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Catherine Beecher contributes to domestic science by writing the Treatise on Domestic Economy
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Second Morrill act is passed, prvididng federal lands to the states to be sold to support colleges of agriculture and mechanical arts.
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Kansas state begins it domestic economy curriculum
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology grants Ellen Richards a bachelor of Science, the first to a woman.
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Ellen richards publishes Chemistry of Cooking and Cleaning: A manual for Housekeepers
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Domestic Science courses introduced into the public school system in Boston.
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THe htch act is passed, providing $15,000 a year for state established agricultural experiment stations.
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Second Morrill act passedm providing further 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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First nutritional 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
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Childcare and an emphasis on promotion of a more enduring type of family life becomes a focus in home economics.
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State backed support grows for practical education beyond 8th grade. Secondary education expands to include vocational education.
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The first Girl's Tomato Club (4-H) organizedd by marie cromer a teacher, through Agricultural Extension
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Two white women becamse home demonstration agents in South Carolina
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The Smith- Hughes Act is passed, establishing federal suppoer for vocational education
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AHEA sets goals to establish and maintain instruction in elements of home maneagement for elementary and high school girls and appropriate homes economics instruction for boys.
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Parenting classes are encouraged for men and women
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Childcare is recognized as a key element in the home economics curriculum
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The home economist section is added to the Amerian association of Land-Grant colleges
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Food corporation begin employing home economists to create recipes and nuitritional information for other home economists in the classrooms
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Home Economists in the state become accepted by the public as experts in Human Nutrition
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Agnes Faye Morgan, chair of Department of Home Economics at University of California Berkley, is appointed to serve on President Roosevelt First Nutritional 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 Whites and Blacks
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Feminists criticize scientific experts in home economics for fostering restrictive roles for women
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Specialized programs emerge
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Accreditation of undergraduate programs in home economics begins
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Vocational Education Act - gainful employment outside of the home.
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Vocational Education Act is amended to include handicapped and disadvantaged students
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11th Lake Placid Conference is held to develop consensus among members
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Home Economists begin to gear its work seriously towards Males under the Vocational Education Act
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AHEA launched Project 200 enhancing programs to meet 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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Scottsdale meeting recommends name change
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Name change from Home Economics to Family and Consumer Sciences
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Association membership decreases and Family and Consumer Sciences programs struggle to stay in public schools
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100 year celebration held nationally for the arganization AAFCS
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Brigham Young Univeristy Idaho holds its first Lake Bonneville Summt to commemorate and generate postive professional networks in the Southeast Idaho area.
