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Ethel Percy Andrus (September 21, 1884 – July 13, 1967) was a long-time educator and the first female high school principal in California. She was also an elder rights activist and the founder of AARP in 1958. [1] In 1993, she was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame. [2]
AARP was founded in 1958 by Ethel Percy Andrus, a retired public school teacher and principal in California. Andrus had been an advocate for health insurance coverage for retired teachers. Volunteering with the California Retired Teachers Association (CRTA), Andrus sought out former teachers who were struggling on their $40/month state pensions.
English: Dr. Ethel Percy Andrus was the first woman principal in California, working at Abraham Lincoln High School in Los Angeles. She went on to found the National Retired Teachers Association, and later expanded that organization to become the AARP.
A. Kjell Gjøstein Aabrek; Chaudhry Ghulam Abbas; Johnny Abbes; Walter P. Abbott; Abdillahi Deria; Tom Abdo; Abelardo Ávila; Georg Abels; Evelyn Abelson; Adolphe ...
Pinchas Cohen is the dean of the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, holds the William and Sylvia Kugel Dean's Chair in Gerontology and serves as the executive director of the Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center.
A former Playboy model killed herself and her 7-year-old son after jumping from a hotel in Midtown New York City on Friday morning. The New York Post reports that 47-year-old Stephanie Adams ...
Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA. Weg, R. B. (1989). Biology and physiology of development of aging.
Oct. 25—Percy "Happy" Watkins, who co-founded Spokane's annual march commemorating the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and longtime voice in the drive for civil rights in Spokane, died Friday. He ...