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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.
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.
Ethel D. Allen (1929–1981), the first African-American woman to serve on Philadelphia City Council; Ethel Anderson (1883–1958), Australian poet, essayist, novelist and painter; Ethel Percy Andrus (1884–1967), educator and founder of AARP; Ethel Armes (1876–1945), American journalist and historian
The school offered the world’s first Ph.D. in Gerontology, the first joint master’s degree in Gerontology and Business Administration, and the first undergraduate Health Science Track in Gerontology. [2] [3] Its research and services component is the USC Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center.
100 m freestyle. 1924 Paris. 400 m freestyle. Gertrude Caroline Ederle (October 23, 1905 [1] – November 30, 2003) was an American competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and world record-holder in five events. On August 6, 1926, she became the first woman to swim across the English Channel. [2]
AARP, formerly called the American Association of Retired Persons, was founded by San Francisco-born Ethel Percy Andrus in 1958.It offers programs aimed to help people aged 50 years old, or older ...
Jeannette Pickering Rankin (June 11, 1880 – May 18, 1973) was an American politician and women's rights advocate who became the first woman to hold federal office in the United States. She was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives as a Republican from Montana in 1916 for one term, then was elected again in 1940.
Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Kennedy spent their 18 years of marriage fighting for human rights and raising 11 children together. The former U.S. attorney general was assassinated in 1968, leaving ...