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Ellen Swallow Richards 1842-1911
Richards is the founder of Family and Consumer Sciences! She is credited by the Women's Hall of Fame as the founder of ecology as a disciple of study. -
W. O, Atwater 1844-1907
He had a PhD in Chemistry from Yale University. Atwater was considered to be the Father of Nutrition. He invented the bomb calorimeter and wrote nutrition bulletins for Ellen Richards. -
The Rumford Kitchen
The kitchen at the Chicago World's Fair is named the Rumford Kitchen in honor of Benjamin Thompson (Count Rumford). Benjamin Thompson was the first to label nutrition as a science and he invented the first range with temperature controls! -
Chicago World's Fair
Richards sold nutritious lunches at this fair and they included nutritive value and the cost per serving! -
Lake Placid Conference
Home Economics became the term for their new field of study. -
Ellen Richards founds the American Home Economics Association.
The AHEA was at that time the most influential professional association for home economists. This organization believed in preparing students in homemaking but more so in careers focused on people and their environments. -
Martha Rensselaer
Rensselaer was a professor at Cornell University who helped develop Cooperative Extension Service Programs at Cornell. She was also president of American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences. -
Smith-Lever Act of 1914
This Act established the cooperative extension service. This service required all land-grant colleges to establish an Agricultural Experiment Station relating to agriculture, home economics, and rural communities. -
Smith-Hughes Act of 1917
This Act set vocational education apart from the regular high school curriculum and established federal funds to support vocational education (which is referred to as Career and Technical Education today). -
Vocational Education Act of 1963
This act resulted in two types of home economics, consumer and occupational. There wasn't specific categorical funding for home economics and then 10% of home economics funds had to be used for related occupational programs. -
Vocational Ammendments of 1968
Consumer homemaking was designated funds and occupational programs were still given block grants. One-third of funds was kept back for "economically depressed" areas. Two points were made that stressed that there is a dual role of the wage earner and homemaker, and then the name was changed to consumer and homemaking education -
Vocational Amendmments of 1973
This act was the first civil rights legislation in the U.S. that protected individuals with disabilities from being discriminated based on their disability. -
Vocational Ammendments of 1976
These Amendments gave vocational funding of $1-$1.7 billion dollars until 1982. It split up categories for funding, required state administration, developed national predominance for spending grant money, funded vocational education for disabled homemakers, and they attempted to remove stereotypes! -
Carl Perkins Act
The Perkins Act was funding in 1984 that supported secondary and postsecondary vocational education programs in agriculture, business, and technology. -
Home Economics becomes Family and Consumer Sciences
The profession for their field of study was once called home economics but in Scottsdale, Arizona in 1993, 100 professionals representing 21 professional organizations related to the study voted for the new name of Family and Consumer Sciences. -
AHEA becomes AAFCS
The American Home Economics Association held their annual convention and members voted to change their organizations name to the American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences.
