Ethel Percy Andrus
American educator who founded AARP (1884–1967)
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 1958.2
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Born Sep 21, 1884, died Jul 13, 1967.1
About
In 1993, she was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame. In 1995, she was designated a Women's History Month Honoree by the National Women's History Project.
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Companies
Early life and education
- Date not recordedAbraham Lincoln High School3
- Date not recordedIllinois Institute of Technology3
- Date not recordedUniversity of Southern California3
- Date not recordedUSC Rossier School of Education3
Andrus earned a Bachelor of Philosophy degree from the University of Chicago in 1903 and a Bachelor of Science degree from Lewis Institute, now Illinois Institute of Technology, in 1918. She then went on to receive her master's and doctoral degrees from the University of Southern California in 1928 and 1930, respectively.
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Career
Occupation: educator.5
While teaching at the Lewis Institute, she volunteered at Jane Addams' Hull House.
Andrus founded a separate organization, the National Retired Teachers Association (NRTA) in 1947. She realized that retired teachers were living on very small pensions, often without any health insurance. She approached more than 30 companies to offer health insurance to retired teachers before she found someone willing to take a chance on NRTA members in 1956. The organization expanded its membership to all retirees and became AARP in 1958.
In 1954, she moved to Ojai, California, to start Grey Gables of Ojai, an NRTA sponsored retirement community. She ran both NRTA and AARP from her offices in Ojai until 1964 when she moved the administrative branch of AARP to Long Beach. It was while living in Ojai that she founded AARP in 1958. Today, the NRTA is still a division of AARP and serves as its educator community.
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Personal life
Awards
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Sources
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- 1WikidataEthel Percy Andrus on Wikidata
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- 11Wikidataaward, as reported
- 12WikidataAARP, Founder
- 13Wikimedia CommonsEthel Percy Andrus photo by Los Angeles Times, CC BY 4.0