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The Lake Placid Conferences (1899–1909) established home economics as a formal discipline in the United States. [1] [2] Following a meeting of the Lake Placid Club in 1898, trustees including 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. [1]
Early in September 1899, trustees of the Lake Placid Club (in the Adirondacks) thought it was the right time to bring together those most interested in home science, or household economics and sent out many invitations for the Lake Placid Conference scheduled to take place September 19–25, 1899.
The first Lake Placid Conference took place September 19-25, 1899. The chairman of the conference, Ellen Swallow Richards , is considered to be a founder of the modern domestic science movement. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] The conference took place annually from 1899 to 1907.
In 1899, Annie Dewey and Richards held a conference in Lake Placid, New York with the goal of convincing universities to treat the home sciences seriously for the purpose of creating "a new profession demanding adequate compensation." The attendees settled on "home economics," positioning it as a subset of general economics.
She attended the first Lake Placid Conference on Home Economics in 1899, and organized the Home Economics Association of Greater New York in 1908; she was president of the latter organization for its first three years. She was one of the founders of the American Home Economics Association in 1909, and associate editor of the association's ...
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Along with Ellen Swallow Richards, she was one of the attendees invited to attend the first Lake Placid Conference on home economics in 1899. [4] She led a session at the conference with the title "The Kitchen-Garden and the Kindergarten."
Lake Placid also hosted the 1932 Winter Olympics. Norfolk said Innsbruck, Austria, and St. Moritz, Switzerland, also put in bids as the Plan B, which Lake Placid bested. Innsbruck held the games ...