and improve the public's health and nutrition during World War I -
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Lulu Graves
- head dietitian at Lakeside Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio, served as the first president of the American Dietetic Association
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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 dietitians in Cleveland, Ohio. -
1925
-In June, the first issue of The Journal of The American Dietetic Association was mailed to members. -
Betty Lamp
the Betty Lamp was made the symbol for the AHEA because it meant to make better, much like the AHEA’s goal to help advocate and promote consumer sciences and education -
New York State College of Human Ecology
-The records of the New York State College of Home Economics at Cornell University document the history of the College, and its activities, events, and personalities -
FACS Brand
-AAFCS invited Alliance for Family & Consumer Sciences organizations to be a part of the Family & Consumer Sciences Branding Initiative, where they would develop messages to clearly communicate the value of the family and consumer sciences field, as well as an icon that would convey the essence of the field -
Family & Consumers Science Day
AAFCS honors Founder Ellen Swallow Richards by celebrating FCS Day on her birthday. This day provides information, tools, and research on the benefits of families preparing and eating healthy. -
FCSfit
-FCSfit is an AAFCS Signature Initiative spanning three years that is focused on setting small, realistic goals and delivering resources and community support to our membership and our supporters as they "model the mission" of AAFCS, and make informed decisions about their own well-being, relationships, and resources with the goal of achieving an optimal quality of life.