Dr. Ethel Percy Andrus (1884-1967) was a long-time educator and the first woman high school principal in California, but is better known as the founder of AARP in 1958. Andrus founded a separate organization, the National Retired Teachers Association (NRTA) in 1947. She realized that retired teachers were living on incredibly small pensions, often without any health insurance. She approached more than 30 companies to offer health insurance to retired teachers, … Wikipedia
Ethel Percy Andrus empathized with the plight of retired citizens and was instrumental in founding the National Retired Teachers Association and the American Association of Retired Persons. www.virtualology.com/hallofwomen/EthelPercyAndrus/
The definitive Wikipedia entry for Ethel Percy Andrus. Wikipedia is the biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethel_Percy_Andrus
