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Catherine Beecher
Argued that home and school are such important social forces that women should limit their lives to them -
Beecher's Most Famous Works
A Treatise on Domestic Economy (1841), The Duty of American Women to Their Country (1845), and The Domestic Receipt Book (1846) -
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Ellen Richards
She was a MIT graduate & chemistry faculty member. Richards mobilized a multitude of forces to launch the new applied field. Also had a strong belief that science could be used to improve health & well-being of people. -
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Wilbur Olin Atwater
The metabolic studies Atwater began, contributed most to the emerging science of human nutrition and exercise .Before Atwater died in 1907, he had completed more than 500 energy-balance experiments. -
Justin Smith Morrill Act of 1862
The Morrill Act provided each state with 30,000 acres of Federal land for each member in their Congressional delegation. Cornell is one of 69 institutions founded with federal funds under the provision of the Morrill Act of 1862. -
Land Grant University
is an institution of higher education in the United States designated by a state to receive the benefits of the Morrill Acts of 1862 -
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Martha Van Rensselaer
Rensselaer held a prominent role in setting social policy that affected families and children. During World War I, she directed the Home Conservation Division of the United States Food Administration. -
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Caroline Hunt
Hunt’s view of home economics was her advocacy of its role in bringing about social justice. -
Beginnings of school lunch program
Ensured by Ellen Richards -
The Rumford Kitchen
Scientifically prepared foods for the World’s Fair. Ellen Richards sold nutritious lunches at the Rumford Kitchen during the Chicago World’s Fair, included nutritive value & cost per serving -
Lake Placid Conference 1899
Leaders gathered in Lake Placid, N.Y. “Home Economics” was adopted as the name for the new field of study -
First Home Economic professor
Caroline Hunt was appointed as the first professor of home economics at the University of Wisconsin -
Cornell 1st Full-time Home Economics
Due to the success of female extension work, in l908. In less than five years, the program enrolled more than 20,000 women members across New York State. -
Smith Lever Act of 1914
A United States federal 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, and economic development. -
Carl Perkins Act
Provide an increased focus on the academic achievement of career and technical education students, strengthen the connections between secondary and postsecondary education, and improve state and local accountability.
