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The Lake Placid Conferences (1899–1909) established home economics as a formal discipline in the United States. Following a meeting in 1898, Ellen Swallow Richards, Melvil Dewey, and his wife Annie Godfrey Dewey planned a formal meeting to discuss home economics issues in the United States with leaders in the field.
Jun 27, 2024 · In 1899, MIT chemist Ellen H. Richards (1842–1911) instigated a series of annual “Lake Placid Conferences” (1899–1908) that became known as the foundation of the home economics movement. Richards’s first interest was in improving the household’s well-being by using sanitary and nutrition sciences, an objective that was passed on to the movement.
Jun 11, 2018 · The eleventh Lake Placid Conference met in 1973 to revitalize values and to develop future directions to broaden home and family life into an ecosystem conceptualization, emphasizing interdependence of people in rapidly changing environments.
Lake Placid Convention. Participants at the first Lake Placid Convention in 1899 and original members of the American Home Economics Association. Left to right: Annie Dewey, wife of Melville Dewey; Maria Daniell, popular lecturer on food and its preparation and pioneer in institution management; Ellen Swallow Richards, first president of the AHEA;
Title: Lake Placid Conference proceedings. Collection: Home Economics Archive: Research, Tradition and History. Identifier: hearth6060826. Subject: Home economics. Congresses.
The Lake Placid Conference held its first meeting in 1899. One of the main functions of this conference was to bring together persons of like interest and pursuits. It was at the 1907 meeting in Chautauqua, New York that plans were made to organize a national organization.
Feb 7, 2006 · The study of home economics, which is based on both social and physical sciences, originated at the turn of the century in the US at a series of meetings of academics and national leaders in Lake Placid, NY, who were seeking remedies for the social ills of the day.
