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1900 | Martha Van Rensselaer arrived at Cornell to organize a reading course for farmers' wives |
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1901 | First bulletin of the Cornell Reading Course for Farmer's Wives, Saving Steps, published and distributed |
1903 | Three courses relating to home and family life offered for credit at Cornell University |
1905 | First winter course taught in home economics. The program was non-credit, open to any woman in the state, and it continued until 1921 |
1907 | First curriculum for the four-year course in
home economics completed
Flora Rose joined the staff of home economics Department of Home Economics established |
1909 | Martha Van Rensselaer received her A.B. from Cornell University |
1911 | First three students graduated from the Department
of Home Economics
Martha Van Rensselaer and Flora Rose granted the first full professorships for women at Cornell |
1912 | Martha Van Rensselaer and Flora Rose voted members of the Cornell faculty and named co-directors of the Department of Home Economics in the College of Agriculture |
1913 | Department of Home Economics moved into its own building, called Comstock Hall, today the Computing & Communications Center |
1914 | Smith-Lever Act passed by United States Congress |
1919 | Department of Home Economics became the School of Home Economics within the New York State College of Agriculture |
1922 | Department of Hotel Administration established
in the School of Home Economics
First M.S. in Home Economics awarded to Amy L. Hunter |
1923 | Martha Van Rensselaer named one of the twelve greatest women in the country by the League of Women Voters |
1925 | New York State College of Home Economics established
at Cornell
Purnell Act made federal research funding available through 1930 |
1930 | First Ph.D. in Home Economics at Cornell University awarded to Helen Canon |
1932 | Martha Van Rensselaer died |
1933 | College of Home Economics moved into Martha Van Rensselaer Hall |
1936 | Flemmie Kittrell awarded a Ph.D. in Home Economics, the first African American in the United States to earn such a degree |
1940 | Flora Rose retired and Mary Henry appointed acting director of the College |
1941 | Sarah Blanding appointed director of the College |
1942 | Sarah Blanding became the first female dean at Cornell |
1944 | Van Rensselaer and Rose Lectures established to bring distinguished women, such as Margaret Mead, to campus |
1946 | Sarah Blanding resigned to become first female
president of Vassar College
Elizabeth Vincent appointed dean of the College Home Economics Education became a department in the College |
1947 | First television broadcast planned and produced
by the College of Home Economics
Catherine Personius, Head of the Department of Food and Nutrition, appointed coordinator of research and assistant director of Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station |
1949 | College of Home Economics became one of thirty-two constituent units of the State University of New York (SUNY) |
1952 | Mann Library opened, combining the libraries of the College of Agriculture and the College of Home Economics |
1953 | Elizabeth Vincent retired
Helen Canoyer became dean of the College |
1954 | The School of Hotel Administration separated from the College of Home Economics and became its own college, with H. B. Meek as dean |
1955 | Home Bureau Federation established |
1958 | Fifty-seven home economists from twenty countries gathered for the first time at the Institute and Workshop on International Education in Home Economics |
1959 | Flora Rose died |
1960 | Catherine Personius elected as the first female faculty trustee |
1962 | Television and Film Center completed |
1963 | Ghana Project established to assist women's education in Africa |
1964 | Home Economics International Activities Office established |
1966 | Head Start Program initiated
President's Committee to Study the College of Home Economics convened with Sara Blackwell as chair |
1967 | Final report of the President's Committee to Study the College of Home Economics submitted |
1968 | North Wing of Martha Van Rensselaer Hall dedicated
Dean Helen Canoyer retired |
1969 | David Knapp appointed dean
New York State College of Home Economics reorganized and renamed the New York State College of Human Ecology |
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