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Benjamin Thompson
Benjamin Thompson created the first range with temperature controls, as well as drip coffee and the double boiler. -
Catherine Beecher
Catherine Beecher helped shape the FACS by writing 33 textbooks including A Treatise on Domestic Economy. -
Ellen S. Richards
Ellen S Richards was a leading powerhouse for women and the FACS community. She was the first women to attend Vassar, MIT and more. She helped create the school lunch program, scientifically prepared foods for the World Fair and so much more. -
W.O. Atwater
Atwater was considered the Father of Nutrition because he created the bomb calorimeter, as well as wrote many nutrition bulletins, and his focus on metabolism. -
Justin Smith Morrill/Morrill Act of 1862
Justin Smith Morrill helped support the act where 30,000 acres were granted to each state to establish land for colleges. These colleges were mainly focused on Agriculture and the Mechanic arts. -
Caroline Hunt
Hunt worked with studies of immigrant and ethnic populations as well as collected dietary histories and other information. She then used these to publish a study. -
University of Arkansas Pine Bluff
In 1890 the University of Arkansas Pine Bluff received its Land Grant. -
Lake Placid Conference of 1899
At this Lake Placid Conference they decided to create the name "Home Economics" as the name for this new field of study. -
Martha Rensselaer
Martha Rensselaer helped develop the Cooperative Extension Service Programs at Cornell. -
Smith Lever Act of 1914
The Smith Lever Act of 1914 created the Cooperative Extension Service including FACS -
Smith Hughes Act of 1917
Established FACS as part of vocational (CTE) education. -
Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics founding
The ADA was founded because there was a need seen for people that were educated in nutrition to come together and work together. -
School Lunch Act
The School Lunch Act was passed to help bring nutritious lunches to students every day for free. FACS helped support this. -
University of Arkansas
In 1951 the University of Arkansas was the first land grant university. -
Vocational Acts of 1963
The Vocational Acts of 1963 helped provide grants to different states to help in the vocational area do things such as maintaining, improving and developing the educational programs. These fund could also help with construction needed for vocational programs -
Vocational Amendment of 1968 & 1973
This amendment extended the first amendment of 1963, and then required national and state advisory councils, as well as made a new rule that they must submit a 5 year plan -
Lulu C Graves
Lulu was an advocate for using the government to help with nutrition and public health especially during World War 1. She was also the first President of the Academy. -
Vocational Amendment of 1976
This vocational amendment of 1976 made a new requirement for states receiving this funding. This requirement was that these states had to create some type of system to help stop gender bias, stereotyping, and discrimination that could occur while in vocational education. -
Carl Perkins Act
The Carl Perkins Act was to help students with their academic acheivement through technology -
Name Change
The American Home Economics Association voted and came to the conclusion to change the name to Family and Consumer Science
