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Thompson was an enthusiastic and prolific inventor, developing modifications for chimneys, fireplaces, and industrial furnaces, as well as inventing the double boiler, a drip coffeepot, and a kitchen range. He is also known as count Rumford (Rumford kitchen is named after him).
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Advocating for females to have education, Catherine wrote 33 test books including the first FCS textbook that is specifically written for young women to read. She was a teacher who believed that education should be equal and pushed towards her beliefs.
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Catherine Beecher wrote the first textbook for FCS class. -
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As the founder of FCS, Ellen broke many barriers as a woman in science. She was advanced in all her schooling and went on to achieve a doctorate-worthy education at MIT. She loved astrology but decided there was a significant need for science to run a home.
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Atwater was a chemist mostly known for his studied on human nutrition and metabolism. He is known as the father of nutrition and invented the respiration calorimeter -
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Husband and wife duo that were doing many home experiments and research on how to run a well-kept and healthy home. Melvil was a writer and focused his many writing on mental and physical well-being and how it was affected by the quality of the home. Creator of the Dewy decimal, he and his wife began the lake placid club.
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Founded as a result of the Morrill Act of 1862, 1890, and 1994. These universities are designated by the state legislature or Congress to receive benefits. These Arkansas schools include the University of Arkansas (Fayetteville) and the University of Arkansas Pine Bluff (Pine Bluff). -
an institution that was established by its state legislature or Congress to acquire the benefits of the Morrill Acts of 1862, 1890, and 1994. -
Enacted on July 2, 1862, this act made it attainable for states to launch public colleges funded by the outcome or sale of associated federal land grants. Over 10 million acres supplied by these grants were claimed by tribal lands of Native communities -
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Her husband, Booker T. Washington, called Marget "one of the greatest women of her century". She was known for founding the Tuskegee woman's club, and other clubs that were for women's self-improvement. She help her husband with his Tuskegee work as well and continued independently after his death. She was a principal at Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute.
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Ellen S. Richards writes this book that can teach about the chemical processes behind common household matters such as the raising of bread, the process by which baking soda works, nutrition, and cleaning products -
funded land-grant colleges in order to construct a series of agricultural experiment stations, applying a foundation for the cooperative extension services created by the 1914 Smith-Lever Act Extension Act. -
Ellen S. Richard created the school lunch program in 1894
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The Rumford kitchen is known as the origin of the department of human sanitation organized by Ellen S. Richard and named after Count Rumford. The Rumford Kitchen, at the World's Fair, was considered an educational exhibit.
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Founded by Ellen Richards, and adopted by Betty Lamp in 1926. AAFCS provides enlightenment and leadership through FACS professionals. The headquarters are located in Alexandria, VA.
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This act enabled to increase of outreach programs to enhance the ability of rural Americans to have access to agricultural practices and technology. With the establishment of this national Cooperative Extension Service, many American agricultural areas increased drastically in their productivity. -
President Woodrow Wilson signed the Smith-Hugh Vocational Education Act that help provide a concrete foundation to benefit developments in public vocational and technical education. this was in hopes to expand vocational education in industrial trade and in FACS.
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58 people saw a need for people to be educated in the science of nutrition and trained in the art of feeding people. They decided to create ADA to fulfill this need. -
Gladys is an educator, philanthropist, mentor, and the granddaughter of slaves. She earned her BS in dietetics in the College of Education and Human Ecology at Ohio State University. She has won several awards for her work in the nutrition industry pushing the idea that our bodies were made for more than pushing a button. -
FACS teachers become seen as official human nutrition experts and are recognized for it. -
This was enacted by congress to expound upon the Smith-Hugh act. This help with financially aiding vocational education programs in hopes of bringing job training into harmony with the industrial realities of today's society. Within the last 50 years, this program has gifted 1.7 billion dollars in funds towards agricultural and FACS education.
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This Amendment was enacted in hopes of improving the ability of schools nationwide and community colleges to respond to new technological, educational, and societal needs. It was believed that the new world was shifting to new technology and machines so knowing the skills to use them was necessary. -
This Amendment was put in place to create programs to help remove discrimination, stereotyping, and gender bias in the Vocational environment. -
Originally authorized in 1984 by the government to help keep technical education quality at high standards. -
The official name change of the family consumer science field was voted into place in 1994.
