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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.
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.
One of the school's first teachers was Ethel Percy Andrus (1911 - 1915). In 1916 Dr. Andrus became California's first female high school principal at Lincoln High School in East Los Angeles. She later founded AARP. After three semesters in an abandoned grammar school building, Manual Arts High School was opened on Vermont Avenue.
The Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center is the research and services component of the USC Leonard Davis School. Established in 1964, it is the nation's first multidisciplinary research center devoted to aging.
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.
SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for “We Visit the Garden Gnome Emporium,” Episode 3 of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians.” This story also contains a discussion of sexual assault.
Ethel Skakel Kennedy was the matriarch of the Kennedy clan when she died. She was the sister-in-law of JFK and widow of RFK — former senator from New York and 1968 Democratic presidential front ...
Ethel Percy Andrus: 1918 Bachelor of Science Founded both the National Retired Teachers Association and the American Association of Retired Persons, both of which merged into what is now AARP. [14] [15] Ida M. Flynn: Master's degree in computer science American computer scientist, textbook author, and professor.